MILLARD, Greenburgh BENJAMIN I. TAYLOR, Harrison EDWARD H. SMITH, Lewisboro GEORGE W. BURTON, Mamaroneck CHARLES J. MARASCO, Mount Pleasant GEORGE S. HAIGHT, Mount Vernon THOS. H. HODGE, Mount Vernon JAMES BERG, Mount Vernon JOHN G. ARCHER, Mount Vernon HOWARD R. WASHBURN, New Castle LEONARD H. GOLDSMITH, New Rochelle PAUL M. CRANDELL, New Rochelle GEORGE T. BACON, New Rochelle JOSEPH J. MANCUSI, New Rochelle J. HOBART COX, North Castle ALBERT J. LOBDELL, North Salem HERBERT C. GERLACH, Ossining DAVID LYON, Pelham GEORGE I. RUSCOE, Poundridge W. DEFORREST SHERWOOD, Rye GEORGE W. FIELD, Scarsdale GEORGE TURNER, Somers THEODORE C. RANSCHT, White Plains JAMES H. MORAN, White Plains JOSEPH B. MCCARTHY, White Plains WILLIAM J. WINN, Yonkers JOHN F. RYAN, Yonkers CHARLES H. TOWNER, Yonkers FRANK MADDEN, Yonkers JAMES A. SULLIVAN, Yonkers THOS. J. WALSH, Yonkers EDMUND SICKLEY, Yonkers WILLIAM H. LESLIE, Yonkers FRANK S. MCCOLLUM, Yonkers LOUIS MILLIOT, Yonkers GEORGE W. SMYTH, Yonkers JAMES N. STRANG, Yorktown

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<blank page> Publications of the Westchester County Historical Society Volume V

The McDonald Papers

Including Biographical Notes of the Author

Part II

Edited by William S. Hadaway

Published for Westchester County by the Westchester County Historical Society White Plains, N. Y.

Copyright, 1927 by Westchester County Historical Society

<stamp> The Knickerbocker Press New York <stamp>

Made in the United States of America

INTRODUCTION

The publication of The McDonald Papers by the Westchester County Historical Society has been made possible by the aid, consent and cooperation of the New York Historical Society, in whose archives the manuscripts are deposited. To that Society, and to its Librarian, Alexander J. Wall, who has given every possible assistance, acknowledgments are hereby rendered for these courtesies. The data in the biography of John M. Macdonald have been largely secured from James A. Macdonald of Flushing, L. I., a worthy representative of a distinguished family.