Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.

" ronimissioners, at recpiest of the freeholders and inhabiluut-s of that part of the Manor of Fordham lying upon Harlem Kiver to the { South of the Old Dutch Church, viewed the road as then used from the | publick road (laid out to the river by said church", beginning a little to the eastward of the said Dutch Church and thence running southerly as the said road runs to the …

Fordham Avenue was merely a lane through Gouverneur Morris' farm, which extended froju the old Quarry road near the Home for Incurables to Rae's Corners (the crossing of the Coles road at Jlill Brook at One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Street), and then the lane continued south to Saint Ann's Church and Gouverneur Morris' gate, substantially by the route of St. Ann's Avenue as now …

Caleb Heathcote served as Waters' successor from 1702 to 1720, and Waters was again in the Council from 1710 to 1731. He died in June, 1731. Lewis Morris was in the Council again from 1721 to 1729, in Caleb Heathcote's place, and the rival family of De Lancey, as successor of Heathcote, displaces Lewis Morris in the j)erson of James De Lancey, who served from 1729 to 1753 …

Lewis and Richard Morris served at the sessions of 1777-1778 ; Richard alone in 1778-1779; the two brothers again in 1780-1781; and Lewis in the fourth session down to July 1, 1781. He was returned in 1784-1787-1788- 1789 and 1790. Philip Livingston, who owned the Van Schaick place, on Throckmorton's Neck, was a State Senator in 1780-1790-1791 and 1792. Samuel Haight, from the …

Richard Morris was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Bench of the State October 23, 1779, and served until he was retired by reason of age. Abraham Tappen was elected to Supreme bench November 5, 1867, his term expiring January 1, 1876. The township has furnished three surrogates of the county. John Burton held the office from 1739 to 1754, inclusive, and Richard Hatfield …

Still, there is much of natural beauty left, and the city authorities, in adopting plans of streets, roads and avenues through the townships now in the city limits, have shown good taste and judgment in abandoning the rectangular plan of streets so common in all modern municipalities and laid out the thoroughfares in accordance with the natural slope of the ground. The country …

Beginning at the northwest corner of what was West Farms, just south of the Yonkers line, we find a beautiful panoramic view of the Harlem and Spuyten Duyvil Creek. At one's feet lies King's Bridge or Paparinamin or Fordham, as we see by the colonial account of the region the present King's Bridge was formerly called ; just over the Yonkers line, on the site of the present …

The residence of Gustav Schwab stands upon the site of Fort Number 8. Immediately south of that fort, and in the valley just below the residence of ex-Mayor Franklin Edson, still stands an old stone farm-house which during the Revolution was occupied by one of the Archers, and the writer of this article remembers to have heard his grandfather give an account of his visit there …

At some i)oint of the ridge near this place the batteries of the British troops were stationed, and under the cover of their fire the British flat-boats were able to descend the river and scale the heights of Laurel Hill, immediately opposite, when the attack was made on Fort Washington. From Mr. Williams' house the earthwork at Laurel Hill is discernible. Immediately opposite …

Lees, widow of the late James Lees, of the well-known firm of Lees & Walker, now succeeded by Lindlaw & Company, occupies the next place, and the most southerly property on the former Poole Farm is Villa Boscobel, the residence of the late William B. Ogden, the first mayor of Chicago, and a railroad king of the West. During his later yean< he gave full rein to his refined …

Just south of the Wheeler and Ogden properties the stone aqueduct known as High Bridge crosses the Harlem. South of High Bridge, not far from the junction of Ogden Avenue and Woolfe Street, is a small stream which was ihe southern boundary of the Archer patent, already mentioned. Crossing the stream, the lands in Daniel Turneur's patent are reached, and all south of the …

Immediately at the Yonkers line are the lands of the American Jockey Club, formerly the Bathgate Farm. The property belongs to the corporation known as the Jerome Park Villa Site Improvement Comj)any, but the American Jockey Club is the lessee. This club was formed soon after the close of the Civil War, for the purpose of improving thoroughbred stock, and conducting race …

To the east of Jerome Park is the farm of Michael Varian, in whose family the lands on which the old stone house stands have been held for nearly, if not more than, a century. Upon the crest of the high ridge, overlooking the Bronx Valley to the eastward, stood an earthwork erected by General Heath in 1776, so as to command the crossing of the Bronx at Williams' Bridge. This …

It is still known as the "Boston road," but should not be confounded with another highway farther to the eastward in Morrisania, also called by the same name. In the valley to the east of the residence of Mr. Varian is the residence of Hon. W. W. Niles, a prominent lawyer in New York City, who has represented the district several times in the New York Legislature. He is a …

Cammann, of the old banking firm of Cammann & Co., whose wife, Cornelia de Lancey, belongs to the family of de Lancey, so closely identified with the history of the township. Next-door is the residence of the Rev. D. Lawrence Jewett, whose wife. Miss Dickinson, was the daughter of the Rev, Dr. Dickinson, one of the oldest and most respected of the late residents of the …

Just south of the Haskin property, extending east from the Croton Aqueduct to the valley of the Mill Brook, were the Butler, Berrian, Bassford and Fisher farms, now mostly cut up into village lots and fiist improving. Just west of Mr. Haskin's house, on the corner of Jerome and Croton Avenues, stands the church and rectory of St. James Parish, Fordham ; and east of the …

The territory south of the King's Bridge road and as far south as the south boundary of the Woolf farm and the north boundary of the present Zborowski place was still in the Manor of Fordham, and at the beginning or early part of this century was divided up between the Butlers, Berrians, Archers, the easterly )iart of Judge Morris' farm, the Fishers, Weeks, Poole and Woolf …

Adjoining the Zborowski place is a tract of land now called Inwood, formerly the property of Mrs. Julia Stebbins, nie Morris, a sister of Mrs. Zborowski, but the property has been sold off' into small lots and has lost its distinctive features. South of the Zborowski places and Inwood was the former Cromwell farm and that part of the Manor of Morrisania which fell to the share …

