d Anthony Field is buried in the Friends grave yard at Purchase.

• No fishing is allowed in the ponds with any kind of net or seine.

t Rye-pond is the principal source of the Bronx.

260 HISTORY OF THE

Ezra Carpe iter on the south, Thomas Clapp on the eastj and Oliver ]\[atthe\vs 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 liitle 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. Josepli H. Anderson is the son of Jeremiah Anderson, Esq., who for many years represented this county in Assembly.

" Uj)on the 23d of October, 1776, Col. Tyler's, Huntington's and Throop's regiments of General 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 enf»my. 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 mortally. Colonel Holmes and Captain Kipp had their horses killed under them, the levies had not a man killed or wounded."^