[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] * Resigned and succeeded by Stephen II. Knapp. 170 H1STOKY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. and north by Putnam County, and south by Bedford and New Castle. Somen was carved out of the old Cortlandt Manor and was first called " Stephen Town." All of this territory was first represented in the Hoard of County.Supervisors by Pierre Van Cortlandt in 1700. He continued in that capacity until 1778, when he was succeeded by Major Joseph Strang, a resident of that part of Cortlandt Manor now known as Yorktown. He was succeeded by Samuel Haight in 1780, 1781 and 1782, when Strang again served from 1783 to 1788. On the 4th of March of the latter year Cort-landt Manor was divided into several towns and that part of it now known as Somers was called Stephen Town, after Stephen Van Cortlandt, to whom a part of the manor was allotted in 1734. At the beginning of the Revolution the manor was divided into three wards or districts, and the territory of Yorktown and Stephen Town was designated as the Middle District and called Hanover. It had no cor-porated existence and was not represented in the Board of Supervisors. Upon the erection of Stephen Town, Hachaliah Brown was chosen as the supervisor of the town. During the succeeding twenty years much trouble was experienced by the settlers in loss of mail matter