Southampton, officially the Town of Southampton, is a town in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, partly on the South Fork of Long Island. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the town had a population of 69,036. Southampton is included in the stretch of shoreline prominently known as The Hamptons.

Stony Brook University’s Southampton campus is located in Southampton.

The town was founded in 1640, when settlers from Lynn, Massachusetts customary residence on lands obtained from local Shinnecock Indian Nation. The first settlers included eight men, one woman, and a guy who came high and dry at Conscience Point. These men were Thomas Halsey, Edward Howell, Edmond Farrington, Allen Bread, Edmund Needham, Abraham Pierson the Elder, Thomas Sayre, Josiah Stanborough, George Welbe, Henry Walton and Job Sayre. By July 7, 1640, they had determined the town boundaries. During the next few years (1640–43), Southampton gained another 43 families and now there are thousands of people in southampton.

From 1644, the colonists conventional an organised whale fishery, significant in the archives of whaling as the first in New England. They chased pilot whales (“blackfish”) onto the shelving beaches for slaughter, a sort of dolphin goal hunting. They as well as processed drift whales they found on shore. They observed the Native Americans’ hunting techniques, improved upon their weapons and boats, and subsequently went out to ocean hunting.