Westchester had no newspaper until after the Revolution, but its people not only read the New York journals, but also advertised in them. Here are some advertisements inserted by the people of Rye, and preserved in Mr. Baird's history of that town :

"Oct. 23, 1749. W«>. Bl ETlS, Hat-Maker, Now living at Harrison's Pnichiise, in Rye, carries on the Hatter's Trade there, and makes and sells as good Hats a« any in the Province, for ready Jloney, or short Credit. Wm. Bvbtis."

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

"July 3, 1775. Stolen out of the pasture from the subscriber at K.ve the 21st June 1775, a sorrel mare, about 14 hands high, a natural trotter, marked with a ball face, her main hanging on the near side, four 3'ear old. Any person that will apprehend the thief and mare, so that the owner can have his mare again, shall be paid the sum of five pounds, and for the mare only three pounds paid by me.

" William Lvox."

"July 1, 1771. Capt. Abraham Bush, of Kye, in the province of New York, on a voyage from the eastward, bound home, coming out of Milford harbour, in Connecticut, Sunday morning the 14th day of last April, about three hours after his departure, saw (above half sound over towards Long Island) a wreck . . . which he brought into Kye harbour. Any pel-son proving his property in said scow and boom, by applying to siiid Bush, in Rye, may have them again, paying him for his trouble and the charge he hath been put to.