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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. 253 words

The round heads of the iron fence-posts were knocked off for the use of the artillery, and the leaden statue of his Majesty was made into bullets for the use of the republican army. " His troops," said a writer of the day, referring to the king, " will probably have melted majesty fired at them." The pedestal of the statue, seen in the engraving, remained in the Bowling Green some time after the war;

* This work of art was by Wilton, of London, and was the first equestriiin statue of his Majesty ever erected. Wilton made a curious omission-- stirrups were wanting. It was a common remark of the Continental soldiers, that it was proper for " the tyrant " to ride a hard trotting horse without

THE HUDSON.

and the old iron railing, with its decapitated posts, is still there. A fountain of Croton water occupies the site of the statue; and the surrounding disc of green sward, where the citizens amused themselves with howling, is now shaded by magnificent trees,

Near the Bowling Green, across Eroadway (No. 1), is the Kennedy

THE BOWLING GREEN IN ISfil.

House, where "Washington and General Lee, and afterwards Sir Henry Clinton, Generals Eobertson and Carleton, and other British officers, had their head-quarters. It has been recently altered by an addition to its height. ■^'•

* This house \ with the (laiighte

as built by Captain Kennedy, of tlie Royal Navy, at about the time of of Peter Schuyler, of New Jersey, in 1765.

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