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.

The Bou7idaries of the County remained wholly unchanged, until the annexation of the new towns ol Morrisania and Kingsbridge, formed from the southern portions of the old towns of Westchester and Yonkers to the City of New York of which they now lorm the twenty-third and twenty-fourth Wards. The ui)per part of the old town of Yonkers has been incorporated as the City of Yonkers. The County of Westchester therefore with these exceptions retains its original limits as fixed in ]()83, and confirmed by the State County act of 1788.

The Township Act of 1788 is remarkable for its use of the Manors in enacting the bounds of the townships it created. No less than fourteen of those twenty-one townships are described and bounded in part by naming special lines of the old Manors, or the Manors themselves as a whole. Eleven towns out of the twenty-one, were formed wholly out of the Manors. These were Morrisania, Yonkers, Greenburgh, Mount Pleasant, Pelham, Scarsdale, Mamaroneck, North Salem, Cortlandt, Yorktown, and Stephentown. Two, Salem (now Lewisborough) and Poundridge, were partly so formed, about half of the former and onethird of the latter, being portions of the Manor of Cortlandt.