A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 20
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] the heart of every true friend of liberty, virtue and the honor and prosperity of the state of New York and her civil institutions, as long as the history of this state and nation shall be known and read."a A little east of the house flows Spruce Creek, the former divis-ion line between the vineyard and the Dibble purchases. North east of Cautetoe lies the valley of the Peppeneghek, (Cross River,) celebrated for its picturesque beauty. Whitlocksville is a small settlement in the north west corner of Bedford situated near the junction of the Croton and Cross riv-ers. Upon the latter stream are located the grist mill and clothier works of Warren Whitlock. The Cross River, (Peppeneghek,) is said to discharge at the rate of nine million one hundred and forty-two thousand four hundred gallons per diem. The Methodist Episcopal Church of this place was first erected in 1837, and incorporated on the 25th of February the same year : Norman William Miller, Walter P. Lyon, Joseph Wilson, Joel W. Miller and Noah Smith, trustees. ^ The settlement also contains a post office, three stores and twen-ty-five houses. The West Chester Rail Road passes a little east of the place : the Peppeneghek and the Cisqua intersect a mile to the eastward. Previous to the erection of the Croton dam, the shad fish annually ascended the river to Whitlocksville a distance of nearly thirty miles from the Hudson; trout are taken here in great abundance.