The whole of this region has been largely affected of late years by the opening and construction of Central or Jerome Avenue. This broad avenue, seventy-five feet wide, runs from the Central or Macomb's Dam bridge north, first through the Cromwell's Creek Valley and thence to the Woodlawn Cemetery gate in Yonkers. The old Macomb's Dam road was taken into the lower part of the …

Powell kept a boys' school at Fordham, which, in its day was as famous as any of the present modern boarding schools for young men. The old house is still standing, but the property has been cut into lots and Dr. Powell's pupils would have great difficulty in recognizing their former playgrounds. South of the Powell farm, at the junction of three roads at Belmont, is located …

David Lydig, an extensive miller of his day, purchased the place in the early part of this century, and there established himself in the old de Lancey house, which stood on the east side of the Bronx. The old house and the mill were burnt, and another house was built west of the Bronx which is still standing.'^ Mr. Lydig owned mills in the valley of the Genesee when that …

Another daughter married Hon. John R. Brady, one of the present justices of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, of which a portion of our townships form a part. The Lydig place, together with much of the land adjoining it on the north and east, will soon be condemned by the city authorities as a public park which is to be named Bronx Park. Just south of the …

The making of the Coles or Boston road through the village placed it on the highway between New York and New England, and for several years the Bronx attracted many manufactories to it. ' The terminus of the Harlem Bridge and West Farms Horse Railroad and the depot of the Port Chester Branch of the New Haven Railroad just east of the Bronx renders it accessible. In the centre …

The doctor was also much interested in former years in organizing a higher grade in the common schools in the township and has held many offices of a public nature. Along the line of the Southern Boulevard, southwest of the- village, stands the Vyse mansion, formerly erected by Thomas Richardson, a wealthy Irish linen merchant, and at the junction of the Westchester road and …

Though a poor boy, by the industry and mechanical skill of himself and his brothers, the firm increased its business to such an extent that it has its factories on both sides of the Atlantic. Most of the improvements made in the steam-presses of to-day are due to the careful study and knowledge of practical mechanics which Colonel Hoe possessed. The colonel was also diligent …

He settled at Hunt's Point about the middle of this century, erecting a handsome mansion and making great improvements on the farm. He was an extensive breeder and importer of Devonshire cattle, and at one time was president of the New York State Agricultural Society. He was a vestryman of St. Ann's Church, Morrisania, and engaged in many works of charity and benevolence. He …

Barretto represented the township in the Board of Supervisors ; was also at one time a member of Assembly. The view from Hunt's or Barretto's Point is one of the finest on the East River. It commands a view eastward of the entrance to Long Island Sound and to the south of Flushing Bay and the Long Island shore. On it is also the old family cemetery of the Hunts and in it …

Originally possessed by the Richardsons, by intermarriages and purchases it finally came into the possession of the Leggetts, a respectable Quaker family, for more than a century identified with the history of West Farms. It was finally purchased by Benjamin Whitlock, of the formerly well-known firm of grocers, WESTCllESTKK. B. M. & E. A. Whitlock, who greatly improved it …

Near by, on the main, is Port Morris, formerly known asStoney Island, the same having originally been separated from the main by a small creek or canal. Here is the terminus of the Port Morris Branch of the ^arlem Railroad, and off Port Morris is the deepest water in the vicinity of New York. The " Great Eastern" made her first anchorage here, having come in by way of Long …

When quite a young man he distinguished himself by sustaining the will of Henry White, of Yonkers, better known as Van Cortlandt, thereby saving to the Van Cortlandt family of the present day, at King's Bridge (see King's Bridge), the large estate now in the possession of the present proprietor, Augustus Van Cortlandt. He for years stood at the head of the Westchester bar. He …

He served as one of the commissioners for the Morrisania survey ; wiis counselor for the Southern Boulevard commissioners and commissioners of the Central or Macomb's Dam bridge ; is entitled to the credit of having drafted the act for the annexation of West Farms, King's Bridge and Morrisania to the city of New York ; he drew the acts authorizing the improvement of Harlem …

Just on the banks of the Harlem Kills stands the house formerly of Gouverneur Morris, and not far distant, near the Port Chester Railroad depot, was the site of Bron.x's house, where, as we have already seen, the first treaty of peace with the Indians was signed. To return to Fordham and describe the valley of the Mill Brook, as it used to appear before the flourishing …

He left three sons and several daughters, -- James, a doctor of medicine, and Alexander, a farmer, who occupy the old homestead on Fordliam Avenue, with their sister still unmarried. Charles, recently deceased, who was at one time supervisor of the town. James, the other brother, resided at Fordham, and was a farmer. He owned the farm on which the Jerome Park Jockey Club is …

THE PRESENT TOWN OF WESTCHESTER SINCE THE REVOLUTION. Boundaries. -- We have seen that though Westchester township at the time of Colve's interregnum was erected into a town, it did not become a borough entitled to elect representatives to the General Assembly until 1686, when Governor Dongan confirmed the Nicolls patent to Quimby and others. It was still, however, in the …

Israel Honeywell, Robert Hustis, Samuel Hustis, Samuel Ferris, Daniel Turneur and Miles Oakley were appointed assistant aldermen. The new oflicials were duly sworn in. Colonel Heathcote presented the town with its seal, and in the following year a town hall was erected. Though not mentioned in the charter as being within the bounds of the borough, the people of Fordham and …

"All that part of the County of Westchester bounded Easterly by the Sound and the land granted to Thomas Pell, called the Manor of Pelbam ; Southerly by the Sound ; Westerly by the County of New York and Northerly by the Noith bounds of the Manor of Fordham and the north bounds of the land called the Borough Town of Westchester, including the islands in the Sound, lying …

"Beginning at a point in Long Island Sound where the Bronx Kiver enipties into the same ; thence running Northerly along the centre of the Bronx River, as the same now runs, until it comes to the boundary line, between Eastcbester and Westchester aforesaid ; thence running Northeasterly along the said last-mentioned boundary line until it comes to Eastcbester bay, which …

