The manor is now divided among a vast number of proprietors too, numerous to mention. According to the survey of Adam Findlay, made in 1S49, "the Long Neck Mansion House Farm of Old Morrisania, then belonging to the late Colonel Le\vis Morris, embraced 3i3i5,";o acres, which then included everything, /. e. all the property unsold, excepting the lots on the Post road between Orange and Mott streets, and the lot where the small house stood in the rear of Parkers, and excepting the lands permanently leased.""

" Morrisania remained but sparcely settled for years. During the Revolution its forests formed secure hiding-places for the loyalist refugees,''' and its thick coverts abounded in wolves." It remained in the iamily of its ancient o\vners until the first large advent of population to its fields in 1S4S. An as.sociation then purchased two hundrc 1 acres of the northern part, and began a village. At that time there were but three houses on the purchase. At fir?t it was called " New \'i;!age," but as it grew it assumed the name of Morrisania, while Eronck's original

Barber's Hist. Coll. of N. Y. b Tills iKiiii'' wa-s tfiveii to hi-r u:iiler the supposition that the Eaglish coulil not l)ei'ritch her

c Cop: a fruia XSS. of II. M. Morris-. \><-c. \n-h, HIT. U New York iu th2 OIJ.u Tiiujs, by J. Buruiiz Uacou.

4S8 HISTORY OF THE COU.VTY OF WESTCHESTER.

property was known as Old Morrisania. Afterwards Melrose, ^rolt Haven, Woodstock, Eltona, and other places arose oa the old domain until now it is the thickly populated Twenty-third Ward of New York."-'