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.

- Apptetou' B Joiim4il, November 7, 1874.

GENERAL HISTORY

FROM 1783 TO 1860.

GENERAL HISTORY FROM 1783 TO 1860.

BY REV. WILLIAM S. COFFEY, M.A. of East Chester.

Poet-Bevolutionary Narrative -- Public Works-- Political History.

It will be readily conceived that years must have elapsed before the memory of the wrongs and of the emotions which they aroused should have disappeared to any extent among the inhabitants of Westchester County, who had suffered so much in the Revolutionary conflict. The bitter animosities in families and between neighbors which had been engendered, it were hard for the most considerate to lay aside, and it were scarce possible that the most trifling disagreement should not reproduce.' The high-handed measures of confiscation, which followed the proclamation of peace, served to inflame anew the old sores ; and the accusations, indictments, prosecutions and inflictions for offenses of the war-time, which filled up, for several years after it, the proceedings of the County Court of Sessions, are but indications not more of the outrages reprehended, than of the subsequent unwillingness to condone and forget them. The many missed faces, the traces of care and anxiety on those one did meet, the decayed and vacant houses and dilapidated barns, the marked change in the circumstances of the well-to-do families, the alteration in the moral tone, not only of the young, but of many past the years of early life who in them had been most exemplary, the number of diseased and wounded men, many of whom were hastening to their graves, the often felt presence still of the lawless marauder daring enough to follow his once riskless trade -- all this kept up long the general sadness and tearfulness.