Shubel Rowley. > -.^
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Joseph Green, 3
Jonathan Ogden, Pounder.
Samuel Dean, ) Fence and
John Merritt, \ Damage Viewers.
'•At a lawful town meeting held in North Castle on Tuesday the 7th of April, 1772, by the West and Middle patents to choose and elect town officers, and to make such prudential acts as said patents or the inhabitants thereof hath power, and shall think proper," &c.
In 1773 it was voted that a committe of three be appointed to represent the town, '-and wiih other members to represent the county."
The village of North Castle is situated in a valley, about the centre of the town, with the hills rising boldly around it. The settlement of this place was commenced sometime prior to 1722, principally by a company of Englishmen from Rye, who gave it the name it now bears. North Castle at present contains a postoffice, two churches, a Friends' meeting house, a school house, three stores, several dwellings, and the well known tavern stand of Samuel P. Smith. * Mile Sqiiare^^ is a pleasant hamlet adjoining it on the west^ consisting of a tavern, several dwellings and stores.
St. Stephen's church, North Castle, is situated mid-way between the two settlements, on the road leading from White Plains to Bedford. From the primed parochial reports of 1843, we take
• In this tavern a parly of Continental troops were stationed during the Revolutionary war
^ ThiH name occurs in a deed as early as 1764. 4