A fact of curious interest, illustrating in a striking way the active enterprise which characterized the Town of Westchester and its associated districts from the beginning, has been brought to the attention of the present writer by the kindness of the Rev. Theodore A. Leggett, D.D., of Staten Island, a descendant of one of the West harms patentees. We have seen that Elizabeth Richardson, daughter of Thomas Richardson, co-patentee with Edward Jessup of West Farms (1GGG), married Gabriel Leggett. Gabriel had a brother, John Leggett, who also was a landed proprietor in the section embraced in the political bounds of Westchester town. John Leggett was a shipbuilder, and under date of November 30, 1676, he executed a bill of sale reading as follows: " John Leggett of Westchester, within the Province of X. Y., shipright, to Jacob Leysler of N. Y. City, merchant, a good Puick, or ship, Susannah of New York, now laying in this harbour, and by said Leggett built in Bronck's fiver near Westchester, together with masts, Lay boat, and other materials." Thus the shipbuilding industry was introduced at the mouth of the Bronx as early as 1676 (probably earlier) -- that is, seven years or more before the organization of the County of Westchester. This John Leggett, builder of the " Susannah," died in the West Indies in 1679. It is interesting to note that he named as his executor the first Frederick Philipse, with whom he seems to have sustained a business partnership of some kind, and to whom ho bequeathed the sum of thirty pounds sterling. Upon the organization of our county, in 1683, Westchester was appointed to be its shire-town, and in legislative acts passed shortly after the regular institution of parliamentary government in the province this community was the object of respectful attention.