John Lyon Gardiner (1770-1816), the seventh proprietor of Gardiner’s Island, wrote to his brother in Queens on this day 233 years ago with updates on people here and complaints about the mail.

Anthony Janssen, who was chief of the Montauk Fire Department in 1981 and 1982, a volunteer firefighter for 35 years, and an ambulance driver for 15, died in Hot Springs, Ark., on April 24. He was 85.

Michael Howard Dext, a commercial fisherman who lived in Springs, died on April 25 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The cause was heart failure. He was 67 and had been ill for the past year.