[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the old Albany Post road, now locally known as Broadway. The narrow, level Hat or bonier below the hill, which is only a few feet higher than the river itself, and now described on the map as Water Street, and the projecting point above mentioned, now known as Point Dock, on which the principal market dock was located years ago, were probably the earliest settled portions of the village. ^ Houses and other buildings were no doubt first erected there, unless we except Z the Philipse Manor-House, across the -Pocantico, in what is known at the ~ present day as North Tarrytown. A large ■ part of the land now occupied by streets 3 and houses lay, some sixty years ago or Z less, as so much farm land, on which 5 stood the very unpretentious farm-houses 5 of the respective owners. m A few of the old houses of that period, 2 perhaps seven or eight in number, and 2 notably what still bears the name of the "Paulding House," in Water Street, which is known to have been built before