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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 59 (part 6)

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Gravelly Brook, named in the conveyance from the Indians as its eastern boundary line is a creek flowing into the Sound in the Township of New Rochelle; so that the territory at first called Westchester included besides Westchester township proper, the townships (or portions of them) of Pelham, Eastchester, and New Rochelle. It is an interest-in^ fact that the first of these four townships to be settled was the