History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . accompanied by them at theoutset. The following are the names of all the plant-ers of whom we have any record as belonging to theisland settlement : Paler Disbrow,John BtadweKJohn VowIm. Samuel A11111K-Hubert Hudson. .lull ii ffalplaUeorge Jackson. Walter Lain .Liter. •The moat ilistant point of land to bo soon from Manuring Island,looking up the Sound, is K
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . accompanied by them at theoutset. The following are the names of all the plant-ers of whom we have any record as belonging to theisland settlement : Paler Disbrow,John BtadweKJohn VowIm. Samuel A11111K-Hubert Hudson. .lull ii ffalplaUeorge Jackson. Walter Lain .Liter. •The moat ilistant point of land to bo soon from Manuring Island,looking up the Sound, is Katuns Nec k. Wont of this point is Hunting-ton Hay. Oyster Hay is the next inlet; and nearer still is Hempstead Harbor. Traces of several dwellings have boon found on the southern partof the island, w henthey appear to have formed a cluster, a feu ro4|apart. The summer-house on Mrs. Williajn I. Van Rensselaers groundsindicate! aliout the spot where this little village stood Fifty or sixtyyear* ago the walls of a small stone house were still to biMBI at thisend of the island, perha|wt a pari of the ancient house of Kiehard RYE. 647 Two other names, which are undecipherable, standconnected with these, making seventeen in all. Thelast three do not appear until the third year of thesettlement. The others may not improbably havebeen associated with it from the first. Eight of these names are permanently connectedwith the history of our settlement. The other seven,in the list given above, were but transient membersof the plantation. Their names soon disappear fromits records. Of Samuel Ailing, Thomas Applebe andFrederick Harminson we know scarcely Hudson was living at Rye some years Clere remained long enough to obtain a home-lot in the new village, on the main. John Jacksonand Walter Lancaster removed to the town of EastChester, New York, of which place the latter becameone of the proprietors and leading men. With perhaps one exception, the se
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