Rye, Westchester Co., New York, History of 1660-1870
- Author: Charles W. Baird
- SKU: 1361
- ISBN: 0-89725-171-7
- Our Price:
$59.50
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Description:
20 maps, charts, portraits and illustrations, including 1838 fold-out map 17½"x26½" of the northern coast of Long Island Sound from Delancey Point to Calves Island; 3 indexes, 592pp., hard cover. 2007 (1994, 1871)
Rye, New York was first settled in 1660 by a small group from the adjacent town of Greenwich, CT. This well told story of Rye's first settlement and subsequent history quotes from the actual town records.
It includes verbatim transcripts of the various Indian deeds of 1660-1662, accounts of all slave manumissions between 1793 and 1825, the customary emphasis on the various wars affecting the town; the Indian wars, the Revolution, War of 1812, and more. The 107-page genealogical section details the early European settlers of 1660-1700 and their descendants.
