[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Peter Huggeford in the Manor of Cortlandt, and the latter the estate of Edmund Ward in Eastchester. The famous Thomas Paine, author of "Common Sense," was presented with a tract of some three hundred acres in Upper New Iiochelle, which had previously belonged to one Frederic Deveau. About 1802, after his return to America, Paine took up his residence on this property, and lie lived there most of his remaining years and was buried in a corner of the farm. His bones were disinterred and taken to England by William Cobbett in 1819. The spot is marked by a monu-ment to his memory. The subdivision of the county into townships was made by an act of the legislature passed March 7, 1788. By this important statute twenty-one " towns " were erected, as follows: Westchester, Morris ania, Yonkers, Greenburgh. Mount Pleasant, Eastchester, Pelham, Now Rochelle, Scarsdale, Mamaroneck, White Plains, Harrison, Rye, North Castle, Bedford, Poundridge, Salem. North Salem, Cortlandt, Yorktown, and Stephentown. The Town of Westchester included all of the original Westchester and West Farms tracts, with Fordhain Manor. The Town of Morrisania coincided with the old Morrisania Manor. But the existence of Morrisania as a separate town was speedily brought to an end.1 By an act passed February 22, 1791, it was annexed to the Town of Westchester, from which it was not again severed until 1855 (December 7(. The three Towns of Yonkers, Greenburgh, and Mount Pleasant were