.\lthough the Manors of Livingston and Rensselaerwyck and the Scott and Blenheim and Duanesbnrg and Clark and Kortright and Uanleiiburg and Desbro&.ses and Livingston and Montgomery and .Vrmstrong and Banyar and Hunter andOvering and Lewis and Verplanck and other Patents were not in Westchester-connty, the relations of landlord and tenant were the same, unless in the rentals, in all ; and they were the same iis those which generally prevailed on the Manors and other largo estates, in Westchester-connty. The student who shall dssire to learn more on that subject of American feudalism, as it existed before and since the .\merican Revolutiou, may find very much which will be useful to him, in the Report on the Difficulties existing between tlie Proprie-

WESTCHESTER-COUNTY, NEW-YORK, DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.^

BY HENRY B. DAWSON, Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Etc.

Entered according to .\ct of Congress, in the year 1886, by Henry B. Dawson, in the office of the Librarian of Congress in Washington, D. C.

During the entire period extending from the first settlement which was made by Europeans, within that portion of New Netherland which, subsequent to the first of November, 1683, was known as the "County "of Westchester," in New York, until within the memory of living men, the inhabitants of that portion of the country, with rare exceptions, were either cultivators of its soil or employed in other occupations which were, then, necessarj' for the comfort and well-being of such a purely agricultural community.* A verj' large proportion of those farmers, however.