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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.
…reference by which his employers could
identify the side of the river on which the Half-Moon anchored,'
Presumably the chart was drawn by Hudson and forwarded with
his report, and that to him belong-s the honor of reducing…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…Henry Hudson, or his scribe. Master
Juet, records a fight which he had at this place with
some Indians who came out in their canoes and attacked
the Half Moon with arrows. The yacht of the discoverer was at the…
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.
In that bay, under the she]ter of Croton Point, Hendrick Hudson
anchored the Half-Moon, on the evening of the first of October, 1609;!
and such a resort were these waters for canvas-back ducks, and other
water-fowl…
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.
…Came the Van Cortlandts ! The year the Half Moon sailed up the Hudson and nestled below
Senasqua at the mouth of the Kenoten's River, there lived in south
Holland a sturdy Dutch couple, Stevan and Catherine Van Cortlandt. They…
Ruttenber, E.M. History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River; their origin, manners and customs; tribal and sub-tribal organizations; wars, treaties, etc., etc. Albany: J. Munsell, 1872.
…appearance of Hudson in the lower bay, they began to collect
on the shores and headlands, gazing in astonishment on the
'
strange sight ; that when they first saw the Half Moon they
" did not know what to make of
it…
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.
…of the present city of Hudson. " But," wrote
Brodhead, ' Latitudes were not as easily determined in those days as they
are now ; and a careful computation of the distances run by the Half-Moon,
as recorded in Juet's day…
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.
On that day Henry Hudson,
the intrepid English navigator, anchored his vessel,
the "Half-Moon," in the newly-discovered river, near
the site of the present city of Yonkers. The dawn
of the following day disclosed the residents of the…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…It was in front of Nappeckamack (that is now Yonkers), that the Half Moon made her second stoj) after
leaving the mouth of the river. It was on the 12th of
September, 1609. The weather, we are told, was
" Faire…
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.
…On the evening of October the 1st, 1609, Henry Hudson
anchored the Half-Moon at the mouth of the Croton. The bay
was once famous throughout the country as the favorite resort of
vast flocks of canvass back ducks, and…
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.
…While
still in the lower bay the Half-Moon, on the 9th ot
September, was threatened by some canoes full of
savages. Hudson therefore detained two Indians as
hostages, "putting red coats on them." Six days
later, when she had…
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.
…It was the mother-tongue of those who
greeted Raleigh's colonists on the Roanoke, of those
who boarded the " Half-Moon " on the Hudson, and of
those who welcomed and fed the Pilgrims at Plymouth. It was heard from…
comprehensive_plan_2003_raw.txt
…However, with the exception of Half Moon Bay, these developments have provided only single-family homes best suited for families. At the same time, the demand for appropriately-sized, affordable housing for aging Croton-on-Hudson residents, young couples without…
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.
…The authentic history of Westchester County begins in the month
of September, 1609, when Henry Hudson, in his little ship the " Half
Moon," entered the harbor of New York and ascended the great river
which now bears his name. But…
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.
…That it was
affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river
and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew
of the Half-Moon, beiug permitted in this way to revisit…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851.
…Half Moon, Hudson sails in the yacht, the,
115.
Hall, Ralph and Mary, trial of, at N. York
for witcheraft, 133.
» Key. Mr., 429, 438; declines going
to Canajoharie, 482.
Hanna, Rev. Wm., settles as a lawyer at
Schenectady, 373…
croton_point_landfill_rod_1993_raw.txt
…Under the contractor's proposed material ttansport method, a private road running through the Half Moon Bay development would be used. There was $n objection to the capping contractor's use of that private road by an alleged owner of…
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.
…On that day Henry Hudson,
the intrepid English navigator, anchored his vessel,
the "Half-Moon," in the newly-discovered river, near
the site of the present city of Yonkers. The dawn
of the following day disclosed the residents of the…
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.
…Opportunely, an English navigator,
Henry Hudson, who had made two voyages to this
ever disappointing field of discovery, offered his services. The ofiier was accepted, and a yacht of eighty
tons burden, the Half-Moon, was equipped for a
voyage…
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.
…of the present city of Hudson. " But," wrote
Brodhead, ' Latitudes were not as easily determined in those days as they
are now ; and a careful computation of the distances run by the Half-Moon,
as recorded in Juet's day…
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 the year 1609, Henry Hudson, an English navigator in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, undertook a voyage in the "Half-Moon," to
seek a westward passage to China, and in September
entered what is now known…
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.
…1609, be sailed from Amsterdam in the " Half-Moon,'' a vessel of some
eighty tons burden, with a crew of twenty Dutch and English sailors.
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.
…When the " Half-Moon " lay at anchor off the village of Nappeckamak, the Indians soon overcame
the terror that naturally accompanied so strange aii
apparition, and, putting off in their canoes, went on
board in large numbers. Their curiosity knew…
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.
…September 11, and to most beholders must have been an
had been to
object quite as astonishing as Hudson's "Half-Moon"
the Indian aborigines two hundred years before. Although it was
known to specially well informed people that some…
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.
…The surviving name, however,
is IVarragat, from Dutch Warrelgat, "Wind-gate." It was at the
northern entrance to this troublesome passage that Hudson anchored
the Half-Moon, September 29th, 1609. Brodhead suggested (Note
K, Vol. i) that Pollepel Island was…
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.
…But when Hendrick Hudson sailed in the " Half-
Moon " up the river which bears his name, one of the
very first acts of himself and crew was to make a
wanton and unprovoked attack with firearms upon
the inoffensive natives…
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.
…In the centre is represented the discovery of the Hudson River ; the " Half-Moon " is surrounded by Indian Canoes,
and in the distance is shown the Palisades. At the top is the coatof-arms of New Amsterdam and a tomahawk…
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.
…Hudson] to bring
their pelteries." ' " South of Van Twiller's plantation was a marsh
much affected by wild-fowl, and a bright, quick brook, called by the
Dutch ' Bestavar's Kil,' and by the English ' Manetta Water.' " '
(Half-Moon Series…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851.
…The first who discovered this country was Henry
Hudson. Engaged by the East India Company to find out a
passage to China north of America, he set sail with the Yacht
Half Moon, in the year sixteen hundred and nine…
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.
…It was off Yerplanck's Point that Hudson's vessel, the Half-
Moon, came to an anchor on the 1st of October, 1609. a-
" Here he was visited by the native HighlanderSjb who came
flocking to the ship, expressing their…
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.
…is now the County of Westchester, were
Henry Hudson, and his mixed crew of Hollanders and
Englishmen. They sailed up the great "River of the
Mountains " in the yacht Half-Moon of Amsterdam,
flying the orange white and blue flag…