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Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…In the year 1697 the northern boundary of Van
Cortlandt's manor was defined as running
unto the north side of a high hill called Anthony's Nose, to a
cedar tree which marks the southernmost bound of the land…
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 appears that Adolph Philipse and Jacobus van Cortlandt purchased
(in the lifetime of John Richbell,) the fee simple of certain lands
in Mamaroneck, embracing one full and equal half moiety of the
west neck ; the whole of which afterwards…
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 sketches the
houses of the middle class and farmers, which, she
says, were of rough stone when they were not of
brick. She adds : " The windows were filled in with
small panes of glass ; the heavy wooden outside…
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 November, Washington
came once more down the old post road, spent the
night of the 12th at the Van Cortlandt house, and
the next day, amid the acclamations of the people,
rode victorious across King's Bridge, over which…
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 precise location
was at the entrance or neck of Teller's Point (called Senasqua), and west of the cemetery of
the Van Cortlandt family.
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.
…Philipse and Van Cortlandt, who had been sent
into retirement by Leisler, were recalled to the council by Sloughter,
and both of them thus resumed their old-time prominence. It has
already been recorded how Philipse, on account of 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.
…be upon me, not upon you."
ClinDuring the winter of 1TTT-TS General Putnam and the two
tons, with Lieutenant-Governor Pierre Van Cortlandt, John Jay, and
aothers, reconnoitered the Highlands with a view to their refortific
printhe
for
place…
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…
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.
…Catharine Dcpeystcr, and has one son, Cortlandt. The four da. of Hazzard are Pb.wbe, Hannah, Jerusha, and Abigail ; 2,
John, mar. Frances Perry ; 3, Daniel, mar. Elizabeth Field, and left one sou
James, and two da. James had Edward…
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 had 8, Zach. Roberts,
3, John Copp, 2, John Holmes, Jr., 2, and the rest one. The land was
then surveyed by Copp and laid out into 36 lots of 50 acres each (for
the small field…
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.
…Pierre Van Cortlaiidt,
of the town of Cortlandt, was Lieutenant-Governor of
the State, and Generals Lewis Morris, of Morrisania,
and Stephen Ward, of East Chester, were in the State
Senate. Gen. Thomas Thomas, of Rye, was in the
Lower…
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.
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Croton (Town of Cortlandt)
Pleasantville (Town of Mount Pleasant)
Larchmont (Town of Mamaroneck)
North Pelham (Town of Pelham)
Pelham Manor (Town of Pelham)
Bronxville…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…Old Paulus Hook Ferry, at the foot of Cortlandt
Street, was often spelled Powles Hook on old maps. In 1780 the Hudson froze from shore to shore, and was
measured over the ice at this point, proving to be two…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…Van Cortlandt and others were busy at this time in
organising the river guard, a fleet of whale-boats,
manned by patriotic rivermen, and stationed in the
bays and coves of the Tappan Zee and Haverstraw. This organisation afterwards did…
Bolton, Reginald Pelham. Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis. Indian Notes and Monographs, Vol. II, No. 7. New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1922.
…Thence curving northeastward, as Van
Cortlandt avenue now runs, it passed
the site of the old Varian homestead, which
is still standing at Rochambeau street
(pi. xh), and then continued diagonally
across the site of the present Williamsbridge reservoir, in…
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.
…The same year in which 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…
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.
July 24th, 1703, Catonah and Wackemaue sell to Jacobus Van Cortlandt of
the city of New York, and Zachariah Roberts, senr., of Bedford, a certain
tract of upland meadow and swamp, all within ye bounds hereafter named, that
is 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.
…Upon the 7th of March,
1788, it was independently organized under the title of Sfephentowji, a name adopted out of compliment to Stephen van Cortlandt, one of its principal proprietors. The present name was
bestowed, A. D. 1808, in honor…
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.
…Along the
edge of the valley are scattered beautiful knolls and high ranges
of hills, either cultivated or covered with woods ; to the left,
seated on a fine wooded hill, is a large stone mansion, erected by
Augustus van Cortlandt…
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. Among the chattels
enumerated in the inventory…
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.
…Tompkins, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr., and Ebenezer
White, and to that of 1821 Peter A. Jay, Jonathan Ward, and Peter
J. Munro. Both conventions made revisions in the constitution designed to render it more acceptable to the democratic masses --
changes…
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.
Van Cortlandt's
are situated the remains of Fort Independence, whose history is so ina Supplement to n. Gaines' Military Gazette, Feb. 9, 1778, No. 1372.
l6o HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.
separably interwoven with the stirring events of…
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.
…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.
…the
" day," that such a Meeting was held, at the White
Plains, on Monday, the eighth of May, 1775, " pur-
"suant to a general notice for that purpose," James
Van Cortlandt, of the Borough Town of Westchester,
occupying the Chair.
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.
…And (hen, attended by his staff and joined by Governor Clinton,
Lieutenant-Governor Van Cortlandt, and other representatives of the
State government, he followed.
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…the
" day," that such a Meeting was held, at the White
Plains, on Monday, the eighth of May, 1775, " pur-
" suant to a general notice for that purpose," James
Van Cortlandt, of the Borough Town of Westchester,
occupying the Chair.
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 bridemaids were Miss Barclay, Miss Van Cortlandt, and Misi
DeLancey. The groomsmen were Mr. Heathcote, Captain Kennedy,
and Mr. Watts, acting Governor DeLancey (son-in law to Colonel
Heathcote, lord of the manor of Scarsdale) assisted at the ceremony…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…The
buyers were Francis Rombout and Gulian VerPlanck,
and the date of the transfer of their property from the
Wappinger Indians was August, 1683. "Gulian Ver-
Planck died before the English patent was granted by
Governor Dongan ; Stephanus Van Cortlandt…