At a town meeting, held the 22d of December, 1783, at the house of Gilbert Brush, inn-keeper, for choosing town officers for the town of New Rochelle, ia pursuance of an ordinance of the Council, appointed by the act cf the Legislature, entitled an act to provide for the temporary government of the southern

a The site now ocr.'oled by Mr. S^cor's mill. * Co. Reo. lib. Fi 150.'

THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE.

part of this State whenever the enemy shall abandon or be dispoesest of the same, and until the Legislature can be convened, passed 23d of October 1779, the following town officers are elected :

The village of New Rochelle, which was incorporated by an Act Of the Legislature passed December 7, 1847," is agreeably situated on the Boston Turnpike, extending to Long Islaud on the south, where there is a convenient steamboat landing, distant eighteen miles from the city of New York. There is also a depot of the New York and New Haven Railroad, together with a branch of the New Haven and Harlem River Railroad, connecting with steamboats at Morrisania, upwards of forty trains running daily to and fro. Extensive engine and freight houses have been recently erected east of the depot. The population is about 4,000. There are, 1 Protestant Episcopal, 1 Roman Catholic, 1 Presbyterian, 2 Methodist, 1 Baptist, 1 German Lutheran, 1 German Methodist Episcopal church, a post office, a bank, 2 hotels, and several extensive boarding houses, many spacious stores, 2 grist mills, and 2 carriage factories. There is afire-brick edifice erected in 187 1 by the Westchestei Fire Insurance Company. This well-known institution was first organized under the name and title of the " Westchester Mutual Insurance Company," on the 1st of April, 1837 -- David Harrison, Presi ■ dent, and James T.