vate virtues and public worth has justly endeared him to the nation, liis patriotism, his great talents as a statesman, and his great acquirements as a jurist, his eminent purity as a christian, and his probity as a man, all unite to present him to the public as an example whose radiance points to the attainment of excellence."

Tiie memory of this great and good man will be embalmed in the heart of every true friend of liberty, virtue and the honor and prosperity of the state of New York and her civil institutions, as long as the history of this state and nation shall be known and read ."a

A little east of the house flows Spruce Creek, the former division line between the vineyard and the Dibble purchases.

North east of Cautetoe lies the valley of the Peppeneghek, (Cross River,) celebrated for its picturesque beauty.

Whitlocksville is a small settlement in the north west corner of Bedford situated near the junction of the Croton and Cross rivers. Upon the latter stream are located the grist mill and clothier works of Warren Whitlock. The Cross River, (Peppeneghek,) is said to discharge at the rate of nine million one hundred and forty-two thousand four hundred gallons per diem.

The Methodist Episcopal Church of this place was first erected in 1837, and incorporated on the 25th of February the same year : Norman William Miller, Walter P. Lyon, Joseph Wilson, Joel W. Miller and Noah Smith, trustees. ^

The settlement also contains a post office, three stores and twenty-five houses. The West Chester Rail Road passes a little east of the place : the Peppeneghek and the Cisqua intersect a mile to the eastward. Previous to the erection of the Croton dam, the shad fish annually ascended the river to Whitlocksville a distance of nearly thirty miles from the Hudson ; trout are taken here in great abundance.