The wild animals fled to the forest solitudes, and the wild famimenfollowed them, until only small groups, and finally isolated lies and individuals, remained. The locality called Indian Hill, in the Town of Yorktown, is still pointed out as the spot where the last lin<rerino- band of Indians in Westchester County had its abiding place. & The historian of the Town of Rye, the late Rev. Charles W. Baircl, gives the following particulars (typical for the whole county) of the gradual fading away of the Indians of that locality: Muirson. of Rev. Mr The fullest account of the condition of the Indians of Rye is that he says, m a letter to the Gospel "As to the Indians, the natives of the country," We have now in all people. Propagation Society in January, 1708, - they are a decaying . . several hundred. this parish twenty families, whereas not many years ago there were seem regardless they for purpose, no to but them, I have taken some pains to teach some of Indians hying within its of instruction." Long after the settlement of the town there were number hack m the wilderness bounds, some of them quite near the village, but the greater case in most of the Connecticut that still overspread the northern part of Rye. This was the a sufficient quantity of planttowns the law obliging the inhabitants to reserve to the natives

used to visit Rye once except as slaves. Tradition states that in old times a band of Indians several days. Another a year, resorting to the beach, where they had a frolic which lasted last century, was a spot on place which they frequented as late, certainly, as the middle of the Here a troop of Grace Church Street, at the corner of the road now called Kirby Avenue in a « pow-wow, during which their [ndians would come every year and spend the night cries and veils would keep the whole neighborhood awake.