[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In the record of " a town-meet-ing held as usual on the Manor the seventh day of April, 1778, and in the second year of our Indepency," (for Independency), the name of Tarrytown occurs for the first time, but spelled with one In the list of officers elected is the following : "George Monson, Overseer of Road In Tary Town." The name oc-curs three times after this, and in each case spelled with two r's, twice in 1779 and once in 1783. Else-where the place is always spoken of as Philipse's Manor or the Manor of Philipsburgh. Perhaps there is a clue to the mystery of its origin in the fact that there is in the county clerk's office at White Plains the record of a deed conveying land at "Old Yonkers," adjoining "George's Point," from John Tarry to Jacobus Van Cortlandt in 1693. It is stated in the deed that John Tarry came from Long Island, and the records of the old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow show very decisively that there were intimate relations between the settlements at Tarrytown and along the Lower Hudson and those on Long Island, and also much moving to and fro and intercommunication with each other. In the rec-ord of marriages, for instance, beginning with Octo-ber 30, 1098 there are on two pages no less than six cases where one or the other of the parties married had removed from Long Island. That the name Tarry was quite common on Long Island is sufficiently