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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 102

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Westchester 572 Eastchester 300 Rye 516 New Roclielle 304 Yonkers 260 Philipse burgh 348 Mamaroneck 84 Morrisania 62 Pelham 62 Bedford 172 Cortlandt Manor 91 Ryke's Patent (Peekskill) 32 Scarsdale 12 2,815 The portions of the county styled Yonkers and Philipseburgh at that period were, respectively, the lower and upper divisions of Phil-THE BOROUGH TOWN OF WESTCHESTER OOr ipseburgh Manor, the former being presided over by Frederick Phil-ipse, 2d, and the latter by Adolph Philipse, his uncle. After the uncle's death, the whole manor was reunited under Frederick Phil-ipse, 2d, and continued as a single political division until after the Revolution. To the above-named civil divisions of 1712, the only new ones added during the remaining sixty odd years of the colonial era were White Plains, North Castle, Salem, and Poundridge. Under this census the ancient Town of Westchester led all the other localities of the county in population, with 572 inhabitants, having, indeed, a very decided preponderance over every community except Rye, which numbered 51 (5 souls. But it must be borne in mind that in 1712 Rye as a political division included certainly the White Plains and Harrison tracts; and probably not a few settlers