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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 223 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] land-owners held a meeting at Christopher Walton's store, at Ford-ham Corners, and appointed a committee to memorialize the legis-lature against the proposed low bridge, and also to ascertain the best method of removing the existing obstructions in the Harlem River. The committee, acting on the advice of counsel, decided to proceed against Macomb's Dam as a nuisance and to clear a passage-way for vessels through it. The resulting transactions are thus described by Mr. Fordham Morris in his History of the Town of Westchester: Lewis G. Morris, then quite a young man, was, by the votes of his associates, intrusted with