The unsettled claims and the privileges heretofore had by the people of the old town of Westchester under the "Old Charter" were directed to continue to be held and enjoyed by the inhabitants of each of the new towns of West Farms and Westchester. The town-meeting for Westchester was directed to be held at the house of Benjamin Fowler, in said town, on the first Monday in …

2 By Chapter Ixxii. of the Laws of 1785, the freeholders and inhabitants of Westchester were authorized to elect at their town-meeting six freeholders, for the purpose of having such trustees to order and dispose of all or any part of the undivided lands in the township as fully and amply as trustees have been used to do under any charter given heretofore to the inhabitants of …

In 1785, Abraham Leggett re])resented the borough and Lewis Morris the manor, and in that year the tax on Morrisania was £1 lis. llcZ. and on Westchester £9 10s. 4d. Prior to 1786 the parish had supported the poor, and in that year. Lake Hunt being supervisor, provision was made for adjusting the accounts of the church wardens relative to support of the poor. In 1787 Israel …

Watson was supervisor from 1829 to 1832, in which year Asiatic cholera prevailed in the township and the sum of $88.52 was expended by the Board of Health in suppressing the disease. In 1833-34 Augustus Huestace was both supervisor and justice of the peace; but in 1835 Israel H. Watson returned to the board. In that year William Barker, of Westchester, who for twenty-eight …

Findlay claimed that he was duly elected at the regular town-meeting, which was held prior to the passage of the act, and Watson claimed that he was elected Ibr the new town of Westchester at an election held on the 30th of June, after the passage of the act. The supervisors decided in Mr. Findlay's favor ; so he became the last supervisor of the old town of Westchester and …

Morris, who continued in office till 1853, with the exception of the year 1850, when Bayard Clark served one term. In 1852 Mr. Morris was extended the courtesy of being the nominee of the board for chairman, but his party being in the minority, Robert H. Coles, of New Rochelle, was elected. In 1853, '57, '59, '60, '61 and '64 Abraham Hatfield represented the town. Denton …

In 1855 the taxables were 1265 in number and the assessed valuation $2,184,750. In 1870 the total population was 6015, and in 1880, 6789. RELIGIOUS DEXOMIXATIOXS. The Episcopal Church. -- .\s the early settlers of Westchester town were Puritans, who had fled from England to find freedom of worship beyond the sea, it was their first care, after they were housed, to provide for …

By the act of Assembly of September 21, 1693, the parish of Westchester was set off to include the precincts of Westchester, East Chester, Yonkers and the Manor of Pelham, and was required, as were the other parishes, to call "a good, sufficient Protestant minister." The Westchester freeholders and inhabitants failed to take any steps in conformity with this statute until May …

Meanwhile, the struggle which occurred in all the other towns between the Puritans and the adherents of the Church of England, the latter being supported by the provincial government, was in progress in Westchester. The Puritans, who were in the popular majority, contended that under the act of 1693, which merely specified " a good sufficient Protestant minister," they had the …

into details of the controversy here, as they have been set forth in another chapter. It is sufficient to say that Colonel Caleb Heathcote, who had been chosen one of the church wardens, fought the Puritans on the point of installing the non-conformist Mather. The ultimate decision rested with Governor Fletcher, and he refused to induct Mather to the living. Mather preached in …

His salary was always in arrears, but he managed to buy a house and five acres of land for one hundred pounds, and the town had [ granted twenty acres of glebe and three acres oi meadow within half a mile of the church, "which in time will be a convenient residence for the minister, j and also a small share in some undivided land, which ; will be to the quantity of about …

Hadley claimed them as an inheritance from his mother, the daughter of Richardson, but the church replied that they had already been sold by Joseph Hadley, father of George, to one Thomas Williams and had escheated to the crown because of the latter dying intestate. Hadley failed to substantiate his title, and at meetings on August 3, 1703, November 3, 1703, and May 3, 1704 …

Two years afterward he was much more cheerful and wrote about making "many proselytes to our holy religion, who are very constant and devout in their attendance on divine j service ; and those who were enemies at my first coming are now zealous professoi-s of the ordinances of ' our church." '< January 10. 1709, Joseph Hunt, Jr., and Jeremiah I Fowler were chosen wardens, and …

He died at Westchester in 1726, having firmly established his church and also a public school. The first schoolmaster was Charles Glover, who was appointed by the Gospel Propagation Society in 1713, he being " recommended under the character of a person sober and diligent, well aftected to the Church of England, and competently skilled in reading, writing, arithmetic, psalmody …

In 1745 his church was "in a peaceable and growing | state." He died in 1760, and the jiarish was vacant until the appointment of Rev. John Milner, June 12, I 1761. In Governor Colden's letters of institution it is first oflicially spoken of as St. Peter's Church, the name which it still retains. Things had changed so much that on June 29, 1762, he was able to write to the …

Milner appointed Nathaniel Seabury schoolmaster, and was so successful in his ministrations that many families of Quakers joined his church. In 1765 he resigned because the vestry refused to refund him any of the money he had expended on the glebe, and in the fall of 1766, Rev. Samuel Seabury was settled as his successor. The latter found that the communicants had fallen to …

Under the act of Assembly of April 6, 1784, they organized as " The Corporation of the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Peter's, in the Town of Westchester," and the act of incorporation was duly acknowledged, April 19, 1788. On August 2, 1795, the parishioners assembled for the purpose of a second incorporation under the act of Assembly " for the relief of the Protestant …

In 1795 they obtained from the trustees of the town a release for the site of the church and cemetery, and Israel Underbill and Philip I. Livingston were elected wardens, and John Bartow, Jr., Thomas Bartow, Oliver De Lancey, Warren De Lancey, Joseph Brown, Jonathan Fowler, Robert Heaton and Nicholas Bayard, vestrymen. Mr. Ireland served as rector until 1797, during which …

The present church was built upon the site of that destroyed by fire, which itself occupied a portion of the church erected in 1790. Near by is the parochial school-house, and adjacent to it the church-yard, which dates back to the settlement of the village. It has many monuments and stones erected to the memory of members of the Do Lancey, Bayard, Honeywell, Livingston, Post …

