P., thence by a range of marked trees so by ye east to an ash tree standing by Blind brook on ye east side thereof, and thence by another range of marked trees to a certain chesnut tree marked with ye letters I. T. on ye north side, on ye west side with ye letters I. P., on ye no/th-west side with ye letters I, H.,and thence by a range of marked trees to ye place where it began, &c., &c. To the abovo said patentees, &c., &c.a

The proprietors of Poningoe neck were in 1715,

Hachaliah Brown, Joseph Sherwood,

Deliverance Brown, Isaac Anderson,

John Stoakham, John Merritt, Sen.

Robert Bloomer, • John Brondige,

George Lane, , ; . George S. Kniffen,

^ Timothy Knapp, , John Disbrow,

, Richard Ogden, Thomas Merritt, •

Daniel Purdy, Ebenezer Kniffen, Peter Brown.

Upon the 1st of July, 1715, Robert Hunter, Captain General and Commander-in-chief, set out for patent to Christopher Bridges, clerk, rector of the parish of Rye, and' his heirs and assigns, twenty small parcels of land situate, &c., in the precinct and parish of Rye, (fcc, not heretofore granted under the seal of the Province ; all which certain tracts of land, purchased by Chistopher Bridges, contained two hundred and eighty-one acres.^

On the 12th of August, 1720, the following letters patent were issued under the great seal of the Province.

CHARTER OF RYE.

" George the First, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Failh, &c.. To all to whom these presents shall come, sendeth greeting. Whereas our loving subjects Daniel Purdy, son of John Purdy, deceased, Samuel Brown, and Benjamin Brown, in behalf of themselves and others, freeholders and inhabitants of the township of Rye, in the county of Westchester, in the province of New York, by their humble