" 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

two rods vide, with privilege to hang gates on the same, provided they are kept in repair so as to swing with conveuiency and not otherways."

The present cross-road from the JIacomb's Dam road toTremont is of recent date (say about 1845) and the road connecting the Macomb's Dam road with the King's Bridge road, near the present Dutch Reformed Church, was opened about the same time.

The writer can remember when no road led to West Farms from Trcmont, but a person desiring to drive- from Harlem River to West Farms was compelled to drive by way of Fordham. Fordham Avenue was merely a lane through Gouverneur Morris' farm, which extended froju the old Quarry road near the Home for Incurables to Rae's Corners (the crossing of the Coles road at Jlill Brook at One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Street), and then the lane continued south to Saint Ann's Church and Gouverneur Morris' gate, substantially by the route of St. Ann's Avenue as now laid out. Most of the cross-roads and some of the main ones of to-day were opened by land-owners lor the purpose of developing their property. The limits assigned to the author does not iiermit him to pursue this subject further.