There is a tradition that the first meeting of the Friends in America was held in Westchester, and that George Fox preached here in 1672. Monthly Meeting was appointed by the Yearly Meeting at Flushing, L. I., to be held at Westchester on the 9th day of Fourth Month, 1725. In 1723 the Friends built the meeting-house which is still standing south of St. Peter's Church, and is …

Zion Church became dissolved by reason of nonuser, and therefore, to effect a re-incorporation, on February 7, 1835, the congregation assembled at the church near the village of Westchester, where they were accustomed to attend for divine worship, and elected Isaac Lounsbury, Thomas Bolton, Samuel R. Munn, William H. Lounsbury and Thomas J. Phillips trustees, and resolved that …

The congregation was incorporated June 6,1855, and George S. Robbins, Edwin D. Morgan and .lames E. Ellis were its first trustees. Catholic Institutions -- The Protectory, etc. -- Within the limits of the town of Westchester, on its western border and near the Harlem and Port Chester Railroad Station, is the New York Catholic Protectory. It grew out of the solicitude of a …

Brother Patrick, of the Order of Christian Brothers, tendered the services of that order for its immediate management, whereu[)on Archbishop Hughes gave his approval of the work and set upon it the seal of his official authoritv. On January 2, 1803, a number of the twenty-five gentlemen selected by the archbishop presented the " Articles of Organization of the Society for the …

A committee of seven was appointed to seek a charter from the Legislature, and on April 14th this was granted under the title of "The Society for the Protection of Destitute Roman Catholic children in the city of New York." The corporators were Felix Ingolsby, Charles A. Stetson, Eugene i Kelly, Charles M. Connelly, Daniel Devlin, Andrew < Carrigan, L. Silliman Ives, Edward C …

" Children of the like age who may be transferred, at the option of the Commissioners of Public Charity and Correction of the city of New York, to such corporation. " The Society has i)ower to place the children in their care at suitable employments, and cause them to be instructed in suitable bnmclies of useful knowledge, to bind out the children, with their consent, as …

• Whenever any child above the age of seven and under the age of fourteen years shall be brought by any policeman of the city of New York before any magistrate of said city, upon the allegation that such child was found In any way, street, highway or public place in said city, in the circumstances of want and suffering, or abundoinnent, exposure or neglect or of beggary …

If. after a child shall have been properly committed, . . . any circumstances should occur that, in the juilgment of said corporation would render expedient and proper a discharge of such child from the asylum, having a due regard to the welfare of the child and the purposes of the asylum, the said corporation . . . may, at discretion, discharge the child from the said asylum …

Pierce, chaplain of the House of Refuge, in his book entitled " Half a Century with Juvenile Delinquents," makes the following statement : "The officers of the Boys' Protectory l>elong to the onler of Christian Itrothei-s. They give thernselves to the Church when they take the vow of the order, to be teachers wherever they nmy be ajipointed to labor. They will never be priests …

About that time, however, they succeeded in procuring a building at the corner of Eighty-sixth Street and Second Avenue, well suited to the purpose. This they were enabled to place under the direction of the Sisters of Charity, a religious order whose members, by their noble and generous self-devotion, in the care of the sick, forlorn, the destitute and helpless in every form …

The far more difficult problem of " what to do with the abandoned child,"' and " how to do it " had now to be directly solved. Most of the children received, particularly during the first few years, were the victims of indolent or vicious habits. Experience taught that, to succeed in this work of reformation, constant occupation, pleasantly diversified, was essential, and …

The problem which then propounded itself was to secure " proper location elsewhere." In the minutes of one of the regular meetings held at this time the president said, -- "In view of the circumstances, and in firm conviction of the prosperity, if not the very existence, of our institution, depends upon the immediate erection of a building somewhere, eveiy exertion possible …

White and the President, -- with the Most Kev. Archbishop, the Advisory Chaplain and a number of the clergy, have visited the farm, and, after a thorough examination, have unanimously come to the conclusion, taking everything into consideration, that we are not likely to secure a more favorable site for our institution. Your President, therefore, afti-r making himself master …

It was, therefore, with no little satisfaction that they announced the purchase, on the 9th day of June, 1865, of a valuable farm of about one hundred and fourteen acres, with commodious barns and outhouses, near the village of Westchester, for forty tliousand dollars, upon which they have completed a spacious brick building, designed to accommodate from six hundred to eight …

Y.), printed in London by Fadden in 1779, we find a main highway running from Morrisania via de Lancey's Mills (West Farms) to the village of Westchester, but by an entry on the 13th day of the Ninth Month, 1722, in the county road-book, on file in the office of the county clerk, it appears that on June 8th of that year Commissioners Lewis Morris, Jr., John Stephenson, Joseph …

It began at the " Northerly corner of the (Quaker meeting-house," and after passing through "ye common land" and skirting the proi)erties of Petor Ferris, the Widow Colyer and John Maphis, terminated at " the town landing by the Mill." In 1723 a road was run "from the corner of John Huestis' garden" to the country road " by the house that John Packer lives in." In 1726 a road …

The road mentioned as laid out in 1727 is undoublt'dly the old road which ran from the present Westchester Bridge to the old bridge next south of the I mill at West Farms. The road of 1729 is undoubtedly the i)resent highway leading to Fort Schuyler through Throgg's Neck, but we find it again laid out in 1737 in order to avoid some difficulties occasioned by Peter Baxter's …

The Boulevard running from Pelham Bridge to the bridge south of the West ^besti r village causeway is of recent origin, hut the road wliich runs from Westcheater village to the Bronx at the south end of the village of West Farms was originally known as the Westchester turnpike. The road known now as the East Chester road, extending from the Bleach to the East Chester line, and …

By a legislative act of March 16, 1812, Herman Le Roy, James Harvey, William Bayard, John Bartow, Richard Ward, Elbert Roosevelt, Daniel Pelton, Joshua Eustace and John Hunter were incorporated as the East Chester Bridge Company, and authorized to build a toll-bridge from the farm of James Harvey, in the town of Pelham, to the point of Throgg's Neck called Dormer's Island …

