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"Hoggs" from roaming across. The freedom of the ferry 

 was granted to the three proprietors, and also to the inhabit- 

 ants of Fordham for their assistance in building the " causey," 

 as long as the ferry was run by Verveelen and his assigns. 

 This causeway, in all likelihood, was on the same line as the 

 street connecting Broadway with the Albany Post-road, of 

 which it was a part, and which was named locally Macomb 

 Street. The building of the causeway was an opportunity 

 for John Archer to get into a row with his neighbors, Betts, 

 Tippetts, Hadden, and Verveelen — a chance which, if we are 

 to believe the records of him, he would not, and did not, let 

 pass. Verveelen was ferryman for many years, and was 

 succeeded by his son Daniel, who was ferryman until the 

 building of the King's bridge, in 1693. 



There was established, in 1743, a ferry from the mouth of 

 Westchester Creek to Powell's Point at Whitestone, Long 

 Island. Ferris Avenue leads down from the Throgg's Neck 

 road to "Old Ferry Point" on the eastern side of the creek. 

 In 1755, a ferry was in operation between Ann Hook's Neck, 

 or Rodman's Neck, and Hempstead Bay on Long Island, 

 Samuel Rodman and John Wooley being the patentees. On 

 an ancient map of Eastchester, there is marked a side road 

 "leading to the Whitestone Ferry"; which establishes the 

 fact of a ferry from some point on Eastchester Creek to the 

 opposite side of the Sound. These ferries were probably 

 maintained in a rude boat, a large dug-out, called a periauger, 

 capable of carrying passengers, but not horses or cattle. The 

 Harlem ferryboat was a large scow built for the purpose of 

 carrying heavy animals and wagons, as we can see by the 

 rates of toll. The East River, or Sound, was narrow at the 

 points of passage, so that communication was easy; for 

 animals and wagons, sloops were used. Long Island, in com- 



