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.

"Al!R.\HAM BlSH."

As may be supposed, educational facilities were not very great while the county was thinly settled. The mother was often the only teacher, and the Bible the first text-book. In the city, the school-master was always, e.v officio, clerk, chorister and visitor of the sick. The catechism was taught, in Dutch, by these hard-worked pedagogues. As the population increased, very good schools were established. Westchester County had several, principally under the direction of some of the Huguenot immigrants, who

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were gentlemen of culture and not accustomed to agricultural pursuits. Books were few in the early days, and there was little to develop literary taste, but the Dutch were not illiterate. There must have been a peculiar meaning in the singular custom existing among the Dutch families of that period, of the father giving a bundle of (joose quills to his son and telling him to give one to each of his male posterity. Watson saw one which had a scroll appended saying, "This quill, given by Petrus Byvanck to James Bogert, in 1789, was a present in 1689 from his grandfather from Holland." As early as 1690 the people of Rye made an effort to procure a schoolmaster, and in many of the towns the proprietors offered the privileges of a school to all who would contribute toward the erection of a school-house.