Dormer's Island, mentioned above, is the present hummock or high land since known as Taylor's Island, and now occupied by General Ellis and others. Characterisths and Pretext Occupant.*. -- The township is a well-wooded, park-like country, interspersed with thriving settlements, and at ihe extreme eastern limit the Eitst River expands into the broad Long Island Sound, indented …

Adee, a respected citizen, and oue of the members of the old ' family of Adee, long settled in the township. Mr. ^ Adee was lor many years identified with some of the ! largest financial institutions in New Y'ork. He was a director of the Equitable Life In>.urance Company, and for a long time vice-president of the Bank of ! Commerce. Near by are the Dominick Lynch, Francis …

On the Neck road is also the Van Schaick homestead, whose owners some years since left by his will a sum of money to found a free library and readingroom for the township. This building is on the road near the Episcopal Church in the village. Driving towards the village on the Neck road, one passes the old Carter mansion, the Turnbull place and the Cemetery of St. Raymond …

Once on a wager some gentlemen asked for some goose-yokes, rather a rare commodity. Sydney furnished the article on the spot. Another bet was then made that he could not furnish a pulpit. For a moment the venerable Quaker was at a loss, but suddenly, recalling the contents of the garret, he exclaimed, "Thomas, thee will find Parson Wilkins' old pulpit behind the chimney in the …

Next to General Ellis' is Anneeswood, the residence of John Hunter, Esq., of the Hunter family of Pelham. Mr. Hunter has, near by, his paddocks for his racing stock, and may be counted as one of the successful gentlemen of the turf. He was one of the promoters and founders of the American Jockey Club, and is perhaps as well informed on turf matters as any one in America. His …

On the road leading to the village, through Middletown, is the residence of Claiborne Ferris, of the family of Ferrises, identified for generations with the township. At one time Mr. Ferris represented the district in the State Assembly. Near by, on the Boulevard, is the residence of James Henderson, for several terms supervisor of the township. Leaving Throgg's Neck and …

Ou Clasoii's Point are the old D.miel Ludlow and Robert Henry Ludlow places. The former, after passing through many hands, is now the property of Mr. Leland, ofNew York, and the westerly portion of this neck is in the possession of the estate of Robert Henry Ludlow, Esq. Xear by, after crossing Pugsley's causeway, we come to Wilmont, the former residence of the late William …

It ii a strange fact that though both sons were Loyalists (luring the Revolution, James' propertv was forfeited by the act of attainder, while John's was not.' The other part of the de Lancey estate is owned by the heirs of Philip Lydig.- Just north of the mills on the banks of the Bronx is Bronxdale, the site of the bleaching mills of the Bolton family, and immediately north …

Peter had him surviving -- Peter married Miss Griswold, from whom descended Peter (or Pierre), the present head of the firm ; Catharine married James Kernochan, of New York ; Jacob married Frances Uhlong, of New York ; Eva married Lieut. - Col. Lawrence Kip, United States army ; Ernest, deceased, sanx issue; Mary married Henry Barhey, of Switzerland; George married Miss …

Peter Briges, and near by on the East Chester road that of the late Harvey Kidd, the first a supervisor and the latter member of Assembly from the township. On the road from Williams' Bridge to Westchester are situated the country places of the late Abraham Hatfield, for many years supervisor, and near by resided Denton Pearsall, at one time president of the Bowery Butchers' …

At the age of nine years he entered the ] classical school conducted by Joseph Nelson, a very popular instructor and familiarly known as the blind teacher. In 1821 he entered Columbia College, where he remained till the completion of the sophomore year, obtaining that mental discii)linc and classical knovi'ledge which have so largely assisted him in mercantile life. His father …

His father died in 1841, and for more than ten years Mr. Havemyer devoted himself to the care of his own and his father's estates. During these years he made a tour of pleasure and observation through the United States, and also traveled in Europe. In | 1855 he again engaged in active business in Williams- ^ burg, then a suburb of Brooklyn, and the business then established …

Havemyer, his son George and Dwight Townsend, under the firm-name of Havemyer, Townsend & Co. George Havemyer was killed by an accident before the close of the year. He was a young man of brilliant promise and his death was a severe blow to his father's family. Subsequently Mr. Havemyer admilted his son, Theodore A., and his son-in-law, J. Lawrence Elder, as partners, and the …

Lawrence Elder), Catharine (wife of L. J. Belloni, Jr.) and Sarah L. (wife of Frederick Jackson). COLLI.S POTTER HUNTINGTON. Mr. Huntington was born October 22, 1821, at Harwinton, Litchfield County, Conn. He comes of good stock, which counts among its noted men in this country Samuel Huntington, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, president of the …

The boy, then scarcely nine years of age,,was employed by this neighbor to pile up in the woodshed a quantity of wood which had been sawed for the winter. He piled it neatly and smoothly, and when this was done, with that spirit of thoroughness and liking for good work with which, in middle age, he built railroads, he picked up all the chips in the wood-yard, and swept it …

It is a curious proof of the confidence which the boy inspired in those who knew him, that not only did his father presently consent to his proposition, but when young Huntington went to New York, at the age of fifteen, he was able to obtain credit for a small purchase of goods, with which he began his career as a ' merchant, a country neighbor of his father's not only …

Huntington determined himself to try the new region. He j)r(>bably felt that he needed a larger field for his enterprising spirit and his ability than was aftbrded by an interior | county in New York. He transferred his share in ' the home business to his brother, and sailed for San Francisco, by way of the Isthmus, in March, 1S4!I. : He had then been actively engaged in …

Huntington feeling the need of employment to while away the tedium of delay, and disinclined to dissipation, undertook the transport of baggage and cargo across the Isthmus. He began with one donkey, and was so successful that he was presently the owner of a train of animals, and while the less energetic gold-seekers were wasting their means and health, the long delay often or …

