It was, therefore, with no little satisfaction that they announced the purchase, on the 9th day of June, 1865, of a valuable farm of about one hundred and fourteen acres, with commodious barns and outhouses, near the village of Westchester, for forty tliousand dollars, upon which they have completed a spacious brick building, designed to accommodate from six hundred to eight hundred destitute boys, and another of equal dimensions for the accommodation of girls.

St. Raymond's Catholic Church is located on the road leading from Westchester to West Farms, and is not distant from the Protectory. Attached to it is an extensive cemetery and a fine, large parochial schoolhouse. It has a numerous congregation.

Highways, Bridges, Etc. -- From the Sautier Survej's (Doc. Hist, of N. Y.), printed in London by Fadden in 1779, we find a main highway running from Morrisania via de Lancey's Mills (West Farms) to the village of Westchester, but by an entry on the 13th day of the Ninth Month, 1722, in the county road-book, on file in the office of the county clerk, it appears that on June 8th of that year Commissioners Lewis Morris, Jr., John Stephenson, Joseph Drake and John Hoit made return that they had laid out a public road in the town of Westchester, --

WESTCHESTER.

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" From tlie bridge tlial lies iiciiis- tlio broolv tluit runs In lwcfu L'nJerhill Biinis's land and runs westerly as the way lias usually been run, four rods wide between said Barns's land, incluiling the watering place lying by y« side of I'nderbill Barns's home lot, according to the bounds now sett up and marked, till it meets w"" a public road laid out by the Coniutissioncrs through the sheep pasture."