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HISTORY

THE SEVERAL TOWNS, MANORS, AND PATENTS

OF THE

County of Westchester,

FROM

ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT

TO THF.

PRESENT TIME.

Carefully Revised by its Author.

By the Late Rev. ROBERT BOLTON,

AUTHOR OF THE "GUIDE TO NEW ROCHELLE," AND A MEMBER OF N. V. HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Edited by the Rev. C. \V. BOLTON, New Rochelle.

VOLUME 1 .

"It is the privilege of History to impart the experience of age, without its infirmities ; to firing fiack things long ol>seured fiy time, or sinking into oblivion ; and enable us to form some reasonable conjectures of 'what may happen to posterity"- -- PuULSON's Hist, of IIoldekness.

NEW YORK: CHAS, F. ROPER, 27 Rose Street. 1881.

Copyright by C. W. BOLTON,

Cadmus Press,

17-a? ROSB STBEBT, NBW VORK.

THE PREFACE.

IN presenting to the public '• The Revised History of Westchester County," left nearly completed by the Author, the late Rev. Robert Bolton, I assume no responsibility for its contents, nor any credit in its authorship. The Author published The First History in 1848, after gathering all the information then in his power. Soon after its appearance a large amount of extra information was placed at his disposal, and many corrections kindly sent to him. He determined at once to commence a revision of it, and had been so doing up to the day of his death, 29 years in all. He had re-written more than two-thirds of the original book, adding thereto many very valuable old documents and bringing the work down to that time.