Edmund Ward was for many years a member of the Colonial Assembly,

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But duty bids us all resign, and say,

Thy will be done, who gave and took away.

By his wife Ruth Gedney, the Hon. Stephen Ward left issue eight sons and four daughters ; the fourth son was the late Jonathan Ward, surrogate of the county of Westchester, and a delegate to the convention that framed the late constitution of this state in lS21.a

In the vicinity of Marble Hall are situated the two valuable marble quarries of Elijah Morgan & Co., and George Hall. The former supplied the material for the construction of the New York custom house, and is now fulfilling a heavy contract for the city hall, Brooklyn. ^

Upon the eastern side of Long Reach lies the estate of the late James Somerville, Esq.,c (a native of Roxburghshire, Scotland,) for a long period one of the associate judges of the county, and a well known and respected free-holder of this town. The Somerville property (at present occupied by Archibald Somerville, brother of the late judge,) formerly belonged to David Williams; and was given him by the state, upon the 16th of June, 1783, "for and in consideration of the services of David Williams*^ of Cortlandt manor, in the county of Westchester, hath rendered his country in apprehending and securing the British deputy adjutant general. Major John Andre, who was returning to New York, after having, in the character of a spy, concerted measures with the infamous Benedict Arnold, then commanding at the posts in the Highlands, for betraying the said posts into the hands of the enemy, and for his virtue in refusing a large sum of money ofi'ered by the said Major Andre as a bribe to permit him to escape, &c., and consisted of all that certain tractor parcel cf