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owned in common by patentees, 102, 472 ; early settlers in, 103, 146, 168, 181, 187, 188, 198, 210, 223, 257, 345, 370; patriotic meeting in, 220; committee of safety for, 223 ; officers eleeted in, 223.
Harrison, present town of, formerly a part of Rye, 2, 114 ; boundaries of, 6 ; bonght by settlers of Rye, 15, 97; organized, 104, 160, 173, 372; roads in, 509-511. Harrison Station, 141, 472, 514.
Harrison, 'Friends ' of, 361.
Hart Island, 231.
Hart's Corners, 234.
Hartford, conferences of the Dutch and English at, 107.
Hartford, General Court of. See Conneet - ient.
' Haseco,' 136, 137, 407.
Hassock Meadows, 51, 52, 136, 137, 270, 407, 427.
Hasting or Hastings, bounds of, 11, 515; village of 21, 30, 31, 55, 56; planters of, 21-26 ; differences in, 33 ; lands per- taining to, 38; deputies from, 88, 89; inhabitants of, appropriate land for par- sonage, 294 ; merged with Rye, 30, 89, 395, 416, 501.
Hastings in Sussex, England, 21, 35, 36. ' Haunted house,' the, 270.
Haviland's Inn, 74, 142, 145-147, 162, 220. See Square House. Haviland Island, 475.
Heathcote's Purchase, 101.
' Heathen ' [Indians] in Rye, 311. Hebron, Conn., 341.
Hempstead, L. I., 20, 103, 255, 290, 298, 313; harbor, 20, 254.
Hessians, force of, encamped near Mamar- oneck, 233; on Kniffen's Hill, 235, 237, 242.
Highways. See Roads, Streets, and High- ways.
Hog-pen Ridge, purchase of, 56; division of, 57, 136; farmers of, 267, 396, 399, 401, 417, 427, 442, 451, 477 ; road, 506. Holland, possessions of, in America, 3, 106; surrendered, 28; recovered, 45, 46 ; finally relinquished, 47.
Home-lots, laid out on Manussing Island, 20; at Rye, 31, 32; new, 51 ; traces of, 34; absorption of, 35, 137 ; ministers', 298, 313.
561
GENERAL INDEX.
Honge, or Blind Brook, 58, 133.
Horseneck, or Greenwich, 120, 141, 142, 147, 246, 258, 259, 345, 458.
Horseneck, on Budd's Neck, 411; Brook, 135; Creek, 514.
Horse-race, or Beach, 134.
Horse-race on the Beach, 212, 213. Horse-rock, 457.
Horton's Dock, 80; Pond, 104, 234, 236, 459.
' House by the ferry,' 79, 134, 168.
Houses of early settlers, how built, 33; where built, 33, 420, 440 ; near together, Keithians, 361. 34, 54, 55; how furnished, 128, 129. Kennedy's mill, 160. See Farm-houses.
Hoyet's Inn, King's Bridge, 147.
Hudson's Ferry, 157.
Huguenots of Rye, 431, 444, 465, 479, 480. Huntington, L. I., 20, 255, 276. Hnnt's mill, 477.
Independents or Congregationalists, 271. Indian deeds, 10-16, 56-58, 63, 98, 99, 101, 152-154, 502 ; fields, 5 ; 'line,' . : 431 ; 'mortars,' 194; names, 133, 134, 136, 152, 153; paths, 4, 138 (see West- chester Path) ; purchases, 8-18, 51, 55- 58, 97, 152-154, 515, 520; remains, 193, 194; slaves, 192, 311 ; 'stockings,' 128.
Indian villages near the Sound, 5, 193; near Rye Beach, 5, 194; on Manussing Island, 5, 194; near Rye Village, 191 ; on Lyon's Point, Port Chester, 268; near Bullock's Landing, 513.
Indians, carly condition of, 189-191 ; num- bers, 192; visits to Ryc, 192, 193. Indians, trade with the, 206.
Indians of Connecticut friendly, 42, 49 ; but distrusted, 44; how treated, 190, 191 ; of New York, 189 ; visits of, to the city, 192, 193 ; sufferings from, 410. Induction of rectors by order of the gov- ernor, 306, 309, 312-315, 317, 322.
Innkeepers chosen by the town, 148. Inns, 145-151.
Inoculation, 168, 169.
Intemperance, 150, 151.
Islands : Bar Rock, 2; Black Tom, 2; Bloomer's, 137 ; Captain's, 375-377 ; Fox, 135; Goose, 135; Hen, 14, 52 ; Humphrey's Rock, 3; Pine, 3, 14, 85, 36
135, 194; Scotch Caps, 14, 85, 135 ; Wrack Clump, 3.
Jamaica, L. I., 290, 297, 334.
Jay mansion, 299, 373 ; cemetery, 48, 479. ' Jenney's garden,' Mr., 301, 504. Judith Point, 376.
Justice of the peace, 62, 67 ; powers of, 68; appointed, 68, 91, 94, 95 ; action of, 119, 212, 213.
Justices and Vestry, 150, 289-291.
Kersey, 128.
Killingworth, Conn., 328.
King Philip's War, 42-45, 54, 278, 285, 286.
King's Bridge, 147, 150, 462; spiking of King's Chapel, Boston, 310.
King's [Columbia] College, 209. cannon near, 226, 233, 234, 239, 246.
