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. On the other hand, live had the honor of contributing one of the two representatives from Westchester County to the earliest sessions of the New York provincial assembly held after the organization of that body on a permanent basis. Joseph Theale, one of the leading men of Kye, was elected to the New York assembly for the years 1691 to 1694, inclusive, and again for 1697. "For ten years," says Dr. Baird, "disaffection smoldered, the authority of the province was ignored, taxes were paid but irregularly to either government, and whenever possible matters in controversy were carried up to Hartford, and Hartford magistrates came down to perform their functions at Kye. . . . Fends and dissensions among themselves added to the perplexity of the inhabitants. Some of them, it would appear, sided with the province in the controversy, and hence, doubtless, some of the actions for defamation and other proofs of disturbance which we find on record about this time." In 1695 a tract of land which for more than thirty years had belonged to the Kye settlers, "situated above Westchester Path, between Blind Brook and Mamaroneck River, and extending as far north as Kye Fond," was bought by a certain John Harrison from an Indian who professed to be " the true owner and proprietor." After having been surveyed by order of Governor Fletcher, of New York, this tract, called "Harrison's Purchase," was patented (June 25, 1696) to Harrison and four associates-- William Nicols, Ebenezer Wilson, David Jamison, and Samuel Haight.