The general court also refused him a patent for his paternal lands in 1710, upon the ground that the former patent granted was sufficient. c It was not until the year 1720 that the Crown confirmed the Budd purchase by letters patent under the great seal of the province of New York, to Joseph Budd, John Hought and Daniel Purdy. the patentees yielding and rendering therefor yearly, to the governor, on the feast day of the blessed Virgin Mary, commonly called Lady day, the annual rent of one pound nineteen shillings.

CHARTER OF RYE NECK.

^ George, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. All to whom these presents shall come, sendeth greeting ; whereas our loving subjects Joseph Budd, John Honght, and Daniel Purdy, inhabitants of the town of Rye, in the county of Westchester, by their petition presented to our trusty and well beloved Colonel Peter Schuyler,

« Co. Uec. Lib. A. p. 14.

b Indian Deeds, Alb. Rec. warrant for survey, Lib. i. .39.

c Hart. Rec. vol. iv. 12 L

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president of the council for our province of New York, have set forth that in virtue of a purchase made by John Budd in his lifetime, the father of the aforesaid Joseph Budd, by licence from the governor of Connecticut colony, bearing date the eighth day of November, one thousand six hundred and sixty, of a certain tract or part of land in the bounds of the township of Rye, in the county of Westchester, then called Apawquammis, bounded east by a river then called Matquams river, southerly by the sea or sound against Long Island, now called the Island of Nassau, westerly by a river then called Poilhstoroak river, and northerly by marked trees near Westchester path, they the said petitioners, with divers others of our loving subjects, inhabitants of the same township of Rye, who have and do hold and enjoy the same tract of land by, from, or under the same John Budd and his heirs and assignees, have cultivated and improved the same at their great charge and great labour and industry, and have been and are now hitherto peaceably and quietly possessed thereof, praying to have the same confirmed to them by letters patent under the great seal of the province of New York, in the manner as is hereat'ter described, (that is to say) all that tract or neck of land in the township of Rye, in the county of Westchester, in the province of New York, now called Budd's purchase, beginning at a certain grist mill called Joseph Lyon's mill, standing on a brook called Blind brook, thence up the stream o*f said brook including the said mill, until it meets with a small brook called or known by the name of Bound brook, then on a north-west course until it meets with Westchester old road, thence south-westerly along the said road as it runs to a white oak tree marked on two sides, standing on the west side of a certain brook known by the name of Stoney brook, which white oak tree is the south-west corner of a certain patent called Harrison's patent, then from said white oak in a northwest course to an ash tree marked on two sides, standing on the east side of Maraneck river, close by the edge of said river as it runs to the place where said Maraneck river emptys itself into Maraneck harbour or neck, then southerly to where said Maraneck harbour or creek falls into the Sound, then easterly all along the Sound untill it meets with a certain creek called Mill creek, on tlie head whereof the aforesaid grist mill of Joseph Lyon is standing, thence up the channel of said creek as it runs until it meets the aforesaid grist mill where it first begun, bounded easterly by Blind brook and Mill creek, northerly by Westchester road and Harrison's patent, westerly by Maraneck river and harbor, and southerly by the Sound, together with a small island called Hen Island, lying in the Sound over against the said lands, about a quarter of a mile from the main, containing in the whole, main land and island, 1560 acres, to hold to them and their heirs and assignees forever, but to and for the use and uses following, and to no other use whatsoever ; (that is to say) as for and concerning such tracts of land hereditaments, part of the before recited tracts of land and island whereof the said Joseph Budd, John Hought and Daniel Purdy are and stand lawfully and rightfully seized and in their own several and respective, rights, interest and estate, to