His property went to his brother Lewis by reason of an agreement made between them, but at the decease of Lewis passed to his nephew of the same name, who afterwards became Chief Justice of New York, as also, in 1733, under circumstances of excitement and selfdefence already narrated, the Representative of Westchester County. The different limbs and branches of this ancestral tree are very numerous. The connections of this family are with the Grahams, the Van Cortlandts, Wilkinses, Ludlows, Randolphs, Ogdens, Lawrences, Rutherfords, Governcurs and foreign families whom it is not necessary to detail. The old mansion is at Morrisania, near Harlem.

The Bartow family, of Huguenot descent, has occupied a much respected position of influence and usefulness in the country during both the eighteenth and ninteenth centuries. The head of the family in this country was the Rev. John Bartow, who, in 1702, settled in the town of Westchester, and there reared a large family. His descendants have been among the most valued citizens of Westchester County, and indeed of the country North and South.

Trade. -- In the develoi)ment of Westchester County, its proximity to New York City was from the first an important element to its advantage. Here was a ready market for the products of the soil. The early settler entered upon his work of raising the supply for his family and neighbors with the knowledge of a sure and easy disi)osal of the sur])lus of his crop. There is no doubt that in a coasting trade much was sent both north and south, to Rhode Island and Boston and the Carolinas, direct from the villages of the County, but the vast bulk of what it had to sell went through New York City, the port of entry, to the mother country and various other lands at greater