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. Richbell's rights and proprietor of Scarsdale Manor, nothing was done toward settling Heathcote died on the 28th of Februthe question of ownership. ary, 1721, and soon afterward active measures were begun by the White Plains settlers toward securing a patent from the government. In this endeavor they were put to considerable vexation " Three times were they compelled and expense by the authorities. to make surveys of their goodly land, three times required to notify the owners of adjoining lands that such surveys were about to be made, and all to furnish pretexts lor oppressive charges by the The royal patent was finally officers of the governor's council."1 It granted on the 13th of March, 1722, to Joseph Bucld and others. was for "All that said- tract or parcel of land, situate, lying, and being in the County of Westchester, commonly known by the name of the White Plains. " Among the names of the settlers at that period mentioned in the official documents we find the following: Daniel Brundage, Joseph Hunt. Joseph Budd, John lloit, Caleb Hyatt, Humphrey Underbill, Joseph Purdy, George Lane, Daniel Lane, Peter Moses Knap]*', John Horton, David Horton, Jonathan Lynch, Hatfield, James Travis, Isaac ('overt, Benjamin Brown, John Turner, This list is but a partial one, David Ogden, and William Yeomans.