THE PREFACE. 



IN presenting to the public '■ The Revised History of Westchester 

 County," left nearly completed by the Author, the late Rev. Robert 

 Bolton, I assume no responsibility for its contents, nor any credit in its 

 authorship. The Author published The First History in 1848, after 

 gathering all the information then in his power. Soon after its ap- 

 pearance a large amount of extra information was placed at his dis- 

 posal, and many corrections kindly sent to him. He determined at once 

 to commence a revision of it, and had been so doing up to the day of 

 his death, 29 years in all. He had re- written more than two-thirds of 

 the original book, adding thereto many very valuable old documents and 

 bringing the work down to that time. All that I have had to do was to 

 finish up little unimportant points, and conduct it through the press. 



If I were to assert that there were no errors I should be presenting 

 to the public what no other man has ever done, a perfect book. There 

 must be errors, but they are unimportant. No serious error, I believe, 

 will be found. 



There never was a more careful compiler of History than my late 

 brother. He always asked for proof, and then well weighed it. His 

 book will be his monument ; he wore himself out in its completion. And 

 I regret that he does not live to give the whys and the wherefores that 

 thousands of its readers will propound. 



The Rev. Robert Bolton, the Author of this History was born in 

 Bath in the county of Somerset England, on the 17th of April 1814, and 

 was baptized by his grand-father, the Rev. William Jay, in Argyle chapel, 

 Bath. (His father, the Rev. Robert Bolton, was born in Savanah, in the 

 State of Georgia, but married in England and resided there for several 

 years.) He was the oldest of thirteen children, and came to this country 

 with his father on his return in 1836. He first studied medicine in 



