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HISTORY ^

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT

PRESENT TIME.

By ROBERT BOLTON. Jr.

AUTHOR OF THE " GUIDE TO NEW ROCHELLE," AND A MEMBER OF THE N. Y. HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

" It is the privilege of History to impart the experience of age, without its infirmities ; to bring back things long obscured by time, or sinking into oblivion ; and enable us to form some reasonable conjectures of what may happen to posterity." -- Paulson's Hist, of Holderness.

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NEW YORK: PRINTED BY ALEXANDER S. GOULD,

144 NASSAU STRKET.

1848.

Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight

BY ROBERT BOLTON, JR. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

HISTORY

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTEK

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POUNDRIDGE.

PouNDRiDGE is situated fifteen miles northeast of the village of White Plains, and distant one hundred and thirty-nine miles from Albany ; bounded north and east by Lewisborough, south east by the state of Connecticut, and west by Bedford and North Castle.^ The name of this town is undoubtedly derived from the ancient Indian pound, which formerly stood at the foot of a high ridge, a little

jundndge.

Poundridge v\as organized on the 7th of March, 1788.

YOL. II.

2 . HISTORY OF THE ~ ' - , - .

south of the present village of that name. On account of its natural boundaries this section of country was peculiarly adapted for the favorite Indian practice of entrapping wild game. Upon the nortli the Stony mountains formed an impassable rampart, whilst the long chain of ponds and streams on the east line of the town closed up all avenues of escape in that direction.