The low grounds yield maple, black birch, ash and hemlock, &c.

The first entry relating to town officers occurs in the manor book, entitled, " Record for the manor of Cortlandt and Yorktown." " At a town meeting held for ye manor of Cortlandt, on the first Tuesday, in April, in the year of our Lord, 1760, to choose town officers for ye said manor for the ensuing year, and the respective names and offices of ihose chosen." Pierre van Cortlandt, Supervisor, Moses Travis, Clerk,

» Heath's Mem. 206. d Ibid.

\> Ibid. 260.

« Spafford's Gazetteer of New York.

400 HISTOKY OF THE

Joseph Sherwood, Treasurer, Daniel Strang, ) , Joseph Tidd, $ Assessors.

Joseph Travis, for the Water Collector at Peekskil

John Travis, Pounder,

Jeremiah Drake, Constable for the west part,

John Yeomans, for ye middle part,

John Purdy, for ye east part, (fcc*

» See Rec. of Yorktown. The names of some twenty freeholders are attached to the list.

COM NT Y OF WESTCUEbl'EK. .401-

. < ■ YONKERS. -

YoNKERs is situated on the east bank of the Hudson, immediately above New York island, seventeen miles north of New- York, one hundred and thirty south of Albany, and ten southwest of White Plains ; bounded north by Greenburgh, east by Eastchester and a small angle of Westchester, or by Bronx's River ; south by West Farms and New York county, and west by the Hudson River. It extends near eight miles along the Hudson, and has a medial width of near three miles.