738 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



38, and parts of 29 and 78 of that grant. On the 8th day of June, 1749, 

 James Brown, then of Norwalk, Conn., sold to Solomon Close, of Green- 

 wich, Conn., for one hundred and sixty-three pounds, current money 

 of New York, " a tract of land which is part of the southermost ten 

 miles of said oblong, and is situated north of and near unto the pond 

 called and known by the name of Long Pond, and is bounded as fol- 

 lows, viz : Beginning at Jonah Keeler's northwest corner and running 

 south seventy-seven and a half degrees west, one hundred and twenty 

 rods, then south twelve degrees and a half west, three hundred and twen- 

 ty-five rods: — then north seventy-seven and a half degrees east one hun- 

 dred and eighty rods : — then north, eight degrees east, three hundred and 

 twenty-five rods ; the whole containing 326 acres, be it more or less; 

 bounded north by Daniel Sherwood's land; west by the twenty mile line; 

 south by Common land; and east by Jonah Keeler's land." a 



One of the principal proprietors of the oblong portion of this town, 

 was the Rev. Thomas Hawley, the first pastor of the Congregational 

 church of Ridgefield, son of General J oseph Hawley, of Northampton, 

 Mass., who was a representative of that place as early as 1683, and a 

 graduate of Harvard College in 1674; descended from the Hawleys^of 

 the counties of Somerset and Dorset, England. The Rev. Thomas 

 Hawley, who was settled as pastor at Ridgefield, in 17 13, was born at 

 Northampton, September 10th, 1689, and died at Ridgefield, November 

 8th, 1738, and by his wife Abigail, who died April 17th, 1749, had six 

 sons. Joseph Hawley, the second son, was a distinguished scholar and 

 antiquarian, and father of Ezekiel Hawley, one of the Proprietors of the 

 oblong in 1753 ; also a commissioned officer in the Continental service, 

 and chairman, throughout the Revolutionary war, of the Committee of 

 Public Safety. Ezekiel died suddenly in 1788, leaving four sons — Eze- 

 kiel, Peter, Joel and David. Joel, the third son, was the father of the 

 the present Alfred S. Hawley, Esq., who occupies the ancient homestead 

 in this town. Thomas Hawley, the fourth son of Rev. Thomas, was 

 born February 20, 1722, married Elizabeth Gould, and left seven sons; 

 the fourth, Ezekiel, had Gould Hawley, of South Salem, and William 

 Hawley and Elijah Hawley, of Ridgefield. Abigail, only daughter of 

 Thomas Hawley, married James Rockwell (third son of Thomas), the 

 father of Gould Rockwell, and grandfather of the present Gould Rock- 

 well, of Ridgefield, Conn. 



The Keelers, who own much land on the southeast side of the town, 



a Copied from the original deed in possession of the late Ebenezer Close, of North Salem. 

 b The anus of the Ilawleys, &c, vert, a saltier eng. ar. Crest. An Indian's goat's head, 

 holding a three-leaved sprig of holly ppi. Motto— Suivez moi. 



