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" Beginning at the southermost end, which is between the above said brook and a branch thereof, and from thence to the great swamp at the ould marked tree, which is now marked with these letters, R. B. H. T. M., and from thence by marked trees to a small run which runs into the above said brook, and there is marked with a mark, the which tract of land is called by the English name of Hogg Pond ridge, to have and to hold, &c., &c.
In witness hereof I have set to my liand this 4th day of September, in the year A.D. 1680.
Witness the mark of = Couko. Owrowwoaha Q
The mark of
Maremakung alias 6 Will.
The next year occurs another sale from the same chief, Mara- making, "For a valuable consideration, by the inhabitants of the
· Hart. Rec. vol. iii. p. 36.
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town of Rye, already received, namely, three coates in hand of the said inhabitants.
"For which he alienates, covenants, and sells to the same a certain tract of land lying between Byram river and the Blind brook or Honge." In witness whereof I have set to my hand this Sth of October, 1681.
Witness the mark of
Maramaking,
Wissacanow
or else Lame Will.
CowWOWS ~ Pammetum Z Joshua Knapp, Jacob Pailto,
The above sales were long known and distinguished as Lame Will's two purchases.
A.D. 1681, Peter Disbrow sells his Indian purchase on Ponin- goe neck to the rest of the proprietors. In 1683, Colonel Dongan arrived at New York as governor of the province. Soon after- wards the governor and council of Connecticut, in a letter to Dongan, dated October 5th, 1683, complain of a warrant having been issued to the constables of Rye, Greenwich and Stamford, which towns they claim are in Connecticut, by charter and agreement of 1664.ª Dongan, in reply, October 9, 1683,b as- serts that the Duke's patent extends to Connecticut river, and refers to the former agreement, twenty miles east of Hudson's river, which he is by no means compelled to confirm, only re- fers to the old claim for the purpose of extending as far as he can eastward of Hudson's river.
In return the governor and general court of Connecticut, Oc- tober 16, 1684, refer Governor Dongan to the agreement of the King's Commissioners, A. D. 1664, as settling the boundary.c
Governor Dongan in reply, November 5, 1683, states, " that he must not be unmindful of his master's interest, thinks it not wrong to claim twenty miles from Hudson's river, eastward,
a Col. Bound. Hart. Rec. lib. ii. Letter 42.
b Col. B. Hart. Rec. lib. ii. Letter 43.
c Col. B. Hart Rec. Lib. ii. Letter 44. VOL. II. 4
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and also mentions that the commissioners were assured by Con- necticut people, that Mummaroneck river was twenty miles from Hudson's river, and concludes by assuring them he will have all twenty miles eastward of that river, or he will claim to Connecticut River, and further wishes the matter settled.a
On the 28th of November of the same year the agents (appoint- ed by the two governments,) came to an agreement that the line of partition should begin at Byram River at a point called Lyon's Point, where that river falls into the Sound, and run northerly at not less than twenty miles distance from the Hudson to the south line of Massachusetts.b
Upon the occasion of this change in 1683, we find the follow- ing letter addressed to Lieutenant Horton and the select men of the town of Rye.
Fairfield, Dec. 3, 1683.
LOVING FRIENDS :
We had purposed in our passage to York to have called upon you, but the badness of the weather, and taking our passage by water we mist the op- portunity of seeing you in our going thither, and in our return. And therefore we take this first opportunity to acquaint you that although we were loath to have parted with you, and would have been glad to have continued you in this government, yet the providence of God hath so disposed that by our agreement with Governor Dongan, we are forced to part with you, and could not help it, and the governor, promised us that he would not by this change alter any man's property or propriety, and therefore we thought it necessary to acquaint you of this change, and also to advise you speedily to apply him to grant you confirmation of your bounds and proprieties, which we doubt not but he will do also. We must acquaint you that you must by our agreement, pay to this colony this years rates, which the treasurer will appoint you, to whom you shall pay it speedily, it is one penny half penny upon the pound, according to the list presented to the general court, in October last, by the agreement with the governor, Dongan. The west bounds of our colony is now Byram River, and it runs as the river till it comes to the road, and from thence it runs north north west, till it hath run eight miles from the east point of said Byram River.
