[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] York to burn that city. In 1714 Isaac Denham, of Rye, petitioned the Court of General Sessions, at Westchester, " to raise the sum of twenty-five pounds for satisfaction for One Negro Man called Primus, who was executed for his misdemeanours.'' And in 171!' Isaac Denham and Charles Forster applied " to be allowed the value of two negro men lately belonging to them and Executed for crimes committed in this county." The men were appraised at twenty pounds and payment was ordered. About the year 1G98 some negroes, brought from the coast of Guinea, were landed at Rye and there delivered to the son of Mr. Frederick Philipse, of Philipsburg. It was charged that the parties concerned in this transac-tion had dealings with pirates, and this intimation must have caused some alarm to the inhabitants of Rye. Captain Kidd was then at the height of his career, and the shores of Long Island Sound had fre-quently been visited by him and by other freebooters. But little effort was made to educate the slaves. In 1708 the Rev. Mr. Muirson writes, — " Then; are only a few negroes in this parish, save what are in Colonel Heathcote's family, where I think there are more than in all the parish besides. However, so many