At a town meeting held in the manor of Scarsdale, at the school house in said manor, near Capt. Jonathan Griffin's, on the 6th of April, 1784, and in the 8th year of the independency of America, according to an act of assembly made in that case for each town, manor, province and district, to choose all necessary town officers for the benefit of the towns, for the ensuing year.

Jonathan Tompkins, ^

John Barker, V Inspectors of said meeting.

Israel Herriott, )

Jonathan G. Tompkins, Supervisor.

Benjamin Cornell, Clerk.

^ The first Friends' meeting house erected in this vicinity, stood near the Palme burying in Mamaroneck.

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. . , 129

Israel Herriott, Constable and Collector.

John Barker, ^

John Compton, >Assessors. - "... ■ . .- ' ...

Stephen Cornell, } V ;■,'.•■ ' ' ' ■" '-,.. '.

WilliamGriffin, >o^ ^fj,- }^ yg-

Samuel Higher, $ s j

John Crompton, } Yq^qq and damage Overseers.

Ihomas Cornell, J , , .

Samuel Higher, Pounder, ' •: !•■...

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Ua. ' ■ ■ • .; HISTUKY OF THE

:,- S O M E R S .

iSoMERS is situated twenty miles north of the village of White Plains, distant fifty miles from New York, and one hundred and twenty from Albany, bounded north by Dutchess county, east by North Salem and Lewisborough. south by Bedford and New Castle, and west by Yorktown.

Prior to t'le year 1788 Somers formed a part of the township oi Hanover, within Cortlandl's manor. Upon the 7th of March, 1788, it was independently organized under the title of Sfephentowji, a name adopted out of compliment to Stephen van Cortlandt, one of its principal proprietors. The present name was bestowed, A. D. 1808, in honor, it is said, of Captain Somers, one of the gallant heroes of the Tripolitan war.