The first independent election for officers of the town of Cortlandt, took place April ist, 1788, when the following individuals were chosen officers for the year ensuing: --

Philip Van Cortlandt, Supervisor.

Joseph Travis, Towu Clerk.

Daniel Birdscll )

Nathaniel Brown, - Poor Masters.

Pierre Van Cortlandt,)

David Ferris, Constable.

John Paulding, Collector.

John Jones, Nathaniel Brown, John Paulding, Bariah Richardson, Abraham Merritt,

Hercules Lent, Jonathan Ferris, Pierre Van Cortlandt,)

Abraham Lent, Henry Lent, son of

Hercules, Jarvis Dusenberry, Caleb Barton, John Haight,

John Jones, Henry Griffen, Abraham Merritt, John Paulding,

Gerritt Storms, Philip Van Cortlandt, Elisha Hammon, Joshua Bishop, Thomas Conkling, J )hn Garrison, Joseph Mandeville, Richard Curry, Jr., John Ferris, John Lee, Daniel Hall, Ludlow Haight, Sam'l Field, Benj. McCord,

Fence Viewers.

- Commissioners of Highways

Assessors.

Pound Masters.

- Highway Masters.

THE TOWN

This township is situated ten miles south of White Plains, twenty miles north of New York, one hundred and forty from the city of Albany, and four east of the Hudson j bounded, north by Scarsdale, east by Pelham and New Rochelle, south by West Chester, and west by Yonkers. It is about seven miles long, north and south, and near two and a half miles wide. On the west it is washed by the Bronx river, (Aguehung) and on the east by Hutchinson's (Aqueanounck,) or East Chester creek, which enters a large bay of the same name, in the south east angle of this town.a

East Chester6 was at first called Hutchinsons, and subsequently, "The Ten Farms," an appellation derived from its ancient division among ten proprietors. The present name was conferred as early as 1666.