York for the purpose of cougratulation and settlement of the boundary line. These delegates and the commissioners appointed by the Governor of New York met on the 28th of October, 1664, and came to the understanding that the boundary limit between the two claimants should be fixed at a distance of twenty miles east of the Hudson River, and ninning parallel with that river northward from Long Island Sound. This agreement was not signed, and a few weeks later it was ordered and declared, --

" That .ye Creeke or ryvcr called Momoronock wti" is reported to be about thirteen myles to ye east of West Cliester, and a lyne drawne from ye east point or Syde where ye fresh water falls into ye salt, at high water niarke, north northwest to ye line of ye Massachusetts he ye westerne hounds of ye said Colony of Connecticut."'

The line thus established i>roved fruitful of civil strife, which will find its ftiller detail when the eventful story of Rye comes to be written. The Connecticut officials induced Nicolls to believe that Mamaroneck was twenty miles east of the Hudson. Nicolls trusted them and hence arose the trouble, the real distance of Mamaroueck from the Hudson being only about ten miles, instead of twenty. The intention was that this line, twenty miles east of the Hudson, should continue at that distance until it struck the boundary line of Massachusetts ; but being given a " North Northwest " direction, it intersected the Hudson River at West Point, and cut off a large part of New York west of that river. On the 24th of November, 1688, negotiations were again undertaken to fix the boundary line, and articles were concluded between Governor Dougan and Council of New York, and the Governor and delegates of Connecticut, that the line should run as originally intended, twenty miles east of the Hudson River.