3S6 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



NAMES OF FUNERAL COMMITTEE. 



Elxatiian Cajbpenteb, Purchase. William C. Field King Street. 



Ellwood Biedsall, " Edmund Field, " 



Thomas Sutton, " Samuel Comley, " 



Robert Barnes, " William Burling. New Rochelle. 



Eli as Barnes, North Streat. David Britt, Mamaroneck. 



William S. Carpenter, North Street. 



Within a short distance of the Purchase lies Rye Pond, a beautiful 

 sheet of water covering over two hundred and ten acres of ground. In 

 this pond vast quantities of pickerel are annually taken with hook and 

 line, and pleasant sport is afforded to those who are fond of trolling.* 

 Its-waters abound also with almost every other variety of fresh water fish. 

 The best place for fishing is said to be a flat rock near the centre of the 

 pond. 



Rye Pond has an outlet on the west which passes into the little pond 

 of the same name, and from thence into Bronx's River. 6 



The principal proprietors of the land bordering the pond, are Ezra 

 Carpenter on the south, Thomas Clapp on the east, and Oliver Mat- 

 thews on the north. 



The late Thomas Clapp of this town left one hundred and fifty acres 

 on the west side of the pond for the education of poor children at the 

 Purchase. 



A little south-west of this place is situated the farm and residence of 

 the Hon. Joseph H. Anderson, late member of Congress for the seventh 

 district. The house commands a very fine and extensive prospect of 

 the Sound and surrounding country. Joseph H. Anderson is the son 

 of Jeremiah Anderson, Esq., who for many years represented this coun- 

 ty in Assembly. 



"Upon the 23d of October, 1776, Col. Tyler's, Huntington's and 

 Throop's regiments of Gen. Parson's brigade, and of Gen. Heath's divi- 

 sion moved, and took post at the head of King Street, near Rye Pond." 



"On the 4th of December, 1781," says General Heath, "Captain 

 Sackett, of the New York levies near Harrison Purchase below the lines, 

 having gone a small distance from his detachment on the morning of 

 the 2d, was taken prisoner by a party of the enemy. The enemy after- 

 ward attacked Lieutenant Mosher to whom the command of the de- 

 tachment fell. Lieutenant Mosher and the detachment behaved with 

 great bravery, repulsed the enemy, killed one of them and two horses, 

 and wounded eight of the enemy, among them a Captain Kipp, said 



a No fishing is allowed in the ponds with any kind of net or seine. 



6 Rye Pond is the principal source of the Bronx. 



c Heath's Mem. 75, 76, I- nun a return of militia officers for Harrison's Precinct, February 

 9, 1T76. it appears that John Thomas, minor, was chosen Captain, Gilbert Duseuberry First 

 Lieutenant ; William Woodward, Second Lieutenant, and James Miller, jun. ensign. 



