EARLY 19TH CENTURY FAMILIES It was almost a century after the arrival of the Underhills and Morgans before the next modest influx of settlers would make their mark. Alexander Masterton, a prosperous stonecutter from Scotland, was lured by quarries of fine white marble that were discovered in nearby Tuckahoe in 1822. Masterton eventually supplied stone for Greek Revival buildings from Boston to New Orleans, including Washington D.C. capitol buildings destroyed during the War of 1812. In 1835 Masterton built a neo-classical wooden home called Ridgecroft for his wife and six children. The house is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It remained in the family until the 1959 death of Masterton’s granddaughter Amie Dusenberry, who like many of her Masterton and Dusenberry ancestors, was a vital force in Village life. The year after the Mastertons moved to White Plains Road, the other side of the Village became home to another large family, the Rev. and Mrs. Robert Bolton and their 13 children. An American, Bolton had taken an English bride and spent his married life in Liverpool. Looking for a new start, he spent $14,000 for 150 acres of land and an Underhill house, developing Brook Farm, a model Homestead and orchards. Although the Boltons liquidated their holdings after only a decade and a half, they left a lasting legacy. In 1849 they donated two acres on the crest of a hill to a fledgling religious group that build a Dutch Reformed church. This pre-Civil War congregation recently celebrated its 150th anniversary in their much larger 1926 stone building. <<Previous • Chapter List • Next>>