Helen, very nice story about the kitchen table..I have a strong animistic streak and can get a tad too sentimental about things like *old kitchen tables!

then town of Westchester, (now Westchester Square, in the bronx)

This comment has rekindled memory...cross threading...
Wasn't *the Bronx originally, a part of Westchester county? And so maybe, when the region was spilt off from Westchester, to create another NYC burrough, the terminology stayed intact and remains *the Bronx to this day. What do you think?