Van Cortlandt Mansion near Peekskill, 427. Van Cortlandt Park. 160, 171. 619. Van Dam, Hip, 239. Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 563. Van der Donck, Adrian. 38. 39, 42, 45, 105. Van der Donck's planting field, 144. Van Dyck, Hendrick, 97. Van Blslandt, Claes, 117. Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen, 168. Van Tassel, Daniel, 523. Van Tienhoven. Cornelius, 84, 118. Van Wart. Alexander (Rev.), 461, 480. Van Wart, Isaac. 470, 470, 485. 487. Yarick, Richard (Colonel), 524, 525. Verplanck. Philip, 168, 170. 189. 26S. 271. Verplanck's Sir Henry Clinton'sof opertions of 1777, Point, 435; military operations 1779, 451, 455; junction of Washington's and Rochambeau's armies (1782), 519; sale to a New York syndicate, 562; the brickmaking industry, 563, 5S9: various references, 2, 57, 166, 170, 344, 413, 116, 460. ION. 473. 476. 596. 619. Verveelen, Johannes, 142, 140. Vowles, Richard, of Rye, 126. Vredeland, The, 93. •' Vulture." The. 466. 467. 468, 477. Walter, R.. 183. Wading Place, The, 200. Wampage, 115. Wampum of the Indians, 44. Wampus's Land Deed, 183, 224.

GENERAL Wappinger Indians. 24. War of 1812, 539. Ward. Stephen, of Eastehester, 29S, 300, 305, 320, 442. Ward's House affair. The, 442. Ward's Tavern, 387. Washington, George, on the patriotic services of the Mohican Indians. 37: passes through Westchester County to take command of the army. 312: orders the removal of Frederick Philips.'. 329; on the fireships affair. 340: Washington and Mary Philipse, 349: remarks on the militia. 355: the White Plains campaign, 358396; address to the army after Howe's landing on Throgg's Neck, 371; his headquarters at the Valentine house, 383, at the Miller house (White Plains). 385, at the Van Cortlandt Mansion and Birdsall House (Peekskill), 427. at Joseph Appleby's (Dobbs Ferry), 507; on Howe's return movement from White Plains. 100; departure from Westchester Countv to New Jersey. 401; his consuming anxRiver and the Highiety about the Hudson