[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] By an act of April 6, 1806, its name was officially changed to South" Salem, and by a further act, February 13, 1840, to the present style of Lewisboro. The name of Lewisboro was given it in honor of John Lewis,1 a liberal benefactor of the public schools and donor of the glebe lands of Saint John's Protestant Episcopal Church at Salem. A portion of North Salem was annexed to Lewis-boro April 2(5, 1844. North Salem included the whole of " north lots " numbers 9 and 10 of the Manor of Cortlandt, with lot number 8 as far as the Croton River, which formed its western boundary. To the two Salems fell the whole of the 'k Oblong." The Townships of Cortlandt, Yorktown, and Stephentown were con-structed out of the remaining portion of Cortlandt Manor. Yorktown was so-called in remembrance of the encampment within its borders of the French army after its return from the successful Virginia Free Academy in New York, and in 1840 save $10,000 to the support of the common schools in the township now called by his name. Ho,i;,„l.,t his T.owisboro homo on the 1st of 1 Jo