King Street laid out, 55 ; settlement along,
55; 136, 137, 166, 177, 212, 236, 247- 249, 252, 256-258, 260, 269, 370, 378, 497, 498, 509-511.
King Street Square, 178. Kirby Avenue, 193, 507. Kirby's mill, 137, 160.
Kniffen's Cove, 32, 79, 135, 208, 503, 504 ; Ilill, 137, 242, 246, 247, 270; land, 137, 417; Lane, 209, 410.
Labor, price of, 129.
Lakes Champlain and George, settlers near, from Rye, 213, 214.
Lame Will's Purchase, 56, 57, 61, 407, 408, 515 ; northern part of present town, 57, 70 ; second purchase, 58-60 ; bounds of, renewed, 65, 134, 156, 400, 427, 441, 448.
Land speculation in the province of New York, 96.
Lands at Rye, price given for, 16, 17, 57 ; owned in common, 96 ; distribution of, 50-61; tendered for sale to the town, 65, 441 ; valnation of, 91; free use of, 59; rongh measurement of, 60 ; care of, 67 ; patent sought for, 69.
Lands, lavish grants of, in New York, 96- 98.
Lands, unappropriated, in Fairfield Co., divided among the towns, 90.
562
GENERAL INDEX.
Larchmont, 155.
Lawlessness during the Revolution, 260, 261; after, 265, 266. Lawrence's tavern, Saw Pit, 268. Lawyers of Rye and Port Chester, 171.
' Layers out' of lands, their duties, 60; report of, 86, 156.
' Lean-to,' 149, 150, 282. Leather garments, 128.
Lebanon, Conn., 171.
Legacies, specimens of, 128.
Lewisboro', or South Salem, 170.
Lexington, battle of, 222.
Library, Mr. Denham's, 279.
Light-house on Captain's Island, 377. List of Persons and Estates, 64, 65, 89. Listers, 62. Litchfield, Conn., 315.
Litigation, 114, 397, 403, 440 ; fondness of early settlers for, 68.
Limping Will, 441, 462. See Lame Will. Lloyd's Neck, L. I., 254, 255.
Lobster catching, 161.
Locust Avenue, 505. London Board of Trade, 184.
Long Island, Dutch villages on, 3, 46 ; English towns on, 20.
Long Island, loyalists of, 249, 253-255.
Long Island Sound, 1; operations on, during the Revolution, 230, 244, 246, 253-255.
Long Meadow, 527, 528. Lot, lands drawn for by, 59. Lottery at Rye, 146.
Lounsbery Farm, 422.
Lower going over, 66, 135, 160.
Loyalists, 245, 249, 264. Sec Torics.
Lyon's Dock, 135; Mill, 208, 304, 502, 514, 520, 521 ; Point, 53, 135, 137, 144, 197, 267, 268, 399, 427, 461; road across, 509.
Mails, 71-75. Main Street, Port Chester, 268, 269. Mamaroneck, 134, 148, 157, 170, 373 ; sub- mits to the Dutch, 46, 396 ; part of Rye parish, 175, 289, 305, 306, 311; whal- ing sloop, belonging to, 161; tax upon slaves in, 393 ; poor of New York sent to, 250 ; troops posted at, 233; advance of British upon, 234; engagement at, 233 ; British force at, 235, 245, 247; man-of-war off, 226; loyalists of, 249,
264; Col. Heathcote at, 305 ; Society of Friends at, 361 ; Episcopal Church at, 370 ; stage from, to Williams' Bridge, 375 ; market boat from, burned, 379.
Mamaroneck River, 6; mills on, 66, 160 ; boundary line at, 109, 154 ; falls of, 66, 139, 140, 152, 154, 155, 198, 372, 477, 478.
Man Island, 465. Manhattan Island, 3, 19.
Manussing, etymology of name, 133, 134. Manussing Island, part of the town of Rye, 1; purchased, 10, 446, 449 ; settlement of, 19-26 ; arca and position of, 19, 20; planters of, 21, 294; house-lots on, 395, 407,441 ; removal from, 30, 31 ; a pound on, 31 ; roads to, 53, 54, 141, 501, 504, 507; controversy relative to, 70, 132, 429, 431, 475, 477 ; Indian remains on, 193, 194, 407, 415, 501, 516-519.
Map, of Rye, Webb's, 160; Erskine's, 141, 160; of Budd's Neck, 149; of the White Plains, 132, 157. 'Mariner,' 160.
Marked trees, bounds designated by, 6, 57, 157, 421, 431; renewed, 66, 156; ' the antient,' 70; disappearance of, 124 ; vestiges of, 6.
Market sloops, 161; first, 270; taken on the Sound, 253, 254, 379.
Markets and fairs, act for settling, 212.
Marriages performed by the magistrate, 26. Marvin's tavern, Fairfield, 147.
Mathews' Memorial, 353.
Mattinecock Point, L. I., 452.
Meadow lots, 32, 51.
Medical profession, in the colonial period, 165.
' Meeting-house' to be built, 118, 306, 323.
' Meeting-honse,' the, at White Plains, 158, 323, 414, 513 ; ' the old,' at Rye, 345.
Meetings, religious, in private houses, 34 ; in the town-house or parsonage, 306, 338.
Meetings, town, where held, 50.
Merritt's Point, 54, 137, 399, 427.
Merritt's tavern, incident near, 257.
