Six months later (June 29, 1660) the Indian owners, thirteen in number, conveyed to Disbrow, Coe, and Stedwell, for the consideration of eight coats, seven shirts, and fifteen fathom of wampum, all of Manussing Island, described as " near unto the main, which is called in the Indian name Peningo." A third purchase was effected by Disbrow May 22, 1661, comprising a tract lying between the Byram River and Blind Brook, " which may contain six or seven miles from the sea along the Byram River side northward." Other purchases west of Blind Brook followed, including Budd's Neck and' the neighboring islands; the West Neck, lying between Stony Brook and Mamaroneck River, and the tract above the Westchester Path and west of Blind Brook, or directly north of Budd's Neck. This last-mentioned tract was " the territory of the present Town of Harrison, aterritory owned by the proprietors of Rye, but wrested from the town some forty years later." Baird describes as follows the 1 John Budd was a Quaker, originally from Southold, Suffolk County, N. Y., and suffered persecution there on account of his religious antecedents. One of his daughters married Joseph Horton, also of Southold, who later removed to Rye, and was the ancestor of the numerous Horton family of Westchester County. For these particulars (not mentioned in previous histories) we are indebted to Charles H. Young, Esq., of New Rochelle.

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aggregate landed property represented by the several deeds: "The southern part of it alone comprised the tract of land between Byram River and Maniaroneck River, while to the north it extended twenty miles, and to the northwest an indefinite distance. These boundaries included, besides the area now covered by the Towns of Rye and Harrison, much of the Towns of North Castle and Bedford, in New York, and of Greenwich, in Connecticut; whilst in a northwest direction the territory claimed was absolutely without a fixed limit.