[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] passage of th, ' toWl 532 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY hounds of the said farm of the said William David to the road lead-in*, to the White Plains, and then easterly along the same road to the Bronx River." To Mount Pleasant was assigned the remainder of the manor. Out of its territory was constructed the new Town of Ossining by an act passed May.2, 1845. The bounds fixed for the Town of Eastchester were Westchester at the south, the Bronx River at the west, Scarsdale at the north, and the Hutchinson River at the east. Pelham was identical with the former Pelham Manor, compre-hending City, Hart, and Appleby's Islands. New Rochelle, Scarsdale, Mamaroneck, Harrison, Rye, Bedford, and Poundridge, as organized into towns, retained their former well established divisional lines. North Castle was bounded on the north by Mount Pleasant, Y\ lute Plains Harrison, and Connecticut, on the east by Connecticut, Pound-ridge, and Bedford, on the north by the Manor of Cortlandt and Bed-ford and on the west by the Bronx River ami Bedford. But in 1791 (March 18) another town, called New Castle, was set off from North Castle, comprehending the territory west of a line drawn from the southwest corner of Bedford to the head of the Bronx River. Salem, North Salem, Cortlandt, Yorktown, and Stephentown were towns partitioned from the Manor of Cortlandt. The township named Salem has long been popularly known as Lower Salem.