Methodist Episcopal Church of Rye, 354- 359; of Port Chester, 366, 369, 370.
Middle Patent, 312, 396.
Middle [Purchase] Street, 510. Middletown, Conn., 314. Milford, Conn., 161.
563
GENERAL INDEX.
Militia, 130, 433 ; called ont, 229, 231. Mills, 159, 160 ; on Blind Brook Creek, 29, 33, 159, 404 ; on Blind Brook above the town, 66; on Mamaroneck River, 66, 160; on Byram River, 66, 160; Bloom- er's, 160, 397, 508; Bowne's, 260; Pe- ter Brown's, 160, 400, 505 ; Budd's, 404, 501 ; Deall's, 160, 514 ; Davenport's, 160, 397, 514 ; at Glenville, 379 ; Hunt's, 157, 160; Kennedy's, 160; Kirby's, 160; Lyon's, 502, 520, 521; Ogden's, 160, 268; Park's, 160, 398, 402; Phillips', 157; Dr. Sanford's, 170, 379 ; Seaman's, 268; Thomas's, 160; Underhill's, 160; Van Amringe's, 160, 514.
Mills, built by permission of the town, 66 ; regulations concerning, 66.
'Milstone ' [Milton] Landing, 501.
Milton, Rye, 195, 258, 295.
Milton Road, 438, 502, 503.
Mines at Rye, 477.
Ministers of the Gospel, exempt from taxa- tion, 65 ; salary of, 130.
Minister's rate, 274.
Ministers called by vestrymen and church- wardens, 289.
Ministry, care of the founders of Connecti- cnt to provide a, 272; Rye without a, 272; orders relative to the, 272-277 ; first supported in Connecticut by volun- tary contributions, 283; afterward by taxation, 284 ; how provided for in New York, 187-293.
Moaquanes, or Moekquams, 515.
Moekquams, 5, 10, 99, 134, 520. See Blind Brook.
Mohegan villages, 5; at Rye, 193, 268. Monmonth, battle of, 247. Montauk Point, 231. Morals, state of, 151. Mosquito Cove, L. I., 255, 452.
Murder of Jonathan Kniffen's daughter, 209, 252, 253, 419; of Jolin Flood's daughter, 270 ; Shubael Merritt's, 260, 261.
Names and places at Rye, 133-137. Names of New England towns, upon what principle chosen, 21. Narraganset, 310. Negro insurrections, 183. Negro Point, 135. Negroes, instruction of, 185, 186, 188.
Nelson Hill, engagement on, 283.
Neutral Ground, the, 215, 216, 245, 251, 260-263, 336, 337.
New Amsterdam, 3; surrender of, 108.
Newark, N. J., 333.
New Brunswick, departure of loyalists for, 264, 265.
New Canaan, Conn., 106.
New Castle, 167, 362, 371, 397.
New Haven, magistrates of, 273.
New Haven Railroad, 375.
New London, Conn., 322.
New Milford, Conn., 264.
New Netherland, 3, 28, 105, 108, 153.
New Rochelle, 167, 209, 212, 228, 231-233, 248-250, 258, 261, 354, 355.
Newtown, L. I., 273.
Newspapers :
' New York Gazette,' 74, 246, 252, 253.
'New York Gazette and Weekly Mer- eury,' 74, 76.
'New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy,' 74, 76, 161.
' New York Weekly Journal,' 75, 76. Rivington's 'New York Gazette,' 220, 221.
Newspapers of Port Chester, 382, 383. New Windsor, N. Y., 250.
New York city, defence of, 201, 203.
New York, provincial Assembly of, de- nounces the defection of Rye and Bed- ford, 115, 116; aets of, 140, 211, 212, 282.
New York, legislature of, constitutes the towns of Rye, Harrison, and White Plains, 372 ; appoints commissioners to aseertain the boundary line, 124, 125 ; recognizes the line ascertained, 126.
Non-importation agreements, 217, 218, 220.
North Castle, part of original town of Rye, 17; boundary between, and Rye, 57 ; army at, 239, 248, 257 ; Whitefield Patent in, 449; Middle Patent in, 312. 396 ; religious services at, 314; Society of Friends in, 362, 363, 372, 378, 421, 497.
Northfield, Mass., abandoned, 43. North Haven, Conn., 314. North Street, or White Plains Road, 51, 141, 156, 511, 512. Norwalk, Conn., 106, 141, 149, 241, 275. 321, 340.
564
GENERAL INDEX.
Norwich, Conn., Indian plains at, 32; ] Parsonage Point, Indian remains on, 193. proprietary system at, 87.
Notabilities of Rye, a century ago, 208-211. Nova Scotia, departure of loyalists for, 264, 265.
Oblong, the, 111, 112. See Equivalent Tract.
Occupations, 159-162, 450, 471.
Ogden's Dock, 134, 430.
Old Colony line, 154.
Old Fort, 34, 44, 45, 48, 49, 139, 150, 399. ' Old Stone End,' 269. Old Town, 29, 33, 278, 501. Orienta, 155.
Orphans, rights of, seeured, 86 ; eare of, 164.
Oyster Bay, L. I., 20, 103, 212, 255, 376, 410, 426, 456.
Oyster fishery at Rye, 160, 161.
Oyster Pond, now Orient, L. I., 224, 225. Oyster-shells, heaps of, 33.
Ox-pasture Neck, 135.
