Directly on the Sound, close to Connecticut and claimed by that Colony, yet within the Dutch jurisdiction, with a deeply indented harbour, and a fine ever running stream of fresh water falling over a reef directly into it, backed by high wooded hills, and skirted by the cleared planting fields of the Indians ; and within a day's sail of the" Manhadoes," Richbell could not have found on the whole coast a locality better adapted to the " nimble" business of himself and his Barbadoes friends. There was only a single point in which it failed to meet their "instructions." It was not "already settled," and had no "house" already built. The Siwawoy tribe of .Mohican Indians were its sole inhabitants when Richbell first saw

I Deed book III., Sec. of State's off., 132, 120.

Mamaroneck, and their Sachems were Wappaquewam and Mahatahan,^ brothers in authority, but not in blood.

How soon Richbell left Barbadoes, after the date of his instructions, or when he arrived in New Netherland, or on Long Island, is not known. He purchased that beautiful peninsula, or a part of it, in Oyster Bay, afterwards, and still, known as Lloyd's Neck, on the 5th of September IGGO, which six years later he subsequently sold.^ He was a resident of Oyster Bay from IGGO to 1GG3 or 1GG4, and afterwards of Mamaroneck.

A year later, in September 1G61, he made the first purchase of the Mamaroneck lands of the Indians, the deed for which is as follows : --