[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The tirst proprietor of this land of whom anything is known, was Shanasockwell or Shanarocke, sagamore of Poningoe, who, with other Indians in 1661 conveyed to John Budd of Southhold, Long Island; " one neck of land lying on the mayne called Apawammeis, (Budds neck, Rye,) also range, feeding and grasse for cattle, twenty English miles into the country ^^ Under this purchase the inhabitants of Rye subsequently claimed the whole territory, a demand which the province of New York re-fused to sanction. From Shanasockwell, the territory north of Westchester path, (including the above mentioned range for cattle,) appears to have passed into the possession of Pathunck or Pathung, Indian sachem, for upon the first of February, 1695, we find the latter convey-ing the present township to John Harrison, in the following manner : "This indenture, made the 24th day of January, and in the seventh year of the reign of William the Third of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, * Prior to 1775, Harrison constituted one of the six prec'ncts of Rye parish. f' Revised Statutes.