cept " a small scattered Village," " the rest of the Township is covered "with plantations" -- Travela,'iii,, 486-- and, of theTownofMamaroueck, "it is wholly a collection of plantations ; and can scarcely be said to " contain even a hamlet. It is set, however, with a number of good houses "and excellent farms."-- Ibid, iii., 487.-- Of the County, as a whole, he wrote thus: "It is universally settled, so far as the nature of the "ground will admit; and is almost merely a collection of Farms." -- Ibid, in., 489.

We have resorted, also, to our own recollections of Westchestercounty, which extend far beyond that day when the quiet and the morals of the County were first disturbed by the rush of a train of railroadcars and the screeching of a locomotive, within its territory.

2 In the Autumn of 17U9, it was stated in the Assembly that the Manors of Philipseborough and Cortlandt, exclusive of all other portions of the County, contained "one-third of the people in the County;" but the number of Freeholders was somewhat increased, during the later Colonial period, as it was the practice of the greater number of the Proprietors to sell the fee-simple, whenever it was applied for. -- Edward F. de Lancey to Henry B. Dawson.

3 An instance of the permanence of occupation, by tenants on the Manors, 1b seen in the case of the Anjevines, thus referred to by Mr. Bolton: "Under the Heathcotes and De Lanceys, the Anjevines held the large farm," [in Scarsdale,] "bearing their name, now owned by Alexander M. Bruen, M.D., for four Generations." -- History of Westchester County, Becond edition, ii., 231,