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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 75

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] former supplied the material for the construction of the New York custom house, and is now fulfilling a heavy contract for the city hall, Brooklyn. ^ Upon the eastern side of Long Reach lies the estate of the late James Somerville, Esq.,c (a native of Roxburghshire, Scotland,) for a long period one of the associate judges of the county, and a well known and respected free-holder of this town. The Som-erville property (at present occupied by Archibald Somerville, brother of the late judge,) formerly belonged to David Williams; and was given him by the state, upon the 16th of June, 1783, "for and in consideration of the services of David Williams*^ of Cortlandt manor, in the county of Westchester, hath rendered his country in apprehending and securing the British deputy adjutant general. Major John Andre, who was returning to New York, after having, in the character of a spy, concerted measures with the infamous Benedict Arnold, then commanding at the posts in the Highlands, for betraying the said posts into the hands of the enemy, and for his virtue in refusing a large sum of money ofi'ered by the said Major Andre as a bribe to permit him to escape, &c., and consisted of all that certain tractor parcel cf » Also a member of the state senate ia 1806. b The Winter Hill burying ground in this neighborhood contains some ancient