O'Neale " received a good part of her payment in horses and mares," with which she was about to '■ return home into Maryland, y« place of her abode ; " but hearins report of a prohibition against importing horses to that colony, she procured a letter to its Governor from Governor Lovelace, of New York, asking a dispensation from the rigor of the late order in her case so as to permit her to dispose of her horses in Maryland to her best a<lvantage.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Council. He died in 1702, aged seventy-six, survived by a son Adolphus, a daughter Annetje, wife of Philip French, an adopted daughter Eva, wife of Jacobus Van Cortlandt, and a grandson Frederick (son of his deceased son Frederick,) to whom he devised the Yonkers plantation.

The Ferry. -- Soon after the village of Fordham was settled the people of New Harlem tried to divert eastern travel from the wading-place to the new ferry they had set up between New Harlem and Bi'onx-land. They obstructed the banks at Spuyten Duyvil * with fences, but travelers threw them down and still crossed at the ancient ford without paying toll. In the summer of 1C69 the ferry was removed to Spuyten Duyvil, " a nearer and more convenient passage to and from the island and the Maine, " and Johannes Verveelen was made ferryman. There was allotted to his use the " island or neck of land Papariuamin, " where he was required to provide a dwelling-house furnished with three or lour good beds for the entertainment of strangers ; also provisions at all seasons for them, their horses and cattle, with stabling and stalling ; also a sufficient and able boat to transport passengers, horses and cattle on all occasions.' A causeway was also required to be built across the meadow from Paparinamin to Fordham, of which Verveelen was to bear one-third of the expense and Fordham the remainder.