Northerly, on the same North Street road, were the residences of John and Samuel Hoit, active men in town afi'airs, who in 1726-27 were leaders in building the Presbyterian Church.

On the north side of the road crossing Bronx River, near Mr. Champanois' residence, was the house of Christopher Yeomans ; Anthony Miller lived where the Misses Tompkins' housestands, north of the cemetery, and his fulling-mill was on the brook, south of the house. These were all the houses in White Plains at the date of the patent, and all the occu]iants were men of sufficient education to read and write.

So rapidly did the poi)ulation increase, that, in 1725, the inhabitants assumed an independent organization, elected officers and proceeded to manage their own afliiirs. Some of the good people had held office in Rye before removing to White Plains, and official positions, cither civil or military, were regarded, in those days, as post** of honor to which all good citizens should aspire. The first in importance and most lasting in tenure was the position of clerk; and for fifty consecutive years the duties connected with that office were discharged by Caleb Hyatt.

In 1726 the Rev. John Walton, a graduate of Yak- College, and a lay preacher, purchased a farm which was bounded on the north by the road to Dobbs Ferry, which ran a few feet north of the present Presbyterian Church, and on the south by land then of Jonathan Lane, now of Elisha Horton, and the