al regret second the gene, • Plains, whii Whit ice to rn struct raging t<> the igether w lh tin adjoini ig pr< perty bel< pi county, passed into the hands of private parties several years ago, ami the building was torn down, carried off. anil passed into the unknown. The remembrance is all of the bistoric structure that remains.-- Smith's Manual of Westchester County. 2 Upper Salem was also known locally as "De Lancey Town," so-called for Stephen in-i

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its principal under 'ffected by t heproprietor division Van Cortlandl had their rs. Other parts of the manor il designat ons in comn on parlance. Mrs. Hi,

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Beefeman's estate on the Hudson was, from her Christian name, styled Gertrudesborough, and what is now the Town of Somers was called first Hanover and afterward Stephentown (for Stephen Van Cortlandtl. The name Cortlandttown was applied to the district where Philip Van Cortlandt had his residence.

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HISTORY

WESTCHESTER

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of Philipseburgh was still styled the supervisor for the Manor of Philipseburgh; and although there was a separate supervisor for the lower section of that manor, known as Yonkers, this was no change in the former order of things, since the Yonkers portion of the manor had had its own supervisor from early times. The recovery of Westchester County from the effects of the Revolutionary War was an exceedingly slow process. We have shown in a previous chapter (see p. 41 S) that there was an increase of only 2,258 in the population of the county from the time of the last colonial census, taken in 1771, to that of the first federal enumeration, made in 1790, and that the meagerness of this growth during nineteen years (including seven years of peace) is even more significant when it is remembered that many thousand acres of confiscated lands were sold after the war by the State at low prices.