The composer John Howard Payne used this diplomatic purse during his appointment as ambassador to Tunisia, a position he first received under President John Tyler (husband of Julia Gardiner) in 1841. After President James Polk's election in 1844, Payne was recalled. However, in 1851 Secretary of State Daniel Webster helped Payne regain the appointment, which Payne held until his death on April 9, 1852, in Tunis.
East Hampton Village celebrated the 100th anniversary of the its incorporation on Friday by adding mementos to a time capsule that will remain buried on Village Hall's front lawn well into the next century.
Two harbormasters patrolling near the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett were called to investigate a possible boat fire on Saturday evening. The boat's owner told them that his engines "just smoke a lot."
In an ongoing investigation into a hit-and-run accident on Aug. 10 that led to the death of Devesh Samtani, 18, a summer visitor who was one of hundreds walking in the dark on a narrow road after a huge house party in Amagansett, a new report said that there had been 10 people packed into the sport-utility vehicle that Daniel M. Campbell was driving.