Packet vessels from Rye to New York, 80. Palisades, towns inclosed with, 45.
' Pan-handle,' the, 106.
Panthers, bonnty for killing, 92.
Parish of Rye, 104, 164, 175, 287-293, 305, 307, 311, 314-317.
Parish and town of Rye, difference be- tween, 308.
Parish Church of Rye, designation of, 306 ; building of, 307, 308, 309 ; built by the town, 307 ; site of, 309, 310-318 ; claimed by the Presbyterians, 321.
Parish clerk, 341.
Park Academy, 34, 209, 426.
Park's mill, 10, 136, 197, 427, 444.
Parliament, British, representation in, 216,
219; enactments of, requiring assent of colonial assemblies, 216, 217, 219; op- pressive enactments of, 216-221.
Parsonage honse, built, 277 ; religious services in, 338 ; burnt, 340.
Parsonage lands, 118, 275, 277, 279; sur- veyed, 296, 299, 300 ; Parson's or Par- sonage Point, 135, 294-296 ; alienated, 294, 313 ; lot in the Town Field, 295, 296, 449, 450 ; lawsuit regarding, 296; recovered by the Presbyterians, 297; home-lot or 'old parsonage,' 34, 118, 144, 176, 277, 279, 301-304, 318.
Patent of Bndd's Neck, 520-524 ; of Har- rison's, 524-526 ; of the White Plains, 157, 526-530.
Patent of Rye, from Connecticut, 82, 92- 94 ; from New York, 515-520 ; proceed- ings relative to, 69, 70, 266, 515.
Patent to Clapp and others, 458, 466.
Patents, income of the government from the granting of, 101.
Patents, royal, 515-530. Patriotic families in Rye, 211.
Peek's land, 457.
Peekskill, N. Y., 167, 335 ; army at, 248.
Penfield House, 34, 145-148, 160, 380. See Square House.
Peningo, 10, 133, 134.
Peningo Neck, 1, 2, 400 ; first purchase on, 9, 51-55, 515 ; second, 11, 55-61 ; 102, 135, 153, 180; Indian remains on, 193, 194, 247, 266, 302.
Peningo Path, 502.
Pewter, 128. Philippi, N. Y., 336.
Philipsburg, 184.
Philipse Patent (Sontheast), 335.
Phillips' mill, 157.
Physicians of Rye and Port Chester, 165- 172.
Pine Island, 135. Piracy, 184, 185.
Plains, the, at Rye, 32, 304, 395, 409, 411. Plantation. See Town.
Planters of the town, their character, 22, 23; declaration of their purposes, 23 ; compact of, 23, 24 ; bona fide settlers, 96. Pockeotessen, or Poekcotessewake -Stony Brook, 12, 13, 99, 134, 520.
Poll tax, 203.
' Polly and Ann,' sloop, 227.
Poningo, 133. See Peningo.
Poor of New York, quartered on the in- habitants of Rye and other places, 250. Poor, provision for the, 162-164.
Population of Rye, 64, 373, 375 ; of Port Chester, 381.
Port Chester, village of, 2, 136, 137, 252, 378-383; name taken, 381; incorpo- rated, 381 ; meeting of boundary com- missioners at, 125, 126; churches of, 366-371. See Saw Pit.
Post, communication by, 44, 71-75. Post-office at Rye, 374.
565
GENERAL INDEX.
Post-road. See Boston Road.
' Pounders,' 62, 104.
Preamble line, 121.
Precincts, of Rye Parish, 104 ; of West- chester County, 289.
Presbyterian Church of Rye, beginnings of, 271-275 ; early ministry of, 276-286 ; parsonage lands of, 294-300 ; consolida- tion of, 322 ; size of, 320, 321, 329 ; min- isters of, before the Revolution, 321- 335 ; church edifice built, 328 ; burned, 335.
- Since the Revolution, 345 ; congre- gation gathered, 345 ; incorporation of, 346 ; church rebuilt, 345 ; ministers of, 348-352 ; Mr. Clark's services to, 351- 352; third church edifice, 352, 500 ; fourth, 352, 353 ; location of, 465.
Presbyterian Church in New York, 331 ; at the White Plains, 158; of Port Ches- ter, 367-369.
Presbyterian settlers of Connecticut, 272. Presbyterian 'Society ' of Rye and the White Plains, 327, 328, 371.
Presbyterians of Rye and the White Plains, their memorial to the government of Connecticut, 323, 324, 413; their cor- respondence with the Trustees of Yale College, 325, 327.
Presbytery of Bedford, 349, 350, 368 ; of Dutchess County, 334-336 ; of Hudson, 336 ; of New Brunswick, 335 ; of New York, 334, 335, 348, 349 ; of Philadel- phia, 322.
Princeton, attack on, 248.
Proclamation of Governor Fletcher, to Ryc and Bedford, 116, 117.
Proprietary system, 35, 81, 82, 86, 87 ; rights, 81 ; sale of, 82, 84, 415.
Proprietors, the Eighteen, of Peningo Neck, 32, 81-87, 173, 174, 283, 396, 397 ; original number, 82; possessions, 83; increase, 83; lists, 82, 83 ; grants, 85; allotments, 86 ; lay out lots at Saw Pit, 267 ; admit Mr. Denham, 278 ; Mr. Bridge, 312 ; call Mr. Buckingham, 321 ; ask for patent, 92; dissolved, 87.
