THE TOWN 



OF 



HAFLR-ISOKT. 



Harrison, sometimes called "The Purchase" and "Harrison's Pre- 

 tint, " is situated three miles east of the village of White Plains, distant 

 thirty miles from New York, and one hundred and thirty-four miles 

 from Albany ; bounded northerly by North Castle, east and southerly 

 by Rye, west by Mamaroneck, White Plains and North Castle. Its 

 length north and south is about nine miles, and its medial width near 

 three miles; but like most of the other towns in this county, its form is 

 irregular — having no right lines for its boundaries. Prior to 1702 this 

 town formed a part of Rye, but was organized as a separate township 

 on the seventh of March, 1788. 



The first proprietor of this land of whom anything is known, was 

 Shanarocke or Shanarockwell, Sagamore of Poningoe, who with other 

 Indians in 1661 conveyed to John Budd, of Southhold, Long Island, 

 " one track of land lying on the mayn called Apawammeis " — " also 

 range, feeding and grasse for cattell, twenty English miles northward in- 

 to the country" In fact, the Indian territory of " Weecquaesqueck," 

 which included Poningoe, was to the northward an unknown and limit- 

 less forest waste commonly styled " Ihe Wilderness" held principally by 

 roaming clans of the great Mohegan or " Enchanted wolf tribe." 



In 1666 Sanarocke and others conveyed to John Budd a tract of 

 land, between Blind Brook and Mamaroneck River extending north six- 

 teen miles (English miles) from Westchester path up into the country. 

 Under these and other purchases the inhabitants of Rye subsequently 

 claimed the whole territory, consisting of all that tract of land since known 

 as Harrison's Purchase — situated above Westchester Path between Blind 

 Brook and Mamaroneck River, and extending as far north as Rye Pond; 

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