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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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."
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…