Gentlemen, we do request you to be satisfied and content with this change,
& Col. B. Hart Rec. Lib. ii. Letter 45.
b Webster's Letters, p. 207.
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and to carry it suitably to the government under which you are now seated, and apply yourselves to the Honorable Governor, who is a noble gentleman and will do what you shall desire in a regular manner to promote your welfare, which with best respects is all the needful from your assured friends.
Robert Treat, Governor.
Nathan Gold,
Assistants, John Allen.
Endorsed. These for Lieut. Joseph Horton, the select men of the town of Rye. These in Rye.
Notwithstanding this agreement, the towns of Rye and Bed- ford were again received into the colony of Connecticut, June 21, 1696-7.ª
Governor Fletcher of New York, justly complained of this treatment, and issued his proclamation, requiring Rye and Bed- ford to return to their allegiance, April 15, 1697.b
The whole matter was now referred to the king, who in coun- cil, March 28th, 1700, confirmed the former agreement made 1683, and ordered "that the high sheriff of the county of West- chester, accompanied with two justices of the said county, do repair to the said towns of Rye and Bedford, and publish the said proclamation, requiring the inhabitants of the said towns, to give obedience to this government, pursuant to his majesties royal will and pleasure, at their peril.
Per order of council,
B. COSINS, L. Coventry."c
Oct. 10, 1700, the general assembly of Hartford ordered the signification of the settlement to be sent to the inhabitants of Rye and Bedford.
The matter was not completed until May 14, 1731, when the lines were established as they now exist. The inhabitants of Rye in 1683, were the following :
a Col. Bound. Hart. Rec. vol. ii. letter 138.
b Col. Bound. Hart Rec. vol. ii. letters 140, 141.
e Webster's Letters, p. 207.
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Hachaliah Brown, Timothy Knapp, Jonathan Vowles, Jonas Stevens,
John Brondig, Isaac Sherwood,
Thomas Lyon,
John Merritt,
John Ogden,
John Sillick,
Samuel Jenkins,
Samuel Banks,
Caleb Hiatt,
Joost Paldin,
Joseph Studwell,
George Knison,
Timothy Knapp,
Philip Travis,
John Purdy,
William Odell,
John Merritt,
Thomas Merritt,
John Disbrow,
Stephen Sherwood,
Francis Purdy,
Arnold Bassett,
Joseph Merritt,
Joseph Ogden,
Robert Bloomer,
John Feast,
Isaac Sherwood,
Simon Robard,
Jonathan Kniffen,
John Boyd,
Joseph Horton,
Humphrey Underhill,
Robert Bloomer,
Joseph Sherwood,
John Turner,
JamesTravis,
John Disbrow,
Robert Bloomer,
Robert Blener,
Robert Bloomer,
Hachaliah Brown,
Jacob Paree,
John Horton,
Jonathan Hart,
Deliverance Brown,
Francis Purdy,
Ebenezer Kniffen,
Peter Disbrow,
Daniel Brondige,
John Boyd,
Thomas Lyon,
John Church,
Roger Park,
George Knison,
Stephen Sherwood,
Joost Pauldinck,
John Boyd,
Joseph Gurney,
Thomas Merritt,
Thomas Slatham,
Jonathan Kniffin,
Joseph Banks,
William Odell,
Ciniamon Horton,
Ruhamah Bishop,
Thomas Slatham,
Stephen Sherwood,
Francis Purdy,
Richard Beatte,
Francis Purdy,
John Vail, John Vail,
Samuel Jenkins,
The draft of the swamp, Isaac Anderson,
James Wright,
James Travis,
John Merritt,
John Horton,
Joseph Sherwood,
A draught of Will's pur- chase,
Joseph Purdy,
David Ogden,
Richard Ogden,
Thomas Merritt,
Robert Bloomer,
Henry Hiatt,
Joseph Sherwood,
John Merritt, Hachaliah Brown, Caleb Hiatt,
Thomas Merritt,
Mary Ogden,
Isaac Denham, The town grants from Hartford,
Isaac Denham,
Hamet Galpen,
Abraham Brush,
Abraham Smith,
Samuel Odell,
John Sellickes,
James Wright,
Stephen Sherwood,
Stephen Sherwood, jun.