He found a schooner, the master of which -- later the captain of one of the finest steamers on the Sacramento River -- oft'ered him a dollar an hour to help load her, and he earned his passagemoney in this way, and landed in Sacramento richer by some dollars than when he arrived in San Francisco. His training and natural inborn capacity as a merchantand business man now came …

He offered them one hundred and fifty dollars for it, which they accepted on condition that they should have a day to remove their other possessions. He had no sooner bought it than he took a lump of charcoal and marked on the tent in large letters "For Sale," and in two hours had sold it for two hundred and fifty dollars, to the amazement of the previous owners, still sitting …

Those who knew him in those days say that he was always content with a fair profit; that he soon became known as a man who never misrepresented the article he wished to sell, and that his customers increased rapidly because he left them also the opportunity to make a good profit. There is a story told of him that he once bought several hundred grain cradles, which had lain for …

One thing remains to be said : he retained his early New England habits; he did not drink, nor smoke nor gamble; he slept in his store, and was up and at work before the earliest of his clerks. He was scrupulously honest, and to use a phrase current in those days in Calfornia, he "did not allow anybody to run over him." The miscellaneous business, begun in a tent, grew …

He had no taste for it, and left it to me; but there were many things of greater importance than mere buying and selling which Mark Hopkins could do far better than any of us." The two partners never had even the ripple of a disagreement in all their many years of close business and social intimacy. They were friends in the truest and deepest sense, and this friendship has …

They were Free-Soilers and Republicans at a time when the wealth and social influence in the State were mostly on the Democratic side. Naturally, No. 54 K Street presently became a place where leading Republicans met to discuss the news and plan opposition to the Democratic party, and in a small upper-story room in 54 K Street, the Times, the first Republican newspaper of …

He called public meetings and solicited subscriptions to enable him to make a thorough reconnoissance, and merchants and miners, and even women, gave, according t<> their means, ten, fifty or a hundred dollars for this object. At last came tiie Presidential election of 18()0, and the rumble of war, and everybody buttoned up their pockets. The scheme was about to fail. The …

Huntington as vice-])resident, and Mark Ho{)kins as treasurer ; and the latter once said, years afterwards, that about this time he often thought they " had more railroad in 54 K Street than would be good for the hardware business." They were determined not to be swamped, and agreed to pay cash for all that was done ; to keep no more men at work than they could pay every …

He remained in Washington, looking after the Pacific Railroad Bill, until it was at last passed and signed, and his opinion of the adventure on which this launched him and his associates was not different from that of the general public; this opinion, as well as a singular courage and determination on iiis part, were well expressed in the telegram in which he announced to his …

His boldness won ; but when the required amount was bid for, the purchasers timidly desired some further security, and Huntington, without a moment's hesitation, made himself and his four partners personally responsible for the whole amount, and it was on this pledge of their private fortunes that the first forty miles of the Central Pacific Railroad were built. But even then …

All the rails, locomotives, powder and various other material for the road were bought by him, and shipped around Cape Horn or across the Isthmus. His transactions brought him into contact with all sorts of people in New York and other Eastern cities, and it is still told of him that j when some one who did not know him came to him in 18()2 with an otl'er of a handsome …

Huntington in building the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the Chesapeake and Ohio and its adjuncts -- constituting together a continuous line four thousand miles long from San Francisco, the dominant harbor of the Pacific coast, to Chesapeake Bay, the finest natural harbor on the Atlantic; nor of the other great systems of transportation by land and water over which his …

In person he is tall, of a vigorous build, with grayish-blue eyes, an aquiline nose, and a firm, solid jaw, which feature in him resembles that of General Grant. His favorite in-door relaxations are reading and whist, of which game he is an excellent player. He has formed a large and well-selected library, and has a familiar and constant ac<(uaintauce with the best books in …

Friends and business acquaintances know him as the ])ossessor of a shrewd wit. He is an admirable story-teller, and knows how to settle a dispute with an apposite illustration almost as well as the late Mr. Lincoln. His years and labors have not told heavily upon him, and have not robbed him either of his physical activity or of his gay humor, which makes him a pleasant …

From the broad verandah of the house a neatly-kept lawn slopes away under the branches of noble trees down to the water of the Sound, and here, on a clear day or a pleasant evening, Mr. Huntington, a gentleman of commanding stature, dressed in black and wearing a black skull-cap, may often be seen strolling up and down in conversation with friends, or watching the steamboats …

The town of Morrisania was formed from West Farms December 7, 1855, incorporated as a village in 18t>4, and, in 1873, was annexed to New York City. It embraces the villages of Morrisania, Mott Haven, Port Morris, Wilton, East Morrisania, Old Morrisania, West Morrisania, South Melrose, East Melrose, Woodstock, Claremont and Eltona. The lines of division between these places …

Its east boundary was Union Avenue, continued to the head of Bungay Creek and thence to Harlem Kills, and its south and west boundaries, the Harlem River and Kills. The division between the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards is now extended along the old ilivision between the townships of West Farms and Morris.Tnia, oast to the Bronx. On April 22, 1864, the town was divided …

It maj- be mentioned here that, before the selection of the site on the Potomac, a very strong feeling existed in favor of locating the capital of the nation at Morrisania. The files of the New York Historical Society contain the draft of a petition which Lewis Morris forwarded to Congre.ss on that subject. It bears no date, but must have been written shortly prior to 1790 …

"That the convenience of acce-su lo )Iorrisania from most of the parts of the United States is much more easy, safe and expeditious than to any other place as yet proposeil for the residence of Congress ; that vessels from the four Kastern States may arrive at Morrisania through the Sound, which scjiarates Long Islanil from the main, in the course of a very few hours, and that …

" That your Memorialist conceives that the health of the place proposed and the salubrity of its air are points highly worthy of attention and consideration, and that your Memorialist is therefore happy to add that ' Morrisania has always been noted for this particular, that the fever and ague is there unkuown, and that persons from other places, emaciated by sickness and …

