At this time a short cut was made for the road around the foot of the hill on which were situated the Griffin and Tompkins farms, and a portion of the old road was thus left, which runs over the hill and past the site of the birth-place of Governor Tompkins, the present residence of Charles Butler, at the " Fox Meadows, " Mapleliurst," formerly on the "Trayis" farm, and the old Griffin and Fisher homesteads, until it again joins with the main road at a point just north of tlie public school.

The principal oft'shoots of this road are as follows: At the northern i)art of its course through the town, the Mamaroneck road, on which are the Fish and Bruen mansions, and from which turn oft' the "Saxton Woods " road, running in a northeasterly direction ; and "Lincoln Avenue," on which, at almost the very limits of the town, stands the Friends' Meeting- House ; and at the southern part of its course, a road running to the eastward, past the Drake and Lang mansions ; and just south of this, the " Scarsdale depot road," running westward, on which are the old Morris homestead and, near by, the Church of St. James the Less. On this road and just opposite the Morris mansion took place in the time of the Revolution the tragic event described in Bolton's history of the county. It seems that an officer of the French

cavalry, accompanied by several companions, went one Sunday to the smithy of Gilbert Vincent to have his horse shod. A sou of the smith, alone, was at the house, and he refused to perform the work, partly from religious scruples and also on the ground of lacking the necessary fuel for the forge. The officer, thinking this merely a pretext, or that he was unwilling to do the enemy a service, provoked a quarrel with the young man, which ended in the death of young Vincent.