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. In 1002 they bought the territory of the present Town of Harrison -- a territory which was subsequently granted by the provincial government of New York to John Harrison and others, and on that account became the bone of contention between the Rye men and the New York authorities, leading to the celebrated revolt. In 1080 and 1081 occurred what were known as kk Will 's Purchases " from an Indian chief named Lame Will, or Limping Will, extending into the present Town of North Castle. And finally, in 10S3, just before the new boundary articles were concluded, the Quaroppas, or White Plains, tract was bought, another purchase destined to be a source of difficulty because of the claim to previous ownership set up by John Richbell and later persevered in by his widow and by her successor in the Richbell estate, Colonel Caleb Heathcote. It has been mentioned in our account of the boundary revision of 1683 that the aggressive attitude of the Town of Rye in its territorial pretensions as the frontier settlement of Connecticut was one of the principal causes leading to that revision. tk May, 1082, John Ogden, of Rye, presented himself before the general court and on behalf of the people complained that sundry persons, and particularly Frederick Philipse, had been making improvements of lands within their bounds.