[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] hangs in the court house at White Plains. He was the father of i he very eminent Hon. John Jay of our own times (horn June 2.'*., 1817; died May 5, 1894), to whom he left the Bedford estate. Neither the figures of the State census of 1825 nor those of the federal census of 1830 show any significant changes in the distribu-THK JAY CKMKTKRY, RYE. tion of population in the county. In 1825 the total inhabitants were 33,131, and in 1830, 36,456. Mount Pleasant and Cortlandt con-tinued far in the lead of all the other towns. Yonkers had a popu-lation of only 1,761. No new village was incorporated between 1830 and 1810..This decade is memorable for the projection of the first railway enter-prise in which Westchester County was interested, ami the inception and approximate completion of the grand Croton Aqueduct. The New York and Harlem Railroad, which traverses the central section of our county on the route to the northern end of its line ar Chatham, antedates all other railways of the county. But, as its GENERAL COUNTY HISTORY TO 1842 547 name indicates, it was originally intended to be a line between New York City and Harlem only, terminating at the Harlem River. It was incorporated on the 25th of April, 1831, with a capital of $350,000, which in 1832 was increased to $500,000, it being stipulated that