Neither the inn nor the land on which it stands has had many owners. In 1740 John Schuyler, Jr., Philip Schuyler, Stephen Bayard, Jr., and James Stephenson had it by letters patent from the King ; from them it passed to John Livingston, who sold it, with all its rights and titles, " except to gold and silver mines," to Johannis Seckeles; he to Henry Norman ; he to a Dyckman, and the latter to the Flint family.

These are pictures of days that have long faded into the azure of history, but it .seems as if the writer can almost touch the men and women who figured in them as he scans the records they have left of their work and their play, their strong attachments and their fierce resentments, their deeds in peace and war. They are very real when one accompanies them in their homes and follows them through the routine of the day. They were brave, sturdy, passionate, faithful and aggressive people, fitted to conquer virgin soil and found the nation that stands the peer of the ancient commonwealths from which they were derived. Straight down in an unbroken line from them we trace the march of progress that leads to the imperial New York of the present day and the noble environment of Westchester County. Their sons and daughters have been worthy of them, and in the people of the county to-day we see preserved those traits of moral worth, of maternal enterprise, and of lofty patriotism which are the safeguard ol' the most highly developed American communities.