beThe fmures of comparative population in Westchester County In ant. signific ngly exceedi are ion Revolut the after fore during and next census, 1756 the population of the county was 13,257, and at the After in 1771 it was 21,715-- an increase of 8,148 in fifteen years. ants 1771 no' enumeration was taken until 1700, when the total inhabit n year s preof the county were 21,003, only 2,258 more than ninetee to 1800, viously, before the war started. In the ten years from 1,90 dgiA. ot gam a 2<,34,, to on the other hand, the population rose ottered to settlers were ents inducem special (1783) peace the After ion of these valuabv the confiscation of Tory estates and the disposit under such favorEven prices. low at auspices State ble lands under of peace was years seven after ing conditions the population in 1700, the Revolution during decline The 1771. in than larger but . have been considerable. must slightly

has left a most circumstanDr. Timothy Dwight, in his « Travels," desola te condition to which and solate discon the of tial description period of the RevoluWestchester County was reduced at an early ly present so inpossib could write tion Nothing we could hope to simple narrat's Dwigh Dr. as t subjec whole the forming aview of on here is citati its d quote ntly freque been has it h thoug tion; ami e: ensabl indisp quite Tu the autumn of 1777 I resided

for some time in this county