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very numerous in the county. Anthony's brother Robert, born in 

 Flushing, Sept. 7, 1707, removed to Greenwich, Connecticut, and he 

 married his second wife Abegail, daughter of Joseph Sutton. They' 

 had a son Uriah, who married Mary Quimby, at Harrison Purchase, 

 January 18, 1764, This forms the other branch of the Westchester 

 family. 



Benjamin married Hannah Brown, and left, with other sons, Anthony 

 — who removed from Flushing to this town in 1725. He was the father 

 of six sons; Thomas, Samuel, Benjamin, William, Moses and John; 

 whose descendants are very numerous in the county. 



Brown's Point, now a part of the town of Harrison, but bordering 

 on White Plains, appears to have been held at first, as a tract distinct 

 from other purchases. The point was formed by the junction of Ma- 

 maroneck River, which has its principal source in St. Mary's Lake, and 

 Buckhout's saw mill stream, which has its origin near Rye Pond in the 

 northern part of the town. 



On the west side of Purchase Street, and near its junction with the 

 White Plains road, is situated the " Ophir Farm," once the property of 

 Mr. Benjamin Halladay. Near the junction of Purchase Street and 

 Harrison Avenue, is located the Harrison post office. In this sin-all 

 hamlet is a Methodist Episcopal church. 'As early as 1843, the Rev. 

 H. A. Mead, local elder, commenced preaching here in a school-house, 

 and in a private dwelling. The church was built in 1855-6. This church 

 is connected with the village Methodist Episcopal church, of White 

 Plains; Mr. Mead still continues in charge."^ 



In the vicinity of Harrison Avenue is the old Thomas' estate. The 

 small settlement of Purchase, commenced by the Friends as early as 

 1 7 19, and frequently called Rye Woods, is pleasantly situated in the 

 northern part of the town, on the south-east side of Rye Pond. It con- 

 tains two meeting houses belonging to the Society of Friends, a store 

 and a post office, upon the road from Rye to Bedford ; passing through 

 this place, are several substantial farm houses. 



The Friends. 



From Flushing, probably, the Society of Friends spread at a very 

 early day to this place. Rye was in regular communication with Long 

 Island, in 1739; a ferry was established between it and Oyster Bay, 

 Long Island. This ferry continued in use till the latter part of the 

 century. A map of Rye in 1797 shows the house at the ferry near the 

 mouth of Byram River. 6 It must have been a place of frequent resort 



a Baird's Hist, of Rye, p. 358. 

 b Baird's History of Rye. 



