Sydney H. Carney, Jr., on Feb. 7, 1899. Edward Floyd de Lancey will be remembered as an incorporator and the first active president of this Society, 1874-1876, and as one deeply interested in Westchester County history. Among many other items he was the author of "The Origin and History of Manors in New York, and in the County of Westchester" and "Mamaroneck" both published in Scharf's ''History of Westchester County," Philadelphia, 1886.

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also unique in that the author was able to develope a con-siderable amount of his source material. The latter com-prises a series of 407 interviews with 241 different persons, between 70 and 96 years of age, in the years 1844 to 1850. These interviews cover 1,100 pages of manuscript and are now included in the Hufeland Westchesteriana.1 Mr. Hufeland has mounted these manuscripts in eight (8) specially prepared volumes; the index shows 3,245 references to 1,383 subjects and to 68 localities. In view of the erection of a marker at the grave of Cornelius Oakley, the West-chester Guide, by this Society this fall, and to show the quality of this source material, the following abbreviated se-lections have been made:

INTERVIEW WITH SARAH OAKLEY, DEC. 12, 1845 Cornelius Oakley, my father, died at White Plains on the 15th of January, 1805, being at the time of his death 48 years and 14 days old. He was interred in the burying-ground belonging to the Purchase Meeting Society where his father, mother and friends also lie. I do not know that his grave can be found but I hope and believe on proper enquiry and search that it may and this circumstance may lead to the discovery, viz:--his daughter Eliza was buried at his feet in a contrary direction, that is, at right angles. His father was by religious profession a Quaker, and very averse to his tak-ing up arms in the Revolutionary War.