William Woodward, " " North street,
Job Hadden, " " West and Haight
streets, all to the usual bounds.
Samuel Haviland, ) r^ a t\ ttmi r> 1 } tence and Damas^e viewers,
Thomas Park, ) ° '
Thomas Park, Pownder." At a town meeting held this first day of April, 1783, in Harrison's Precinct, State of New York, the following town officers were chosen to serve the ensuing year :-- '* Isaiah Maynard, Supervisor,
Stephen Field, Town Clerk.
James Miller, Constable and Collector.
Thomas Thomas, )
William Woodward, V Assessors,
Thomas Carpenter, \
Henry Dusenbery, Pownder,
John Cromwell, Overseer of the Highway for the upper
part of the Precinct, Richard Barnes for the middle part, Joseph Carpenter for the lower part, Roger Purdy for North street, Job Haddon, jr., for the west part of the patent, Henry Dusenbery, ) ^^ , ,^ ,r.
Elisha Horton, \ ^^""^^ ^"'^ ^^""^^^ Yi&^ets.
COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.
LEW18B0R0UGH.
Lewisborough is situated eighteen miles north of tlie village of White Plains, -- distant fifty miles from New York, and one hundred and nineteen from Albany,-- bounded north
Presbyterian t'hurcli, Lewisb )rough. j^y ]\^orth Salem, eaSt by
the State of Connecticut, south by Connecticut and the towns of Poundridge and Bedford, and west by Somers.
This town, prior to 180S, was called Salem, and afterward South Salem, to distinguish it from the northern town of that name.a- In 1840 the name was again changed to Lewisborough, in compliment to John Lewis, Esq., a liberal benefactor to its common schools.