b Mount Pleasant includes the inmates of the county poor-house, which is returned in the ccnHus separately, as follows ; total number of inmates 184, aliens not naturalized, and persons of color not taxed, 25.

INTRODUCTION.

xiu

North Castle,

. 2010

New Castle,

. 1495

North Salem,

. 1228

New Rochelle,

. 1977

Ossia-ing,^

. 3312

Pelham,

. 486

Poimdridge,

. 1427

Rye, .

. 2180

Somers,^

. 1761

Scarsdale, .

. 341

Westchester,c

. 5052

White Plains,

. 1155

Yorktown, .

. 2278

Yonkers,

. 2517

POPULATION OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY FROM 1731 TO 1840.

A. D. 1731, A. D. 1771, A. D. 1786, A. D. 1790,

6,033 21,745 20,554

24,003

A. D. 1800, A. D. 1810, A. D. 1835, A. D. 1840,

27,423 30,272 37,791

48,686

" The County of Westchester comprises a very important section of this state : washed on the west by the Hudson, on the south by the East River and Long Island Sound, it enjoys very superior advantages for trade and commerce, with a fine soil for agriculture, and a charming diversity of surface and of elegant situation ; while its contiguity to the great commercial metropolis of North America, completes a proud superiority of geographical position. The north-west corner is considerably broken by the south-eastern border of the Highlands, of a mountain character; and a range of hills of moderate height extends from York Island toward the north-east extremity, on which are

» Name changed to Ossin-ing in 1846. See Sess. Laws, chap. 30, sec. 5. b Part of Somers annexed to Newcastle. See Laws of 1846, chap. 249. * West Farms erected from part of Westchester. See Sess. Laws, 184, chap. 279.