OF THE

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER,

FROM

ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT

TO THE

PRESENT TIME.

BY ROBERT BOLTON, JR.
Author of the "GUIDE TO NEW ROCHELLE," and

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.

PRINTED BY ALEXANDER S. GOULD,
144 NASSAU STREET.

1848.

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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.

TIBKYKA

THE

HISTORY

OF THE

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

POUNDRIDGE.

POUNDRIDGE is situated 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

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Poundridge was organized on the 7th of March, 1788.
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