History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
The following year he was reelected, and was re-appointed on the abovenamed committee.
His practice as a lawyer has been almost entirely confined to real estate. In this branch of legal knowledge he has few equals, and it may be safely said that there is no one who is more thoroughly conversant with the history of the land titles in this county. He is constantly called upon to decide (piestions concerning ancient boundaries, the locations of which have passed from memory. The amount of money invest- ^ ,t upon the security of
^^-^^-^ real estate in this county,
and of which he has the charge and oversight, exceeds a million dollars, which shows better than any words can express, the confidence which is jjlaced in him by the community where his clientage is so large.
He was in early life a Whig, but joined the Democratic party at the election of Buchanan, and has ever since been connected with it.
He married, in 1847, Rachel, daughter of Caleb Purdy, of Harrison. Their only son, Caleb, a young man of great promise, died, in 1869, soon after his graduation from Columbia College.
Mr. Purdy is a member of the Episcopal Church, and now holds the position of senior warden, and is superintendent of the Sabbath -school.
Soon after establishing his practice at West Farms
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he purchased tlio homestead formerly belonging to Dr. William Hoffman, on the west side of Main Street, or the old Boston Post Road, which lias ever since been his residence.