During this period and for one year longer, the town was designated of Fairfield." officially by its inhabitants as being " in the County the matters at New York made no attempt at coercion, but referred issue to the king; and in March, 1700, an order of the king in council was issued, not only approving the boundary agreement of 16S3-81, but directing the revolted towns "forever thereafter to be and remain under the government of the Province of New York." This decision was, as a matter of course, accepted by all parties as final. Rye never recovered the Harrison purchase, although some of her inhabitants bought land there ami became influential in its affairs. Moreover, " until the Revolution the inhabitants of the purchase participated with those of Rye in the transaction of town business, without any other distinction than that of having their own officers for the discharge of local functions"; and Harrison also formed " one of the six precincts of the parish of Rye, under the semi-ecclesiastical system that prevailed." Harrison was settled largely, however, by Quakers from Long Island. The White Plains dispute was Caleb Heathcote, while never in not determined adversely to Rye.

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legal form relinquishing his claim to " the White Plains,-' did not attempt to enforce it, and, indeed, uniformly treated the Rye people interested with generous fairness. He consented to the insertion in the letters patent for his Manor of Scarsdale of a clause expressly withholding from him any further title to the White Plains than that which he already possessed. The Kye settlers of White Plains always retained the lands which they acquired there, and at length, in 1722, obtaiued a patent for the whole tract of 4,435 acres. " White Plains/' says Dr. Baird, " drew largely on the strength of the community of Eye. . . .