THE TOWN OF HARRISON. 367 



them, ' to inquire into the manner of circumstances of said land, and 

 make report.' Their report, dated February 17th, states that ' Hum- 

 phrey Underhill appeared in behalf of Joseph Budd, son and heir to 

 John Budd deceased, and produced an Indian Grant dated December 

 8, 166 1, alleging that the same did contain the lands mentioned.' The 

 committee found the deed to contain a description of ' a tract of land 

 called Apawanis, bounded on the east by Mackquam River, on the south 

 by the sea against Long Island, on the west by Pocecottsewack River, 

 and on the north by marked trees near Westchester Path ; together with 

 range for feeding and range for cattle, and to fell trees twenty miles 

 north.' 



This land, they say, is altogether disclaimed by Harrison ; the tract 

 purchased by him lying north of said marked trees. Underhill was 

 asked whether he had any other objection to advance, and replied that he 

 had at home an Indian deed which justified Budd's claim to the soil for 

 sixteen miles north of the marked trees; but he did not bring it along 

 with him, for it was old and spoiled, being dated in 1666 ; but he had a 

 copy of the deed, which he gave to Colonel Heathcote, who left it be- 

 fore the Governor and Council. The committee could not examine this 

 paper, but humbly referred the matter to the Council.* 



The document which Underhill thus unfortunately failed to produce 

 was undoubtedly the deed of April 29th, 1666, by which Shanarocke and 

 others conveyed a tract between Blind Brook and Mamaroneck River, 

 extending ' sixteen English miles from Westchester Path up into the 

 country' 



And it was also, as we have seen, to all appearance the same tract 

 which, four years earlier, June 2, 1662, the purchasers of Peningo 

 Neck, Disbrow, Coe, and Studwell, had bought together with Budd. 

 Both parties, the inhabitants of Rye in general and the proprietor of 

 Budd's Neck, were now to lose a territory for which, had they claimed 

 it jointly and without dispute among themselves, they could certainly 

 have made a stronger plea. As it was, no regard seems to have been paid 

 by the Council to either claim. The lands were granted to Harrison, 

 and the people of Rye, • revolted ' back to Connecticut. 



The individuals to whom this grant was made, were William Nicolls, 

 David Jamison, Ebenezer Wilson, John Harrison, & and Samuel Haight. 

 Nicolls was a member of Colonel Fletcher's Council; Jamison was 

 clerk of the Council ; Wilson was Sheriff of the City of New York, and 

 a prominent merchant. All these men stood high in the governor's 



a County Records at White Plains, vol. B. pp. 259-261. 



2> In Ms petition lor a patent, he signs His name John Harrison. 



