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Rye was at the intersection of conflicting territorial claims for the first seventy years of its existence. When the English took control of New Amsterdam in November, 1674 and transformed the Dutch Colony into what we now know as New York under English rule, Rye’s position as a Connecticut settlement was threatened.
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Article History. Rye, city and town (township), on Long Island Sound, in Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S. The original town site, at Pendingo Neck, was first settled (1660) by a company of men from Greenwich, Connecticut, who had purchased the land from the Siwanoy Indians; they named it (1665) for Rye in Sussex, England. The ...
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May 11, 2024 · The first reduction in Rye’s territory occurred in 1695, when Rye was in the Province of New York, having been transferred from the Colony of Connecticut by royal decree. John Harrison, newly arrived from Long Island, claimed to have “purchased” from a Native American a large tract of Rye’s land, which was approved by the governor of ...
Oct 3, 2024 · He’d have trotted down the hill into Rye, along “that portion of it which passes through the village of Rye along the bank of the Blind Brook….opened before the year 1676,” according Connecticut Public Records. In 1672 the colonial governors of Connecticut and New York had agreed on the need for a postal route.
In recognition of the wishes of the residents, the 61,660 acres (249.5 km 2) east of the Byram River making up the Connecticut Panhandle were granted to Connecticut. In exchange, Rye was granted to New York, along with a 1.81-mile-wide (2.91 km) strip of land running north from Ridgefield to Massachusetts alongside Dutchess, Putnam, and ...
Aug 11, 2020 · From the end of Prohibition until 2006, rye was in steady decline, with 150,000 cases of rye sold in the United States compared to 14.7 million cases of bourbon. The reemergence of cocktail culture — first in San Francisco, then New York and Chicago — spurred the rebirth of rye whiskey, growing 20% in 2006 and 30% in 2007, and 600% between 2009 and 2015.
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Nov 12, 2018 · The New England colonies formed a confederacy and agreed to raise a combined force of 1,000 troops. According to Baird, Connecticut supplied 315 men of which Rye probably furnished its quota of seven or eight. He also noted that, in 1677, Rye contained 38 persons owning real estate, or about 200 inhabitants in all.
