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.

In 1786 eighteen hundred pounds were appropriated for the erection of court-houses and jails at White Plains and Bedford. After the burning of the public buildings at White Plains in the war, prisoners had been confined in the jails at New York, Westchester and Kingston, and in other places, temporarily, for safety, and the courts were held in the Presbyterian Church at Bedford and the church building at East Chester (not yet used for religious purposes).

This steady and quite regular increase is the more wonderful as remembered in connection with the known fact of heavy losses by the removal of some of the best people of the County to large farms and more productive localities in the northern and central regions of the State. To the adjoining city there was, and ever since has been, a large annual contribution of those preferring the haunts of trade. The names of Westchester County settlers appear in large numbers in the City Directory of the early years of this century, and in the Record Books of Deeds, Mortgages and Wills, at the county seats of Northern, Central and Western New York. In many cases the farmer soldiers of the Revolution, or those to whom they had sold out their " rights," were eventually settling on the lands which had been laid out for and divided among the troops of the State of New York.