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Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
" In Kings-county. -- -Augustus Van Cortlandt and ' John Rapalje. "In Richmond-county. -- Benjamin Seaman and ' Christopher Billop. " In Queens-county. -- Gabriel Ludlow, Saml. Mar- ' tin, Thos. Jones, 1 Archd. Hamilton, David Colden, ' Richd. Colden, Geo. D. Ludlow, Whitehead Hicks, ' Saml…
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Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
…As we have previously shown, when Stephanus Van Cortlandt became full proprietor of the grand domain, it was erected into the Lordship and Manor of Cortlandt, by royal charter, bearing the date of June 17, 1697. That charter, written on…
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crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/07/05/resolved-unanimously-july-9-1776/
Resolved, Unanimously, July 9, 1776 Resolved, Unanimously, July 9, 1776 On July 9, 1776, Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt and ten other Westchester County deputies met at the Court House in White Plains to vote on the Declaration of Independence. They…
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Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
…Beeckman married Cornelia van Cortlandt ; thus after the forfeiture of the Philipses a portion of the manor again reverted to a connection of that ancient family ; Jacobus van Cortlandt, having married Eva Philipse, daughter of the Hon.
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Higgins, Alvin McCaslin. The Story of Croton. Paper read before the Ossining Historical Society, 1938. Published posthumously in The Quarterly Bulletin of the Westchester County Historical Society, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1940), pp. 49-63.
…During that century and a half, it is difficult to disentangle Croton as a community from the Manor of Cortlandt. But after the Van Cortlandt empire had been dismembered, the hum-drum days of trade and the ordinary ways and…
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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.
" In Kings-county. -- Augustus Van Cortlandt and " John Rapalje. "In Richmond-county. -- Benjamin Seaman and " Christopher Billop. " In Queens-county. -- Gabriel Ludlow, Saml. Mar- " tin, Thos. Jones,* Archd. Hamilton, David Colden, " Richd. Colden, Geo. D. Ludlow, Whitehead Hicks, " Saml. Clowes…
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Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
At the time of Bayard's arrest, fearing a like fate, he saved himself by hasty by marriage was related Leisler that and an interesting It is Cortlandt flight.' of kin also became Philipse Bayard; and fact both Van to…
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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.
…These lands including all his purchases upon both sides of the Hudson River were granted and conr firmed, to Stephanus van Cortlandt, June 17th, 1697, by the Manor-Grant of the Manor of Cortlandt. Itg HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. boundaries…
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Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
…1699, Sachima Wicker, sachem of Kightawonck and his associates sold to Stephanus Van Cortlandt, all their rights as owners and proprietors in the " land lying and being within Cortlandt's manor, beginning on the south side of Kightawonck creek, and…
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Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…as deed the in is described the purchase thus made on the east side of the Hudson River, at the entering in of the Highlands, just over against Haverstraw." Van Cortlandt purchased Earlier in the same year (July 13, 1683…
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Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
…The first Baptist church stood near General Pierre van Cortlandt's, directly on the spot now occupied by the district schoolhouse. The present society was organized in 1843, under the style and title of the First Baptist Church in Peekskill…
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Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
…And the present moneys are found to be, £192 11 ; which have been put in the box at the church. ^254 1." Upon the 24th of August, 1787, Isaac Stoutenburgh and Philip Van Cortlandt (Commissioners of forfeitures for the southern…
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Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
…Johannes or John van^=Anna Sophia Cortl;indt, nat. i-lth Itct. 167:2; Li)rd of the Manor of Cortlandt. van Schauk, mar. Id95 Oliver, nat. 26th Philip, nat. 9th=Catharine de Step Oct. 1678, ob. Aug. 1683, Ob…
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crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2015/04/26/crotons-old-post-road-inn-1890/
Croton's Old Post Road Inn, 1890 Croton's Old Post Road Inn, 1890 In January 1890, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly published an article by C. Hills Warren examining the Albany Post Road's history with nostalgic reverence. Warren…
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Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…Colonies, and bravely resisted what were regarded as the usurpations of the Home Government; while Pierre Van Cortlandt, of the Manor of Cortlandt, and John Thomas, representing the body of the County, quite as manfully opposed them, and, indirectly, quite…
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Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
…Jacobus Van Cortlandt for 2565 acres in ye north west corner of ye patent lands was . jQ6 08 06 For his vineyard purchase, 607 acres . . . . 1 10 05 For his right in Dibble's purchase, 762 acres . . 1 18 00…
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Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881.
