[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] rior of the county. Its southwestern point, at Tarry-town, is about twenty-rive miles by the Hudson River Railroad from the Grand Central Depot in New York-City. As its name would indicate, it is a hilly region of variegated aspect, characterized by woodland, cul-tivated valley farms, and small fertile plains in pleas-ant contiguity and proportion. It was erected into a township by the Legislature of the State on March 7, 1788, but its territorial lim-its were somewhat abridged when the Legislature erected its northwestern portion, along the Hudson River, into the new and separate township of Ossining, on May 2, 1845. As now constituted, it is bounded on the west by the Hudson River and the township of Ossining, on the north by Ossining, New Castle and North Castle, on the east by North Castle, and on the south by Greenburgh. It was embraced among the several purchases made from the Indians by Frederick Phil ipse, beginning in 1080, and it com-prised a part of the original Manor of Philipsburgh, established by royal letters patent, issued to Fred-erick Philipse under date of June 12, 1093. 1 In the early part of the year 1080, the Indian Sachem Ghoharius, in connection with his brother Weskora, sold to Frederick Philipse a tract of land lying on each side ofthe Pocantico River, extending along its entire course from its source to the Hudson River, and upon each side of the Pocantico a distance of four hundred rods.