History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . adpasses from Rye to Port Chester. Sniftins Hill isthe rounded eminence since known as Bloomers Hill, above Port Chester. Bartons Neck is theancient name of the tract through which GraceChurch Street runs, from the neighborhood of the roadto Manussing Island as far as the entrance to PortChester. Saw Pit, the ancient name of PortChester, occurs for the first time in 1732. MerrittsPoint is now known as Lyons Point. The swampsof early times had each its own d
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . adpasses from Rye to Port Chester. Sniftins Hill isthe rounded eminence since known as Bloomers Hill, above Port Chester. Bartons Neck is theancient name of the tract through which GraceChurch Street runs, from the neighborhood of the roadto Manussing Island as far as the entrance to PortChester. Saw Pit, the ancient name of PortChester, occurs for the first time in 1732. MerrittsPoint is now known as Lyons Point. The swampsof early times had each its own designation. Therewas the Long Swamp, back of the home-lots in theTown Field, east of the Milton road and GraceChurch Street; the Great Swamp, north of thepresent Roman Catholic Cemetery and east of RidgeStreet; i Beaver Swamp, in the valley of StoTiyBrook, where the Union Cemetery is situated; Timo-thys Swamp, named, perhaps, after Timothy Knap,once constable of Rye, and part of the Saw-LogSwamp. The names of persons or families werebestowed upon certain localities. The land betweenRegent Street and King Street from the post road to. HOUSE ROCK. RYE FERRY. HOUSE UY THE FERRY. Purc hase Avenue was long known and is still remem-bered as Kniffins land. The extreme eastern partof the Town Field, bordered by Grace Church Streetand the road to Kirbys mill, was anciently Coesland, since Birds land. Bloomers Island isa tract of a few acres in the old Town Field near thecreek or Sound, the waters of which surrounded it athigh tide. Bullocks Meadow was part of the farmowned in recent years by Mr. Stevens. The people of Rye were content, for the most part,to call themselves by the humble but honest name ofyeomen. They were farmers, living frugally upon theproduce of the soil. By the middle of the last cen-tury, however, a number of trades had been establishedin Rye, such as those of wheelwrights, cordwainers,carpenters, saddlers, tailors, hatters, weavers, rope-makers and the like. In man
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