Wright, in which it was provided that " letters patent issue for Charity Wright, his widow, and for his heirs for five hundred acres in the tract set apart for the use of the line of this State in the Army of the United States, which said John Wright was a Surgeon's mate in the General Hospital in the Northern Department."

The machinery of the higher courts was set in motion and crimes were promptly punished and

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wrongs more thoughtfully and certainly redressed. The education of the children became more an object of attention under new incentives and necessities. The provisions of the act of the 9th of April, 1795, by which the sum of one thousand one hundred and ninety-two pounds was given annually for five years for school purposes to the County of Westchester, grew out of this feeling, and were responded to according to the conditions of the gift by the voters of each town, in the appropriation of a sum equal to one-half of what was received, school commissioners being chosen for the distribution of the moneys. The above is a facsimile of a paper on file in the office of the Town

Clerk of East Chester, in which is certified the amount of school money allotted to that town. This was the first apportionment under the act.

Just as readily, in 1812, when an equal sum to that appropriated by the State was in a new Act asked of each town, the vote was readily given, and the proper officers named. During this period, throughout the county, school-houses were being restored or re-erected. Provision for the poor was also freely made yearly by the several towns and by the Board of Supervisors.