New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Westchester Village
Was Established as
Result Of Fight
Dutch and English Claimed
This Land, bat Former
Won: Records Show Beer
Figured in Government

Thomas Pell, one of New York's
earliest Anglo-Saxon real estate specu-
lators. brought, in 1854, party az
English adventurcrs from Fairfield, in
the Colony Of New Haven, to that part
of the Bronx once known as the Towne
Of Westminster and now called West
chester Square Pell bought the place
from Indians who had previously sold
it to the Dutch. This real estate trans-
action caused controversies between
the Dutch and English. In 1866 the
Dutch convinced the English they were
masters of all they surveyed and with
Peter Stuyvcsant as arbiter they COM
PEELED Peil 20 organize q burger gov
eminent after the Dutch plan, and in
1867 made him and his followers take
the oath of Allegiance 10 New Neither
land. SO IT happened that in due course
Of time the Towne Of Westchester had
2 Mayor. President Board of Trustees,
constable, assessor, supervisor of the
county, Interstate supervisor, towne
clerk. collector, superintendent of high
ways. fence reviewer. FOUNDER and
sneep master long before Manhattan
mad.
Al this is vouched for by Thomas C.
Arrow, whose fathers estate is to be
sold at auction by Bryan L. Kennedy,
inc, on Saturday, October I, a. p. M,
on the prem SEES. The property con-
sists of 147 improved lots ready for
home building
Included in Mr.. Arrows records of
past events are many incidents which
should appeal particularly to the franz
ers of the Eighteenth Amendment. Fer
instance, in 1881, John Hunt, whose
job corresponded TO that of Major La
Guardia, was authorized by the Board
of trustees or Aldernsen) ito set up
beer for the outfit "at pence -four
cents) per quart. and rum at s pence
six cents) per gill"
In 1890 Hunt was voted sundrv gal
( Ions OF hard cider "to entertain In
dians," The extreme to which the
pcard 8 generosity WAS expended may
De judged by the feet that in ITO the
tywne clerks salary was fixed at is
sniIllngs {S41 per year, and during the
game historic session that faithful
municipal employee was to be awarded
Fsukard OF punch en- election dayt
M. Arrows records reveal that ten
years later a tardy trustee was fined
shilling end lug of spirits. said
spirits being divided among the other
trustees. lor faliure To attend meetings.
and another trustee. Lewis Morris. was
voted pence II eents) and a quart
OF beer for attending the full term %
sixtv-one DAYS.
The Bonrd Of Trustees Of I'LL voted
That snv one guilty of breach of TIE
peace should be fined from pence
and one quart Of rum upward half the
fine to 20 to the court and half to the
complainant. In 1924 the board voted
to impose fine ri 80 shillings and
beer OR rum OF spirits to the same
value, the complainant 70 receive yre-
haif and the overseer the ether for
drawing logs over the causewav.
Mr.. Arrows records show the num-
Der Of children tnat lived and attended
school beyond Mani attain. In the year
's05 there was I44 children between
the a~es of four and sixteen living in
vest Farms, as in Fordham. lfa in the
Messchester Square district and S2 II.
Throeg's Neck. Only Sd atsa, led
SCHOOL in West Farms, 80 in FordEam,
20 in Wsstchesser Town and "a in
Th-ogg's Neck.