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Pryer, Charles. The Neutral Ground. Half Moon Series, Vol. II, No. 5. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1898.
…It
was perfectly self-evident to such men as
"Squire" Van Cortlandt, Oliver de Lancey,
and others, that one of the main objects of
the home government, in case of war, would
be to separate the more southern from the…
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.
…York,'' although the great George Whitefield had preached
in Peekskill in 1770 and talked from the veranda of the Van Cortlandt Manor House, too. Bishop Francis Asbury made great progress,
though, in 1795. Croton must have pleased him, for in…
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.
…Thereupon it was resolved, that Colonel Van Cortlandt
and Mr Z Piatt* be directed to repair immediately to the Highlands,"
Upon the 9th of October, a body of 1 100 British troops embarked on
board batteaux at Peekskill and 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.
…or river commonly called by the Indians Kightowank and by the English Knotrus river, and now
belonging to Stevanus van Cortlandt, Esq., and so
eastward into the woods along the said creek or river
two English miles, and from thence…
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.
…review of the history of
this period, memory will easily recall the names of
Pell, Philipse, Morris, De Lancey, Van Cortlandt as
of families po.ssessiug large influence in the county ot
Westchester. To these may be added the Bartows…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…the first Provincial
Congress, is made on the authority of the official report of that Meeting,
signed by " James Van Cortlandt, Gliairman for the Day," and pub_
llshed in Bivmgton's New-York Oanetteer, No. 108, New-Yobk, Thursday,
May…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1850.
…This defence was voted " a
high contempt," and McDougal was sent to jail, Messrs Gale, Van Cortlandt,
Col. WoodhuU, Capt. Seaman and Mr Clinton voting in the negative. A writ
of Habeas Corpus was sued out of the Supreme Court…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…Colonel Hammond, of local celebrity,
w^as actively engaged in organising the militia for
defence; Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt, of the Croton
manor of that name, was an active and efficient guardian of the east shore of the Tappan Zee…
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.
…In the same street fornierly resided Susannah de Lancey,a
daughter of Etienne de L-mcey Esq., and Anne Van Cortlandt his
wife. Her house during the Revolution afforded an asyhim for
the persecuted, who found here a safe protection…
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.
…The Kitchawancs had a large village upon Van
Cortlandt's Neck, connecting Croton Point with the
mainland. They had here the strongest fortress of
any in the county. Like Nipinichsen, it was a heavily-palisaded stockade. They had another village…
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.
…Croton river, on the isthmus connecting
Senasqua, or Teller's Point, with the main land, and
near the old Van Cortlandt Manor House. Eastwardly their lands appear to have extended to Connecticut and the lands of the Siwanoys. The Indians…
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.
…22
to Jacobua Van Cortlandt, and Zachariali
Koborts, i. 32
to John BeWea and others, i- 392
to Jotn Dibble, i. 31
to John Itichbcll, 1. 4r>5
to Lewis 'Morns, ii. *i;3
to Master I
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.
…July, 1678, had been assigned to
Frederick Philipse, and under his will passed to his
daughter Eve, the wife of Jacobus Van Cortlandt of
Yonkers, and of course under the law to him. These
were both upon the West Neck.
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.
…The army may
rely upon it, that they shall be brought to justice, and meet with the
punishment they deser\e."'^
Pierre van Cortlandt, vice-president of the committee of public safety,
under date of 2Sth November, thus feeUngly alludes…
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.
…Gertrude Beeckman, daughter and devisee of Stephanus van Cortlandt.
Here are situated an extensive snuff factory, and a wire factory,
both propelled by water power ; also about 20 dwellings.
The scenery of the Peekskill creek is remarkably rich and diversified…
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.
…Pierre Van Cortlandt, by liis wife Joanna
Livingston, whose birth took place in the old manor house, by
the banks of the Croton, on the 2d of August, 1753. Here her
infancy and youth glided av/ay, and but 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.
…The Manor as far as the personal dignity of the
Lord of the Manor was concerned, ended with the
death of Stephanus Van Cortlandt in November)
1700. In all other respects manorial, parochial'
civil, and jwlitical, it continued intact, until…
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.
Into the Spuyten Duyvil Creek empties Tibbet's Brook, a small
runlet which rises in the Town of Yonkers and flows south, passing
through Van Cortlandt Lake ( artificial ). The most noteworthy of the streams emptying into the Sound is the…
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 complete
development was effected by the extension of the line from High
Bridge to the terminus of the Elevated Railway at One Hundred and
Fifty-fifth Street, and by the building of the branch from Van Cortlandt Station to…
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.
…both their lands, and that, if either
the said Frederick Philipse or the said John Pell, shall at any
' Van Cortlandt papers.
b This individual was for many years alderman, and mayor of New York city iu
1678.
« See Royal…
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.
…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…
Raymond, Marcius D., editor and publisher. Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument Dedication, at Tarrytown, N.Y., October 19th, 1894. Tarrytown, NY, 1894.
…David Williams, another of the captors of Andre, was born near
Tarrvtown, and was own cousin to Isaac Van Wart. Was a volunteer
in Capt. Daniel Martling's Company. In September, 1780, he was in
the employ of Joseph Benedict…
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 conformity with the published
terms of the Congress itself, be permitted to stand in
the way of a Van Cortlandt, the latter with nothing
else than two e.r-parfe Affidavits to sustain the evidently ridiculous charge of wrong…
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.
…bo., A.M., Septoni-
"bor 19th, 1775."
The following letter, addressed by the tlolonial ('omuiittce of Safety to
Frederic Van Cortlandt and others. Informing them of the remarkable
residt (if this Election, in Yonkers, will lntere.st those who desire…
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 the 24th a severe
storm began; Lincoln's division had to quit
their huts in the woods back of Colonel Van Cortlandt's, and move back, some even to Dobbs Ferry,
to find shelter. A freshet in the Bronx…
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.
…On questions involving a division the vote was usually
fifteen to ten, Pierre Van Cortlandt and John Thomas being invariably among the minority. But the house framed and passed a state
of grievances, petition to the king, memorial to the…
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 next day there was a lively encounter between Willet
and the foe near the Van Cortlandt mansion,1 which resulted in the
rout of the latter. According to Irving the British lost nine killed
and four wounded before they…
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.
…The delegates
from Westchester County were Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt, Colonel
Lewis Graham, Colonel Gilbert Drake, Major Ebenezer Lockwood,
Gouverneur Morris, William Paulding, Jonathan G. Tompkins, Samuel Ilavilaml, and Peter Fleming. The third provincial congress was
the last of the…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…throughout Westchester-county,
the entire body of officers of the Colonial Militia, including some of the members of the Van Cortlandt
and other leading families ; the entire number of the
King's Justices of the Peace; the entire bodies of…