Vcrplanck lived many years prior to 1732 in the Manor, and knew every one interested in it, from shortly after the death of Stephanus Van Courtland to his own death a period of about seventy years, his opportunities of knowing the English name of the stream were certainly better than those of any one of whom we now have knowledge. He was also a surveyor, and hence obliged to be particular in giving correct names to natural features. Now he called it on his map of 1732 " Groatun's River," hence at that d.ate such was certainly its English name. Therefore the name must have originated between 1()!)7 the date of the Manor Grant in which it is described by its Indian name and 1732, the date of the Manor Map, that is within the period of tliirty-five years. But whether " Groatun " from which the change to " Croton " was very easy, was the name of an Indian or a Dutchman can never be known. The j)robability is that if there was such a man he dwelt near the mouth of the stream, and his name given to it at his dwelling-place was extended gradually throughout its entire length. But whatever the origin, " Croton " it has been for more than a century, and " Croton " it will forever remain.

TIte Manor of Scarsdale, Its Origin, Local History, Adjoining Patents and Manors, Its First Lord and his Faiaily, Division and Topography.

Named by its Lord after that division of the beautiful county of Derby, nearly the geographical centre of England, in which the city of Chesterfield, crowning a lofty verdant height, sits like a queen upon her throne, the rivers Rother and Hii)per flowing together at her feet, termed the " Hundred of Scarsdale," in which he was born.