^'^ ^^'■'^' KEWEToriAM,

JoSnCA KXAP, KOAWANOU,

T,, , , JSIOAUPOATCH.

Ihe mark of

MOTEPEAICHOS

Jonx Oddeli., his mark.

Pattuuxk,

hohoknis,

SOTONGE,

Owuoi:awa~, Okamaplau.

This bill of salle is acknowledged by the granters to be tiieir ackt and deed liefore me in Rye. the day and ycre above written,

JOSEPH ilORTOX, Vonunissimer.

The inliabitants of Rye were now met by an opposing claimant in tl;e person of Mr. John Richbtll of Mamaroneck. Ho was a native of

THE TOWN OF WHITE PLAINS. 537

K:);;!a;i(l, and claimed to have bought of the Indians in 1660 his right to ji'.vse lands; was confirmed in 1662 by the authorities of New Nether- Lmd. and in i663 by the government of New York. Mr. Richbell's j'iicnt gave him possession of the 'three necks' bounded on the east by Mamaroneck river, and on the west by Stony brook, together -vvith the i.ind lying north of these bounds ' twenty miles in the woods.' This conflicted with the foregoing deed. As Rye was the border town of Connecticut they conceived that their bounds extended westward as far as t'r.e western line of that colony. This was 'a line drawn from the east side of Mamaroneck river, north northwest to the line of Massachusetts.' Negotiations were now pending between Connecticut and New York for a more satisfactory settlement of that boundary. And on the twentyeighth of November, 1683, the two governments agreed upon a Hne to begin at the mouth of B\Tam river. Meanwhile, doubtless anticipating this decision, the inhabitants of Rye on the twenty-second day of November, only six days before the date of that agreement, concluded a treaty with the Indian proprietors of the White Plains for the piurchase of that tract. They described it as ' lying within the town bounds of Rye.'