THE TOWN OF RYE. I4I 



Poningoe Neck also authorized the same individuals to obtain a particu- 

 lar patent for said neck. " The court, it appears, however well inclined, 

 did not see lit just then to grant either of those applications. Again, in 

 1692, at the October session of the General Court,' Mr. Underhill, of 

 Rye, and Zachary Robert's of Bedford, were in attendance, and the 

 court granted them an allowance for their expenses in coming; 'to be 

 payd at Stamford out of the county rate.' a But the time for this step did 

 not arrive until five years later. At a meeting of the Governor and 

 Council, January 19, 1697, Thomas Merritt and Deliverance Brown ap- 

 peared in behalf of ' the town of Rie,' with the request that this planta- 

 tion may be owned as included within the colony, and that a charter 

 may be granted to them for their lands. The petition is granted, and a 

 patent for the town is ordered to be prepared forthwith/ It is as fol- 

 lows : 



"RIE PATTENT." 



" Whereas the Hon" 1 Gen 11 Court of the Colonie of Connecticut have, on May 

 the fourteenth day, 1685, ordered and declared that every town within the said 

 Colonie should take out Pattents or Charters for their severall grants of Lands 

 Given them by the said Gen 11 Court, or derived by purchase or otherwise obtain- 

 ed, which Pattents they did order should be made and Given to them under the 

 seal of the Colonie and hands of the Gov r and Secretary. And that such Pattents 

 shall be a sufficient Evidence for all and every township that hath the same to all 

 Intents and purposes for the holding the Baid lands firnie to them, their heirs, suc- 

 cessors and assignes forever, according to the Tenor given by his Majestie Charles 

 the second In his Charter bearing date the three and twentieth day of April], in 

 the fourteenth year of his Reign. And the said Gen 11 Court having granted and 

 assigned to severall persons a certain township to be known by the Kame of Rie; 

 bounded westward eight Miles upon the Dividing Line between the Province of 

 of New york and the Colonie of Connecticutt, according as it was settled by his 

 Majesties Commissioners, as appears by their act or Report thereupon ; and East- 

 ward on a line beginning at the mouth of Byram River and Running up the said 

 River one quarter of a mile above the Great Stone lying in the path by the said 

 River, and from thence Continued by a parralel Line eight miles into the Coun- 

 trey, and bounded southward upon the sea and northward upon the Wildernesse. 

 Now know all men by these presents, that I, Robert Treat, Esq 1 " Govern 1 " of his 

 Majesties Colonie of Connecticutt, have given, granted, bargained, enfeoffed and 

 Confirmed, and by these presents doe give, grant, bargain, enfeoffe and continue 

 unto Joseph Theale, Thomas Merritt, Deliverance Brown, John Horton, Joseph 

 Horton, Francis Purdie, Hackaliah Brown, Timothie Knap, George Lane and 

 John Merritt, their heirs, assignes and their associates forever, all that part or 

 parcell of Land which lies and is contained within the bounds above-mentioned, 

 With all and singular the Lands, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever 

 are thereunto belonging or any way appertaining to the same or any part thereof. 



a Public Rec. of Conn., vol. iv, p. 83. 

 6 Baird's Eist. of Rye, p. 93. 



