History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . Israel Townsend. 1844- 45. Job Sands. 1845- 46. Guy B. Hobby. 1846- 47. Job Sands. 1847- 49. Nathan I. Samuel B. Ferris. 1852- 53. Nathan I. Green. 1853- 55. Joseph Hobby. 1855- 56. Benjamin Tripp. 1856- 60. Charles Leemon B. Tripp. 1862- 63. William S. Brown. 1863- 65. Evander David \V. James Hopkins. 1871- 72. David W. Smith. 1872- 75. James Hopkins. 1875- 76. Horace B. Flewillin.


History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . Israel Townsend. 1844- 45. Job Sands. 1845- 46. Guy B. Hobby. 1846- 47. Job Sands. 1847- 49. Nathan I. Samuel B. Ferris. 1852- 53. Nathan I. Green. 1853- 55. Joseph Hobby. 1855- 56. Benjamin Tripp. 1856- 60. Charles Leemon B. Tripp. 1862- 63. William S. Brown. 1863- 65. Evander David \V. James Hopkins. 1871- 72. David W. Smith. 1872- 75. James Hopkins. 1875- 76. Horace B. Flewillin. 1876- 80. James Hopkins. 1880- 81. Aaron F. Read 1881- 82. James Hopkins. 1882- 84. Edwin R. Joseph B. See. LERKS. 1845-55. 1855- 56. 1856- 57. 1857- 1862- 63. 1863- 66. 1866- 67. 1867- 75. 1875- 76. 1876- 80. 1880-81. 1881- Samuel P. G. L. L. R. H. W. R, H. Creemer. C HA ITER XIV, RYE. W I LLS2? PURCHASE Q WILLS \I? PURCHASE. BY It E V. CHARLES W. BAIRD, , Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Rye. As a frontier settlement of New England, as a bor-der-town and as a part of the Neutral Ground,Ryepossesses distinctive claims to historical notice. Itsterritory lies on the confines of two States, New Yorkand Connecticut, whose boundaries from the outsetwere but ill defined and remained for nearly a centuryin dispute. Beginning with a point of land that jutsinto Long Island Sound, a tract nowhere more thantwo miles wide stretches northward about nine milesto a sharp angle on the Connecticut border. Thistract, to which the Indians gave the name Peningo,constitutes, with the island ofManussing on the east anda part of the neighboringshore on the west, the townof Rye. Owing to its pecu-liar location it became a de-batable land,—a fact per-ceptibly bearing on the so-cial and


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