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City Dock, on the south side of the churchyard of old St. 

 Paul's. 



In 1694, a committee was appointed to consider the estab- 

 lishment of a saw-mill, and to determine "the conveaniancy or 

 uncon veaniancy of and for the said saw-mill . " In consequence , 

 in 1696, Colonel Caleb Heathcote was given permission to 

 erect a mill or mills on Hutchinson's River; but objection was 

 made by John Pell, who, on February I, 1696/97, had been 

 granted permission to erect a mill on Rattlesnake Brook, 

 probably the one at Seton's Falls. It was worth while having 

 a man like Colonel Heathcote interested in improvements, 

 and so the town made him a new grant with permission to 

 use Rattlesnake Creek Brook; it is likely that he did erect a 

 mill, for on the map of 1704 showing the lands in dispute with 

 Westchester, there appears the drawing of a house and the 

 words "Heathcote's Mill," about at the crossing of Rattle- 

 snake Brook and the Westchester path. 



When the Dutch regained possession of New York in 1673 

 and 1674, tne inhabitants of both Westchester and Eastchester 

 gave their allegiance to the Dutch governor at New Orange 

 and were allowed by Colve three schepens, or magistrates, two 

 for the former and one for the latter place. John Hoit was 

 the schepen for Eastchester, the easternmost of the settlements ; 

 and directions were therefore given to him that "he is not to 

 suffer any person or persons whatsoever to pass through 

 Eastchester to or from New England ; except they can produce 

 a royal pass or license from authority for the same." 



A short distance this side of the bridge by which the Boston 

 Road crosses the Hutchinson River, a pleasant road leads down 

 to the right to " Invermere," known in ancient days as Hunt's 

 Landing. There is a famous strawberry farm on this road 

 a short distance from the post-road. A few hundred rods 



