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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 357 (part 2)

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] At this date some evidences of these early settlers may be found, far from highway or prosperous farm-houses, but still significantly point-ing out their silent history to the careful searcher after antiquities. Later on, the people scattered in families and went farther from the bank of the Hud-son River, out into the wilderness of what is now the town of Somers. They were met by enterprising