…of Gertrude Beeckman, wife of Colonel Henry Beeckman, and one of the daughters and devisees of De Fleer Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first Lord of the manor of Cortlandt. The present tovniship was erected on the 7th of March, 17 98."
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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.
…grounds of the former Indian owners, now the beautiful flat surrounding the old " Cortlandt House" soon to be the parade-ground of the new "Van Cortlandt Park ; " that estate which has continued in the family for nearly two centuries, liaving…
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crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/07/05/resolved-unanimously-july-9-1776/
Resolved, Unanimously, July 9, 1776 Resolved, Unanimously, July 9, 1776 On July 9, 1776, Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt and ten other Westchester County deputies met at the Court House in White Plains to vote on the Declaration of Independence. They…
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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.
…One of the county members was Frederick Pliilipse, the third, and the then, LordofPliilijiseburgh (the other being John Thomas of Harrison), and the member for the Manor of Coi'tlandt, was Pierre van Cortlandt, of Croton, of the second branch…
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Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
was the hostess of the Van Cortlandt house near Peekskill during the Revolution, and whose stern reply to an insolent soldier on a perilous occasion is celebrated (see p. 427). Mrs. Beekman died in 1S47 at the age of ninety…
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Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
Van der Donck's plantation, " a flat, with some convenient meadows about it," was located about a mile above Kingsbridge, near where the Van Cortlandt mansion now stands.
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Ruttenber, E.M. Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names in the Valley of Hudson's River, the Valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware. Published in the Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, Vol. VI. 1906.
…Y-, ii, 364.) MacGregories sold to Van Cortlandt in 1696. ' Peake, an orthography of Peak, English; Dutch, Piek; pronounced Pek (e as e in wet) ; English, Pek or Peck. NAMES ON THE EAST FROM MANHATTAN NORTH. JT of the settlement…
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Macdonald, John. Interview with Cregier, Augustus, b.c.1769; (1847-10-01). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 1757. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.
…The house occupied by my father during the revolutionary war, was of wood, was owned by Van Cortlandt, was situated east of the Hall between it (that is, the Manor house) and the Mill. General Montgomery lived on his farm…
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Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
Lastly, I do hereby Constitute, Declare and appoint my said Beloved Wife my Executrix together with my Brother Jacobus Van Cortlaudt, my Brother Brant Schuyler and my Cousin William Nicholls to be Guardians, Tutors and Overseers over my said children…
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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.
…Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jfanor of Cortlandt, 1708-75. Philip Verplanck, Manor of Cortlandt, 1734-68. Edmund Ward, Westchester, 1705-09, 1710-12. Isaiic Wilkins, Borough of Westchester, 1772-75. Gilbert Willet, Borough of Westchester, 1728-32. Lsaac Willet, Borough of…
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Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
Pierre Van Cortlandt died on the morning of the first day of May instant, at his seat at Croton River, in this town, in the 94th year of his age, leaving issue by his wife Joanna Livingston, Philip, Gilbert, Stephen…
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Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…Its precise location was at the entrance or neck of Teller's Point (called Senasqua), and west of the cemetery of the Van Cortlandt family. The traditional sachem was Croton. There was apparently a division of chieftaincies at one time…
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Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
…Pierre Van Cortlandt's, directly on the spot now occupied by the district school-house. The present society was organized La 1843, under the style and title of the First Baptist Church of Peekskill. The meeting-house, which is valued…
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crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2015/03/10/a-croton-river-disaster-197-years-ago-today/
…The disaster destroyed valuable mill infrastructure owned by General Philip Van Cortlandt. The Damage "The rapid thaw on Saturday...attended with heavy rain, occasioned the Croton river to rise to a considerable height, and floated down ponderous shoals of ice…
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