[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] North Tarrytown, an incorporated village of two thousand six hundred and eighty-four inhabitants by the census of 1880, and situated on the Hudson River twenty-five miles north from the Grand Central Depot, New York City, by the Hudson River Rail-road, or twenty-one miles north from One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Street, by the New York City and Northern Railroad, is built upon the southern limit of the tract of land formerly belonging to the old Manor of Philipsburgh, including the site of the old manor-house, still standing, but after the Revolution conveyed by the Commissioners of Forfeitures, Isaac Stoutenburgh and Philip Van Cortlandt, to Gerard G. Beekman "for and in consideration of the sum of Nine thousand and forty pounds lawful money," by an indenture made on May 23, 1785, "in the ninth year of the Independence of the State of New York." The two parcels included in this Beekman deed, though put down as consisting of seven hundred and fifty acres by the survey of 1847, are said to have embraced really an area of nearly nine hundred acres. They extended from the Andre Brook northward to within thirty rods of where the Croton Aqueduct spans the post road with its arch between Tarrytown and Sing Sing, and from the Hudson River eastward across the Pocantico River, well on, at the southeast angle, to the crest of the line of hills beyond it.