AVestchester is thus described : " The County of Westchester to contain all that part of this State, bounded southerly by the Sound, easterly by the State of Connecticut, Tiortherly by the North Bounds of the Manor of Cortlandt, and the same line continued east to the bounds of Connecticut, and west to the middle of Hudson's River, and westerly by a line running from thence down the middle of Hudson's liiver until it comes opposite to the Bounds of the State of New Jersey, then west to the same, then southerly along the east Bounds of the State of Neu- Jer.iey to the Line of the Coiuity of New York, and then along the same easterly and southerly to the Sound, or East Rioer, including Captain's Island, and all the islands in the Sound to the east of

1 Resolntiun in I. .loiirnals Prov. Congress, 518. - II. JoUKS Si Vni ick, :il7 Hud :519.

Frog's Neck and to the northward of the main channel."

By the latter act Westchester County was divided into the following towns named in the following order : Westchester, Morrisania, Yonkers, Greenburgli, Mount Pleasant, Eastehester, Pelham, New Rochelle, Scarsdale, Mamaroneck, White-Plains, Harrison, Rye, Northcastle, Bedford, Pound-Ridge, Salem, North Salem, Cortlandt, Yorktown, and Stephentown, twentyone in all, -- the bounds of eae,h being clearly set forth.

This was the first division of the County into townships, an organization which has since continued without variation except divisions of a few of the towns, some alterations of the bounds of two or three others and the incor|)oration of a part of Yonkers as the City of Yonkers, the details of which need not be given here.