THE TOWN OF WESTCHESTER. 43 1 



Al a short distance from Lydig's mills, on the property of Mr. Leonard 

 s, may be seen the ruins of an old chateau, since the residence of 

 lewis H. Guerlain. The following inscription upon a marble monu- 

 ment hard by, so touchingly records the history of its former inmates, 

 that any further account would be needless. 



A.D. 1793, 

 Sacred to the memory of virtue, merit and beauty ; to 



SARAH GUERLAIN, 



the beloved consort of 

 Lewis II. G u e 1: l a i k. 



Alas ! 'tis iu vain ! the spirit has fled ! 

 Sarah has sunk in the tomb, 

 The beauty of nature lies mix*d with the dead 

 Gods ! how severe is the do yea : 

 As a delicate lily that blows in the vale, 

 That springs to perfection and dies, 



So she bloomed, and then sickened; but, shall we bewail ! 

 The grave of the pure is the path to the skies. 

 • Eterxity now long ! 



In 1798, 7th March, Sarah died in the West Indies, in the twentieth 

 year of her age — in the passage from St. Croix to St. Christopher's — 

 and was brought back by her disconsolate husband to his peaceful man- 

 sion, the place of their union, the 4th of October, 1795. 



Immediately north of the village of West Farms lies "Bronx Dale," 

 the wooded sides of which present a most romantic appearance. In this 

 neighborhood is a small scattered hamlet containing two public houses, 

 two stores and about twenty dwellings ; also the extensive bleach factory 

 of the late Mr. James Bolton. Mr. Bolton, was a native of Great Bolton 

 in Lancashire, where he was born on the 8th May, 1780; he was the 

 youngest son of John Bolton a and grandson of James Bolton by his wife 



Mary , and came to this country in 1818, where by dint of hard 



labor and industry he accumulated a considerable fortune. 



On the Bronx are also situated the snuff mills of the late Peter Loril- 

 lard, Esq. The beautiful seat of the Lorillard's is rendered particularly 

 attractive from the contiguity of overhanging woods and its close vicin- 

 age to the water. The late Peter Lorillard was a native of New York, 

 where he was born in 1799, and was one of its oldest merchants. His 



a The other children cf John Bolton were Edmund, born Aug. 21, 1761 ; Robert, born Dec. 

 21, 1766: Elizabeth, born Dec. 4, 1772, and John Bolton, bora July 4, 1776. The family were 

 all baptized iu the old parish church at Bolton. 



