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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 365

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] permuted to keep an Inn or Tavern, and to Retail Strong or Spiritous Li'iuors under Five Gallons to be Drunken in their Respective Dwelling-houses and Stores, Each of them Seperately untill the First Tuesday of May next, etc. Given over our hand the fourth Day of May, 1802. 11 Abraham Brown, ") " RoitEiiT Graham, 0»mmUsioners. "Daniel Qiiok." I At the town-meeting held in 1790, it was " Voted for a bridge to be built over the Croton River, at or m ar the spot where the old bridge formerly stood, by the name of Golding's Bridge." A very neat iron structure now spans the river at this point, erected by the King Iron Bridge Company., of Cleveland, O., under the supervision of James P. Teed and John C. Holmes, supervisors of Somers and Lewisboro'. The name has been corrupted from Golding's to Gulden's Bridge, the place having received its name from Abraham Golding, who resided in the vicinity and was a prominent resident of the town. He, with the members of his family, are buried in the grave-yard of Mount Zion Church, of which society