Budd and those of Rye, that have appropriated the lands of Rye to themselves shall appear at general court in May next, to make appear their right. For the general court intends to settle those lands according to righteousness, that no plantation may be discouraged, and plantation work may goe forward to better satisfaction than formerly.''^

The court must subsequently have confirmed John Budd, in his rights as proprietor, for we find him in 1681-2, granting a piece of meadow land lying westward of John Ogden, to John Horton.'^

Hart. Rec. vol. iii. 29. b Co. Rec. Lib. B. 84.

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In 16S5, John Budd, of Southhold, in New England, sold to Joseph Ptirdy a certain tract of land in Rye, lying and being upon the neck called Epavvainos, bounded on the east by Blind Brook, &c., (fcc. Also a parcel of land upon the same to Judith Brown and Joseph Ogden, 29 April, 1685.a-

The following orders were issued to the surveyor general, by his Excellency the governor in council, the 20th of February, 1695-6 : "you are hereby required to survey and lay out for Joseph Budd in order to a patent, all the land contained in an Indian purchase in Westchester Co., made A. D. 1661 ; from the Sound to the marked trees near Westchester path, bounded on the west by the Mamaroneck River, on the east side by parte of Blind Brook," and this shall be to you a sufficient warrant. ^