April 12, 2024
1740, Rye, New York, Purdy/ Brown family, land transfer, Town Neck, salt marsh
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This item is a wonderful, original document dated 1740, Rye, Westchester County, Province of New York; where Monmouth and Benjamin Purdy has sold a piece of land in Rye to Hacheliah Brown on the Town Neck.....signed by Monmouth Purdy, Benjamin Purdy, Mary Bartow, Gilbert Bloomer on front and by Samuel Purdy on back. Document is 12x15, in overall very good condition. Samuel Purdy (2), son of Joseph (1), first mentioned 1708, died in 1753. The Rev. Mr. Wetmore, in 1732, requested the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts to appoint him schoolmaster at Rye, recommending him as 'a gentleman very well respected in the town, a constant communicant in the church, a man of good abilities and sober exemplary life and conversation. He is the foremost justice of the peach in the parish, and one of the quorum, as well as chaplain [captain?] of the militia.' (Bolton, Church, p. 261.) Mr. Purdy was chosen to various other offices of trust; as that of supervisor, town clerk, overseer, and farmer of the excise. In 1753 Mr. Wetmore reports that 'the Church has suffered a loss by the death of Mr. Pudy, the Society's schoolmaster, who was a friend to religion, and did many kind offices to the poor, as far as he was able..Please view the other historical and Civil War related documents I'll be listing this week.SEE SCAN.I now accept
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