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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 306 words

Ilinnian published in his JlisVtricul O'lleelions <•/ the part sujituinedbt/ O'Unectivut ditriu(j the War nf the lierohiti'in ; and that it is very probable that these three " Captains," like that other " rai)tain " who led them, on that occiision, pos,sessed no other warrant than that of ■'courtesy," so called, for the privilege of carrying the title.

* It left New Haven on Monday, the twentieth of November ; but it did not reach Westchester until Wednesday, the twenty-second, and the City of New York, to which place it extended its excursion, until noon on Thureday, the twenty-third of that month.

' " At Marinek they btniit a small sloop, which was purchased by Gov- " eminent, for the puriwse of carrying provisions on board the Asia." -- (The Cmtneclicut Journal, No. 424, [New H.wex,] Wednesday, November 2'J, 1775.)

><*«•« and burnt one sloop belonging to persons friendly to gov "ernment." -- (Oovenuv Tryon to the Earl nf Itartmouth, No. 22. "O.N " Bo.tRn THE Ship Dutch es.-; oe Goiidon New Youk ILmibour, G"' Dec' "1776."

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

a Boarding-school and Rector of the Established Church, in the same place, the former, as was subsequently seen, only because he had signed the Declaration and Protest, at the White Plains, in the preceding April,^ the latter, because he was more obnoxious to those Avho were in rebellion, in consequence of his greater intellectual power and of his decidedly greater bravery in the assertion and maintenance of his opinions and of his Rights.^ Having accomplished its purposes in the seizures of the persons and in the plunder of the properties of the two victims, in Westchester, the detachment permitted Mr. Seabury, if not Mr. Underhill, to send for his horse ; and, then, it hastened away, on the road which connected that Town with Kingsbridge.