begun. Poundridge and Salem were settled from the same source.

While the growth of these settlements was not rapid, it was steady and healthful. The people gradually became rooted to the soil. After wandering so far, they were content to remain in the quiet enjoyment of their new homes. Nearly all those who settled in the eastern portion of the county were Dissenters, who afterwards became Presbyterians when that order of church government was established. They considered themselves a part of the colony of Connecticut and their location within the Connecticut jurisdiction. The boundary between the two colonies was not then established, and when New York attempted to enforce its claim to this section, the people of Rye, White Plains and Bedford stoutly protested. They long sent delegates to the Connecticut Assembly and were an integral portion of that people. Continued controversies with the Dutch and with the English authorities of New. York had led them to entertain no friendly feeling toward that colony, and when at length they were compelled to submit to its authority they felt sorely aggrieved. They were an intelligent, sturdy, enterprising and pious people, with the true Puritan sternness of morals and devotion to duty. Wherever they located, the church and the school-house were immediately erected. England never sent across the Atlantic better material for planting her colonies and extending her civilization.

Beside the Puritans, who came fi-om Connecticut, another English element came into Westchester County after the transfer of New York to the English, in 1664. The Governors sent over by the Duke of York were accompanied by numerous officers and retainers, who were no sooner established in their new positions than they began to look about them for lands for themselves and their families. Naturally, Westchester County offered an inviting field for their purpose and many of them settled there.