134 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF 'WESTCHESTER. 



May ii, 167 1. the general court of Connecticut granted that the town 

 of Rye bounds should extend up into ye country northward twelve 

 miles.' 1 



At first the pretences of Connecticut to the westward were unlimited, 

 till the year 16S3, and consequently so to the northward of Rye ; hence 

 the grant to extend twelve miles to the north, as being less exposed to 

 be opposed by New York, leaving their bounds unlimited to the west- 

 ward of Byram river, thus giving them an opportunity of extending their 

 bounds twelve miles in that direction, so as to form a tract of twelve 

 miles square ; as they had already granted one of six miles square to 

 Bedford. This grant, had it been allowed by New York, would have cov- 

 ered Harrison's purchase, the White Plains, Mamaroneck, the Mile 

 Square, Tuckahoe, New Rochelle, and Eastchester, besides other places. 



The twelve proprietors of the salt meadows in this town, A.D. 1672, 

 were as follows : 



William Udell, 1 ; John Coe, 5 ; John Coe, 9. 



John" Beoxdij, 2 ; Thomas Applebe, 6 ; Richard Fowler, 10. 



Peter Di^brow, 3 : Thomas Allex, 7 ; Thomas Studwell, 11 ; 



William Odelle, 4 ; Philip Galpex, 8 ; Johx Bcde, 12 ; 



" At a town meeting held March, 1672, it was agreed that the first of 

 April following should be taxed of all persons and young cattle and 

 horses, unless it be such as are wrought, and that they henceforward 

 should goe out on the first of April, and whatsoever person hath not his 

 fence up by that time shall forfeit five shillings a rod." 



"2Sth January, 1673, the general court ordered that the bounds be- 

 tween Greenwich and Rye is to be from the mouth of Byram river, to 

 run up the river one quarter of a mile above the great stone lying on the 

 cross path by the said river ; and from thence the sayd commons up- 

 wards, between Stamford bounds and the colony line, is to be equally 

 divided between them by a parallel line with Stamford, and to Norwalk 

 to the end of their bounds up in the country, &c." 



This settlement was confirmed June 21st, 1696, by the general court 

 sitting in Hartford, May 8th, 1693. 



'•Upon the 28th November, 16S0, the town made choice of Peter 

 Disbrow, Hachaliah Brown, Robert Bloomer, and Thomas Merritt, for 

 to go with the Indians to view some land lying between the Blind brook 

 and Biram river, and to make a thorow bargain with them if they shall 

 see it best." 



The result of this interview was a sale of land under the Indian sachem 

 Maramaking, " of all that certain tract of land lying by a brook common- 

 ly called Blind brook, which tract of land is called by the Indians Euke- 

 taupucuson, and by the English Hogg Pen Ridge." 

 a Hart Rec. vol. viii, p. 13. 



