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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, Vol. II (1881 revised ed.)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. 251 words

The following notice of the death of Moses Field, (son of John) occurs in the Xew York A»ierican of Oct. 25, 1S33 :

"Died at Peekskill, on the i8th inst., Moses Field of this city, a^ed fifty-three years. The poor could not have sustained a greater loss in an individnal. No man had more enlarged and perseverin.rr benevolence m feedmg the hungry, clothing t.he naked and providing for tl'.e sick. His greatest happmess appeared to be, to mitigate the 'suffering and relieve the wants of the virtuous poor."

Abraham J. Underhill, the son of Isaac and Sarah, has left us the following account of his own and his father's Reminisences of the Revo lution : --

"My father Isaac Underhill, born at White Plains, was a tall, healthv man of great bodily strength, and ver\' industrious even to old age-- sa'v over eighty. During his life, he partly cleared three farms near Saw MiU River, Nanahegan or Philips Manor, now the touTi of Mt. Pleasant. He was possessed of good natural abilities and judgment, but like most men of his time felt sadly the want of an early education. For many years he was an elder in the society of Friends. Before leavin^^ White Plains my lather had partly cleared the farms of his two brother's Jacob ALraliam at Xanahegan, travelling to and fro by a foot path "which

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