Check out the view across 300 years from the windows of the Henry Lloyd Manor on Lloyd Neck and celebrate the poetry and birthday of America’s first published black poet in festivities Sunday at the Henry Lloyd Manor.

Community members can help celebrate the 300^th anniversary of the Henry Lloyd family’s arrival on Lloyd Neck with Colonial-era games and crafts, cider, house tours and a Colonial concert, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Related: Caumsett State Park photos.

The family worked a 3,000-acre plantation that provided most of its own necessities and had goods to ship to the Caribbean and New Amsterdam. Tenant farmers helped the Lloyd’s tame the neck and worked tending sheep, cattle and timbering.

Henry and his first wife, Rebecca, arrived on Lloyd Neck in 1711, from a prosperous Boston trading family, and built the house on land that was deeded to the family. The original portion of the manor house was built by October 1711, according to records, and there were gardens, several barns, a blacksmith shop and other outbuildings on the site.

The Lloyd Harbor Historical society was founded in 1974 and has worked to restore and preserve the Henry Lloyd Manor. Members have repaired and restored the manor house, and brought a 1764 barn to the site to replace the original, which burned in the 1920s, according to Ceil Stepanian, a trustee who gives tours of the manor house.

The house and barn are on land that is part of Caumsett State Historic Park, but a 1978 agreement with the state parks department allows the historical society to restore and operate the manor house.

It has been filled with furnishings accurate to the 18^th century, Stepanian says, and still has many original features, including the Delft tile around the fireplaces.

In addition to the Colonial Fall Festival and a concert on Sunday, there will be prizes awarded by the town’s African American Historic Designation Council to students who participated in an essay contest in honor of Jupiter Hammon. The festival cost is $3, plus an $8 park entry fee.

Hammon is a slave who grew up alongside the Lloyd children and attended school with them and was referred to in family letters as “brother Jupiter.” He worked closely with Henry Lloyd as his representative on business deals in New York City and lived with family members his entire life. With the publication of the poem “An Evening Thought,” which appeared in 1761, he became America’s first published black poet. The poem displayed his belief in God and the Bible.

The society also has several other events planned for the rest of the year, including its 10^th  annual Halloween Masquerade at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29, at The George Weir Barn, and a visit from Santa on Sunday, Dec.4.

For tours and more information, contact the Lloyd Harbor Historical Society, 41 Lloyd Harbor Road, Lloyd Neck, at 631-424-6110, or email info1@lloydharborhistoricalsociety.org.

Stay tuned for No. 66, as Huntington Patch explores the places and activities in town during this occasional series.

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