[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Maji >r Willi am Popham. 430 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY Throughout the Revolution, and for several years subsequently, there was no attempt made to reorganize the civil divisions of West-chester County. Previously to the war these divisions, as repre-sented in the board of supervisors, were the Manor of Cortlandt, Ryck's Patent [Peekskill], White Plains, Bedford, Rye, North Castle, Westchester Town, Mamaroneck, Poundridge, Philipseburgh Manor, Scarsdale Manor, Eastehester, Salem, Pelham, and New Rochelle. The board of supervisors had only a nominal existence during the Revolution. The spring of 1777 glided by without the slightest manifestation by the enemy of their fundamental plans for the coming campaign. The rumors of an approaching invasion from Canada became increas-ingly definite, but meantime the purposes of the great British army at hand, still commanded by General Howe, remained unfathomable. Washington was still encamped behind strong intrenchments in New Jersey, this side of the Delaware, and the British army also con-