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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition. Passage 630 of 1976 263 words

Schieffelin, late member of the Assembly. The former was once owned by Capt. Solomon Fowler, of De Lancy's Refugee Corps, who was killed at Horse Neck during the Revolutionary War. It was afterwards confiscated. Col. Schieffelin's residence occupies the summit of a high ridge, overlooking the valley of Eastchester on the east.

To face page 247, vol. I.

PEDIGREE OF LAWRENCE, OF EASTCHESTER.

Arms:-- Ar. a cross, raguly, gu. Crest:-- A dcmi turbot, tail upwards. Motto:-- Qwero, Intenio.

John Lawrence, of 8*.. Ives. Huntingdonshire, England, ob. 1538. Jobs | Lawrence

MB Lawn-nee. emigrated from England lo ihe colon/ of New William, emigrated to America with bls_Elizabeth. Smith, of Smitntown, da. of Richard, Thomas, one of the patentees of Newtown,

Amsterdam, In 1011 ; one of the Ant patentees of North Hempstead, I- I., 16M; a resident of Westchester, 1644; deputy to Hartford from Gov. Htuyvesant In 1603; Mayor of New York, and member of the Governor's Council at the time of Ida death in 1099; .Judge of the Hupreme Court Will dated 1098.

brother, one of the first patentees of Fosh- Ing, in 1645, proprietor of LURCDOB Neck, magistrate of Flushing, under the Dutch, ob. 1060.

patentee of Smithtown; this lady afterwards married Sir Philip Carteret, Governor of New Jersey. From her, Elizabethlown tabes its name.

TIiomaH, Joint patentee with h's fattier, _KranclnaHmlth, widow anccHtor of the Eastchester branch. j of M. Hmllh.

Willi

lam, member of the Gov. , Couucll from 1702-1700.

John, high sheriff of Queens County, 1693, commander of a troop of horse, ancestor of the Newtown branch, mar. Elizabeth.

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