History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . dson Riverdue east by agreat rock stonewhich is called Sigghcs. andby marked treesto the stone Sig-ghes stands onthe Dyekmanestate, not fareast of the oldPost road. The eastern and western boundaries of the town-ship are of course sufficiently plain, that on the eastbeing the Bronx River and that on the west beingthe Hudson. The townships adjoining Greenburghon the east, and having the Bronx River as a boun-dary in common with it. are three,—namel
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . dson Riverdue east by agreat rock stonewhich is called Sigghcs. andby marked treesto the stone Sig-ghes stands onthe Dyekmanestate, not fareast of the oldPost road. The eastern and western boundaries of the town-ship are of course sufficiently plain, that on the eastbeing the Bronx River and that on the west beingthe Hudson. The townships adjoining Greenburghon the east, and having the Bronx River as a boun-dary in common with it. are three,—namely. Bcarsdalion the south, White Plains in the middle and NorthCastle on the north. The northern boundary of Greenburgh is the loweror southern limit of Mount Pleasant. The line ofdemarcation follows the centre line of the old WhitePlains road from the Bronx River westward to cer-tain lands, lying on the hill northeast of Tai n town,that were bought of the Commissioners of Forfeituresby William Davids, on December <!. 1785, but moierecently owned and occupied as a farm by the lateJohn R. Stephens, deceased. A part of these prem-. GREKXIUIUiH AND MT. PLEASANT. GREENBURGH 179 ises, some twenty-five years ago, became by purchasethe property of Philo H. Perry, and the site of hisfine stone mansion, but is now owned by the Kings-land estate. The line moves along the Davids orStephens place, southwestward to the old Beekmanfarm, where it strikes the stream now called theAndre Brook (from the fact that Major Andre wascaptured on the Post road only a few steps south ofit) and thence along the Beekman farm to the Hud-son River. The farm followed the Andre Brookdown as far as the present west line of the Rev. Phar-cellus Church, , then diverged from the brookalong the west line of Dr. Church to what is nowWildey Street, and thence, by a bold curve, it turnedwestward to the Hudson River. The geographical centre of the township, as nowconstituted, lies probably about midway between
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