History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . rtford that theybe restrained from departing. On the 11th of May, 1671, the magistrates decided that Galpin was notoppressed by the removal, as alleged, and advisedhim to comply with his neighbors and remove withthem. A few planters besides Galpin remained, not-withstanding the general migration. As late as theyear 1720 the island had a population sufficientlylarge to claim the right to erect a pound. The Coes,Sherwoods and Vowles were the principal owners
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . rtford that theybe restrained from departing. On the 11th of May, 1671, the magistrates decided that Galpin was notoppressed by the removal, as alleged, and advisedhim to comply with his neighbors and remove withthem. A few planters besides Galpin remained, not-withstanding the general migration. As late as theyear 1720 the island had a population sufficientlylarge to claim the right to erect a pound. The Coes,Sherwoods and Vowles were the principal owners in1707, and about the middle of the same century thefamilies of Fowler, Carpenter, Dusenberry andHaviland appear as the owners. The new town-plot lay at the upper end of the Neck,along the eastern bank of Blind Brook. The presentMilton road was the village street, on either side ofwhich the home-lots of the settlers were laid Field Fence was the northern boundary of the vil-lage. This inclosure began where Grace Church Streetnow begins and stretched across the Neck from BlindBrook to the late residence of Mr. James H. RYE, IN SUSSEX COUNTY, ENGLAND. Somewhere, probably in the neighborhood of thespot where the district school-house long stood,north of the Episcopal Church, was the Field home-lots, which commenced here, were gener-ally of two or three acres each. Some are repre-sented as to size and position by the grounds ofMessrs. Bell, Ennis, Budd and others, near theEpiscopal Church. They extended down the streetas far as the road leading to the beach. The lots onthe west side ran across to Blind Brook; those on theeast side reached back to the town-field. Thetown field was the tract in the rear of the home-lotson the east side of the Milton road. It comprisedthe whole space between Grace Church Street on thenorth and Milton on the south. This area is nowcovered by the lands of Messrs. Greacen, Anderson,Downing and others. Here was the common pasture-
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