[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 660 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. of the Indians in 1G60, about the same time that Disbrow effected the purchase of Peningo Neck, the lands adjoining the town of Rye on the west. His right to these lands was confirmed in 1662 by the authorities of New Netherland, and in 1668 by the government of New York. Mr. Richbell's patent gave him possession of the " three necks" bounded on the east by Mamaroneck River, and on the west by Stony Brook, together with the land lying north of these bounds " twenty miles into the woods." The claim thus set up conflicted with that of the settlers of Rye. As the border town of Connecticut, they conceived that their bounds extended westward as far as the western line of that colony. This was a north-line drawn from the east side of Mamaroneck River northwest to the line of Massachusetts. But negotiations were now pending between Connecticut and New Y'ork for a more satisfactory settlement of that boundary, and on the 2Sth of November, 1683, the two govern-ments agreed upon a line to begin at the mouth of Byram River. Meanwhile, doubtless anticipating this decisiou, the inhabitants of Rye, on the 22d of November, only six days before, the date of that agreement, concluded a treaty with the Indian pro-prietors of the White Plains for the purchase of that tract. They describe it as " lying within the town bounds of Rye." Mr.