John "Rifle Jack" Peterson
Person
Revolutionary War soldier
5 mentions
· in our records since Nov 10, 2025
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Village of Croton-on-Hudson
Croton-on-Hudson
Len Simon
Appearances (5)
And but they gave a report on on their very vigorous participation in in Summerfest, and that'll lead to eventually the doing similar work on our national night out, which I think is August August 2, I think it is. But but certainly a very those firs…
Village Board of Trustees
January 21, 2026
Page 7
veteran John "Rifle Jack" Peterson as well as Pierre Van Cortlandt and
Philip Van Cortlandt. https://play.champds.com/AT T/crotononhudsonny/2025-
09/93724e4e9699fc6cd5cc0c47af480a90245482fe. pdf
https…
He was responsible for the rear guard as it went to the Battle of Yorktown, and he was given a brigade opposite, readout number 10. One of his people was Alexander Hamilton. So that first volume and it's only about 50 pages of text plus the letters b…
Ed Riely from Tree Dale Drive [clears throat] on a series of different topics. the village historian Marc Cheshire put out a publication dedicated to the gigantic teachers of the past in Croton-on-Hudson. If you've been around here any time for the l…
And to recognize local heroes who participated in that war, one of which, the most outstanding of well, almost the most outstanding is a guy named John Patterson. And for two hundred fifty years, they've been calling him John Peterson or rifle jack o…