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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 364 (part 3)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It seems, however, that some property was vested in the cause of the later War of the Rebellion, as we find records in 1789, the next year after the erection of the township, of the manumission of slaves, as follows: ' "We, the subscribers, being the Overseers of the Poor of Stephen Town, in the County of Westchester and two of the Justices of the Peace for said County, upon the application of Reuben Wright Respecting the Manumitting his Slaves, one named Dinah, aged Twenty-one year.-, and one named Sib, aged Nineteen years. We having examined into said Business agreeable to the form of an Act entitled an Act Concerning Slate*, asscd ili. ' day February. ITSs. do Certify that the said