The present Farmers' Bridge road dates back to June 6, 1730, when Commissioners Honeywell and Leggett, acting upon the complaint of the people of Fordham Manor, condemned the King's road " down the hill through the farm which Benjamin Archer now j possesseth," and laid it " through the enclosed field of j Archer to the eastward where the road now is cleared and beginneth at the Post road leading to King's Bridge at the corner of the fence near John Archer's orchard, and thence southerly until it comes to the road that leads through the farm which John Vermilyca now possesseth on the Manor." June 13, 1730, an order was passed for a road from the King's road below the hill on P''ordham Manor to the highway leading to the Fordham Meeting-house. The meetinghouse which was the old J)utch Church formerly stood at the junction of the Macomb's Dam road and the Berrian Landing road. It was mentioned that this thoroughfare was to pass by "Michael Odle's Still." A road to East Chester must have been in existence prior to 1733, as it is alluded to in the act of March 1st of that year, On April 9, 1733, the highway through Jonathan Lawrence's land down to West Farms was altered and laid " nigher the river, according to stakes set up and rocks marked." Wliat is now the road from Farmers' Bridge to the depot at King's Bridge was made under the following order in 1734 :

" Upon a review of the loail from King's Bridge to Ilalstead's Bridge, we have made the following alteration, to wit : Beginning where sjiid road and the road from West Farms meet, we have laid out said road through the Widow Archer's laud as stakes are now set up to the old road, and then across said road to the Yonkers line, from which i)lace .lohn Archer, assisted by us, has himself agreed to and laid out the said r..iiil to run through liis land in the Yonkers as stakes are this day set Oil until it meets y« former or old road again, and then y« old road is continued as formerly." j