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. Air. Philipse had been building mills near Hudson River, encroaching thereby upon the town's territory, which was believed to extend in a northwesterly direction from the mouth of Mamaroneck River to the Hudson, and even beyond. The general court gave Mr. Ogden a letter to the governor of New York, protesting against such proceedings, and reminding him that by the agreement made in 1001 a line running northwest from the mouth of Mamaroneck River to

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the Massachusetts line was to be the dividing line between Connecticut and New York." x On the 28th of November of the following year, by the new boundary articles, Rye was ceded to New York, and Governor Treat of Connecticut promptly notified the inhabitants of this change. The town, while reluctant to accept the fate appointed for it, desisted from electing deputies to the general court of Connecticut, and did not renew that practice until the " revolt " in 1097. Nevertheless, attempts were made from time to time to secure some sort of official recognition from Connecticut, representatives being dispatched to deal with the governor and general court as to various special matters. A summons from Governor Dongan of New York, in 1(585, commanding the Kye settlers to appear before him and prove their titles to the lands which they occupied, was ignored.