The draught of lots by Biram River,
John Stockham, John Horton,
Peter Brown,
John Boyd,
Richard Waters,
The draught ot Biram's Pond field draught, neck,
The three draughts in Will's purchase, Joseph Robinson,
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John Boddegaret, John Brondig,
John Brondig, David Horton,
Jonathan Kniffen,
John Hiatt,
David Horton.a
Upon the "23d of November, 1686, the town empowered Ben- jamin Colyer and John Brondige, to treat with the governor for a general patent for the township of Rye." The proprietors of Poningoe neck also authorized the same individuals to obtain a particular patent for said neck.b The general patent appears to have been granted, for on the 28th of Feb. 1686-7, occurs certain "charges, arising from the business between Richard Patrick and the town of Rye, and all the expenses of procuring a patent, for the bounds and privileges of the said town." A patent for Poningoe neck, must also have been obtained, for we invariably find the meetings of its proprietors held distinet from those of the town. At a meeting of the proprietors of Poningoe neck, Dec. 11th, 1699, a grant was made to Richard Ogden, of an island commonly called Fox island.
In 1694, we find the Indian Sachem Patthunck, with the full consent of his son and heir Wappetoe Patthunck, conveying to Joseph Horton, a parcel of land beginning at certain marked trees, &c., withi turf and twigg taken off the said ground and de- livered to the said grantee, in peaceable and quiet possession by the said Patthunck, sen., and Patthunck, jr.c. The above tract of land was situated
On the east side of Mamaroneck river, and ran with a line of mark trees until it came to the said river, and again to a red oak tree, close by the river marked IH, together with all the woods, &c. &c., to the said Joseph Hor- ton, his heirs &c. Dated this 29th day of Dec. A. D. 1691.
Signed, sealed and delivered,
in presence of us.
The mark of
The mark of Patthunck, sen. O
a Rye Rec. Lib. B.
b April 2d, 1688, Timothy Knap was chosen collector for the governor's rate of three half pence per pound.
e This feudal custom was always transacted with the greatest formality. A twig and a piece of turf having been brought to the Sagamore, he placed the end of the branch on the clod, and then handed them both to the purchaser, as a token that he thereby surrendered to him the soil, with all the trees and its appurtenances.
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Captain Robin, Indian, William Coales, The mark of I R. P. Miller.
The mark of Wappetoe Patthunck, X
The mark of Betty Patthunck.
The mark of Ackanum Patthunck, X daughter to the above named Patthunck, sen.
13 April, 1705. The Indian chiefs Wapeto, Rarequash, and Mekeran, granted to Capt. Joseph Theall, Capt. John Clapp and Capt. John Horton all of ye town of Rye,
" A certain parcel of land lying and being within ye township of Rye, bound- ed by a certain beach tree standing upon the brink of Byram river, marked with J. G. J. and J. H. and J. C., running up ye said river northerly to a great swamp, where standeth an ash tree marked with the above said letters, and from thence in a direct course to an oak tree with stones laid at ye root, and from thence with a range of marked trees of the northermost corner of ye great pond, so running down by ye said pond till it meeteth with a white oak sapling marked with ye above said letters, and from thence by certain marked trees to the above said marked beach tree by ye brink of Byram river.a
Sig. sealcd and delivered in the presence of Daniel Strang. Joseph Purdy. The marke of Pare.
The true mark of · Wapetoe,
The true mark of M Raresquash. The true mark of @ Mekeran.
A further grant and confirmation was obtained of the Indian proprietors, Seringoe, Raresquash and Wapeto Patthunck, by John Clapp and others, 20 July, 1705.
