"Having taken into consideration the necessity of dividing the Province into respective Countys, for the better governing and settling courts in the same, be it enacted by the Governor, Council and the Representatives, and by the authority of the same, that the said Province be divided into twelve Countys as followeth : The County of Westchester to conteyne West and Eastchester, Bronx-land, Ford ham, Anne Hook's Neck, Richbells, Miniford's Islands, and all the land on the maine to the eastward of Manhattan's Island as farre as the government extends, and the Yonkers' land, and northward along Hudson's River as farre as the Highland."

"This bill havingr been three times read before the Governor and Council, is assented to the first of November, 1683."^

Westchester County was represented in the first Legislative Assembly of the Colony, which met at New York on the 9th of April, 1691 ;b and it has constituted one County to this time, having been organized as such by the General Acts of 178S and 1801. It is situated on the east side of the Hudson, immediately north of New York County : bounded north by Putnam and Dutchess Counties; east by the State of Connecticut ; southerly by Long Island Sound and East River ; west by Haarlem River and the Hudson, or by New York County, the State of New Jersey, and the County of Rockland in this State. The area may be 480 square miles -- 307,200 acres -- situated between 40^ 47^,

» Provincial Laws of N. Y., County Clerk's Office, Queens Co., L. I. The above act was confirmed on the 1st of October, 1691.