History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 99 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] tk May, 1082, John Ogden, of Rye, presented himself before the general court and on behalf of the people complained that sundry persons, and particularly Fred-erick Philipse, had been making improvements of lands within their bounds. Air. Philipse had been building mills near Hudson River, encroaching thereby 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 beyond. The general court gave Mr. Ogden a letter to the governor of New York, protesting against such proceedings, and reminding him that by the agreement made in 1001 a line running northwest from the mouth of Mamaroneck River to COMPLETION OF EARLY LOCAL SETTLEMENT 215 the Massachusetts line was to be the dividing line between Con-necticut and New York." x On the 28th of November of the follow-