The old Wilkins mansion, which stands on the south side of the neck is now converted into a farm house. Here in 1776, three of the clergy-,-. viz : Doctors Cooper, Chandler and Seabury, managed to secrete themselves for some jime, notmlhstanding the most minute and presevering search was made for them, so ingeniously contrived was the place oi their conceabaent in and about the old-fashioned chimne)-. Food \vas conyeyed to them through a trap-door in the floor. The front of the old house is shaded by some magnihcent elms.

Cornell's Neck, which is pleasantly situated in the south-west comer of the town, contains about five hundred and fifty acres, haWng the Bronx River on the west and Pugsley's Creek on the east. We have seen that Thomas Cornell, from whom it was originally named, became possessed of the neck through the Dutch, who purchased of the Indians. From the Cornells, it passed to the Willetts and Grahams. The executors of Lev\-is Graham conveyed the western half to Dominick Lynch from v.liose executors the Ludlows purchased it. '• Black Rock," (so named after the "great rock" mentioned in the patent of 1667, hing near the mouth of the Bronx} the estate of Robert H. Ludlow, Esq., is situated on the west side of the neck, not far from the Westchester Turnpike. The house is of stone, and commands beautiful views of the East River mth adjacent shores and islands. The interior contains some valuable family paintings, viz : Gabriel Veq)lank Ludlow, (son of Col. Gabriel Ludlow, of Hempstead. Long Island,) aged fourteen, paint-d when at Oxford, by the celebrated Opie ; Jvlrs. Sanmel G. Verplanck, daughter of Charles Crommehn and Anne St. Clair,«with her grandson, Gulian McEvers, by Copley ; Goldsborow Banyar, Deputy Secretary of the Province of N"ew York, under Governor Monckton, and Alderman of the city of Albany, by Colonel Trumbull, one of his best portraits ; also a family portrait of Robert H.