446 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF "WESTCHESTER. 



Fitz Greene Halleck's pathetic lines on the death of his companion, 

 will not be considered inappropriate here, especially as the last two of 

 the first stanza are engraved upon this tombstone : — 



Greene be the turf above thee, 

 Friend of my better day ! 

 None knew thee but to love thee, 

 Nor named thee but to praise. 



Tears fell when thou wert dying, 

 From eyes unused to weep ; 

 And long, where thou art lying, 

 Will tears the cold turf sleep. 



When hearts whose truth was proven, 

 Like thine, are laid in earth, 

 Then should a wreath be woven 

 To tell the world their worth. 



And I, who wake each morrow 

 To clasp thy hand in mine, 

 Who shared thy joy and sorrow, 

 Whose weal and wo were thine. — 



It should be mine to braid it 

 Around thy faded brow ; 

 But I've in vain essayed it, 

 And feel I cannot now. 



While memory bids me weep thee, 

 Nor thoughts nor words are free, 

 The grief is fixed too deeply 

 That mourns a man like thee. 



Upon Waddington Point, the south-west projection of the Planting 

 Neck, is situated Blythe place — formerly belonging to Francis Barretto, 

 Esq. The house is a handsome edifice of stone. The grounds are richly 

 wooded, and the views of the river extensive, and singularly beautiful. 

 Mr. Barretto for many years represented this county in Assembly. In 

 the immediate vicinity of Blythe place stood the residence* of the late 

 Thomas Lcggett, whose ancestors had been resident proprietors of the 

 great Planting Neck, since the year 1690, if not before. 



The Leggett family were formerly seated in Essex County, England, 

 and probably descend from Helmingius Legat, high sheriff of that 

 county, in 1404. As early as 1661, Gabriel Leggett emigrated to this 

 country; and in right of his wife. Elizabeth Richardson, daughter and 



a This house occupied the site of the old Leggett homestead. 



