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. The Lockwood family was long the most prominent one in the town. From an early period the settlers of Poundridge united the handicraft of shoemaking to their rural pursuits. They " went to the ' shoe-shops ' in the adjoining towns, received their work cut out, and took it home, each one making the whole article, whether boot or shoe."1 The decline in the population of the town since 1850 is largely due to the unprofitableness of this upon the use of machinery for the manuancient industry, facture of shoes. consequent 1 George Thateher'Smith, in*Scharf,",ii., 563.

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LIE earliest enumeration of the inhabitants of the Province of New York was made in 1698 " by the high sheriffs and justices of the peace in each respective county," at the direction of Governor Bellomont. It showed a total population of 18,067, including 2,170 negroes, of whom 1,063 (917 whites and 146 negroes) were in Westchester County. At that date Westchester was the fifth in rank among the ten counties embraced within the present limits of New York State, being exceeded by New York, Suffolk, Kings, Queens, and Albany. At the next census, taken in 1703, Westchester's population had increased to 1,946; in 1712, to 2,815; and in 1723, to 4,409. Thus in the first quarter of a century alter the county as a whole had begun to display a general settled condition the number of its inhabitants had increased threefold.