James Wetmore to lite Venerable S(KV'ty, "Rye, "March 25, 1743;" The Parish of Rye to the same, "Province of New "York, Bedford, March li, 1744 ;" Rer. Joseph Lumpson to the savit, '■ NoRTHCASTLE, i.v THE PARISH OF IlYE, February 10, 1746^7;" Rev. Ebene:er bibble to the same, "Stamford, in Connecticut, in New Eno- "I.ANI), March 2.'), 17GI ; " Rev. Ilamj Monro to the same, " PuiLLiPS- " BUROH, February 1, 1766 ; " Rev. Epenetvs Ton'tisenr^ to the same, ''Saleu, " Westchester Covnty, March 25, 1771 ; " etc.

In 1811, Rev. Timothy Dwight, President of Yale-collsge, passed through Westchester-connty, and wrote, of the Town of Eastchester, except ''a small scattered Village," " the rest of the Township is covered "with plantations ' -- Travels, iii., 4S6-- and, of the Town of Maniaroneck, " it is wholly a collection of plantations ; and can scarcely be said to " contain even a hamlet. It is set, however, with a number of good houses "and e.xcellent farms." -- Ibid, iii., 487.-- Of the County, as a wliole, he wrote thus : " It is universally settled, so far as the nature of tlie ground " will admit ; and is almost merely a collection of Farms."-- /fctii, iii., 4*9.

We have resorted, also, to our own recollections of Westchester-oounty, which extend far beyond that day when the quiel and the morals of the County were first distiirbed by the rush of a train of railioad.cars and the screeching of a locomotive, within its territory.