" 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. Archer summoned Betts, Tippett and Hadden to aid him in the fortification and defense of Fordham. They remonstrated before Governor Andros that they should not "bee bound to leave their houses and goods and to please the humours of the said Mr. Archer, thereby perha| s to lose all what they have." The Governor excused them from work on the defenses of Fordham, but he warned them to "be vigilant at their own place and keep watch upon all occasions." TheKixg's Bridge. -- The increasing travel between New York and " the Maine " demanded a bridge in place of the ferry. As early as 1680 the Council of Governor Andros had ordered " Spiting Devil " to be viewed with reference to a bridge there. A bill to erect one was introduced in the Assembly in 1691. The next year Governor Fletcher recommended its construction by the city of New York, but the municipal authorities were deterred from the undertaking by the "great expense." In January, 1693, Fredryck Flypsen offered to build one at his own expense, if he could have certain " easy and reasonable toles." * In June the franchise was granted to Mr. Flypsen for ninety-nine years.