History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 99
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] conceded no representative rights whatever to its inhabitants, and even after instituting a general assembly granted no immediate rep-resentation to the individual towns. In enumerating here the various additional purchases of the Rye people, it is not necessary to go into minute particularization regard-ing the several tracts. In 1002 they bought the territory of the present Town of Harrison — a territory which was subsequently grant-ed by the provincial government of New York to John Harrison and others, and on that account became the bone of contention between the Rye men and the New York authorities, leading to the celebrated revolt. In 1080 and 1081 occurred what were known as kk Will 's Purchases " from an Indian chief named Lame Will, or Limping Will, extending into the present Town of North Castle. And finally, in 10S3, just before the new boundary articles were concluded, the Qua-roppas, or White Plains, tract was bought, another purchase destined to be a source of difficulty because of the claim to previous owner-ship set up by John Richbell and later persevered in by his widow and by her successor in the Richbell estate, Colonel Caleb Heathcote. It has been mentioned in our account of the boundary revision of 1683 that the aggressive attitude of the Town of Rye in its territorial pretensions as the frontier settlement of Connecticut was one of the principal causes leading to that revision.