" Of all that said tract of land which is butted and bounded as follows, viz. beginning at a beach tree standing by Byram river near a great rock, marked with letters J. H. J. P. J. C., then running up the said river north-west to a certain ash tree in the upper end of a place commonly called Pond Pound neck, marked with the letters aforesaid, &c., &c., to the Colony line and thence by the said Colony line westerdly to the eight mile stake standing be- tween three white oak trees, marked, viz. one of said trees is marked with the letters C. C. R. on the north side, and on ye south side J. D. and from said tree in a direct line runs to ye northmost corner of Rye Pond and thence south 10 degrees westerdly to a white oak sapling, marked by the Pond side with the letters J. P., thence by a range of marked trees south 64 degrees
& See Warrant for Survey. Alb. Rec. Lib. i. 127, 8.
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east to an ash tree standing by Blind brook on the east side thereof, and thence by another range of marked trees to a certain chesnut tree marked with the letters J. J. on ye north side, on the west side with the letters J. P., on the south-west side with letters J. H., and thence by a range of marked trees to ye place where it began.ª
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of
James Mott. Henry Disbrow. Joost Paldinck.
The mark of Serringoe. Serringoe's mark in behalf Wapeto,
Pathunck, and of his brother Raresquash.
The above sales were again confirmed by the Indians, 13 Sep- tember, 1705.b
At a Court of General Assembly holden at New Haven, 12th October, 1710, " Captain John Clapp of the town of Rye, in the province of New York, presented a petition to this assembly on the behalf of himself and partners, praying for a patent to be granted to them of a certain piece or parcel of land lying in this Colony and within the bounds of the said town of Rye, which they had purchased (with lycense) of the native Indians."
Upon consideration whereof, this assembly do resolve that no patent shall be granted to them, forasmuch as the said land hath been formerly granted by this government to the inhabitants of the said town of Rye, and also a patent given them for the same."c
Queen Anne the same year issued her royal letters patent " to Anne Bridges, John Clapp, Augustine Graham, John Horton, and 'Thomas Hyatt for lands in Rye,
Beginning at a beach tree standing by Byram river, near a great rock marked with ye letters J. H. J. P. J. C., thence running up by ye said river north north-west to a certain ash tree in ye upper end of a place commonly called ye Pond Pound neck, marked with ye letters aforesaid, and to ye Col- ony line, and from thence by ye said Colony line westerdly to ye eight mile stake standing between three white oak trees, marked, viz. one of ye said trees is marked with the letters C. C. R. on ye north side, and on ye south
a Warrant for Survey, Ind. deeds. Alb. Rec. Lib. i. 129.
b Co. Rec. Lib. E. 46.
Hart. Rec. vol. iv. 121.
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side J. D., and from ye said tree on a direct line it runs to ye northermost cor- ner of Rye Pond, and thence so to the westerdly to a white oak sapling mark- ed by ye pond side with the letters J. J. P., thence by a range of marked trees so by ye east to an ash tree standing by Blind brook on ye east side thereof, and thence by another range of marked trees to a certain chesnut tree marked with ye letters I. T. on ye north side, on ye west side with ye letters I. P., on ye north-west side with ye letters I. H., and thence by a range of marked trees to ye place where it began, &c., &c. To the abovo said patentees, &c., &c.a
The proprietors of Poningoe neck were in 1715,
Hachaliah Brown,
Joseph Sherwood,
Deliverance Brown,
Isaac Anderson,
John Stoakham,
John Merritt, Sen.
Robert Bloomer,
John Brondige,
George Lanc,
George S. Kniffen,
Timothy Knapp,
John Disbrow,
Richard Ogden,
Thomas Merritt,
Daniel Purdy,
Ebenezer Kniffen,
Peter Brown.
Upon the 1st of July, 1715, Robert Hunter, Captain General and Commander-in-chief, set out for patent to Christopher Bridges, clerk, rector of the parish of Rye, and his heirs and as- signs, twenty small parcels of land situate, &c., in the precinct and parish of Rye, &c., not heretofore granted under the seal of the Province ; all which certain tracts of land, purchased by Chistopher Bridges, contained two hundred and eighty-one acres. b
On the 12th of August, 1720, the following letters patent were issued under the great seal of the Province.
