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. North Salem included the whole of " north lots " numbers 9 and 10 of the Manor of Cortlandt, with lot number 8 as far as the Croton River, which formed its western boundary. To the two Salems fell the whole of the 'k Oblong." wn were conThe Townships of Cortlandt, Yorktown, and Stephento structed out of the remaining portion of Cortlandt Manor. Yorktown was so-called in remembrance of the encampment within its borders of the French army after its return from the successful Virginia 1 Jo ll!l

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Free Academy in New York, and in 1840 save $10,000 to the support of the common schools in the .,t township now called ,i;,„l his T.owisboro homo by onhis thename.1st Ho of