144 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



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 him- 

 self 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 for- 

 merly granted by this government to the inhabitants of the said town of 

 Rye, and also a patent given them for the same."" 



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 Byam river, near a great rock marked 

 witli 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 Colony line, and from 

 thence by ye said Colony line westerdly to ye eight mile stake standing be- 

 tween three white oak trees, marked viz: one of ye said trees is marked with 

 the letters C. C. R. on }-e north side, and on ye south side J. D. and from ye said 

 tree on a direct line, it runs to ye northermost corner of Rye Pond, and thence 

 so to the westerdly to a white oak sapling marked by j r e pond side with the let- 

 ters 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 chestnut tree marked with ye letters I. T. on ye north 

 side, and on j-e west side with ye letters I. P. on ye north-west side with ye let- 

 ters I. H. and thence by a range of marked trees to ye place, where it began- 

 &c, &c. To the above said patentees, &c, &c b 



The proprietors of Poningoe Neck in 1 7 15 were as follows : 



HAcnALiAn Brown, Joseph Seerwood, 



Deliverance Brown, Isaac Anderson, 



JonN (Stoakuam, JonN Mereitt, Sen. 



Robert Bloomer, John Brondige, 



Geop.ge Lane, George S. Kniffen, 



Timothy Knapp, JonN Dibbeow, 



Richard Ogobn, Thomas Mep.ritt, 



Daniel Puedt, Ebenezee Kniffen, 

 Peter Brown." 



a Hartford Records, vol. IV. 121. 

 b Co. Kec. LP). E, 2. 



c A Town Rec. At a meeting of the proprietors of Poningoe Neck, Dec. llta, 1699, a grant 

 was made to iticnard Ogden, of an island commonly called Fox Island. 



