THE TOWN OF RYE, 1 45 



Upon the ist of July 17 15, Robert Hunter, Captain General and 

 Commander-in-chief, set out for patent to Christopher Bridge, clerk, 

 rector of the parish of Rye, and his heirs and assigns, twenty small par- 

 cels of land situate, Sec, in the precinct and parish of Rye, Sec, not 

 heretofore granted under the seal of the Province; all which certain tracts 

 of land, purchased by Christopher Bridge, contained two hundred and 

 eighty-one acres.* 



On the 20th of June, 1720, Daniel Purdy, Samuel Brown and Benja- 

 min Brown, inhabitants of the township of Rye, petitioned for a Patent 

 for the tract of land between Blind brook and Byram river, in behalf of 

 themselves and divers other inhabitants of the said township of Rye, in 

 the following manner : 



To the Hon hle Peter Schuyler ye President of Jus Majesties C'ounsill of the 

 Province of New York and Territories tJiereon depending in America 

 In CounsiU: 



The Humble Petition of Daniell Purdy Son of John Purdy Deceased Samuell 

 Brown and Benjamin Brown Inhabitants of the Township of Rye in the County 

 of West Chester in behalfe of themselves and diverse other Inhabitants of the 

 said Township of Rye. 



Sheweth That one Peter Disbrow many yeares since by authority from the 

 Colony of Connecticut (under whose Government the Township of Rye then lay) 

 on the third of January 1660 purchased from the then Native Indian Proprietors 

 a Certaine Tract of Laud lyeing on the maine Betweene a sertaine plane then 

 called Rahonaness to the East and to the West Chester Path to the North and up 

 to a river then called Moaquanes to the West. That is to say all the Land lyeing 

 betweene the aforesaid Two Rivers then called Pennigoe Extending from the 

 said Path to the North and South to the Sea or Sound. . 



That the said Peter Disbrow also purchased of the said Native Indian Propri- 

 etors by authority as aforesaid a Certaine other Tract of Land lyeing Betweene 

 Byram River and the Blind Brook which was bounded as followeth viz' with the 

 Byram River Beginning at the Mouth of the aforesaid River on the East and the 

 Bounds of Hasting (then soe called) on the south, and southwest to the marked 

 Trees, and northward up to the marked Trees, abt six or seven miles from the 

 sea alorg the said Byram River northward and soe from the said River a Cross 

 the North Northwest and west to the said River called the blind Brook bounded 

 northward with marked Trees which lead down to a little Brook runing into the 

 Blind brook as by the said Two Indian Purchases may more fully appeare. 



That the said Peter Disbrow having made such purchases afterward sold and 

 Disposed of the same to many of the Inhabitants of the said Township of Rye 

 who settled and Improved the same Lands 6 and were ffirst under the Township 

 of Rye under the Collony of Connecticut and Great part thereof hath since falen 

 under the Government of the Province of New York : 



a Alb. Rec, Book of Patents ; Lib. viz. 1S5. The Patent appears to have been granted in 

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 b Words [erased] and were first as a township. 



