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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.
…Had this been done by a
Van Cortlandt, a Philipse, a Van Rensselaer, or any three of the " Lords of the Manor," on
the Hudson River, the act would have been engraven on the rocks with the point of a…
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.
…west
of the aforesaid creek which lies by Stcphanus van
Cortiandt'a land, including all the meadows both
fresh and salt within said bounds, containing in all
1800 acres or thereabouts." The tenure like that of
the Manor was " in…
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.
…Seven of Mosher's party were from the farm of General Pierre van
Cortlandt, Cortlandtown.
» On the east side of the road leading from the Purchase to Rye, lies the grave
of an old veteran by the name of John…
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.
…Seven of Moslur's party were from the farm of General Pierre van Cortlandt, Cortlaudtown.
c On the east side of "the road leading from the Purchase to Rye, lies the grave of an old
veteran by the name of…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
On
the north of Van Cortlandt Philipse again appears; the
Highland Patent, as it was called, taking in nearly all
of Putnam Coimty and reaching to Fishkill creek. Rondout came next, including the land between Fishkill and Wappinger's creek…
Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
…b See Van Cortlandt's confirmation.
' See Bedford.
d Donck is a village in South Holland, three and a half leagues from Corenm.
• O'Callaghan's Hist. N. N. 327.
406 ^' ' HISTORY OF THE "
Patroon Killian van Rensselaer, for 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.
…They sold
it to Stephen Van Cortlandt, in the year 1683, with land east of it called
A]}-2)a-magh-2)ogh. The purchase was confirmed by patent from the
English government. On this point Colonel Livingston held command…
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.
…township and village), included in
haniel Turner's purchase (1640), 87;
n rnderhill's Indian fight, 101; set: a participant in the Rye Rebellion,
\y's residence at, 223. 545: burning
eton, 457: the court house at. 526;
iwn by…
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.
…who desired to take up lands, The few ])eo])le
brought in, and imjirovements undertaken, by Steplianus van Cortlandt between his first purchase and his
death, were settled and made in the western portion
of the Manor, along the river…
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.
…Richard Morris (estimated)
Henry Brown
Parsonage Lot
Elnatban Taylor
Frederick Van Cortlandt (about)
Margery Rich
John Gnerino
William Hyatt
Mary Valentine
Abijah Hammond
Jacobus Dyckman
David Hunt
Abraham Lent
Philip Livingston
Stephen Oakley
Charles Dnryea
Stephen Sherwood
Sarah Archer
Mary…
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.
…Other purchasers were John
Hadden, who bought some three hundred and twenty acres on both
sides of Tippett's Brook just north of the present Van Cortlandt
Lake, and Francis French and associates, who wore the original
owners of the…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…Livingston and James Duane and John Jay and Pierre Van Cortlandt-- the
lust- named three having been Livingstons by their marriages -- were
members of that Convention; and six of them were present when the
order was given. (Journal of the…
Raymond, Marcius D., editor and publisher. Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument Dedication, at Tarrytown, N.Y., October 19th, 1894. Tarrytown, NY, 1894.
…The latter, born 1755, afterwards
removed to Cortlandt town, where he died 1808, leaving descendants
by two marriages. John married Rea, the only daughter of Cornelius
Van Tassel, as already stated in the story of that family. James Romer
was…
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 value of Colonel Morris's
personal property, etc., exclusive of his real estate, as appraised by
Stephanus Van Cortlandt, Nicholas Bayard, John Tell, and William
Richardson, was estimated at above £4,000.
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.
…559, 582,
"■- Cortlandt's Ridge, 37. 442: the Babeoek's House
affair, 443: Burr's capture of the West Farms
blockhouse, 4)\; storming of Stony Point, 452:
Tarleton's raid on ['oundridge, 456; British atompond, 458; Hopkins's fight…
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.
…Stephanus Van Cortlandt was married to
Gertrude Schuyler, 1671, his sister Sophia married Andreas Teller.
Evidently through her brother's aid and influence, the Tellers obtained
the greater part of Senasqua, as the peninsula was called. The original
purchase price…
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.
…s river, at a certain place called by the Indians
Sachus, and stretching by the north side of Stephauus Van Cortlandt, his lar.d
up to the said river, to another creek, and so runs up said creek in several…
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.
…House affair. The,
442.
533, 539. 542. 580. 014. Van
(Cornelia
G. Gerard
Mrs. Beekman,
Baird, C. W. (Rev.), 34. 124. 2n2. 215. 218. 221.
4iiii 444 517 601. Cortlandt), 427. 527. 53a.
Betts. William, of the Yonkers Land. 144…
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.
…Jacobus van Cortlandt, Joseph van Home, Capt. John Drake, Thomas
Pinckney, Joseph Drake, Edmund Ward, Henry Fowler, and Roger Barton,
a grant for a tract of land in Westchester Co., beginning at Hutchinson's
brook, at the end of the…
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, Joseph Van Home, Capt. John Drake, Thomas Pinckncy,
Joseph Drake, Edmund Ward, Henry Fowler and Roger Barton, a grant for a
tract of land in Westchester county, beginning at Hutchinson's brook, at the end
of the…
National Park Service (2021)
…Indian Field, part of Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, honors Ninham, his son Abraham, and the fifteen other Stockbridge Munsee Mohican warriors who died fighting the Queen’s Rangers on this site in the Battle of Kingsbridge in 1778…
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…To the west is Route 9 and to the south is the Van Cortlandt Manor property, a five-acre historic estate. The Harmon commercial area includes a mix of smaller-scale shops along South Riverside and a large (30-acre…