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. The early history of White Plains has been so frequently referred to in the course of our narrative that this subject may be dismissed here with a brief summary. By virtue of the grants to John Richboll, issued both by the Dutch government and the first English governor, it was long claimed that White Plains (or "the White Plains," as originally and for many years called) was included in the Richbell lands running northward from the Mamaroneck River " twenty miles into the woods." Indeed, for nearly forty years after the first appearance there of settlers, or intending settlers, the On November 22, legal title to this region remained undetermined.

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1683, six days before the signing' of the new boundary articles between New York and Connecticut, the enterprising men of Rye purchased the whole tract, known by the Indian name of Quaroppas, from the native chiefs who at that time professed to own it. Thus Rye came under the government of New York with a very plausible Gradually Eye men began to occupy the title to the White Plains. lands -- a movement that attracted the attention of Mrs. Richbell, who in 1696 brought an ejectment suit and obtained a favorable verDuring the lifetime of dict, which, however, was not enforced. Colonel Caleb Heathcote, successor to Mrs.