a Miss Sarah Oikloy a daughter of the above mentioned Oonieilus residing with Nathaniel Valentine at Tuckahoe, Oct 80, 1»49. Informed Mr. .McDonald" that about a year ago '1850) she weut with, other relations to the Quaker burying ground In Purchase where they identified the grave of their father, Ac. Th v then had a plain stone prejiared and put up: such as the Quakers allow. &c. -- McDonald MS->. in possession of Moore of Xcw York Hist. Soc,

6 Records of the Society lu Harrison, and Balrd's History of Rye.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

NAMES OF FUNERAL COMMITTEE.

Elnattian Carpenteb, Purchase. William C. Field King Street. Ellwood Birdsall, " Edmund Field, "

Thomas Sutton, " Samuel Comley, "

Robert Barnes, " William Burling. New Rochelle.

Elias Barnes, North Streot. David Brett, 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 Matthews on the north.