[2] The Shelter Island enterprise involved barrel-making, using the stands of local white oak for shipping the West Indies tobacco, sugar, molasses and rum back to England.

Grizzell was a younger sister of Anne Brinley, who in England had married Governor William Coddington of Rhode Island in January 1650.

Grizzell and Anne's brother, Francis, would join his sisters in the New World, fleeing Cromwell's England and establishing the American Brinleys in Newport, RI, and Boston, Mass.

[5] Master Millwright Nathaniel Dominy V (1770–1852) was the architect and builder of the windmill that was a significant part of the plantation history from 1810-1824.

In the 19th century, Eben Norton Horsford, a Harvard professor and chemist who made a fortune with his invention of baking soda, married into the family.