The bed of the stream and the salt meadows through which it flowed were to form a reservoir for tail-water, which would empty itself into Spuyten Duyvil Creek at low tide. Fourteen mill-seats, each fifty by one hundred feet, bordered the race-ways, and an aggregate of at least two hundred and thirty-four horse-power was assured for them.

3 It fell down about 1836.

KING'S BRIDGE.

built and a centre of population established, which has grown to several hundreds. There are now three churches, a grauiuiar school, ])olice station, numerous stores, shops, saloons and dwellings. Among the well-known residents are Joseph H. Godwin,' William

G. Ackerman, William O. Giles, George Moller, William A. Yarian, M.D., Benjamin T. Sealey, William

H. Geer, John Parsons, M.D., Rev. William T. Wilson and others.

Spvytex Duyvil. -- A village (and until recently a post office) located on the southerly end of Spuyten Duyvil Xeck. The land was owned . by George Tippett, who died in 1761. He devised it in several parcels to his children and grandchildren. Soon after the Revolution it belonged to Samuel Berrien, who had married Dorcas Tippett, daughter of George.'- He sold to Abraham Berrien, a nephew^, in whose family it continued until about 1850.- In 1852 the tract was in three farms, which were purchased that year and next by Elias Johnson, David B. Cox and Joseph W. Fuller, of Troy, X. Y. They had surveys and plans made for a village to be called Fort Independence,' but which was changed to Spuyten Duyvil. Streets were opened and several houses erected on the hill, and a foundry was established at its base. The latter was afterwards bought and extended into a rolling-mill by Jervis Langdon, who was succeeded by the Langdon Rolling-Mill Company. The Spuyten Duyvil Rolling-Mill Company, organized in 1867, next owned this property.