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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.
…The second is also richly engraved with antique figures, representing angels, birds, fruits and flowers, besides, three ovals containing emblematic figures of Faith, Hope and Charity ; near the top is engraved the name of Catharina Van Cortlandt ; this cup stands…
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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.
…executed by Sachima Wicker, the chief of the Kightawonck tribe, (within whose limits Amagh pogh was comprehended,) to Stephanus van Cortlandt. The principal Indian settlement appears to have stood upon Sillimau's Gallop among American Scenery. 132 '- • HISTORY OF THE…
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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.
…Within a short distance of the village, is situated the property of the late Lewis Brown, Esq., whose grandfather, Hachaliah Brown of Rye, purchased these lands under the heirs of Stephanus van Cortlandt, in 1760. His son Elbert, at present…
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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.
…Besides other appropriate memorials to Peter Jay, Peter Augustus Jay, Esq., Mary Rutherford Jay, Margaret Munro, Goldsborough Banyar, Eva Munro, Harriet van Cortlandt and Mary Jay, wife of Frederick Prime, Esq. The adjoining territory upon the west, constitutes what is…
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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.
…It is not stated in the annals of that period, however, that either ilajor Philip Van Cortlandt or Judge John Thomas or any other of those officeholders under the Crown who were also officeholders or supporters of the Revolutionary party…
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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.
…Their children are Newbold and Eva Van Cortlandt. Mr. Morris and his family are members of the Church of the Holy Spirit, of which he was warden for many years, and is now a member of the vestry.
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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.
…A locality in Sing Sing and in Cortlandt. Probably a variation of Kitchawong. Keskistkonck. -- Var., Kisco, Keskisco, Cisqua. Originally an Indian village situated on the bank of a creek. Massachusetts, Kishketuk-ock, " land on the edge of a creek." Kestaubnuck…
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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.
…1S4 Van Cortlandt cemetery iu, i. 194 fcoutant family, i. eS9 County liistoncal Society, formation of, ft, 551 Covel, Samuel, i. 70 Cow Boys, 1. 300 Cra'.vbucky Porat. 11 20 Creek, Hutchinson's, 1. 248 Rattlesnake, i. 245 Tuckahoe…
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O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851.
…Stephanus Van Cortlandt, an opulent and highly respectable citizen of New York, of which marriage was issue James De Lancey, the subject of this sketch, who was born in New York city in 1702, and was the eldest of seven…
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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…
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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.
…riding up from the city of New Yorlv on horseback, mounted on a pillion behind her favorite brother, Jacobus van Cortlandt, for the purpose of superintending the erection of this church; her husband was at this time a merchant in…
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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.
…Catharine Depeyster, and has one son, Cortlandt. The four da. of Hazard are Phcebe, Hannah, Jerusha, and Abigail. 2. John mar. Frances Perry, 3. Daniel mar. Elizabeth Field, and left one son James, and two da. James had Edward, James…
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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.
…Brockhoist, Philipse, Van Cortlandt and Younge for New York, and ]\Iessrs. Gold, Allyn and Pitkin for Connecticut. The mouth of the Byram River was settled as the boundary point, and, as not less than five towns (always regarded in Connecticut…
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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.
…silver bason or font ; the latter presented by a member of the Van Cortlandt family ; and a silver plate bearing the follo-vving inscription : "Presented To the Episcopal Church Of the town of Yonkers, 1795.'" During the troubles of the…
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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.
Van Cortlandt's. They appear to have taken the route of Tippett's valley, as the party stopped at Mr. Frederick Post's to obtain a drink of water. In the mean time an express had been forwarded to Miss…
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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.
…The fourth brigade, commander by Brigadier-General James Clinton, was made up of the Second New York regiment under Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt ; the Third New York under Colonel Peter Gansevoort ; the Fourth New York under Colonel Frederic Weissenfels ; the…
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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.
Van Cortlandt, 155th N. Y.; George Nichols, Gth N. Y. H. A.; Charles Schoomaker, 20th N. Y.; Neheniiah Sperry,t "lOth N. Y.; James Young, Gth N. Y. H. A.; Patrick Cannon, 17th N.
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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.
…General Van Cortlandt states that Paiilding wore this drees on the day of the capture, which tended to deceive Andre and led him to exclaim, in answer to their reply, " Thank God, I am once more among friends."
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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.
Van Cortlandt has to say, -- " Knitting was an art much cultivated, the Dutch women excelling in the variety and intricacy of the stitches. A knitting sheath, which might be of silver or of a homely goose quill, was an indispensable…
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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.
…gives the reason for enacting the law in these words; -- "But inasmuch as the Heirs of the said Stephanus van Cortlandt, by Reason of the said Manor's remaining undivided among them, and otherwise, had not, untill very lately, asserted…
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Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…9 ho., A.M., September 19th, 1775." The following letter, addressed by the Colonial Committee of Safety to Frederic Van Cortlandt and others, informing them of the remarkable result of this Election, in Yonkers, will interest those who desire to…
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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.
…In addition to these and Van Cortlandt avenue, referred to above, Gouvenure avenue, Stevenson avenue and Lesler place, have been laid out within the limits of the park. The Central Park Commissioners, who have done so much to beautify and…
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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.
In 1724, the inhabitants of Eastchester appear to have held a quit-rent on the patent of Jacobus Van Cortlandt, and others, &x.c a This Individual was the Mayor of the city of New York In 1703, and for…
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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 the order of the King to Sloughter, appointing his Council, we find again the names of Philipse and Van Cortlandt, who, with their associates, were now sworn into office- Sloughter, reports to England that many of Leisler's followers…
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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.
Van Cortlandt has written of these stately houses so graphically that pictures of them may be recreated in the mind's eye from her description : " The furniture of well-to-do people was massive and costly and that of the…
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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.
…Henry White, of the Council of the Province of New York, and his wife Eve Van Cortlandt, of Yonkers. While a divinity student Mr. de Lancey held the first services of the Episcopal Church in Mamaroneck; and with the aid…
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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.
…After the Revolution Augustus Van Cortlandt and John Warner were of the first trustees of the new "Yonkers Episcopal Society," formed in 1787, and members of the first vestry of " St. John's Church in the town of Yonkers," on…
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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.
…Lincoln was to halt at Van Cortlandt's, Scott at Valentine's Hill, near the present South Yonkers Station, and Wooster at the top of the Williams' Bridge Hill. Wooster struck the enemy's pickets first at the top of…
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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.
…His second wife, Catherina, a sister of Stephanas Van Cortlandt and widow of John Dervall, survived him many years, dying in V 1730. She lived witli her stepson, Adolph, \a at Castle Phiiipse, and was universally beloved for her gentle…
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Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…the late Provincial Congress to be given them, " any three of whom to be a quorum," were Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt, Colonel Lewis Graham, Colonel Gilbert Drake, Major Ebenezer Lockwood, Gouverneur Morris, William Paulding, Jonathan G. Tompkins, Samuel Haviland, and…
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