Greenburgh lias always retained the limits fixed tor it by the act of 1788. Its northern boundary, as described in that measure, was "a line beginning on the east side of Hudson's River at the southwest corner of the land lately conveyed by the commissioners of forfeiture for the southern district to Gerard G. Beekman, Jr., and running from thence along the southerly and easterly bounds thereof to the farm of William David, and then along the southerly and easterly

1 The appointment of Morr isania ounty was p the origi nal township s of the , bly due to the influ, nee of tl i,. Mor ris fa At the time of the passage of th, ' toWl act of 17SS the federal government was about t0 ' rganized, and the question of tin- sol,.,tioii of a site for the national capital was coming into prominence. Lewis Morris entertained a strong conviction that Morrisania was

tin. most eligible place. There is now in the possession of the New York Historical Society the draft of a " Memorial by Lewis Morris, of Morrisania," "To his Excellency the President and the Honorable the Members of the Congress of the United States of America," communicated in 1790, in which the special advantages of the place arc recited. (For the text of this memorial see Scharf, i.. 823.)

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WESTCHESTER

COUNTY

the road leadhounds of the said farm of the said William David to in*, to the White Plains, and then easterly along the same road to the of Bronx River." To Mount Pleasant was assigned the remainder of Town new the cted constru was y territor the manor. Out of its Ossining by an act passed May .2, 1845. ster The bounds fixed for the Town of Eastchester were Westche north, at the south, the Bronx River at the west, Scarsdale at the and the Hutchinson River at the east.