T$2 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Thomas Applebe, William Odell, John Brondig and John Coe, for which 

 the latter were to pay forty shillings a lot in cattle or corn, between the 

 above date and January next ensuing.' 1 



Peter Disbrow by a declaration of trust, dated June 16, 1676, assigned 

 all his right, title and interest in the Indian purchase to the rest of the 

 proprietors of Rye then living between the two rivers, viz : the Byram 

 river to the east, and a river called the Blind brook to the west. The 

 original division of Rye consisted of ten acres to each individual plant- 

 er, besides a privilege in the undivided lands. 



1 • m a note appended to this deed of trust it appears that John 

 Horton had selected a spot of land not within the bounds of the Rye 

 purchase. 



•'But lyeth considerably to the northward of the head of the Blind Brook, 

 and consequently to the north of the north-west bounds, except they do claim 

 it as comprehended within the twenty English miles range, whereof was granted 

 to them, viz. the proprietors. 



In 1662, the thirteen proprietors of the salt meadows within Hastings were, 



Thomas Studwell, William Odell, 



John Bhoxdig, Peter Disbkow, 



William Odell, Jonx Coe, 



Thomas Applbbe, Samcel Allex, 



Philip Galpix, Johx Coe, 



Richakd Vowl, Thomas Studwell. 

 Johx Bcdd. 



At this period Connecticut regardless of the Hartford treaty made in 

 1650, obtained from the native Indians a further grant of territory 

 extending from the east line of that colony, to the present village of 

 Westchester. Upon this purchase she claimed the lands of Rye, and 

 required the submission of the inhabitants to her authority. 



During the year 1633, King Charles the Second, by letters patent 

 under the great seal, conveyed the province of New Netherlands, and 

 that part of Connecticut lying westward of Connecticut River, to his 

 brother James, Duke of York and Albany. Thus, by a wholesale 

 usurpation excluding forever the rightful proprietors, utterly regardless 

 of their just rights as discoverers; and in the face, too, of all existing 

 treaties. 



As early as 1641, it appears to have been the British policy as one 

 means of counteracting the Dutch in America, " that the English put 

 forth their plantations, and crowd on, crowding the Dutch out of those 



a Rye Rec Lib. A. 



