" 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

The old Macomb's Dam road came under the care of the commissioners in 17<)8, their proceedings of, ilay 3d in that year being understood to have reference to it. The transcript from the road-book of that date says, -- i

" ronimissioners, at recpiest of the freeholders and inhabiluut-s of that part of the Manor of Fordham lying upon Harlem Kiver to the { South of the Old Dutch Church, viewed the road as then used from the | publick road (laid out to the river by said church", beginning a little to the eastward of the said Dutch Church and thence running southerly as the said road runs to the landing at the back of the house now occupied by Charles Doughty on the patent to Turnenr ; and have at their retiiiesi now laid out the same road as and for a publick liighway, to be