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. Colonel Caleb Heathcote proved at once his own good taste and his love for the ancient home of his fathers. The name describes equally well the English locality and its American namesake. " Scarrs " was the Saxon word for rocky crags, and " dale " for valley. The western and northwestern parts of the Hundred of Scarsdale are noted for the rocky heights and deep valleys which form that striking Derbyshire scenery immortalized in the " Peveril of the Peak " of Sir Walter Scott. The western and northwestern parts of the Manor of Scarsdale are overlooked by the hills and crags, half covered with forests, at the foot of which flows the river Bronx ; while the vales and glades of the lower heights which separate the valleys of the Bronx and the Sound, upon one of which he dwelt in

his earlier life, are also immortalized in the " Si)y " of the Neutral Ground of Fenimnre (Jooper.

The Manor of Scarsdale was of irregular shape owing chiefly to the winding course of the Mamaroneck River, which formed a large part of its eiistern boundary. By its terms the Manor-Grant included a tract embracing the i)resent towns of Mamaroneck, Scarsdale, a small i)art of Harrison, with White plains, and a portion of Northcastle. But as a dispute existed with "some of y'' inhabitants of y° town of Rye " as to White plains at the time of Colonel Ileathcote's'' purchase of the tract, the Manor-tJrant expressly provided that it should give no further title to White plains to Colonel Heathcote than what he already had before it issued.