[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] dant culture of that grain in this vicinity." It is true, tarwe "is the old orthography of the Dutch word for wheat," and it is also the orthography at the present time. But there is no evidence that the place was ever famous or even remarkable for the culture of wheat, and it is very doubtful whether the name "Tarry Town " was given to it before the Dutch surren-dered the colony to the English. The name seems to have been given to it at some time after 1754. For David Williams, one of the captors of Andre, only about seven months before his death, August 2, 1831, while dictating an account of his life, said : " I was born in Tarrytown, then called Philipse's Manor, Westchester County, New York, October 21, 1754." According to him, then, the place in 1754 was called Philipse's Manor, and the name "Tarry Town " was given to it at a later date. This statement of Mr. Williams agrees perfectly with the original manu-script minute-book of the "Town Clark for the Manor of Philipsburgh," from April, 1742, to April, 1779, in which there is no mention in the recorded minutes, from the beginning until 1778, of any such place as Tarrytown.