His commission defined the eastern boundary of the colony to be the town of Greenwich and so running northerly, provided such line does not come within twenty miles of Hudson's river, conformable to the treaty of 1650, which was ratified by the States General February 2 2d, 1656, Mamaroneck river having been heretofore considered the boundary line, as settled the 5th of December, 1664, viz : "a line beginning on the east side of Mamaroneck river or creek, at the place where the salt water meets the fresh, at high water, and thence northwest to the line of Massachusetts."0

The Dutch governor now required the submission of the inhabitants, and oaths of allegiance to the States General. Whereupon the people of Mamaroneck submitted themselves through their deputies, and were ordered to nominate by a majority Of votes, four persons who were to be presented the first opportunity, from which the Lord's Commanders shall elect two for magistrates. By order of the Lord's Commanders and military tribunal assembled in Fort William Hendrick, on the 23d day of August. A.D. 1673. 6

Peace took place between the belligerent powers, in February, 1674, by which New York was again restored to the English.

20th November, 1673, John Richbell of Mamaroneck, mortgaged the westernmost neck to one Cornelius Stenwyck, " bounding on the Gravelly or Stony river, having on the south the Sound, and so running from the marked trees, standing on the aforesaid neck, northerly twenty English miles into the woods."

Upon the 2d of February, 1683, a dispute arose between Mr. John Richbell (about the limits of his land) with the inhabitants of the town of Rye, whereupon the latter were ordered to attend the council. d