Philip Van Cortlandt
Person
Historical figure
3 mentions
· in our records since Jan 21, 2026
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Pierre Van Cortlandt
Ed Riely
John "Rifle Jack" Peterson
Bethel cemetery
Village of Croton-on-Hudson
Appearances (3)
Village Board of Trustees
January 21, 2026
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So the American Legion proposed that that be named after him and then maybe a suitable monument be placed there. The historian we refer to the historian who we have great respect for. So Mark Cheshire proposed is that, lest we forget, and there's no …
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…