Out of Westchester township, as thus first established, was subsequently (1846) new Township of West Farms, which included both Fordthe carved ham and Morrisania .Manors; and West Farms was in turn subdivided, the lower section of it being erected (IS.").")) into another township, called Morrisania, whose bounds coincided generally with tlK.se of the historic Morrisania Manor, having for their northern limit a line beginning on the Harlem River near the High Bridge; and finally, in 1872, the Township of Kingsbridge was organized, consisting of all the former Township of Youkers lying south of the southerly line of the City of Yonkers. This township included the whole of the original Manor of Fordham. The three names-- Fordham, West Farms, and Morrisania -- are all of seventeenth century origin; ami the three localities, as individual parts of the original Township of Westchester, came into existence within the same general period of time. Having given in brief tin' history of the village and Manor of Fordham, it is proper to notice its neighboring and associated localities of West Farms and Morrisania before turning our attention again to other portions of the county. The West Farms tract, like that of the "Ten Farms," or Eastchester, never attained to manorial dignity. It was a strip along the Bronx River, extending to the vicinity of what is still known By as West Farms village (now a part of the City of New York).

HISTORY

WESTCHESTER

COUNTY

was a deed dated "West Chester, March the 12th, 1663/' this strip on, of sold by nine Indians to Edward Jessup and John Richards d m its Westchester, who on the 25th of April, 1666, were confirme each Nicolls, r Governo from proprietorship by royal letters patent beino- allotted one-half of the whole. Jessup's half, after his death, Westchester, and Richcame into the possession of Thomas Hunt, ofdaughter s, one of whom ardson's was inherited by his three married Farms LegWest the of or progenit was the wife of Gabriel Leggett, Ike o-etts, and the other the wife of Joseph Hadley, of the Yonkers. ely collectiv parcels, twelve into divided y originall whole patent was styled " The West Farms," a name descriptive of its local relation whose to Westchester, by whose citizens it was opened up and upon the and patent Farms government it depended.