544 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY O" WESTCHESTER. 



' the premisses or any part thereof In Testimony whereof Wee have 

 Lett rs to be made Patent and the Great Seal of our said Pro- 

 vince to be hereunto affixed and the same to be Entred of Record in our Secre- 

 tarys Office in one of the Books of Patents there Remaining Witness our Trusty 

 and well beloved William Burnet Esq Captain General and Governour in Chief of 

 our Province of New Jersey and of all the Territories and Tracts of Land 

 i Depending in America and Vice Admiral! of the same &c at Fort 

 in New York the Thirteenth day of March in the Eight year of our 

 Reign Anno Domini 1701" yy- ROBIN, D. Beefy. 



At this date. 1721, the occupants of the land on what is now called 

 Broadway, were George Lane, living on the Squires place, and included 

 Mr. Brown's ; Daniel Brundage in the old house next to Mr. Brown's, the 

 only house of that date now standing. The next north of Brundage, was 

 James Travis. On the west side of Broadway was Moses Knapp's 

 house, about where Mr. Fiero now resides. John Hyatt lived a little 

 north of Knapp, and Daniel Lane's house stood near the present resi- 

 dence of Elisha Horton. Anthony Miller owned the farm where the 

 Miss Tompkins reside above the old Methodist church ; he had a fulling 

 mill on the brook, near the Bronx river. The north west corner of the 

 patent was seventeen chains north of this fulling mill. Christopher Tro- 

 main's house was near the Bronx not far from where Mr. Champanies 

 lives on the road leading west from the old Methodist meeting-house. 

 Samuel Horton built and lived in the house now standing known as the 

 Jacob Purdy place at the foot of Frank Carpenter's hill. The other 

 dwellings were on the road to Rye. The first was Joseph Purdy's which 

 stood near the present house of Mr. Onderdonk. Next to Joseph Purdy's 

 was Caleb Hyatt's, and a short distance south-east of it John Hoit lived 

 in the old house on the other corner of North street and the road lead- 

 ing past Bartholomew Gidneys. Samuel Hoyt lived a quarter of a mile 

 further on, on the same side of the road. Samuel Hunt's house was 

 where Mr. Nelson Seymour lives. The next house which is still stand- 

 ing was Samuel Merrit's, and further east and at some distance from, and 

 north of the road, was the house of Humphrey Underbill. These were 

 all the houses then standing in White Plains. 



THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



The Presbyterian church — a stone edifice erected in 1854 — is the 

 third church built on that spot, and presents a pretty appearance upon 

 entering White Plains. 



The first church was erected, but not finished, and services held in it 



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