" That your Memorialist conceives that Morrisania is perfectly secure from any dangers either from foreign invasion and internal insurrection, that no naval force can arrive at Morrisania without passing by New York, and of course possessing that city, or without attempting a passage of ion miles through the Sound, which separates Long Island I'roiu Connecticut, which for a …

RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIOXS. The Episcopal Church. -- Morrisania was associated with the parish of Westchester until 1840, when Gouverneur Morris founded the present parochial Church of St. Ann's, the first building in the town devoted to worship. It was incorporated July 20, 1841, at which time Robert Morris and Lewis Morris were wardens, and Jacob Buckhout, Daniel Deveau …

The conditions of his gift were that the church edifice "shall be devoted to the j service of God according to the rites and ceremonies j of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United I States of America, and shall not be used for any other purpose whatsoever ; that such of the pews as are marked in the plan annexed to the deed as 'free' shall never be sold or rented, but …

Soc., to whom for this and many other favors the author is greatly indebted. HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. neath the church repose the remains of most of the Morrises who owned Morrisania, they having been removed there when Mr. Harry Manigault Morris, executor of the estate of Lewis Morris, sold that portion of Morrisania which lies west of the Mill Brook. These remains were …

I also wish to add that his brevet and assignment to duty as a general was a personal detriment to him, for, a few luoiiths afterwards, being given his regular commission as colonel of the Second United States Artillery, he could, as such, have drawn higher pay than a brigadier, as his " old fogy rations " as colonel and his long service in the army entitled him to higher …

Court for the Dlst. of Mariilaml : "Sir, -- My attention has been directed to an article in the Local Column of the Bullimore Sun of this date, headed, ' The Habeas Corpus Refusal.' Presuming that that article is authentic, I wish very respectfully to submit for your consideration the following remarks on this unhappy ' Contlict of authority between those owing allegiance to …

"At the date of issuing your writ and for two weeks previous, the city in which you live and where your Court has been held was entirely under the control of revolutionary authorities. Within that period United States soldiers, while conunitting no offence, had been perfidiously attacked and inhumanly murdered in your streets ; no punishments had been awarded, and I believe no …

troops armed and clothed at least in part with articles stolen from the United States ; and the Federal flag while waving over the Federal offices was cut down by some person wearing the uniform of a Mai-yland soldier. To add to the foregoing, an assemblage elected in defiance of law, but claiming to be the legislative body of your Stitte, and so recognized by the Executive of …

The ferocious spirit exhibited by your community towards the United States Army would render me very averse from appearing publicly and unprotected in the city of Baltimore to defend the interests of the body to which I belong. A few days since a soldier of this command, while outside the walls, wasattacked by a fiend or fiends in human shape, almost deprived of life, and left …

" In any condition of affairs, except that of Civil war, I would cheerfully obey your order, and as soon iis the present excitement shall pass away I will hold myself ready not only to produce the soldier, but also to appear in person to answer for my own conduct ; but in the existing state of sentiment in the city of Baltimore, I think it your duty to sustain the Federal …

Y'ou will excuse uxe for any revision of the fact and argument of your letter. As I have no personal wish in this matter other than to discharge the duty devolved upon me by my official position and from which I cannot turn aside, I will only repeat again my deep regret that you have deemed it your duty particularly to suspend the ' writ of Habeas Corpus,' a power which, in my …

Ann's Ciuirch, which erected the building on Garden or One Hundred and Forty-third Street, near College Avenue, and then removed it to its present location, as being more central. The corner-stone of the first edifice was laid May 1, 1856. The church was consecrated on September 15, 185(5, and the parish incorporated September 29, 1857, when Rev. George C. Pennell was rector …

C. S. Stephenson. 1878-83 Rev. J. R. Davenport. D.D. 1884 -- Rev. Harry Floyd Auld, present incumbent. The wardens in 1886 were W. T. Marvin and D. P. Arnold, vestry ; J. B. Brown, A. H. Pride, D. H. McCormack, T. Conklin, W. W. L- Yoorhis, C A. Waterbury, E. L. Smith, J. S. McCoy. The carved wood altar was presented by Dr. Davenport, and the vases and cross by Mr- and Mrs …

Augustine's Beneficial Society and the parish. In East Morrisania is the Convent of the Ursuline Nuns, and connected with it an academy, which they conduct for the education of young hidies. It is under the direction of Mother Dominick, the Superioress. Father Stumpfe is the resident pastor, and he has charge of St. Mary's church, at Melrose, of tlie same denomination, and …

The name of the congregation was declared to be the " Methodist P^piscopal Church of the village of Morrisania, County of Westchester." Stephen T. Wright, Moses T. Farrington, James Parker, John York and John T. Ferguson were the first trustees. The German-speaking people of the Methodist faith have their own church at Morri.sania. It was organized on April 12, 1853, by a …

The congregation elected as the first board of trustees Philo Price, John A. Henry, Charles Speaight, Daniel Desmond, Joseph S. Ives and George Pollock. HISTOKi^ OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. At Highbridgeville is the Union Chapel, founded largely by the efforts of the late Mrs. Anderson, of " Woody Crest," and her daughters. The First Baptist Church dates from a meeting for purposes …

William Morris, of Tintern, Monmouthshire, England, was the father of three sons, -- Colonel Lewis Morris, who inherited the estate in England, but emigrated to the West Indies in 1662, and settled in Morrisania, Westchester County, in 1674; William, who lived in Wales, and was an officer in the Parliamentary army ; and Richard, who was a captain in the regiment of which his …

He was among the early benefactors of Trinity Church, of which he was for many years a vestryman, and after a long life of honor, usefulness and influence, he died at Kingsbury, near Trenton, on the 21st of May, 1746, at the advanced age of seventy-three. In accordance with the directions in his will, his mortal remains were deposited in a vault on his estate of Morrisania …

daughters, -- Elizabeth wife of White ; Margaret ; Arabella G.; Ann; Mary, wife of Pierce; and Euphemia. Hon. Lewis Morris, who succeeded his illustrious father as the owner of Morrisania, was born September 23, 1698, and died July 3, 1762. The whole of his life was devoted to public affairs, and he was justly considered one of the foremost men of the days that preceded the …

