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Image from page 888 of “History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City /” (1886)
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Title: History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City /
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898,
Subjects: Manors
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.E. Preston & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization
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m in some of their purchases,and several others joined them in the actual settle-ment of the place; but the earliest negotiations appearto have been conducted in behalf of the three personsnamed. They were all residents of Greenwich whenthe first Indian treaty was signed. Their leader wasPeter Disbrow, a young, intelligent, self-reliant man.Early in the year 1660 Disbrow was in treaty withthe Indians of Peningo Neck for the purchase of thattract. The deed of purchase was lost during Dis-brows own life-time. The petition of the people ofRye in 1720, for a patent from the crown, gives anaccount of this purchase, in which it is stated thatDisbrow acted by authority from the colony of Con-necticut (under whose government the township ofRye then lay), and that, on the 3d of January, 1660,he purchased from the then Native Indian Proprie-tors a Certain Tract of Land lycing on the limine be-tween a sertaine place then called Rahoiiancss to theFast and to the West Chester Path to the North and
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RYE. fi45 up to a River then called Moaquanes to the West,That is to say all the Land lying betweene the afore-said Two Rivers then called Peningoe Extendingfrom the Said Rath to the North and South to the Seaor Sound. We have no means of determining wherethe transaction took place, but, not improbably, itmay have been effected at the Indian village thatstood near the lower end of the beach. This first purchase on Peningo Neck comprisedthe lower part of the present town of Rye, on theeasl side of Blind Brook. From the extreme end ofthe peninsula proper, or Browns Point, the tractextended as far north as the present village of PortChester. A line of marked trees from east to westwas the boundary of this tract, beginning a littlebelow Parks Mill, where a branch of Blind Brookempties into that stream, and running in a south-easterly direction to Byram River. Nearly sixmonths elapsed before any further steps were taken.The purchasers had no intention of settling as yetupon the main. But e
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