It must be borne in mind, however in comparing these tables of 1829 and 1875, that the valuation of 1732-3 embraced only the divisions of those years

• It is greatly to be regretted that a paiiy s(]ual)l)le about the political patronage in the taking of it, should have prevented the taking of any State Census in 1885, so that a comparison of values up to that year could have been here given. It is, perhaps, fair to say, that, taking one • town with another, an addition often per cent, to the lignres of the

census of 187,') would be about the actual value in 188."i. j Kroni the Table appencled to Wi'stchester County, in the great Atlas of the Counties of New York, compiled by the celebrated Sinieiui IJe Witt, under an Act of the Legislature, in 182'.) and published at Ithaca, N. Y., by David II. Burr. This is the most authentic Atlas of New York that exists, and is now rare.

< From the State Census of 1875, Table no. fi8.

5 Formerly South Salem.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

among the heirs, while the valuation of the Townshijis eniVjrate in addition the lands subsequently divided among the heirs in 1753, and a small portion of lands then leftundivided, as mentioned above ; and also that in North Salem and Lewisborough the " Oblong" lands are included in their respective valuations, which were never a i)art of the Manor. But allowing for these corrections, they are sufticient to show the great increase of value in a century, afid a century and a half, of the lands forming the Manor of Cortlandt.