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. In 1731 its people were 6,033; in 1737, 6,745; in 1746, 9,235; in 1749, 10,711:5; in 1756, 13.257; and in 1771 (the last of the colonial censuses), 21 .745. The following details from the census of 1712 show the distribution of population throughout the various civil divisions then existing: Westchester Eastchester Rye New Roclielle Yonkers Philipse burgh Mamaroneck Morrisania Pelham Bedford Cortlandt Manor

Ryke's Patent (Peekskill) Scarsdale

2,815

The portions of the county styled Yonkers and Philipseburgh at that period were, respectively, the lower and upper divisions of Phil-

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ipseburgh Manor, the former being presided over by Frederick Philipse, 2d, and the latter by Adolph Philipse, his uncle. After the uncle's death, the whole manor was reunited under Frederick PhilOOr ipse, 2d, and continued as a single political division until after the Revolution. To the above-named civil divisions of 1712, the only new ones added during the remaining sixty odd years of the colonial era were White Plains, North Castle, Salem, and Poundridge. Under this census the ancient Town of Westchester led all the other localities of the county in population, with 572 inhabitants, having, indeed, a very decided preponderance over every community except Rye, which numbered 51 (5 souls. But it must be borne in mind that in 1712 Rye as a political division included certainly the White Plains and Harrison tracts; and probably not a few settlers dispersed through the interior sections of the county not as yet comprehended in definitely named settlements were counted also in the Rye enumeration.