[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] what English cottage air, and is withal a mosl con-venient and handsome residence..Mr. Brown is native of the town, the generations of his family being noted elsewhere in the inscriptions recorded on grave-stones. Nathan-Brown was his grandfather, whose son Thomas lived on the farm now adjoining the one owned by the son, Fraucis 1).. The old place, thoroughly modernized in appearance, is occupied by Charles Bloomer, whose wife is a daughter of Thomas and sister of Francis D. Brown. The western portion of the town is laid down on Cortlandt Manor as being Great Lot No. 8, and in the division in 17.'i4 was laid oft' to Andrew Miller. Of the settlers who located on this lot were the families of Purdy. There are two branches of the family occupying lands in this strip. The first settlers of Fairfield, Connecticut, were of this family. The first was Francis Purdy, who died at Fairfield in 1658. From him came the family of Rye. Joseph was one of the original purchasers of White Plains; Samuel was the youngest son of Francis, and from him came the families of this town. At what time one of the family purchased on lot No. 8 is not known, or which one, but purchase was made of a large tr..ct along the east side of the Croton River, and up Titicus River. The land was left by will to two sons, Hachaliah and Joshua.