[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] its western extremity to either the most southern or eastern point was too great for the convenient trans-action of town business, and it lay, like a pair of sad-dle-bags, in such shape as naturally suggested an easy division. This was accordingly done by a line three miles in length, drawn from the southwest corner of Bedford, in a southwest direction, to the " head of the Bronx." For similar reasons that part of the town which formerly belonged to Somers was annexed to this town. It comprises the tract included between Bedford on the east and Yorktown on the west, the Croton on the north and the old Van Cortlandt Manor line, the present southern boundary of Yorktown and Somers, on the south. It is about two miles in length by Dearly a mile in breadth, and contains some fifteen or twenty dwellings. After the formation of the Croton Lake, in 1841, the inhabitants 1 of that part of Somers began to agitate the question of annexation to New Castle, as they could not reach the upper part of Somers, where town-meetings were held, except by going through Yorktown or Bedford, in order to cross the lake by the bridges, and thus making a long de-tour. A bill was accordingly prepared, and taken to town, by the namu of New Castle; and tin-first town-meeting for the town of New Castle shall lie lielil at the dwelling-house of Hnnniih I.eg-gett. And the said town of North Castle, nnd the said town of New Castle, shall MpMStdj and severally hold and enjoy all the privilege*