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Home / Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard. / Passage

The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea

Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard. 265 words

There, during most of the war, was the head-quarters of important divisions of the revolutionary army, and there the British spy was hanged, concerning whom General Putnam

* Peek's Kill Village was incorporafed in'lSlT. It is the most northerlj' place on the Hudson (being forty-one miles from New York), where business men in the metropolis reside. It is so sheltered by the Highlands, that it is an agreeable place of residence in tbo winter. It contains ten churches, excellent schools, and had a population of about 4,000 in 1860.

THE HUDSON.

wrote his famous laconic letter to Sir Henry Clinton. The latter claimed the offender as a British officer, when Putnam wrote in reply : --

" Head-quarters, Ith August, 1777.

" SiE, -- Edmund Palmer, an officer in the enemy's service, was taken as a spy, lurking within our lines. He has heen tried as a spy, condemned as a spy, and shall be executed as a spy ; and the flag is ordered to depart immediately.

IsKAEL Putnam.

P.R. -- He has been accordingly executed."

LOWER ENTRANCE TO THE HIGHLANDS, FROM PEEK'S KILL.

At Peek's Kill we procured a waterman, wliose father, then eighty-five years of age, conveyed the writer across the King's Ferry, four or five miles below, twelve years before. The morning was cool, and a stiff breeze was blowing from the north. "We crossed the bay, and entered Eort Montgomery Creek (anciently Poplopen's Kill) between the two rocky promontories on which stood Forts Clinton and Montgomery, within rifle-shot of each other. Che banks of the creek are high and precipitous.

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