On the corner of the lot, with its front on Broadway, was the hat-store and factory of Schuyler C. Tompkins, the village hatter, and a few feet farther on was the store of Purdy Si Fisher (Charles A. Purdy and Nathaniel Fisher). From this store the Red Bird stage started early every morning, excepting Sunday, for New York City. On the adjoining lot the village undertaker, David Miller, with a kind and sympa- { thetic nature, conducted his business, j At this time there were two physicians in the town, I Dr. David Palmer and Dr. Livingston Roe. The ' former resided on the Squire place and the latter on

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

the place now occupied by the Misses Miller, in the southern part of Broadway.

South of the court-house was the county clerk's office, and in the house now occupied by Mrs. Prime was the hotel of Benjamin Briggs.

Subsequently two streets were opened, one called the New Post Road, the other Railroad Avenue. The extension of the Harlem Railroad to White Plains, in 1846, attracted the business to Railroad Avenue, which is now lined with stores, otlices and public buildings, presenting daily a scene of bustle, activity and hurry. Places of business thus ceased to exist on Broadway, which is now bordered on each side with fine dwellings, making it, with its great width, the finest avenue in the State.

Town Officers.-- The White Plains Precinct, as it was called until 1788, held meetings of the freeholders on the first Tuesday of April in each year, for the election of a clerk, supervisor and other officers for the management of the public affiiirs, independent of the town of Rye, of which, however, it continued to be a part. The most important oflScer was the clerk, who was selected on account of his superior education.