Protestant Episcopal Church of Rye. See Church of England, and Parish Church. - Since the Revolution, 337 ; congre- gation gathered, 337; delegates to con- vention chosen, 337 ; church rebuilt, 338, 339 ; name changed, from Grace to
Christ's Church, 340; incorporation of, 339 ; rectors of, 337-343 ; third church edifice, 342; fourth, 343, 344.
Protestant Episcopal Churches :
St. Andrew's, Richmond, Staten Island, 338.
St. Peter's, Port Chester, 370, 371. St. Stephen's, New York, 338.
St. Thomas', Mamaroneck, 342, 370.
Provincial government of New York, abuses under, 200-203.
Provincial governors, 200-206, 227, 288- 291, 297, 298, 305, 306, 313, 314; char- acter of, 200.
Provisions, cost of, 129, 130.
Provoost estate, 53, 134, 488.
Pulpit Plain, 52, 85, 86, 136, 328, 329, 437. Punishments, 69, 183, 452.
Purchase Avenue (Port Chester), 178, 209, 269, 508; Road, 236, 300, 509.
Puritans, many of them Presbyterians, 272.
Putnam's ride, 259; Hill, 380.
Quaeks, numbers of, in colonial times, 165. Quakers, 273, 306, 311, 312, 321, 458. Sec Friends, Society of.
Quaroppus, or the White Plains, 51, 134, 152.
Queen's Rangers, the, 254, 256; recruits for, in Westchester County, 228, 270. Quitrents, 266, 377.
Raccoon Ridge, 136. Rahonaness, - Greenwich ? 10, 515.
Rates, minister's, 118, 458. Rattlesnake Brook, 135.
Receipt Book, the New, 201, 206.
Records, Town, 62, 63, 85, 266, 327. Records, Vestry. See Vestry.
Recruits for the British army, 228, 270.
Rectors of Grace Church, Rye, character of, 318, 319 ; burial-place of, 198, 318. See Church of England, and Protestant Episcopal Church.
Rectory grounds, 34, 303, 304, 340.
Rectory Street, 301, 444, 504.
Refugees, loyalist, 242 ; departure of, after the war, 264, 265. See Tories.
Regent Street, 127, 144, 178, 209, 246, 253, 260, 267, 419.
Revenue laws, rigorous enforcement of, by the British, 217.
566
GENERAL INDEX.
Revolution, the American, 215-266; causes leading to, 206, 216-218 ; educa- tion of the people for, 214; local his- tory of, worth recording, 215, 216 ; suf- ferings of the people of this region during, 215, 216, 225, 239, 240, 245, 249, 250, 252, 253, 256, 259-263; ont- rages committed during, 225, 240, 241, 460 ; incidents during, at Rye, 225, 240, 242, 243, 245-247, 252, 253, 256-258, 260, 261, 460, 471 ; close of, 264; effects of, 264, 265, 337, 345.
Reynolds' Cove, 135.
Richbell's Patent, 153, 525 ; Neck, 397.
Richmond, Staten Island, 338.
Richmond County, N. Y., 289.
Ridge Road, 7, 53, 136, 137, 246, 397, 398, 402, 444.
Road, Boston. See Boston Road.
Roads laid out in Rye, 138-140, 156 ; early condition of, 92, 141, 142; com- missioners of, 140; regulation of, 140. See Streets and Highways.
Rodman's Neck, 231.
Roman Catholic Church, Port Chester, 371; cemetery, 371.
Romney marsh, 37.
Rope-walks, 159.
Row-galleys, 230, 254. See Whale-boats. Rye, derivation of the name, 37.
Rye Ferry, 37, 79, 134, 168, 212 ; road to, 507.
Rye Flats, 183. See Beach. Ryegate, England, 143.
'Rye men,' 154.
Rye Neck, dock at, 79 ; school on, 177; a school district, 180 ; Alice Haven's home on, 199; roads on, 513.
Rye Neck, guard on, 231, 244; American force on, 247, 250, 258.
Rye Neck, tories of, 226.
Rye Pond, 97, 98, 447, 457, 463, 467, 510, 524; tract between Byram River and, 458, 466 ; American force stationed near, 243, 248, 257.
Rye Port, 375, 381.
Rye Woods, 210, 226, 252, 256, 362, 363, 373.
Rye, town of, its shape, 1; position, 2; extent, 2 ; aspect 2; purchase of, 8-16 ; original arca of, 17; constituted, 30, 89 ; remotest plantation of Connecticut, 271; bounds of, 57, 66, 70; extended,
90; supposed to reach the Hudson River, 91, 109, 110, 153, 154; included within county limits, 89; ceded to New York, 92; resumed hy Connecticut, 93, 94, 114, 127 ; restored to New York, 95, 102; patent of, from Connecticut, 93; patent of, exclusive of Budd's Neck, from the Crown, 70, 515; patents of, 515, 530 ; reduced by act of legislature to its present limits, 266, 372; popula- tion of, 43, 173; from 1665 to 1699, 64; in 1710 (including the parish), 320 ; in 1798, 373; in 1810, 373; in 1820, 373; in 1841, 375; in 1870, 375.
Rye, American force at, 233, 240. Sec American force. British troops at. See British troops.
Rye, churches of, 271-371 ; families of, early settlers - 1660 to 1700-and their descendants, 395-450 ; later inhabitants -1700 to 1800-and their descend- ants, 451-499.
