During the next decade the population increased

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

by one hundred and four souls, the number of votes rising to eighty-two in the same time. The next ten years saw the population again increased by more than one hundred souls, and the number of voters at the end of this period (1865) was one hundred and nine. In 1875 the total of voters had fallen to one hundred and three, but the population had likewise decreased by twenty-eight.

In the general election of 1840 Scarsdale gave Van Buren a majority of eight, Harrison receiving twentyfive votes to his opponent's thirty-three. In the next presidential election Polk's majority over Clay was fifteen in Scarsdale. For the election of 1848 the returns are wanting, but in 1852 the town gave Scott twenty-four votes and Pierce twenty-nine. In 1856 the vote of Scarsdale was as follows : Fremont twenty ; Fillmore, thirteen ; Buchanan, twenty-seven. In 18(50 the town gave the Fusion candidates thirtysix votes against thirty-one for Lincoln and Hamlin, and the same year, in the gubernatorial contest, gave Morgan thirty-one votes, Kelly thirty-five and Brady one. In 18(54 the presidential vote of the town stood for McClellau fifty-two votes and Lincoln thirty-nine. For the elections of 1868 the returns are more complete. For president. Grant, the Republican candidate, received forty-six votes against Seymour's forty-one. For governor, Griswold (Republican) received forty-five votes and Hoffman (Democrat) forty-three. For Congress, Potter (Democrat) received forty-four votes and Haggerty (Republican) forty-one. At the next general election the town went strongly Republican, giving Grant fortyeight votes for president against twenty-four for Greeley, and at the same time Dix (Republican) received fifty votes for governor and Kiernan but twenty-one. For congress Forman (Republican) received fortyseven votes and Cox (Democrat) twenty-four, and for Assembly Wright (Rejiublican) received fifty-nine votes against eleven for Dusenberry (Democrat).