He died of a Fever in the sixty -second year of his age."* The second was Ebenezer Hurd, who was forty-seven years, at least Post-rider and was in the i^osition at the commencement of the Revolution. '

Newspapers. -- Although not one newspaper seems to have been published in Westchester County in ante-Revolutionary times, the city press found here its firmest patrons. The weekly mail brought out with it the just iiublished Journal, and afforded for the instruction, amusement and excitement of the farmer, as of the citizen, not merely the events that were hapi^ening, but the stirring thoughts and purposes which were offering for examination and advantage. In these city papers are found frequent advertisements and notes appertaining to the countrj*, -- farms to be disposed of; runaway slaves to be recovered; stage-lines started ; vessels freighting for distant points ; wrecked vessels that will be restored ; rewards for recovery of stolen goods ; prices of merchandise to be sold. Events occurring in the County are also noticed. The New York Post Boy, February 6, 17.")8, has " the following most shocking and melancholy account from East Chester, N. Y., that, on Friday morning, the 27th of January, Mrs. Mary Standard, aged about seventy years, wife to the Rev. Doctor Thomas Standard, of that place, was found dead on the chimney-hearth of one of the apartments in the house, having her head, the chief part of both her breasts, with her left arm and shoulder entirely burnt to cinders. It appears that the unfortunate old gentleman and his more unfortunate old lady had, upon some necessary occasion the evening before, agreed to lay separate ; and the doctor, taking his leave, went to bed, leaving his wife sitting before the fire, where, it is imagined, the poor old gentlewoman must either have been seized with a fit, or, in rising from her chair had fallen into the fire, and, being undoubtedly rendered unable to move herself she became the most moving spectacle imaginable to the most affectionate and tender husband, who first discovered her in the morning."