been achieved. The out- come was foretold in an article in the New York Sun, June 16, 1837: Being mainly speculators themselves, the Commissioners must have known that landholders are seldom diffident in taking advan- tages of public improvements, to enhance the price of property. As the Water Commissioners finally explained: The cost of the land required was twice or three times what the owners estimated it at for farming purposes, the water and mill privi- leges, laying useless since the construction of the Erie Canal, all at figure 38: Bridge at Sleepy Hollow, wood engraving in "From Croton to Town." Harper's Magazine. July 6, 1872 Courtesy Dobbs Ferry Historical Society, (not in exhibition) Photo: J. Kennedy Harnik once, -when required for the aqueduct, became of great and intrinsic value in the estimation of the owners and their neighbors ....^^ Eventually, the City paid $165,786 for 813 acres of rural West- chester land. Although modest In comparison to the $9 million con- struction cost of the Aqueduct, the conflict created during the eval- uation of some 30 miles of land was substantial; the process repositioned and alerted Westchester's people at the dawn of sub- urban development along the Hudson River. Notes 1. "Description of outer bounds or property line to be followed in making the sur- vey of lands for the New York City Reservoir in Croton River," from survey by George W. Cartwright, David Bates Douglass Papers, The Archives, Warren Hunting Smith Library, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva, NY. 2. Ernest F. Griffen, 'Westchester County and its People. A Record, vol. I (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1946)! p. 320. 3. Frank Sanchis, American Architecture, Westchester County, New York. Colonial to Contemporary (New York: North River Press, 1977). p. 64. 4. Document No. 14, June 30, 1837, J. B. Jervis' Monthly Report to the Board of Water Commissioners, p. 112 accounts for the $4000 payment to Halsey. The passage of property in Dobbs Ferry from Livingston to Halsey and Stephen Archer is found in the Abstract of the Title to the property "Ingekide "; In 1845 Brady pur- chased another 4 acres of Dobbs Ferry land, just west of the Aqueduct and literal- ly around the comer from the newly built Croton Aqueduct Overseer's House on Walnut (then Water) Street. Brady was elected Mayor of New Yorl< City in 1847. Brady's purchases are outlined in the Title to property at 63 Livingston Avenue. Archives, Dobbs Ferry Historical Society, Dobbs Ferry. 5. Mary Allison, "Hastings' White Marble Quarry: Its Rise and Fall," Hastings Historical Society Ne-a'sletter. May 1985. Harvey leased the ouarrv in April of 1835 to Elisha Bloomer, a New York City hatter and contractor, for $250 per year, and Bloomer built the inclined railroad that led from the quarry to the dock on the Hudson, visible in Fayette Tower's illustration Over the Railroad to Harvey's Quarry. 6. David B. Douglass, letter to the Neiz' York Times. October 30, 1840. 7. Treatise on Roman Aqueducts, p. 207. 8. Douglass' Report to the Water Commissioners, January, 1836. 9. Letter from D. B. Douglass to Commissioner Stephen Allen, from Yonkers, November 24, 1835. John B. Jervis Papers, The Archives, Warren Hunting Smith Library, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 10. Douglass letter to NY Times and Evening Post, Oct. 30, 1840. 11. Ibid. 12. Document No. 12, Report of the Water Commissioners to the New York City Common Council, August 1, 1836, p.65. 13. Commissioners' characterization of "unreasonable demands by inhabitants of Westchester" in Document No. 24, Semi-Annual Report of the Water Commissioners. January 1837, p. 99: Document No. 24, Semi-Annual Report to the Board of Aldermen . August 1, 1836, states: "The appraisers met at the house of S.M. Tompkins in the Village of Sing Sing at 12 o'clock on the 2nd day of August.. .and completed their estimate and appraisal on the 3rd day of August...." In Document No. 55, Semi- Annual Report for July-December 1837, Jan., 1838, "commencing that owned by Jasper Stymets and extending about 16 miles south to the land purchased by William Beach Lawrence Esq., bound by the Harlem River, which includes all the land required for the Aqueduct in the county of Westchester, not previously purchased. The meeting of the appraisers was ... fixed and notified for the 23rd of Oct. 1837, at the house of John Bashfbrd, in the village of Yonkers." 14. J. B. Jervis' monthly report to the Water Commissioners, Document No. 14, June 30, 1837, p.ll2. 15. Letter to John B. Jenis from his brother William, Yonkers, April 16, 1838, John B. Jervis Papers, Box #23, Jervis Public Library, Rome, NY. 16. Letter to J.B. Jervis from H.T. Anthony, Tarrytown, February 29, 1838, John B. Jen/is Papers, Jervis Public Library, Rome, NY. 17. Letter to J.B. Jervis