Rye, soldiers from. See Soldiers.
Rye, village of, laid out, 31; early appear- ance of, 33; differences in, 38 ; lands pertaining to, 38.
Rye, inhabitants of, their petition relative to Budd, 38, 39; for help against the Dutch, 47 ; settle near the Hudson, 109; their petition relative to Philipse, 91, 109, 110; they have no patent from the Crown, 97; are summoned to prove their title to lands, 97, 112, 113; their defection from New York, 92, 102, 113- 118; they apply to be received by Con- nectient, 93, 114 ; received, 93, 94, 114, 127; Col. Heathcote's interview with, 100, 101; they are remanded to New York, 95, 102; they complain of Har- rison, 102 ; their petition for indulgence in the collection of taxes, 118, 119; their claim to lands above Mamaroneck, 153; petition relative to a fair, 211; manners and customs of, 128-132; re- ligious character of, 22, 271, 272 ; per- plexities of, upon the outbreak of the Revolution, 218, 220; patriotic meeting of, 219; 'loyal' declaration of, 220; counter declarations of, 221 ; address of a patriot to, 221, 222 ; military compa- nies raised by, 223; removal of well- affected, 251 ; sufferings of, see Revolu- tion.
567
GENERAL INDEX.
Rye in Connecticut, 88-95, 100, 140, 246, | School-house 'near the church,' 67, 86, 252, 255.
Rye, Sussex, Eng., settlers from, 30, 399 ; account of, 35-37; condition of roads in, 142, 143.
Sabbath-breaking, 151.
Saint Mary's Lake. See Horton's Pond. Salem, N. Y., 335. Salt, ' a church full of,' 233. Salt meadows, 20.
Salt-works destroyed at Greenwich, Coun., 258.
' Sandford's Bark,' 170. Sand's Point, L. I., 254, 255. Saw-log Swamp, 137.
Saw Pit, village of, now Port Chester, `347, 403; settlement of, 267; first mention of, 137; origin of name, 267 ; lots laid out at, 267 ; Indian wigwams near, 268 ; landing, 267 ; market sloops from, 161, 267 ; old residents of, 267-270 ; old houses of, 267-270 ; taverns of, 267- 269 ; schools of, 178, 269; school dis- trict of, 180; physicians of, 170, 171 ; lawyer of, 172 ; number of houses in, a century ago, 267 ; American force at, 240, 243-247 ; engagement at, 258; murders near, 260, 270; hanging a tory at, 245 ; roads in the vicinity of, 508, 509; new road through, 144, 268 ; religions desti- tution of, 366 ; moral condition of, 366 ; religious services at, 341, 342, 349, 366, 367 ; churches of, 366-371 ; later history of, 378-381 ; growth of, 378; Mr. Jared Peck at, 378, 379 ; mills of, 268, 379; Dr. Dwight's description of, 379; La- fayette at, 380 ; steamboats from, 380, 381; change of name, 381. See Port Chester.
Scarsdale, 155, 305, 310, 372. Schenectady, N. Y., burning of, 48. Schepens, 396.
Schools at Rye, 173-180, 375 ; efforts to establish, 173 ; publie provision for, in Connecticut, 173 ; none in New York, 174; how maintained, 174; character of, 174, 176 ; the Society's, 174, 175; where held, 176 ; George Harris's, 177; Mr. Avery's, 176; on Rye Neck, 177 ; at Saw Pit, 177; on Regent Street, 177; Mr. Samuel U. Berrian's, 375.
School districts, 179, 180.
168, 348.
Schoolmasters at Rye, 151, 173-178, 375. School system, common, 178, 179.
Scotch Caps, 135 ; Neck, 135 ; Point, 452. Seaman's tavern, 245, 269.
Sedge lands, 475.
Selectmen, 62, 67, 111, 112. Seminary, Female, 437.
Serge, 128.
Servitude, persons sold into, 453.
Setauket, L. I., 255, 396.
Sheep masters, 62, 67, 104.
Sheep pasture laid out, 67, 86; regula- tions concerning, 66, 67.
Sheepscott, Me., 280, 285, 286. Shepherd, 67.
Sherwood's Bridge, 258, 259, 442.
Shipwreck, 161.
Sign-post, ' near the church,' 67.
Skinners, 241, 242, 372.
Slavery, African, introduced by the Dutch, 181; extent of, in New England, 181 ; first mention of, at Rye, 181 ; illustra- tions of, 181-186 ; Friends' testimony against, 187, 188; abolition of, 186- 188
Slaves, census of, 181, 182, 187, 320, 373 ; names of, 181-184, 186 ; moral and re- ligious condition of, 185, 186; manu- mission of, 186, 187 ; importation of, 184; tax on, 182, 393 ; valuation of, 202.
Slaves, Indian, 182, 192, 311. Slave-trade, 181, 184, 185.
Sloops, sailing from Kniffen's Cove, 79; from Milton, 80; from Rye Neck, 80, 161 ; from Saw Pit, 80, 161, 374.
Small-pox, inoculation for the, 168, 169. Smithtown, L. I., 255. Sniffen's Hill, 137, 270. Sce Kniffen's Ilill. Soubriquets, 435, 438.
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 174, 175, 177, 185, 191, 294, 302, 305-315, 317-321. Soldiers from Rye :
In King Philip's War, 43, 44.
