[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] mills. There are on this stream at present, in North Salem, Salem Centre and at Purdy's, flour, grist and saw-mills, which, however, have only local custom. Mills at North Salem. — On the 5th of Jan-uary, 1777, Cornelius Steenrod purchased of Stephen De Lancey and others one hundred and eight acres of land on the Titicus River, on which was a large dwelling-house and barn, adjoining lands of Isaac Norton, Isaac Keeler, Abraham Delevan, Ebenezer Lobdell and Nathaniel Delevan. On part of this tract, on the river and on the south side of the high-way leading from Croton River to Upper Salem, he built a grist and saw-mill, which, with four acres of land and the mill-pond, he sold, May 19, 1779, to Jesse Brash, who was at the time in charge of the mills. At this time Philip Briggs was resident adjoin-ing on land bought of Steenrod. At the same place, on the 23d of April, 1825, David Seaman sold to Lewis B.Titus and Epenetus Howe, merchants, three tracts of land containing twenty-nine acres of land. On the 28th of April the next year Epenetus Howe bought of Titus all his interest in four parcels of land along the river, including the store, grist-mill, saw-mill, paper-mill, shops, houses, barns and all water