THE TOWN OF RYE. 1 97 



street. It contains monuments to the families of Budd, Nelson, Kniffen, 

 Osborne, Bulkley, Brooks, Merritt, Yeoman, Halstead, Barker, Brown, 

 Prevoost, Andrews, Berrian, Haviland, Russel, Mount, Fisher, and 

 Ferguson, «S:c. 



On the west shore of the Mill creek, extends the ancient territory of 

 Apawquammis, afterwards named Budd's neck,* from John Budd, the 

 first grantee of these lands under the Indians, A. D. 1661. In 1639, 

 the name of John Budd occurs in the New Haven records, as one of the 

 first planters of that place. 6 He subsequently removed to Southhold, 

 Long Island, from whence he came to Rye in 1661. In 1663, John 

 Budd was deputy from Rye to the general court of Connecticut. 



John Budd, proprietor of Budd's neck, by his last will dated the 13th of 

 Oct., 1669, bequeathed to his son John, all his part of the Mill on Blind 

 Brook, and to his son, Joseph, the Epawquammis lands. Joseph Budd 

 was the first patentee of Budd's or Rye neck, under the crown, in 1720.^ 

 From the Budds, the neck went by purchase, into the families of the 

 Purdys, Gedneys, Guions and Jays, &c. The property of the latter 

 family, contains a large proportion of the old patent. 



We have previously shown, that John Budd released this portion of 

 his patrimonial estate, including Pine Is/and, Marees neck and Hen Is- 

 land, to Peter Jay, A.D. 1745. 



The Jay family who have been seated here for four generations, are of 

 French origin, and descendants of Pierre Jay, Ecuyer, a wealthy mer- 

 chant of La Rochelle, in 1684. Pierre Jay is presumed to have been 

 of the house of Le Jay, of Poitou. There was also an ancient French 

 family in Paris of the name of Le Jay, which formerly distinguished it- 

 self in the civil department of the State, many of whom bore the same 

 Christian name, as many of the Jays have since done — amongst whom 

 is found, a John le Jay, in the early part of the sixteenth century; 

 a Nicolas le Jay, Baron de Tilley de la Maison Rouge, et de St. Far- 

 geau, Seigneur de Villiers, was first President to the Parliament of Paris, 

 in 1636. This individual was the son of Nicolas le Jay, styled " correc- 

 teur des Comptes a Paris." e 



a Sometimes called Rye Neck. 



b New Haven Col. Rec. vol. i. 7. 



c New Haven Col. Rec. vol. i, 425. 



d In the town records of Westchester, occurs the following entry : " Baptised bv Mr. 

 John Bartow, rector of Westchester parish, in the parish church in the town aforesaid, the 

 eighth of August, 1703, Sarah Budd, the wife of Joseph Budd of Rye, in the County of West- 

 . and their son Joseph Budd, aged eleven months, also. 



< Hist. Genealogiqae et Chronologique par le P. Anselme, 1731, vol. ix. :;04. The arms 

 borne by Nicolas Jay, were: " D'azur au chevron d'or, accompagne en chef de deux etoile3 

 de meme en point, d'un mouton passant d'argent. The arms of Pierre le Jay the Huguenot, 

 closely resemble the former, viz. : li d'azur au chevron d'or, en chef deini s'oleil splendant, 

 entre deux etoiles de meme en point, a roc propre surmonte par oiseaux. Crest, deux cceurs 

 unis. 



