It means " spouting devil," and may have arisen from some peculiar vphnrst of water as tlie tide rushed over the reef which obstructs the channel at that point. Mr. Riker has ingeniously suggested the outpour from the guns of the " Half-Moon ;" also tlie gushing spring under Cock Hill; but thee.xplanation in Irving's quaint and humorous legend of the ' Trumpeter' will ever meet with popular acceptance. - " Yk Ferryman -- His Rat£s.
" For lodging any person, 8 pence per night, in case they have a bed with sheets ; and without sheets, 2 pence in silver.
"For transportation of any person, 1 penny silver.
** For transportation of a nuin and horse, 7 pence in silver.
" For a single horse, G pence.
" For a turn with his boat, for 2 horses, 10 pence ; and for any more 4 pence apiece ; and if they be driven over, half as much.
'* For single cattle, as much as a horse.
" For a boat loading of cattle, as he hath for horses.
" For droves of cattle to be driven over, and opening y« gates, 2 pence p. piece.
"For feeding of cattle, 3 pence in silver.
" For feeding a horse one day or night with hay or grasse, C pence." ^This causeway was on the line of the present McConib Street.
During the last quarter of the seventeenth century the Betts, Tippett and Haddeu families, and those who had interniarriad with them, and their retainers and servants composed all the population of the Yonkers outside of Fordham and Papariuamin. Their homes were grouped about a mile north of Fordham, where they had a " good and strong block-house." * During King Philip's War, in 1775, there were fears of an Indian outbreak in this colony.