The Lye settlement, which grew out of purchases made by citizens of Greenwich, Conn., on the New York side of the Byram River, beginning in 1G60, flourished from the start, and gradually expanded over all the adjacent country. Included within the Colony of Connecticut bythe boundary compact of 1664, there never existed any question as to its political status until, under the new boundary adjustment of 1683, it was detached from Connecticut ami incorporated in New York. Even during the aggressive Dutch restoration of 1673-74, although Mamaroneck was summoned to submit and readily yielded, no attempt was made to subdue the people of Rye, who, however, in anticipation of trouble, made preparation for a sturdy resistance, and united with those of Stamford and Greenwich in petitioning the general court for help. From the earliest period of 1 Bolton, rev. ed., i., 161.

HISTORY

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the Eye settlement, even before Rye itself had come into being, and while the founders of the place were still living on Manussing Island in a community known as Hastings, the town had representation in the Connecticut general court at Hartford, and received due attention and care from that body. It was probably due to the privilege of direct representation thus enjoyed, quite as much as to the circumstance of their Connecticut nativity, that the Rye people so stoutly persisted, long after being legally annexed to New York, in holding themselves allegiant to the mother colony, and so bitterly resented the assumption of authority over them by an alien aristocratic government which for a considerable term of years conceded no representative rights whatever to its inhabitants, and even after instituting a general assembly granted no immediate representation tothe individual towns. In enumerating here the various additional purchases of the Rye people, it is not necessary to go into minute particularization regarding the several tracts.