THE TOWN OF SCARSDALE. 249 



the fences and made bridges therewith for crossing brooks and low 

 swampy grounds. They crossed the road on the west side of where it 

 forks, /. <\, at the Fox meadows"" junction of the Mamaroneck and 

 Hartford post roads. 



Near the centre of the town, upon what is still called the Angevine 

 farm, once stood the residence of the world-renowned Fennimore Cooper, 

 Esq., whose wife, Susan, was the daughter of John Peter de Lancey, of 

 Heathcote Hill, Mamaroneck, the grandson of Colonel Caleb Heath- 

 cote. The old mansion, which has long since disappeared, was con- 

 structed in the French chateau style, and commanded splendid views of 

 the surrounding country. The property, after Mr. Cooper's death, was 

 sold by Mr. Cooper's children to Alexander McWhorter Bruen, M.D., 

 who married Sarah Louisa Jay, third daughter of the Hon. William Jay, 

 of Bedford. The Bruens descend from a family of that name, formerly 

 seated at Bruen, Stapleford, Cheshire, England. Robert Le Bruen, of that 

 place, in 1230, was the ancestor of the celebrated John Bruen, Esquire, 6 

 of Bruen, Stapleford, who was born in 1560, and died 1625. His son, 

 Obadiah Bruen, was entered a freeman of Plymouth Colony, Massachu- 

 setts, in 1640. Before 1650, he was chosen seven times deputy to the 

 General Court, from Gloucester. From the latter place he removed to New 

 London. In the charter of Connecticut, granted by Charles II., his name 

 appears as one of the patentees of the Colony. From New London he 

 removed in 1667, with his son John to Milford (now the city of Newark, 

 New Jersey). John, his son, left Eleazer the father of Eleazer the 

 grandfather of Matthias Bruen, Esq., father of the present Alexander 

 M. Bruen, M.D., of Scarsdale. 



In this vicinity formerly resided Captain De Kay, the father of the 

 late James E. De Kay, M.D., one of the Geological Commissioners of 

 the State. 



In the old church of Tarvin, near Stapleford, is recorded the follow- 

 ing memorial of John Bruen : — 



Bueials 25 Jan't, 1625, 

 JOHN BKUEN, 



of Stapleford, Esquire. 

 Nulli pictate secundm 



" An Israelite in whom no guyle 

 Or fraud was ever found ; 

 A Phoenix rare 

 Whose virtues fair, 

 Through all our coasts do sound." 



aMadDouald's MbS. in possession of George n. Moore, Lib, of N. Y. Hist. Soc. Conversa- 

 tion of Francis Secor. Nov. 5, 1844-5. 



b "Ttie very singular life of John Bruen, Esq., of Bruen, Stapleford," Cheshire, repub- 

 lished by A. H. Bruen. M.D., 1S57.— Edward O. Jenkins, New York. 



