[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 1680, and in 1681 Lieutenant Horton was made com-missoner, or justice of the peace, for the town. At the October session of the General Court in 1681, Peter Disbrow was deputy again from Rye, and was remitted his county rate for the year ensuing, on ac-count of the " great losse " that had befallen him by fire. May, 1682, John Ogden, of Rye, presented himself before the General Court and, on behalf of the peo-ple, complained that sundry persons, and particularly Frederick Philipse, had been making improvements of lands within their bounds. Mr. Philipse had been building mills near Hudson River, encroaching there-by upon the town's territory, which was believed to extend in a northwesterly direction from the mouth of Mamaroneck River to the Hudson, and even be-yond. The General Court gave Mr. Ogden a letter to the Governor of New York protesting against such proceedings, and reminding him that by the agree-ment made in 1664, a line running northwest from the mouth of Mamaroneck River to the Massachu-setts line was to be the dividing line between Con-