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.

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 county 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 division 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 afterward attacked Lieutenant Mosher to whom the command of the detachment 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