[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] extracted from a valuable work published at Syracuse in 1800 — the "Gazetteer of the State of New York," by J. II. French. THE TOWNS AND THEIR VILLAGES IN 1800. Bedford. Population, 3,639. Local particulars: — 1. Bedford; contained a court house (still in use in 1860), two churches, the Bedford Academy, a Eemale Institute, and thirty houses. 2 Bedford Station, on the Harlem Railroad; contained ten houses. 3. Katonah; contained thirty houses. 4. Mount Kisco, a station on the Harlem Railroad; contained 200 inhabitants. 5. Whitlockville, « a station on the Harlem Railroad near the north border." Cortlandt.— Population, 10,074. Local particulars :— 1. Peekskill; an incorporated village; population, 3,538; contained ten churches, the Peekskill Academy, four boarding schools, a bank, newspaper office, six iron foundries (chiefly engaged in the manufacture of stoves and plows, and giving employment to 300 men), two machine shops, two tobacco factories, a pistol and gun factory, tannery, and gin distillery; connected by a steam ferry with Caldwell's Landing and by a daily steamer and line of sloops with New York. 2. Verplanck's Point; population, 1,456; contained a church, steamboat landing, and important brick manufactories, whose number in 1858 was thirty-four, giving employment to 1,350 men and turning out an-selecting State delegates to the national con-ventions nf tin' two parties in the historic yeai 1m;o.