At the termination of the Revolution what is now the City of Yonkers at the mouth of the Xepperhan was represented by a very tew buildings, most of them widely separated. There were the Manor House of the Pliilipses, Saint John's Episcopal Church and parsonage, the immemorial mill, and some scattered farmhouses. The Manor House, with three hundred and twenty acres of land adjacent to it, as has been noted in the first part of this chapter, was purchased from the commissioners of forfeiture in 1785 by C. P. Low, a New York merchant, for £14,520. Mr. Low conveyed it in 1780 to William Constable, also a merchant of New York, who in 17(.Hi sold it to Jacob Stout, of New York, for £13,500. Mr. Stout sold it in 1802 for 160,000 to Joseph I lowland, of Norwich, Conn. In 1813 the property was bought at auction by Lemuel Wells, of New York, for $5<>,000. The estate as owned by Mr. Wells fronted on the Hudson both above and below the mouth of the Nepperhan, and the Albany Post Road ran through it. The accompanying map of the Wells estate gives a fair understanding of the condition, at the time of Lemuel \\ 'ells's purchase, and indeed throughout his proprietorship, of that portion of Yonkers where later the early village began to be built up. He was a man of abundant wealth and conservative ideas. "He did not buy," says Allison, " with the intention of selling his tract either in large or small plots. He was seldom induced to sell or even to lease any of it, but he was not particularly averse to settlers ami would offer now and then to build a house on his property for them as tenants." "Of the twenty-six buildings of all kinds," he adds, "including barns, sheds, and little shops, then [1813] on the three hundred ami twenty acres of land, about twelve could have been utilized as dwellings, five were mill buildings for grinding grain and plaster and for sawing and fulling, five were barns and sheds, and