Getty erected the Getty House at a cost of between |40,000 and f50,000, and other public-spirited citizens were active in promoting the general good. Meantime several new settlements were founded in the Township of Yonkers. In 1852 Elias Johnson, David B. Fox, and Joseph R. Fuller, of Troy, N. Y., purchased land near Spuyten Duyvil inlet and had surveys and plans made for a village, which it was at first intended should be called Fort Independence, but received the name of Spuyten Duyvil. Riverdale was laid out in 1853. To this period also belongs the erection of Edwin Forrest's famous home, which in 1850 was purchased by the sisters of Saint Vincent de Paul and took the name of Mount Saint Vincent. According to Allison, there were in 1852 537 buildings in the Town of Yonkers, lk not including those in the southern portion subsequently set off." The Village of Yonkers was incorporated by an act of the legislature, April 12, 1855. " It extended one mile and seven-tenths along the Hudson River. Its average breadth was eight-tenths of a mile. Edward F. Shonnard's farm was on the north and Thomas W. Ludlow's on the south. The area of the incorporated village was about

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