HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY ROBERT BOLTON, JR. A MEMBER OF THE N. Y. HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME II. "It is the privilege of History to impart the experience of age, without its infirmities; to bring back things long obscured by time, or sinking into oblivion ; and enable us to form some reasonable conjectures of what may happen to posterity."-Poulson's Hist. of Holderness. NEW YORK: PRINTED BY ALEXANDER S. GOULD, 144 NASSAU STREET. 1848. Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. POUNDRIDGE. POUNDRIDGE is situ ated fifteen miles northeast of the village of White Plains, and distant one hundred and thirty-nine miles from Albany; bounded north and east by Lewisborough, south east by the state of Connecticut, and west by Bedford and North Castle. The name of this town is undoubtedly derived from the ancient Indian pound, which formerly stood at the foot of a high ridge, a little VOL. II. Poundridge was organized on the 7th of March, 1788. |