Lemuel Light. -- Constable and Collector.

Philip Leek, ]

Richard Sackett, ! Assessors John Miller, f ^^^^-^^o^^-

Ephraim Raymond, J

James McDonald

Eli Tyler, J> Commissioners of Roads.

Zebediah Mills.

a The town records consist of four volumes, No. 1 entitled Record of the town, 1683. No. 2 the Laws and Orders of Connecticut Colony, &c., entered upon record by Zachariah Roberts, recorder, in the year 1699. No. 3 commences April 30, 1708. No. 4, 1786.

Vol. I. 5 -

CORTLANDT.

fc=t. PctQi's Church, PeekskHl.

This town formerlybelonged to the great manor of Cortlandt, which also comprehended the present townships of North Salem, Somers and Yorktown. The name itself is derived from the ancient family of the Yan Cortland t'Sj the

mesne Lords and first grantees from the Indians. Under the Mohegans or River Indians, Cortlandt-town appears to have been divided between the two chiefs of Sachus and Kitchawong, the former of whom exercised jurisdiction over the lands of Wishqua, Canopus, Wenneebees, Appamaghpogh and Meahagh, a territory extending from the south side of Verplanck's Point to St. Anthony's nose in the Highlands, whilst the latter held authority over the lands of Kitchawan, lying south of Verplanck's Point, including Senasquaneck, (Teller's Point,) and the small island of Oscawana.

The Indian villages in their order were, first, Kitchawonk, situated near the mouth of the Croton, so called from the original name of the river, viz : " Kitchawan,"a term which is descriptive of a large and swift flowing current. Croton, the present name of the same stream, is said to have been adopted from an illustrious sachem of that name who resided here at an early period.