History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 225 (part 3)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] No new village incor-poration was effected after that of Peekskill until 1853, when Mount Vernon was organized. It is a curious fact that our large City of Yonkers, which now is unapproached by any other municipality of the county, did not have its beginning as an organized village until 1855, and in that respect was preceded by three other communities. At the termination of the Revolution what is now the City of Yonkers at the mouth of the Xepperhan was represented by a very tew buildings, most of them widely separated. There were the Manor House of the Pliilipses, Saint John's Episcopal Church and parsonage, the immemorial mill, and some scattered farmhouses. The Manor House, with three hundred and twenty acres of land adjacent to it, as has been noted in the first part of this chapter, was purchased