In Expedition of 1690, 48.
In French and Indian War, 213, 214.
In Revolution, 223.
In War for the Union, 384, 387-391.
Somers, N. Y., 497. Sons of Liberty, 218.
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GENERAL INDEX.
Sound. See Long Island Sound.
Southbury, Conn., 348.
Sonthold, L. I., 273, 403.
Spelling, defective, 61, 168, 169.
Square House, 47, 142, 145-148, 210, 264, 374.
Stage-coach, the first, between New York and Boston, 76, 77, 212.
Stage-coach between Rye and New York, 78, 145; between Mamaroneck and Williams' Bridge, 375.
Stage-house. Sce Square House ; Wright's tavern, etc.
Stamford, Conn., 26, 93, 106, 107, 121,
131, 139, 142, 147, 165, 182, 255, 258, 275, 278, 280, 379, 399.
Stamford Road, 139.
Stamp Act, 217 ; repeal of, 217.
Steamboat landing, 134, 442.
Steamboats touching at Rye, 374; at Byram Cove, 380, 381.
Steep Hollow, 52, 86, 136, 246.
Steep Rock, 194. Stills, 435.
Stocks, the, at Rye, 69, 131, 183.
Stone walls, when introduced, 162.
Stony Brook, 135, 137, 153, 160, 414, 440. Store, ' the bigg,' 450.
Strang's tavern, 71, 139, 148-150, 444. Street, village, 31, 33.
Streets and highways, records of, 501-515. Sun, 'sign of the,' in Rye, 150, 462.
Sunday-school, early, at Rye, 175.
Sunday-school buildings, 343, 352, 353. Summerfield Church, 370.
Supervisor of the town, 62, 69.
Supervisors, board of, for Westchester County, 104, 146, 163.
Surrender of Cornwallis, 264.
Sussex, England, settlers from, 30; dialect of, 137 ; roads in, 142, 143.
Swamps, Great, 57, 137, 246, 417 ; Long, division of, 51, 137; valned by first settlers, 51, 52; names of, 137, 407 ; disappearance of, 52, 53, 137.
'Swamp Mortar Rock,' 194.
Synod of New York, 333-335; New York and Philadelphia, 335.
Taffy's Plain, 136, 465. Tarrytown, American force at, 248, 249. Taverns, regulated by the town, 66, 150, 151.
Taverns at Saw Pit, 267-269.
Tax for the support of the ministry, 283, 284.
Taxation for support of the Church of England, resisted, 322.
' Taxation without representation,' 216, 219.
Taxes, at Rye, under Connecticut, 65, 90; who exempt from, 65 ; under New York, remissness in paying, 114 ; alleged rea- son for revolt, 116, 117, 200; petition concerning, 119; 121, 216 ; collector im- prisoned for failure to gather, 417.
Taxes and imposts, under New York, 200- 206.
Tea, bill of Parliament imposing duties on, 217, 218; agreement not to import, 217, 218, 220.
Teamsters, from Rye, in the American army, 251, 460.
Theall's Hill, 374.
Thomas, seizure of Judge, 252, 455; plot for, 226.
Throg's Neck, L. I., 231, 232, 246. Timothy's Swamp, 137.
Toby's Hole, 261, 505. Tom Jeffer's Hill, 136, 173, 416.
Tompkins Avenue, 143.
Tories of Rye, 176, 216, 222 ; plots of, 225- 227 ; rejoicings of, on the arrival of the King's troops, 240; sufferings of, 240- 242, 253, 471; required to 'go below,' 249; 250, 370; ontrages by, 251, 460; 268, 317, 318, 437.
Town clerk, 62.
Town house, or parsonage, 85, 118, 285, 306.
Town, lands owned by the, 63.
Town meetings, 62; transactions of, 63- 67 ; where held, 67 ; how conducted, 67 ; 118, 119, 161, 168, 169, 202; action of, regarding the ministry, 274, 277, 278, 280-286 ; building the church, 282, 307, 308; the parsonage house, 282, 283, 308 ; the parsonage lands, 286, 295, 301, 302; interrupted during the war, 265; resumed, 265.
Town Neck Point, 516.
Town offices, 62. Town plot, 418, 465.
Towns of Connecticut, their number, 88 ; their functions, 88.
Towns of New York, their functions, 140.
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GENERAL INDEX.
Trades in Rye, 159.
Traffie in wood and cattle, 50, 159.
Train-band of Rye, 89, 130-132. Training ground, 50, 115, 131. Trees, 304, 340.
Trinity Church, New York, donation from, 342.
Trinity churchyard, 252.
Troops, British, quartered on the people, 217.
Trustees of publie lands, 67, 303. Turf and twig, investiture by, 132.
Turnpike company, 143, 144, 268, 300, 301; road, see Boston Road.
Ulster County, N. Y., tories from Rye in jail of, 227 ; poor of New York sent to, 250.
Union Cemetery, 137, 199, 512. Union Defence Committee, 385-387. Union, war for the, 384-391. ' Upper party ' and ' lower party,' 242.
Vagrants, treatment of, 163, 164. Van Amringe's mill, 160, 462, 514. Van Sieklin's tavern. See Old Fort. Vendne, public, 146, 163. Vestry-book, 151, 165, 166, 310. Vestry of Rye, 69, 150, 163, 287-293, 300, 304, 305, 310-314, 316, 478.
