GOVERNMENT: TWO LECTURES

Governmental affairs in East Hampton's earlier years will be the focus of a morning's worth of lectures at Guild Hall Saturday, as the 350th Anniversary lecture series continues.

The first, at 9:30 a.m., is "East Hampton Versus New York: A Very Old Story," exploring the tension between the central government of the New York colony and the township of East Hampton.

Dr. Robert C. Ritchie, the speaker, holds a Ph.D. in early American history from the University of California in Los Angeles. The W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the Huntington Library, he is the author of "Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates" and "The Duke's Province; A Study of Politics and Society in New York, 1664-1691." His lecture is sponsored by the Manhattan Mortgage Company.

Dr. Langdon Wright will speak at 11:30 a.m. on "The Origin of Government in East Hampton," covering the nature of town government, its attempts to regulate political, social, economic, and moral affairs, and its efforts to define the town's relationship to the provincial governments of Connecticut and New York.

Dr. Wright, the holder of an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, has taught American social history, historical research, and other subjects at the Cooperstown (N.Y.) Museum's graduate program in history studies. The sponsor of Dr. Wright's lecture is the Bistrian Gravel Corporation.