History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . balance of theirlives. The town records show a blank from April 7, 1772, to April 1,1783. This long interruption, for thespace of eleven years, is explained by the followingstatement which precedes the record of the first town-meeting after the close of the war: It may be thought strange why a Town-Meeting in the Town of Ryelias not been held for so many years. The war coming on and put theTown in such great confusiou, and Many of the principal People leftt
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . balance of theirlives. The town records show a blank from April 7, 1772, to April 1,1783. This long interruption, for thespace of eleven years, is explained by the followingstatement which precedes the record of the first town-meeting after the close of the war: It may be thought strange why a Town-Meeting in the Town of Ryelias not been held for so many years. The war coming on and put theTown in such great confusiou, and Many of the principal People lefttheir Habitations, that no Law could take Place amongst them untill thistime. At this first meeting John Thomas was chosen su-pervisor. The people of Rye had held that part of theirlands known as Peningo Neck—or the tract betweenBlind Brosk and Byram River—by a charter from tireBritish crown, granted in the year 1720. For thistract, estimated at four thousand five hundred acres,they were required, -according to the terms of thecharter, to pay a Quit-Rent of 2s. 6d. per hundredacres, everv year to the State. In 1787 the arrears of. BYRAM BRIDGE. this rent, which were claimed by the government ofNew York, were paid by Mr. Jesse Hunt, supervisorof the town, to the public receiver. They amountedto £99 3s. 5d. The whole system of quit-rents wassoon after abolished. The territory of Rye was reduced to its presentsize by an act of the Legislature, March 7, 1788. WhitePlains and Harrison, which had formed a part of Ryeas precincts or districts of the town, were then con-stituted distinct towns. The act provided that allthat part of the said county of Westchester boundedsoutherly by the Sound, easterly by Connecticut,and westerly by the town of Harrison and Mamaro-neck River, including Captains Island and all theislands in the Sound lying south of the said bounds,shall be, and hereby is erected into a town by thename of Rye. In point of population the town remained station-ary for a
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