171 married, 11 were widowers and 23 widows. In 1875 the population had dropped to 529, including a colored population of 35. The foreign born numbered 131 and the natives 398, of whom 344 were natives of the State, and 226 of the county. The males in the town numbered 244 and the females 285 and their civil condition was : single 346, married 153, widowers 13, widows 17, the number of families in the town being 91.

In respect to the finances of the town, the first record in relation to them is dated 1788, and is

entered in the book of town records. It reads thus -- "This may certify that on the 9th day of December, 1788, William Fisher, Collector of the Town of Scarsdale for the year 1788, produced a receipt from Johnathan G. Tompkins, in behalf of Abijah Gilbert, County Treasurer, for the sum of ten pounds, twelve Shillings and six pence, to bring the Town's proportion of money towards the Completion of the Court- House. Bearing (late of October 4th, 1788. Entered by Benj. Cornell, clerk."

The taxes for the previous year, 1787, had amounted to £61 35s. If/., but there is no record of the valuation upon which those taxes were asses.^ed. In 1875 the town valuation amounted to $588,850, and the town debt was $29,109, of which $3689 had been contracted on the account of war bonds and bounties, and $25,500 for roads.

In 1880 the town valuation was $620,084, of which 1560,284 was real and $53,800 personal property. Thirty years ago there were in the town sixty- two dwellinghouses, valued at .$84,550. ' Ten years after, in 1865, the dwellings numbered eighty-four and their valuation was put at $163,910. The next ten years witnessed a decrease in the number of the dwellings, but at the same time more than a doubling of the valuations.