Elisha Shute was the father of the late Richard Shute whose sons are still living in the town.

The representatives of James Eustis, another of the ten proprietors in 1664, are also numerous in East and Westchester.

On the west side of the town at West Mount Vernon on Hunt's Bridge, on the Bronx, is located the New York and Harlem Railroad Depot. About two miles and a half north of this place is situated Bronx Mill, the property of the late James P. Swain, Esq., formerly known as Underhill Mill.

The Bronx River here affords a fine water power to an extensive grist mill and screw manufactory. The building is a large and handsome structure of stone, four stories high, and measures forty feet by eighty. The machinery is of the best kind, and the water is sufficient to

a Surrogate's Office, N. Y., vol. Ill, 47.

6 Prob. Rec. Fairlleld Co., Conn., lGS9tol701.

e Gen. and Bros account of Drake family by Samuel G. Drake, Boston, 1S45.

d Corporation Doc. xxxvi., 875, Report for 1833.

c The Inventory of the late Shoot or Shute dec'ed, of Fairfield, Conn., Oct. 3, 1671, Probate Rec, p. 123.

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carry the mill throughout the year, which enables it to grind at all seasons.

The course of the Bronx immediately below the mill is said to have been formerly changed by a large beaver dam, which those industrious animals had erected near die foot of Mr. Underbill's garden. Beaver Pond lies directly north of the mill. Beavers were once very common on the Bronx and neighboring streams, and afford an excellent example of animals not only sociable by dwelling near each other, but by joining in a work which was for the benefit of the community.