Vestry of the city of New York, 250, 291, 292; of Christ Church, Rye, 302-304, 340-342; of Grace Church, Rye, 337- 339.
Vestrymen and church wardens, chosen by the freeholders, 289.
Vines, profusion of, in early times, 4. Vineyard farm, 4, 130, 448.
Wading-place, 6, 7, 516. Wainwright's Point, 135. Walles' Ridge, 136. Wallingford, Conn., 169, 264. Wall Street Church, New York, 331. Wampum, described, 16; used as money, 17.
Ward's house, East Chester, 248, 257. Warehouse, 135, 208.
Ware's Cove [Warehouse Core ?] 135, 194.
Warren County, N. Y., settlers of, from Westchester County, 214.
Washington at Rye, 142, 147, 162, 225.
Webb's tavern, Stamford, 147.
Westchester County, constituted, 4; area of, 4; under the Dutch rule, 4; large manorial estates in, 96; fairs in, 212; settlers from, near Canada, 213, 214; inhabitants of, generally unfriendly to the cause of liberty, 226; expected to cooperate with the British army, 228, 232, 233 ; enemies to America travel- ling through, 228; militia of, 228 ; not to be relied on, 234; sufferings in, 215, 216, 225, 239, 240, 245-247, 249-251, 256, 259-263.
Westchester light-horse, 246.
Westchester Path, Old, 6, 7, 13, 15, 16, 23, 24, 31, 97, 99, 138, 395, 401, 419, 428, 430, 440, 468, 501, 502, 514, 515.
Westchester, town of, 6, 8, 24-26, 107, 120, 139, 158, 212, 233, 371, 393, 396.
West India Company, Dutch, 3, 96. Whaling sloop from Mamaroneck, 161. Wharf at the Fishing Rock, 78. Whipper, publie, at Rye, 69, 183, 452. Whipping-post, 69.
Whitefield, George, at Rye, 314, 315. Whitefield Patent, 449.
White Plains, the, town of, formerly part of Rye, 2; purchase of, 152, 153 ; pro- prietors of, 83, 157 ; patent of, 526-530 ; disputes concerning, 153-156 ; surveyed and divided, 58, 156, 157 ; settlement of, 157, 158 ; early settlers of, 174, 398, 428, 448, 449 ; church at, 158. 411; court- removed to, 158 ; court house, 103. 168, 466 ; school at, 175 ; slaves in, I>], 187; 198, 210, 212 ; American army re- treats to, 232; battle of the, 223, 225, 234-239, 257; royal forces near, 240; American, 243, 244, 246, 247, 248, 249: robbery at, 251 : 280, 301 ; Mr. Wetmore officiates at, 314; Presbyterian Church of, 323-329 : Dr. Smith's residence at, 334, 335 ; Episcopal services at, atter the war, 337; a distinet congregation formed, 341 ; 345 ; the town of, consti- tuted, 372.
White Plains Road, 51, 141, 156. Wigwams on Lyon's Point, 268.
Wilderness, Westchester County a, 4, 5, 18, 464; outside the Fieldl Fence, 34 : perils of the, 42-49 ; occupations of the. 50-61.
Willett Street, 509.
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Williams' Bridge, 375.
Will of Rev. Thomas Denham, 280; of Francis Brown, 403 ; of John Budd, 404.
' Will's two Purchases.' See Lame Will's Purchase. Wilton, Conn., 106. Windsor, Conn., 395. ' Winter Fever,' the, 170. Witchcraft, 410. Wolf-pits, 65, 86.
Wolf-pit Ridge or Plain, 52, 54, 59, 65, 136, 437 ; Hill, White Plains, 467.
Wolves, bounty for killing, 65, 92. Woodbury, Conn., 395. Wood Creek, 204.
Worship, public, in carly times, 279. Wright's tavern, 450.
Yale College, ministers of Rye graduates of, 314, 317, 322, 328, 329, 332, 340, 348.
Yale College, trustees of, their action relative to the Presbyterians of Rye and the White Plains, 325-327.
Yeomen, 159.
York, Duke of, patent to the, 108; com- missioners of the, 108, 109.
Yorktown, N. Y., 335. Yorkville, N. Y., 342.
Young's tavern, 236. Ypres Castle, 36.
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GENERAL INDEX.
Williams' Bridge, 375.
Will of Rev. Thomas Denham, 280; of Francis Brown, 403 ; of Jolin Budd, 404.
' Will's two Purchases.' See Lame Will's Purchase. Wilton, Conn., 106. Windsor, Conn., 395. ' Winter Fever,' the, 170. Witchcraft, 410.
Wolf-pits, 65, 86.
Wolf-pit Ridge or Plain, 52, 54, 59, 65, 136, 437 ; Hill, White Plains, 467. Wolves, bounty for killing, 65, 92.
Woodbury, Conn., 395.
Wood Creek, 204.
Worship, public, in early times, 279. Wright's tavern, 450.
Yale College, ministers of Rye graduates of, 314, 317, 322, 328, 329, 332, 340, 348.
Yale College, trustees of, their action relative to the Presbyterians of Rye and the White Plains, 325-327.
Yeomen, 159.
York, Duke of, patent to the, 108; com- missioners of the, 108, 109.
Yorktown, N. Y., 335. Yorkville, N. Y., 342.
Young's tavern, 236.
Ypres Castle, 36.
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