The son studied medicine in England, but did not practice that profession. In 1830, at the age of thirty-two, he engaged in farming pursuits at Bronxville in the Town of Eastchester, and ever afterward he was a citizen of our county. He lived at various times in New Rochelle. Tarrvtown, Bedford, Lewisboro, and Pelham. For many years he conducted select schools, but later was ordained a clergyman in the Episcopal Church and appointed to the parish of Saint John's in Lewisboro, his only charge. He died at Pelham Priory,1 October 11, 1877. His original researches for his " History of Westchester County " covered a period of some ten years. That 1 Pelham Priory was an estate purchased by his father. The residence was converted into

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was before the publication of the colonial and other historical documents, yet by great perseverance he was able to procure, in manuscript, nearly all the important original documents bearing upon the history of our county. His labors also included " personal visitation of every spot of interest and nearly every person of advanced age.'' In addition to his History of the county, he published a " Guide to New Kochelle " and a " History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Westchester County." At the time of his death he had nearly completed a revision of his History of the county, which was issued under the editorship of his brother, the Rev. C. W. Bolton, of New Kochelle, in 1881. On the 4th of December, 1851, occurred the first serious railway accident in the history of the county. This was of a decidedly sensational nature. An afternoon up train from New York was stopped by the conductor above Croton to put off two men who did not pay their fare, and was run into by an engine without cars, several passengers suffering injury.