Even there they could find no rest, for the Governor of New York issued an order forbiding them to worship even in a barn. So they crossed by means of the ferry to Rye, and settled principally in Harrison ; here they were hemmed in by their old enemies, the Dutch on the Hudson River, and the unforgiving and intolerant Puritans on the East. They thus extended up this narrow strip of country, and the * family names of the first settlers can be traced for over one hundred miles north.

Samuel Haight, of Flushing, one of the five patentees of Harrison Purchase, was a Friend. When after a lapse of twenty years or more a considerable emigration from Long Island to the Purchase took place, it consisted mainly, if not wholly, of families of Friends.

In 1706 they appear to have begun to settle in Rye, for Mr. Muirson, Missionary of the Gospel Propagation Society, tried to win them over to his faith, but failed. Mr. Bridge, his successor, reported seven families of Quakers in his parish in 17 10, and four or five families inclining to them.

One of these, probably, was the family of Captain John Clapp, who came to Rye as early as 1705. In 17 18 he was called a reputed Quaker.

From Mr. Bridge's account, it seems that in the winter of 1 7 fo, an attempt was made by certain persons to form themselves into a society in the neighborhood of his parish. He called them Cale's followers, or Canting Quakers. Mr. Bridge in 17 12, records his success in disputing with these people. (They could not have been true Quakers). They have never, he says, held a public meeting since in these parts. Five years afterwards, however, he writes, " The Quakers come frequently in