tors of certain Leasehold Estates and their Tenants, presented to the Assembly of New York, in 1846, and reproduced, withan introductory Note, in The Writings and Speeches of Samuel J. Tilden, edited by Jolin Bigelow i., 186.

1 The notorious Captain Cornelius Steenrod was the proprietor of more than one Fulling-mill, in Cortlandt Manor, at the opening of the War of the Revolution.

- The old Mill, on the Pocantico, near the ancient Manor-house of the Pliilipses, is a notable example of a Manorial Mill, continued until our own day.

' "Their employment is husbandry, even Innkeepers, Shopkeepers, " Smiths, and Shoemakers not excepted ; so that we pray, pay, and wait "too, for everything done in this Country." -- Rev. Thomas Stannard to the Venerable Societij, " Westchestek, Nov. 5, 1729."

Within the period of our own recollection, this primitive combination of occupations was widely continued ; and every one who is acquainted with the County, now, can readily call to mind more than one instance still existing.

* The personal recollections of members of our own family, extending further back than our own, afford ample authority for this statement. 6 " Even in Towns everyone has a plott of at least ten acres, which

short, as was said in the beginning, there were few, among the residents of that portion of the country, during the later Colonial period, who were not either actual cultivators of the soil or in some way connected with or dependent on- those who were thus employed.