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Caleb Tompkins (of Scarsdale) Recollections of the Revolution. Copied from a small mss Volume in N.Y. Hist-Socy Oct 1925
All that I know about the ancestry of my father, is what I have heard from him; that in the early settlement of Westchester County, three brothers emigrated to this county, from England and purchased this whole or the greater part of what is now this town of Eastchester. From that time I know nothing of their descendants down to the father of Jonathan G. Tompkins, who owned a very valuable farm at West Chester, bordering the sound. Being somewhat involved, he exchanged farms with a brother of his who owned a farm in Scarsdale, where James Varian and family resided, previous to the Am Revolution, and since to the present time. He then removed to a house at the junction of the road (leading to Mamar= oneck) with the post road to White Plains, where Jonathan G. Tompkins was born, and was named Joshua after his father, and where his father died. When he was about four years old, Capt Jonathan Griffen who lived near by took a fancy to him and he was bound to him by Indenture until he was 21 years old, to learn the farming business, which Indenture
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I have seen and read. After he was 21 Capt Griffen having no children of his own adopted him as his son and had him baptized by the name of Jonathan Griffen. From that time and for several years previous, he had the sole management of the farm and all of Capt Griffens business. Shortly after his appren= ticeship expired, he married the daughter of Caleb Hyatt, a respectable farmer, and a justice of the peace in the town of White Plains.