» Co. Rec. Lib. G., p. 403. b Co. Rec. Lib. H., p. 344.
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large quantities of stoves and plongli castings, belonging to the Messrs. Thos. Southard, Taylor, Flacrjer <fc Co. ; Minor, Horlon & Co. ; Reuben R. Finch 6c Co. ; C. A. Depew & Co. ; Whiiney (fe Montanya; Rikeman & Seymour, and Judson H. C^Jilbert & Son ; besides the salamander fire brick manufactory of Abraham M. Lord, and C. C. Queen's manufactory of portable blacksmith's forges. There are now owned in this village 1 steamboat engaged in transporting passengers and produce, G sloops besides a steamboat which runs daily to and from the city of New York, landing at Sing Sing, Tarrytown, Yonkers, (fcc. The Hudson river steamboats also land passengers several times daily at Caldwell's Landing, opposite Peekskill, affording almost hourly communication with the city of New York, by the aid of a steam ferry boat.
The village of Peekskill was incorporated A. D., 1839, under the style and title of the '' Corporation of the Village of Peekskill." Its officers consist of a president and four trustees. The Peekskill Academy is a flourishing chartered institution, delightfully situated on Oak Hill. Near it is still standing the tree on which was hung, during the revolutionary war, Daniel Strang, the British spy.a- " One Daniel Strang, (says Thatcher,) was found lurking about our army at Peekskill, and on examination enlisting orders were found sewed in his clothes. He was immediately tried as a spy from the enemy, sentenced to suffer death, and was executed accordingly."^