6SS HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



which are still visible.* 1 The first child bom here was a Guion. There 

 is a tradition that one of the old Huguenots, who daily repaired to this 

 place, " and turning his eyes in the direction where he supposed France 

 was situated, would sing one of Marot's hymns, and send to heaven his 

 morning devotions ; others joined him in these pious remembrances of 

 their God, and of their beloved climes from which they had been so 

 cruelly driven by the merciless fires of persecution." It is more than 

 probable that the Bonnefoy family gave name to this portion of the 

 Neck. The name of Bonnefous, or Bonnefoy, frequently occurs in a 

 history of the French Synods ; for at the Colloquy or Conference of 

 Ronergus, there appeared Peter Bonnefous, one of the ministers of Mil- 

 land Cressel and Senerate ; and at the Colloquy of Sauragais, appeared 

 John Bonnefous, of Pay Laurens and Pechandier. The Coutant fam- 

 ilv, of New Rochelle, possess the Bonnefoy Bible, printed at Amsterdam, 



by 



Jean Feedeeio Beenabd, 



Revue et corrigee sur le texte Grec par les 

 Pasteurs et les Professeurs de PEglise de Geneva. 



Davenport's Neck, which has a fine deep water front, is now laid out 

 in choice building sites occupied by the residences of the late T. W. 

 Thome, Honorable Clarkson N. Potter, Adrian Iselin, Robert R. Morris, 

 W. W. Evans, Robert Edgar, Montgomery G. Davenport, son of the 

 late Lawrence Davenport, Esq., De Lancey Kane, Daniel Edgar, and 

 others. This neck suffered severely during the Revolutionary War, both 

 from the enemy's shipping and the incursions of the whale boat men. 

 Here General Knyphausen landed the second divison of Hessians and 

 the Twenty-second Regiment of Waldeckers, October, 1776, ten days 

 previous to the battle of White Plains. On the Cedar street road, near 

 the entrance of the neck, is Rockton, the residence of Robert C. Fisher, 

 which commands beautiful views of the neck and adjoining waters. 



" Castle View," owned by the estate of the late Simeon Leland, is also 

 in this neighborhood. 



On the property of David Harrison, Esq., in the vicinity of the neck 

 there is a sloop landing and place of business ; near the outlet of what 

 was formerly the Crystal Lake stream, stood Jacob Leisler's mill long 

 since removed. Near the site of the mill a spring issues out of the bank, 

 the water of which is medicinal. Many people, who have drunk freely 

 of it, have found great relief; it is chiefly useful for cutaneous diseases. 



In the south-east angle of the town are located the premium mills, 



a A cave in the rocks i3 still called the "old fire-place," from the fact that the Huguenots 

 built their first fires here. This spot now belongs to A. B. Hudson. 



