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ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

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Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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HON. eALEB HEATHOOTE.

From the original Piciure in the possession of the Right Rev.

William lleathcote de Lancey.

HISTORY

OF THE

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT

TO THE

PRESENT TIME.

• By ROBERT BOLTON. Jr.

AUTHOR OF THE " GUIDE TO NEW ROCHELLE," AND A MEMBER OF THE N. Y. HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

VOLUME I.

" It is the privilege of History to impart the experience of age, without its infirmities ; to bring back things long obscured by time, or sinking into oblivion ; and enable us to form some reasonable conjectures of what may happen to posterity." -- Paulson's Hist, of Holderness.

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NEW YORK:

PRINTED BY ALEXANDER S. GOULD,

144 NASSAU STREET.

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1848.

Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight

BY ROBERT BOLTON, JR. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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TO -

THE INHABITANTS

WESTCHESTER COUNTY,

THESE VOLUMES ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED '

- BY ^

ROBERT BOLTON, Jr.

Pond Field Farm, EastchesteR) -

April nth, 1848. " "

INTRODUCTION,

ABORIGINES.

At the period of the Dutch discovery the Mahicmmi resided on the east shore of the Hudson River. " These were the Mankikani and Mohikans of De Laet, tlie Mahiccanders^ Mohickanders and Nahikanders of the Dutch, the Manhikans, Mahikans, or Mohegans, according to Professor Ebehng, and the Mohegana or Miihhekanew. (the original name of Mohegans.) According to the English the Mohiccans, Mahiccon, and lastly, Mahiccans, were all one people, originally a branch of the Delaware nation. The Mahiccans and Delawares both say they were once one people."^ " The best information (says Mr.