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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 220 (part 3)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] After the Revolution frequent at-tention was given to the water problem, but it was not until 1798 that the necessity of ultimately solving the question by resorting to the streams of Westchester County was foreshadowed. In that year a committee of the common council approved a proposal which had been made by Dr. Joseph Brown for procuring a supply from the Bronx River, and Air. Weston, the engineer of the canal companies of the State, was employed to thoroughly inquire into the matter.