Connectic toward hill the over up leading Road), Posl (Boston reader the course Of " remain. ons habitati No traces of these old on will not confound the Fordham of Poe's Cottage mow a station ty communi ancienl this with ) Railroad tlarlem and York the New on Spuj'ten I >u\ \ il < 'reek. The people settled ai Fordham and thereabouts on both shores of eastern travel from its natfelt sorely aggrieved ai the diversion to the ferry ai Harlem. The ural route across the wading place and his fellow-townsferryman assumption exercised by the Ilarl.au men in fencing in the ford so as to protecl the ferry monopoly was milch resented bv them, and they threw down the fence and claimed was the right to cross a1 pleasure. Finally, in L0C9, the controversy Vei John of the ferry to i leir locality. by the transfer of settled bv settled veelen was continued in < ,-m,., operated i lie line until his death, and was succeeded <>\ his son, Daniel, who was still ferryman ai the lime l1(, (.,,.r,i..n of the King's Rridge |ir>04). The elder tsland, Verveelen, upon assuming his new functions, received "the d "require was he where use, liis for " men Papirine or neck of land, good beds to provide a dwelling house furnished with three or lour for for lll(, entertainment of strangers; also provisions a1 all seasons sufa also them, their horses an. I cattle, will, stabling and stalling; on all occaficieni .M„| abie boal to transfer passengers and cattle a causeway of expense the one-third with charued was lie sions It is notem. Fordha to men Papirine from built aeross the meadow in opworthy thai about the time when the Fordham ferry was pul eration the Albany and Boston Posl Roads won- projected ami their construction begun.