The Story of Croton
SOME RECENT LIBRARY ACCESSIONS BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS Bailey, Rosalie Fellows. The Nicoll family and Islip Grange. New York, 1940. 94 p. (Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, Pub'ns., no. 29.) Higgins, Alvin McCaslin. The story of Croton, New York. A paper read before the Ossining Historical Society, March 23, 1938. Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y., 1938. 25 f. typewritten. (Gift of Mrs. A. M. Higgins.) Howe, Herbert Barber. Jedediah Barber, 1787-1876 A footnote to the history of the military tract of central New York. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1939. 237 p. (N. Y. S. Hist. Ass'n Series, no. 8.) Ossining Historical Society. The Museum Intelligencer. Vol. I, no. 1, May 6, 1940. Ossining, N. Y., 1940. Ossining Historical Society. Sparta Cemetery Committee. Report. 1939- 1940. Ossining, N. Y., 1940. 5 p. Pennypacker, Morton. General Washington's spies on Long Island and in New York. Brooklyn, N. Y., the Long Island Hist. Soc., 1939. 302 p. (Gift of Mr. D. Irving Mead.) Poundridge, New York, Presbyterian Church. Marriages performed by Reverend William Patterson, 1837-1886. Transcribed from his origmal records by Mrs. S. B. Jordan and Mrs. F. W. Seth. White Plains, N. Y., 1939. 46 - 9 f. Mimeograph copy. (Gift of the compilers.) Westchester County Realty Board, White Plains, N. Y. Year books, 1937, 1939. 1940. White Plains, N. Y., 1936-39. 3 v. (Gift of Mr. C. J. Nuttall.) -[65J-
MISCELLANEOUS Addresses and papers by Judge Isaac Newton Mills (1851-1929) delivered at memorial celebrations and formal dinners, also a box of badges worn on those occasions. Also fifteen scrap books of political, biographical and historical clippings pertaining to Westchester County for the period 1884-1913. (Gift of Dr. Nathaniel Mills.) Decorative silver medal inscribed "Presented to Mr. Aaron Arnold by the Tarrytown Monument Association, as a token of their high respect and esteem for the quick and workmanlike manner in which he erected the monument for the purpose of designating the spot where Major Andre was captured by Paulding, Williams, and Van Wart, Sept. 23, 1780.