History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 314
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] With the Frosts came a family, Cox by name, who settled near Hal-lock's Mills. W. H. Flewellen is the present proprietor. John Tomp-kins (born at Greenburgh in 1739) must have set-tled on the farm now in the possession of EliasQ. Horton overlooking the Croton River not far from the same date (17(i0). The Tompkins are of Welsh origin, and the name heart out the statement. We find them first at Con-cord, Mass., Irom whence they came to Eastchester via. Fairfield. Ct. John, of Croton River, Isaac and Absalom, of Somers^ were sons of Isaac, who resided on Chatterton Hill, in Green-burgh, west of White Plains, who came from Long Island, to which his father had migrated from Wales. The hill upon which John. Sr., settled, after his sons grew up and started out in life, looked scarcely upon anything else but land owned by Tomp-kins. Elias Q. is grand-son and John B. Tompkins is great-grandson.