THE TOWN OF RYE. 1 55 



May next, to make appear their right. For the general court intends 

 to settle those lands according to righteousness, that no plantation may 

 be discouraged, and plantation work may goe forward to better satisfac- 

 tion than formerly."" 



The court must subsequently have confirmed John Budd, in his rights 

 as proprietor, (while at the same time they showed the neck to be incor- 

 porated into the town of Rye,) for we find him in 16S1-2, granting a 

 piece of meadow land lying westward of John Ogden, to John Hor- 

 ton. b 



In 16S5, John Budd, of Southhold, in New England, sold to Joseph 

 Purdy a certain tract of land in Rye, lying and being upon the neck 

 called Epawainos, bounded on the east by Blind Brook, &c, &c. Also 

 a parcel of land upon the same to Judith Brown and Joseph Ogden, 

 April 29, 1685. c 



The following orders were issued to the surveyor general, by his Ex- 

 cellency the governor in council, the 20th of February, 1695-6 : 



" You are hereby required to survey and lay out for Joseph Budd in 

 order to a patent, all the land contained in an Indian purchase in West- 

 chester Co., made A. D. 1661 ; from the Sound to the marked trees near 

 Westchester path, bounded on the west by the Mamaroneck River, on 

 the east by parte of Blind Brook," and this shall be to you a sufficient 

 warrant. d BENJAMIN FLETCHER, 



To Anthony Graham, Surveyor General, By order of Council. 



In consequence of the unsettled state of the boundary lines between 

 the two colonies of New York and Connecticut, Joseph Budd failed in 

 obtaining his patent at this time. 



The general court also refused him a patent for his paternal lands in 

 1 7 10, upon the ground that the former patent granted was sufficient. 6 It 

 was not until the year 1720 that the Crown confirmed the Budd pur- 

 chase by royal letters patent under the great seal of the province of New 

 York, to Joseph Budd, John Hoight and Daniel Purdy ; the patentees 

 yielding and rendering therefor yearly, to the Governor, on the feast day 

 of the blessed Virgin Mary, commonly called Lady Day, the annual rent 

 of one pound nineteen shillings : — 



a Hartford Rec. vol. III. 29. 



b County Rec. Lib. B. 84. 



c County Rec. Lib. A. p. 14. 



d Indian Deeds, Alb. Rec. warrant for survey, Lib. 39. 



e Hartford, Rec. vol. IV, 121. 1. Local officers were sometimes appointed specifically by 

 the town for the ' east side of Blind Brook : — ' 2d of Aug., 1700, the town in general doth grant 

 unto the inhabitanc? of the neck of appoquamas, the liberty to have pound and pounders and 

 fenci viewers.' Baird's Hist, of Kve. 



