[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] CHAPTER VI BEGINNINGS OF SERIOUS SETTLEMENT— WESTCHESTER TOWN, RYE HE destruction by the Indians of the early English settle-ments in the Vredeland on the Sound was followed by a long period of almost complete abstention from further ™ colonizing enterprises in that portion of Westchester County. It is true that after the definite conclusion of peace be-tween the Dutch and the Indians in 1645, both the Dutch govern-ment of New Netherland and the English government of Connec-ticut began gradually to give serious attention to the question of the boundary between their rival jurisdictions, and that the result-ing conflict of interests touching the ownership of those lands gave rise to practical measures on both sides. It will be remembered that the Dutch authorities, while permitting Throckmorton and his associates to settle on Throgg's Neck, and later granting Cornell's Neck to Thomas Cornell, simply received these refugees from New England as persons coming to take up their abodes under the pro-tection of their government and subject to its laws. Indeed, the formal acts of the Dutch director in issuing licenses to the English colonists are sufficient evidences of the merely individual character of the first English settlements on the Sound.