422 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



I. Adee. Schuylerville is a small scattered village in this neighb'or- 

 borhood, containing three or four hundred houses. 



.v/v.v/V waABrocketfs Necks are situated at the south-west extremity 

 of Throckmorton's neck proper, and constitute what was formerly known 

 as the " Grove Fanny This property, we have seen, was patented by 

 Governor Nicolls to Thomas Hunt in 1667, who bequeathed it in 1694 

 to his in Josiah Hunt. At Josiah's death, A.D. 1729, it went to 



his son Thomas Hunt upon the demise of the latter, in 1756 ; William 

 L. Ferris and grand- children, are the present owners. The old grange, 

 erected in 1687, is prettily located at the entrance of Spicer's Neck, 

 on the margin of the Westchester Creek and the Oakland nurseries 

 formerly the property of William Livingston Ferris. Mr. Ferris has sold 

 land, but holds the nurseries, which are situated a little north of the 

 house. They are very extensive, and contain every variety of fruit and 

 ornamental trees. We believe this is one of the largest establishments 

 of the kind in Westchester County. There was formerly a ferry between 

 old " Firry Point" the termination of Brockett's Neck, and the opposite 

 shore of •' PowelFs Point" or White Stone, Long Island. The passage 

 was performed in a peri-auger, during the jirovincial period of our 

 history. 



The Westchester Creek which is here nearly three quarters of a mile 

 across, abounds with every kind and description of shell and salt water 

 fish. Among the latter, may be enumerated, bass, weak fish, black 

 fish, drum, eels, flounders, spice, tomicods, perch, porgies, horse mackerel, 

 herrings, bequeals, garnet, &c. One of the most popular fishermen in 

 this neighborhood is Natey Bergen, of Union Port, who has every sup- 

 ply on hand ; besides being well acquainted with the best fishing ground 

 both on the Creek and Sound. 



On the eastern side of the Creek lies " Castle-hill Neck," (so-called 

 from the Indian castle which formerly stood near the termination of the 

 neck,) the property of the late Governeur M. Wilkins, Esq., but now 

 owned by his son-in-law, John Screven, Esq. This estate was formerly 

 held by the Cromwell family from whom it obtained, for a while, the 

 name of " Cromwell's A r ee£.'' In 1685, John Cromwell, supposed nephew 

 of the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, " and Elizabeth Cromwell, his 

 wife, exchanged six acres of meadow with Thomas Hunt, for eight acres 

 of upland, situated upon Castle Neck." a From the Cromwells it went 

 to a younger branch of the Underhills 6 who conveyed it to the Rev. 

 Isaac Wilkins. After being sold by Mr. Wilkins in 1784, it was succes- 



a Co. Rec Lib. K. 95. See Town of Harrison for full accouut of Cromwell family. 

 b Co. Rec. Lib. A, 214. 