CHIARTER OF RYE.
" George the First, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ire- land King, Defender of the Faith, &c., To all to whom these presents shall come, sendeth greeting. Whereas our loving subjects Daniel Purdy, son of John Purdy, deceased, Samuel Brown, and Benjamin Brown, in behalf of themselves and others, freeholders and inhabitants of the township of Rye, in the county of Westchester, in the province of New York, by their humble
a Co. Rec. Lib. E. 2.
b Alb. Rec. Book of Patents, Lib. viii. 185. The patent appears to have been granted in 1718.
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petition presented to our trusty and well beloved Col. Philip Schuyler, presi - dent of our council for our province of New York aforesaid, have set forth that they and their ancestors and predecessors, under whom they hold, have held, and improved at their great charges with their labour and industry, a certain tract of land bordering upon the line of division between this province and Connecticut colony, for which they and their ancestors and predecessors have hitherto had no patent under the seals of the province of New York, which said tract of land is situated, lying, and being between Byram river and Blind brook, and beginning at a certain rock, being the ending of a part of land commonly known by the name of Town neck point, and is the souther- most point of the said tract of land, thence running easterly by the Sound to a point near the mouth of Byram river, called Byram's point, including a certain island called Manusses Island ; and from the said Byram point northerly up Byram river on the east side of the said river, as the colony line is at present supposed to be run by the inhabitants of the neighborhood, to a rock standing on the east side of the said river by the wading place, and the high road lead- ing to Connecticut, the north twenty-four degrees thirty minutes, west three hundred and forty-eight chains, as the line which divides this province from Connecticut is supposed to run by the said inhabitants, to a walnut tree marked with three notches on the three sides, being twelve chains on a straight line to an ash tree marked with three notches on three sides, standing near Blind brook, then down the said brook until it empties into a creek called Mill creek, and then by the said creek to the place where it began, containing four thou- sand five hundred acres of land or thereabout, after eighteen small tracts of land which lie within the said bounds, and are part of twenty small tracts formerly granted to the Rev. Christopher Bridges in his lifetime, are deducted and allowance being made for the king's highway ; and prayed to have our grant and letters patent for the same under the great seal of the province of New York, in the manner following, that is to say, to hold to them, their heirs, and assigns forever, but to and for the use and uses following, and to no other use whatsoever ; (that is to say) as for and concerning such tracts of land and hereditaments, parts of the before recited four thousand five hundred acres of land and island whereof they the said Daniel Purdy, Samuel Brown, and Ben- jamin Brown, stand lawfully and rightfully seized and possessed in their own several and respective rights, interest, and estate, to and for the sole and only proper use, benefit and behoof of the aforesaid Daniel Purdy, Samuel Brown, and Benjamin Brown, severally and respectively, and of their several and re- spective heirs and assigns forever ; and as for and concerning such other tracts of land and hereditaments parts of the before recited four thousand five hundred acres of land and island which are belonging and appertaining to seve- ral other persons, freeholders and inhabitants within the bounds and limits of the same four thousand five hundred acres of land and island, some of more, some of less, according to the several, separate, and particular interest, in trust to and for the sole and only proper use, benefit and bchoof of each par . VOL. II. 5
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ticular freehold and inhabitant, particularly and respectively, and of each of their particular and respective heirs and assigns forever, in as full and ample manner as if the particular names and their particular and several freeholds and inheritances were particularly and severally mentioned and described, under the usual quit rent, with the usual clauses, provisions, conditions, limi- tations and restrictions as are limited and appointed by our royal instructions for the granting of lands in our province of New York for that purpose. Which request we being willing to grant, Know ye, that of our especial grace, cer- tain knowledge, and mere motion, we have given, granted, ratified and con- firmed, and do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, give, grant, ratify and confirm unto the said Daniel Purdy, Samuel Brown and Benjamin Brown, and to their heirs and assigns forever, all that the aforesaid tract of land and island containing in the whole four thousand five hundred acres in manner and form as last mentioned and described, together with all and singu- lar the woods, underwoods, houses, edifices, buildings, barns, fences, orchards, fields, feedings, pastures, meadows, marshes, swamps, ponds, pools, waters, water courses, runs, rivulets, rivers and streams of water, fishing, fowling, hunting and hawking, quarries, mines, minerals, standing, growing, lying and being, or to be had or used and enjoyed within the limits and bounds aforesaid, and all other profits, &c., &c. To have and to hold all that the aforesaid tract of land and island, containing in the whole four thousand five hundred acres, and all other the above recited premises, &c., &c." " Witness our said trusty and well beloved Colonel Peter Schuyler, president of our council for our province of New York, in council at Fort George in New York, the eleventh day of August, in the sixth year of our reign, A.I). 1720.ª
In 1786 the people of the State, (as successors of the Crown,) claimed the arrears of quit rent due upon the tract of four thousand five hundred acres, granted to Daniel Purdy, Samuel Brown and Benjamin Brown, on the 11th of August, 1720.
