The old Town of Salem, now constituting the Towns of North Salem and Lewisboro, also has an interesting early history, on account of the inclusion in it of all of the lands of the " Oblong," or " Equivalent Tract." It will be remembered that the Oblong was uot laid off and monumented until 1731. In 1700 twenty-live citizens of Connecticut (mostly residents of Norwalk) obtained from the government of that colony the grant of what is known as the Ridgefield Patent, whose western boundary was the New York State line, at that time supposed to be twenty miles from the Hudson. After the measuring off of the Oblong, the Ridgefleld patentees, discovState, petiering that a portion of their property lay in New forYork fifty thousand tioned the New York authorities for a patent acres within the Oblong bounds, which was duly granted, June 8, 1731. These patentees were headed by the Rev. Thomas Hawley, and are described in the document as " inhabitants of ye town of Ridgefleld." These Oblong acres subsequently became the eastern portion of the original Town of Salem, whereof the western portion was taken from Cortlandt Manor. The Town of Poundridge was settled by farming people from Connecticut, who began to take up lands within its borders in the latter part of the first half of the eighteenth century. The name comes " from the ancient ' Indian pound,' which formerly stood at the foot of a high ridge a little south of the present locality known as Poundridge, where the Indians sot their traps tor wild game." The first settler is supposed to have been Deacon John Fancher. He came in 1730. In 1711 Joseph Lockwood, James Brown, David Potts, Ebenezer Scofield, and others from Stamford, made a settlement on the sito of the present village.