Ash, being 50 feet high, and of corresponding breadth, "b There is also a superb specimen of the copper coloured beech. The road from the point to Westchester village, passes many beautiful country villas, ^picer''s and Brocketi's necks are situated at the south-west extremity of Throckmorton's neck proper, and constitute what was formerly known as the Grove fann. This property we have seen, was patented by Governor Nicolls to Thomas Hunt, in 1667, who bequeathed it in 1694 to his grandson, Josiah Hunt. At Josiah's death, A. D, 1729, it went to his son, Thomas Hunt. Upon the demise of the latter, in 1756, the Grove farm descended to his eldest daughter, Mianna Hunt, who married John Ferris. Their son was the late Elijah Ferris, whose sons, John II., William and Charlton Ferris, are the present owners. The old grange erected in 1697, is prettily located at the entrance of

a Memoirs of the State of N. Y., by Egbert Benson, 1817, b Downing's Landscape Gardening.

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Spicer's neck, on the margin of the Westchester creek, shrouded by a group of venerable locusts. The nurseries of Mr. William Ferris, situated a litile north of the house, are very extensive and contain eveiy variety of fruit and ornamental trees. We believe this is the largest establishment of the kind in Westchester county. There was formerly a ferry between Ferry 'point, the termination of Brockeit's neck, now called Laing's Island, and the opposite shore of Powell's point, L. I. The passage was performed in a peri-auger.