Thir. favorite asylum of the French Protestants was, at a very early period,

a First President, Albe-t Smith, M.D. An act to amend, passed April 20th, 1S(U, and amended April 11, lSTa. Since lis incorporation, the streets have been lighted with gas, the side aud cross walks of the streets have beeu flagged, and the roads macadamized.

Benjamin Stephenson, Supervisor,

James Willis, Town Clerk,

James Reynolds, Constable and Collector,

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James Ronalds, > Assessors,

James Willis, )

David Gaion,) Overseers of the Road

James Willis,/ for the Upper Quarter,

Peter Flandreau, > Elias Gruion, )

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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

a place of some resort -- not only for the acquirement of the French language, but on account of the hospitality and politeness of its inhabitants. Here some of the most distinguished men in the country have received the elements of their education (under the charge of the French clergy.) Among them may be enumerated the Hon. John Jay, (the grandson of a Huguenot), " who made the celebrated treaty of Paris, for the independence of our country, and exerted a powerful influence in extending the limits of the United States to the Mississippi." Also General Philip Schuyler, so conspicuous for his sen-ices and successes in the Revolutionary war, and Washington Irving, the world-renowned author. It is a little remarkable, " that three of the nine presidents of the old Congress who conducted the United States through the Revolutionary war, were descendents of French Protestant refugees, who had emigrated to America in consequence of the edict of Nantes -- Henry Laurens, of South Carolina, John Jay, of New York, and Elias Boudinet, of New Jersey."