The lands west of the Blind brook, called by the Indians Apawquammis, are to be distinguished from the rest of the township of Rye, as constituting a distinct patent. This territory was purchased of the native sachem Shanarocke and other Indians, by John Budd of Southhold, Long Island.
To all Christian people, Ingains and others whom it may concern, that we whose names are hereunto subscribed, living upon Hudson's river, in Ameri - ca, That we Shanarocke, sagamore, and Rackeate, Napockheast, Tawka- heare, Nanderwhere, Tamepawcan, Rawmaquare, Puwaytahem, Mawmawy- tam, Howhoranes, Cockkenecs, Tawwayens, Altoemacke, Heathomees, all
a Alb. Rec. Book of Patents, lib. viii. 407.
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Ingians, for divers good causes and considerations us hereunto moving, have fully and absolutely bargained and doe for ever sell unto John Budd, senior, of South hole, his leires, executors, &c., all our real right, tittell and interest we or other of us have in one neack of land lying on the mayn, called Apaw- ammeis, buted and bounded on the east with Mockquams river, and on the south with the sea against Long Island, and on the west with Pockeotess- make river, and at the north up to the marke trees nyeer Westchester, both all the lands, trees to fell at his pleasure, with all the grounds and meadow grounds and planting grounds, moynes and minerals, springs and rivers or what else lying or being within the sayd neck track of land, and also range, feeding and grasse for cattell, twenty English miles northward into the country, and trees to fell at his or their pleasure, and to their proper use and improvements of the said John Budd, his heirs, executors, &c. for ever to en- joy, possess and keepe as their real right, as also peaceably to inherite the sayd track of land with all thereone, and we the before named Ingians doe acknowledge and confesse to have received in hand of the said John Budd, the juste sum of eightie pounds sterling in full satisfaction for the aforesaid land with all the limits, bounds and privileges without lett or molestation of any one. Now for the more true and reall enjoyment and possession of the said John Budd his heirs, &c., we doe jointly and severally, us and either of us, or any by or under us, for ever assign and make over by virtue of this our deed and bill of sale, disclayme any further right in the sayd tract of land from the day of the date hereof, and all and each of us do promise to put the said John Budd or his into quiet, peaceable possession, and him to keep and defend and mayntaine against all person or persons whatsoever that shall di- rectly or indirectly lay any clayme or former grant, or shall trouble or moles' the said John Budd or his, be they English, or Dutch, or Ingains, or whatso- ever. We the aforenamed Ingains doe engage ourselves, heirs, executors, &c., to make good this our obligations as aforesaid, I Shanarocke, Rackeate, Napockheast, Tawkakeare, Nanderwhere, Tamepawcan, Rawmaquare, Puw- waytahem, Mawmawytam, Howhoranes, Cockkenecs, Tawwayen, Altoe- macke, Heathomees, have hereunto set our hands at time and times, and we doe approve of each of our hands to this deed to be good and firm. Witness this our hands this day, being the Sth of November, 1661.
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