History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 100 (part 5)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The patentees, ten in number, included men of prominence and influence in the province, whose "interest was not that of settlers seeking a home, but merely that of speculators." The lands began to be settled about 1718-20 by Quaker farmers from Long Island, who came by way of Harrison's purchase, and whose descendants to this day belong to the principal families of that section of our county, among them the Haights, Weekses, Carpenters, Buttons, Quimbys, Hunts, Birdsalls, Barneses, and Havilands. In August, 1712, the settlers petitioned Governor Burnett to incorporate their lands into a township, mentioning in that document that their number comprised thirty men able to bear arms. Letters patent were soon afterward issued for the Town of