aj, ihe present excitement shall pa,=s a^raj I vrill hold mysulf ready not only to J riHiucc tlie soldier, but also to apjiear iu person to aoswer for my own conduct ; lat m the existing state of sentiment iu the city of Baltimore, I think it your duly to sustain the federal military, and to strengthen their hands instead of c:ideavoriiig to strike them dov.n. I have the honor to be very respectfully, Your Obedient Strvant,

(.Signed,) W. "W". MORRIS,

Major 4:th U. S. Artillery, Comd'iT the Post.

MANOR OF FORDHAM.

The name of this town is of Saxon origin, compounded of ■f00j*^ « (ford) and ijtlSU (mansion,) and vvas derived from the parish of the sa;ne name in Norfolk, England Fordham was originally included in the township of West Chester, but subsequently formed a portion of West Farms, and now belongs to Northern New York.

Its early Indian proprietors appear to have been the Sachems Fecquemeck, Rechgawac and Packanariens, who sold the lands oi J^eies- /uik, bordering the Harlem River to the Dutch West India Company, Anno Domini, 1639. In 1646, we find the whole of Fordham as well as the Yoncker's land (then called Colen Donck,) in the possession of Adrian van der Donck, whose widow Mary conveyed them to her brother Elias Doughty. The following sales appear under the hands of the latter in 1666-67 '■ --

"Know all men, by these presents, that I, Elia-s Doughty, of Flushing, do stU unto Mr. John, Archer, of V/entchcsterb his heirs and assigni-cs, fourscore acres of land and thirty acres of meadow, lying and being betwixt Jirothers Rlcer and the. watering place at the end of the Island of JIanhatans ; and if the laud be not lit to cl<-are fur the plow or hoc, this land is to lye together ; and if there be not all such land together as there should, or if there should happen eight or ten acres of land that is not for such use, then the said Archer is to have it with the rest ; and he shall have equal right privilege in the commons as any other man shall have within that Patent that hath no more arable land ; and the meadow is