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History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900

Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900. 287 words

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Eleazer Hart Isaac Odell Robert Reid Elisha Barton Dennis Post Nicholas Underbill Caleb Smith Dennis Lent John Devoe Abigail Sherwood Frederick Underbill Hon. Richard Morris (estimated) Henry Brown Parsonage Lot Elnatban Taylor Frederick Van Cortlandt (about) Margery Rich John Gnerino William Hyatt Mary Valentine Abijah Hammond Jacobus Dyckman David Hunt Abraham Lent Philip Livingston Stephen Oakley Charles Dnryea Stephen Sherwood Sarah Archer Mary Merrill

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"By the acts respectively of 1786 and 1792," says Allison, " tinlegislature first conveyed, and then continued, the property described as the Glebe to Saint John's Church forever. Two acres where the church stands, two where Thomas Sherwood, the gardener, lived, and about two acres of meadow adjoining the Saw Mill River and the road, being a part of the Glebe land, were reserved and excepted from C. P. Low's purchase. Mr. John Williams, one of the purchasers, had been the steward of the Philipseburgh Manor under Colonel Frederick Philipse. John Gueriuo was a Frenchman, who kept a tavern near limit's Bridge. The property purchased of the commissioners by C. P. Low, whose name appears in the foregoing list, was the Manor Hall property. Low was a Xew York merchant. Lie bought the Manor Hall property and three hundred and twenty acres of land for £14,520. lie never occupied it, but on May 12, 178G, sold it to William Constable, also a Xew York merchant. From the foregoing record it appears that in 1785 'the Yonkers,' as now bounded, was owned by between sixty and seventy persons, and a