The mouth of the Byram River was settled as the boundary point, and, as not less than five towns (always regarded in Connecticut) would be thrown out of it by following this line, an equivalent tract, quantity for quantity (ever since called the "Oblong "), was, in consideration, assigned in lieu of the towns, to New York.' These lines, partitions, limits and bounds, it was resolved, should be run during the next October and the whole matter transferred to the King and Duke of York for their approval.

The disposal of them thus made was exceedingly distasteful to the people of Rye and Bedford, and, notwithstanding a letter to them from the Connecticut govermnent urging the propriety of submission, was positively resisted. A summons of Governor Dongan to appear in New York and show title to their lands was disobeyed, and, eventually, an open request to the General Court of Connecticut for recognition as belonging to the latter colony was made, the approval of the home government to the agreement being for years delayed. The result of this dissatisfaction was an open rupture on the occasion of the election of a member of the General Assembly, in 1697, in which the sherift''s authority was disputed and an armed force from Connecticut interposed to prevent tiie accomplishment of the election. The course of these towns and the government of Connecticut received a practical rebuke when, in 1700, King William confirmed the agreement of 1683 and the action of the surveying party of the next year. The Assembly of Connecticut thereupon ordered that information of the fact be sent to the inhabitants of Rye and Bedford, and that they are freed from duty to that government, but are henceforth under the government of New York.*