"That the freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Westchester, in the county of Westchester, may, on the day of their annual town meeting, under the usual manner of electing town officers, choose six freeholders resident in this town for trustees, and the said trustees or a majorily of them, shall and may order and dispose of, all or any part of the undivided lands within the said town, as fully to every purpose, as trustees have been used to do, under any patent or charier io the said town, and may continue to lease out the right and privilege of setting and keeping a ferry across the East river from the said town of Westchester to the town of Flushing, in Queens county, in like manner, at the same rates of ferriage, under the same rules and regulations, and for the like purposes, as they have lawfully been accustomed to do, since the eighteenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty five.""^

In 1746, the small pox prevailing in Greenwich, New York, the house of assembly adjourned to Westchester.

The following letter of the Westchester sub-committee, dated borough and town of Westchester, August 24th, 1775, to the Honorable Provincial Congress, is copied from the military returns.

» Town Rec. On the 2d of July, 1737, Lewis Morris, Jan., and Frederick Philipse were admitted freemen of the borough under the common seal of the corporation.

b The town property prior to its division, in 1846, amounted to sixteen or twenty thousand dollars, (arising from the sale of the common lands) the interest of which was appropriated to the common schools.