Again, in 1755, a public ferry between Ann Hook's Xeck, or Rodman's Neck, and Cedar-Tree Brook, in Hampstead Harbor, was in operation, Samuel Rodman and John Wooley being the patentees.' On a map of the road from Federal Hall to New Rochelle, passing over the Harlem River at Kingsbridge, and over the Bronx at Williams' Bridge and through East Chester, there is laid down a side-road in that village, which is described as " road leading to Whitestone Fen:y," which shows undoubtedly that water communication had been established through Hutchinson's River, East Chester Bay and the Sound with the shore at Long Island.

Rise of CnrRCHES. -- The colonists of Westchester County, Dutch or English or French, gave their attention from the first to their religious interests, and held their assemblies for religious worship as soon as they took up their new abodes. We must imagine that for the most part these early services were held in their private residences, in turn perhap.s, or at some house permanently by common consent. Their thoughts early turned to the subject of church-building, which was accomplished in some localities sooner than others. In New Rochelle, in three years after its settlement by the Huguenots, a place of worship was erected. It took the people of East Chester thirty years before they were determined to build, although they had asked permission twenty years before, and after this resolve near seven years elapsed before the Meeting-house was ready for use. Bedford, which was settled about 1680, and which that very year expressed its determination to build, had a place of worship within a few years. The following is supposed to be the order in which the early church edifices of the county were erected. The date of the first Quaker Meeting-house at West Chester is certainly much earlier than 1729, for Dr.