[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] sloops to the New York market. The Westchester ereek (at high water) admits of vessels carrying 300 tons, to the landing. There are three school districts in the town, viz., Westchester village, Throckmorton^s neck, and Bear swamp. There are also several manufactories, and two grist mills, one of which is a tide mill."-Westchester is by several years the oldest village in the coun-ty, its first settlement (by the Puritans) being coeval with Throckmorton's purchase, in 1042.^ At this early period, it formed a part of the Dutch district of Yrede-land (or land of peace) and was, therefore, within the limits and jurisdiction of the New Netherland. By the Dutch it was named Oostdorp^ (East town) from its situation east of the Manhattans. So early as 1657, Gov. Stuyvesant ordered that Westchester should have four English or one Dutch mile square of land for the town. During the Dutch dynasty, courts appear to have been holderi regularly at Oost-dorp, for, among the town records, is a small volume, entitled " The Book of Court acts, from 1657 to 1662," from which we extract the following memoranda. "Feb.