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. Pelham was identical with the former Pelham Manor, comprehending City, Hart, and Appleby's Islands. New Rochelle, Scarsdale, Mamaroneck, Harrison, Rye, Bedford, well and Poundridge, as organized into towns, retained their former established divisional lines. North Castle was bounded on the north by Mount Pleasant, Y\ lute PoundPlains Harrison, and Connecticut, on the east by Connecticut, Bedand t Cortland of Manor the by ridge, and Bedford, on thethenorth Bronx River ami Bedford. But in 1791 ford and on the west by North (March 18) another town, called New Castle, was set off from the from drawn line a of west territory the Castle, comprehending southwest corner of Bedford to the head of the Bronx River. Salem, North Salem, Cortlandt, Yorktown, and Stephentown were towns partitioned from the Manor of Cortlandt. The township named Salem has long been popularly known as Lower Salem. By an act of April 6, 1806, its name was officially changed to South" Salem, and by a further act, February 13, 1840, to the present style of Lewisboro. The name of Lewisboro was given it in honor of John Lewis,1 a liberal benefactor of the public schools and donor of the glebe lands of Saint John's Protestant Episcopal Church at Salem. A portion of North Salem was annexed to Lewisboro April 2(5, 1844.