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. . . . Some branches of nearly all the ancient families established themselves there, and, indeed, those families are now represented there more numerously than in the parent settlement." According to the " Lists of Persons and Estates " kept by the general court of Connecticut, there were in Kye in 16G5 twenty-five " persons," possessed of estates valued at £1,211; in 1683, forty-seven, worth £2,339; and in 1G99, sixty, worth £3,306. By "persons" in this connection are probably to be understood heads of families. The population of Kye, including White Plains, in 1712, as shown by an enumeration then taken, was 51G, the town being, next to Westchester (which had 572 inhabitants), the most populous in the county. A celebrated fact in connection with the history of Rye during the first half of the eighteenth century is the establishment of the ferry to Oyster Bay, Long Island. This was authorized by royal letters patent, dated the 18th of July, 1739, to John Budd, Hachaliah Brown, and Jonathan Brown. The fare fixed for " every person " using the ferry was one shilling and six pence; and in addition rates of carriage for a great variety of articles were specified. For the privilege thus conferred upon them, the patentees paid an annual quitrent of two shillings and six pence. The operation of this ferry was very instrumental in contributing to the growth of population in the towns of Rye and Harrison, and in the central portions of the county.