[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] At the present day, with a larger development and broader views of public business and policy, these records may excite the reader's smile, but they were matters of importance in the condition of society then existing, and they were the rude beginnings of a vig-orous growth that has matured into tins imperial State of New York. As we come now to the delineation of the bounda-ries of Greenburgh, a name and a division known only since M a rch 7, 17S8, it is to be observed that the several tracts acquired by Frederick Philipse from the Indian tribes, either directly or otherwise, were consolidated into one, anil erected into the Manor of Philipsburg by royal letters patent dated June 12, 1693. These parcels together covered an area of eighty-six square miles, and they comprise the territory cast of the Hudson, from which, in March, 1788, about five years after the close of the Revolutionary War, were erected the townships of Yonkers, Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant. The present township of Os-sining was originally a part of Mount Pleasant, but was set off by act of the Legislature May 2, 1845, as a separate township, under the name which it now bears. The southern boundary of Greenburgh follows the dividing line of two of the original parcels as they were purchased by Philipse from the Indians. This line commences on the Hudson River at a small stream above Dudley's Grove> and about a mile south of the present Hud-son River Rail-road depot at Hastings.