General Lewis Morris, the eldest son, and the fifth proprietor of the Manor of Morrisania, was born April 8, 1726. He enjoyed the best opportunities for education that the country then aflorded, and graduated from Yale College in 1740, and hisn/w«a via/er did honor to herself by conferring upon him the degree of Master of Arts in 1790. After finishing his education he returned …

In 1775 he was elected a member of the Continental Congress, and was one of that noble band who pledged their all to the country's good. In 1777 he issued an address to the citizens of New York urging them to support the Constitution prepared by the convention of the United States for the temporary form of government. His honored life was closed in 1798, and his remains were …

After remaining in England several years he returned to his native land and studied law in the office of Aaron Burr, then in the zenith of his 1 Commodore Morris, United States Navy, died iu 1815 on the family estate now occupied in part by his grandson, Henry Lewis Morris. He married Ann Walton, and their issue were Gerard W., Richard \. and Henry. Gerard married Martha …

In 1796 he married Helen, daughter of Augustus Van Cortlandt, of Yonkcrs, and removing from the city of New York, settled at Morrisania, where the remainder of his life was passed as a country gentleman of ample means and refined tastes. His large estate gave him favorable opportunities as an agriculturist, and he was foremost among the farmers of the State and one of the …

Mary Walton, who died unmarried. 5. Helen, who married Richard R. Morris, son of Col. Lewis Morris, and grandson of the signer. Their children were Helen and Lewis, both of whom died unmarried; Anna, second wife of the present Gouverneur Morris, of Morrisania; she died in 1884, leaving no children ; Mary W., who is now living at Pelham ; Sophia, who married Charles B. Burrill …

Gray, and has no children ; Elizabeth, the wife of Elliott Marshall, of Mississippi, both deceased (they left children, -- Elliott, Elizabeth M. and Sarah E.) ; Nicholas Fish, who was lost at sea by the foundering of the man-of-war " Albany," leaving no children ; Richard L., who married Lillian Munson, both deceased (they left children, -- Munson and Helen, now living in …

They had children, -- Catharine, who married Henry Phelps ; Annie, died unmarried ; Edgar, died unmarried ; Cornelia, unmarried ; and Helen, wife of Dr. Magill, United States army, who left no children. 9. Louisa, who married Edward Leroy, of Avon, Genesee County, N. Y. They had one child, Helen, now living in New York. She married Pinckney Stewart (deceased). Their children …

Their children were James Staats, born 1836, died 1875; Augustus Newbold; and William H., who died unmarried in 18.52. Mrs. Morris died in 1842, and Mr. Morris subsequently married Caroline, daughter of Caleb Halsted, of New- York, who died in 1848. In 1850 he married Ella, daughter of Hugh Birckhead, of Baltimore. Their children are Augusta McEvers, wife of Frederick J. De …

The mansion, which stands upon an eminence overlooking the country round, was built by his father in 1816, and stands a few feet east of the site of a former house, built in 1795. In the family mansion, surrounded by the relics of the past, Mr. Slorris passes the evening of his days in quiet aud dignified repose, and commanding the respect and the confidence of the entire …

His beautiful country place at Pelham was noted as the seat of elegant hospitality, and famous for the valuable horses and cattle raised uuder the care of the owner. Mr. Morris married Eleanor Colford, daughter of General James I. Jones. Their children are Newbold and Eva Van Cortlandt. Mr. Morris and his family are members of the Church of the Holy Spirit, of which he was …

To the care and development of this estate his time and energies were devoted, and under his skillful management the '"Mount Fordham " farm became known far and wide, and his name was justly ranked as foremost among the agriculturists of the State. His attention was early called to the necessity and advantage of improving the various breeds of domestic animals. With this end …

So greatly did these herds improve, on this side of the Atlantic, that the owners of large estates in England sent agents who purchased at fabulous prices, and carried back to the Old World the descendants of animals which Mr. Morris originally selected and which had been so lately exported from their own shores. It is safe to say that the increased value of live-stock in this …

At that time the navigation of the stream was impeded, if not wholly destroyed, by Macomb's dam, constructed under an act of Legislature passed in 1813. This obstruction to a navigable stream was, in the opinion of Mr. Morris and his associates, a public nuisance, and a plan was forthwith formed for its abatement. Mr. Morris, at the request of his neighbors, hired a small …

Morris et a'.," was carried up to the Court of Chancery, and the final decision established the theory that Harlem River was a navigable stream, and any obstruction was a public nuisance liable to be abated by any one interested in the navigation. The constant remonstrance and persistent efforts of Mr. Morris and his associates to prevent the building of a low bridge over the …

Morris was a member of the War Committee, was appointed colonel of volunteers August 14, 1862, and was instrumental in raising the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Regiment, known as the "Anthony Wayne Guards," later as the Sixth New York Heavy Artillery, and which was afterwards commanded by Colonel (afterwards Brigadier-General,) Wm. H. Morris. Mr. Morris was president of the …

The line of descent is : fii-st, Richard, who came to this country in 1670 ; second, Lewis, born at Morrisania, in 1672 ; third, Lewis, Governor of New Jersey, as was also his father ; fourth, Richard, who was judge of Admiralty under the crown, and the successor of John Jay as second chief justice of New Y''ork, and whose brother, Lewis Morris, was the illustrious signer of …

He married Annie Louise Westcot, and had one child, -- Emily Lorillard. Francis Morris, the younger son, was educated in the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis. He served in the late war and was present at the attack on Fort Fisher, rose to the rank of commander, and shortly before his death, which occurred February 12, 1883, was executive officer of the " Tennessee." …

The ancestor of the Mott family, which has so many representatives in various portions of the country, was Adam Mott, who was born in England in 1606 and came to Boston in 1636. He was chosen freeman in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1637, from which place he moved and settled at Newton, L. I., and afterward went to Hempstead. At the time of the English conquest, in 166-4, he was …