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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. 271 words

"The people of "Westchester County have erected this Monument, as well to commemorate a great event as to testify their high estimation of that integrity and patriotism which, rejecting every temptation, rescued

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the United States from most imminent peril, by baffling ihe arts of a Spy and the plots of a Traitor. Dedicated October 7, 1853J^

The land on which this monument stands was given for the purpose, by William Taylor, a coloured man, who lives in a neat cottage close by, surrounded by ornamented grounds, through which flows Andre's Brook. Hon. Henry J. Raymond, editor of the JS^eio Yorlc Baihj Times, addressed

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the multitude on the occasion of the dedication. (Monuments of white marble have been erected to the memory of two of the captors of Andre, over their respective remains. That to Paulding is in the burial-ground of St. Peter's Church, near Peek's Kill. It was erected by the corporation^ of the city of New York, as "a memorial sacred to public gkatitude."^ William Paulding, then mayor of New York, addressed the assembled

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citizens on the occasion of its dedication, November 22, 1827. [The monument to the memory of Yan Wart is over his remains in ihe Greenburgh Presbyterian Church, near the lovely Neperan river, a few miles from Tarrytown. It was dedicated on the 11th of June, 18293^hcn the assembled citizens were addressed by General Aaron Ward, of Sing Sing. The monument was erected by the citizens of Westchester County. (The remains of Williams are at Livingstonville, Schoharie County; J no monument has yet been erected over them. -^

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