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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.
…The officers and soldiers of the Revolution preceded by General Philip van
Cortlandt, now the senior surviving officer of the continental army. These
passed through the line, conducted by General Hammond and suite, and the
marshal of the day, to…
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.
…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…
Cutul, Peter. Land Heist in the Highlands: Chief Daniel Nimham and the Wappinger Fight for Homeland. Hudson Highlands Land Trust, February 2025. https://hhlt.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Land-Heist-in-the-Highlands_Peter-Cutul-1.pdf
…31, 1778, while on a scouting expedition in what is today Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, Daniel
Nimham and the Stockbridge were ambushed by not one but two of the British army's most notorious
units, the Queens Rangers…
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 Cortlandt sat for the Manor during its whole existence.
In 175S the population had so increased that an act
was passed reciting the fact and authorizing the election of two Constables, one from those " having
Habitations near Hudson…
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.
…3 So called after Jonas Bronck, the earliest white settler and proprietor
of "Bronck's Land," now Morriaania, Twenty-third Ward, New York.
'.\n arliticial pond, formed by Jacobus Van Cortlandt, circum 1700, by
damming Tippett's Brook.
5.\ffording…
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.
…They were swiftly pursued up over the fields,
across the lane, down through Van Cortlandt's woods,
over Tippett's Brook into the woods on the ridge beyond, where a few survivors found concealment
among the rocks and bushes, and…
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 1796
he married Helen, daughter of Augustus Van Cortlandt, of Yonkcrs, and removing from the city of
New York, settled at Morrisania, where the remainder
of his life was passed as a country gentleman of
ample means and refined…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…of the Congress and the day on which it was to be re-assembled, "The journey between New York and the Plains was per-
" formed by the members on horseback, Pierre van Cortlandt, the PreBi-
*' dent, riding at their head.
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
"Gulian Ver-
Planck died before the English patent was granted by
Governor Dongan ; Stephanus Van Cortlandt was then
joined in it with Rombout, and Jacobus Kipp substituted as the representative of the children of Gulian
VerPlanck." The tract contained seventy…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…The left, that included Livingston's
, Van
Cortlandt s, Hale's, Scannel's, and Cillev's
regiments,
the Connecticut militia, and Morgan's famou
s sharpshooters, was on the heights three quarters of a mile
from the river, under command…
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.
David Williams subsequently removed from South Salem, or Cortlandt's manor, to Livingstonville, in Schoharie county, New York, where
he bought a farm of General Daniel Shays, and resided upon it until
his death, August 2d, 1831. He left a…
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.
…ERECTED AND BUILT BY FREDERICK
PHILIPS AND CATHARINE VAN CORTLANDT
HIS WIFE, IN 1699.
The interior of the building has undergone considerable repairs and alterations^ semi Gothic lights having supplanted the old
fashioned square headed windows. The pulpit and Heilig…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851.
…themselves inhabitants of the ew Hampshire
Grants, dated New Hampshire Grants, Westminster, 15th January,
1777; a letter from Pierre Van Cortlandt, Esq; President of the
Council, of Safety of Mew York, dated 28th May, 1777; and a
printed paper, signed…
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.
…On the 8th day of August, 1745, occurs a sale of land from Andrew
Johnson and Isabella his wife, daughter of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, to
Caleb Hall and Palatiah Haws, consisting of a part of lot No. 2, situated
in…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…3 That Committee, of
which Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt, of Westchestercouuty, was the Chairman, continued in session,
until the twelfth of February, 1776, when the Provincial Congress was again assembled ; i and that
Congress continued in session, until the sixteenth…
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.
On that eventful September day in 1780, two Croton men, Moses
Sherwood and John Peterson (the latter a colored man who had served
in General Van Cortlandt's Westchester militia) , were making cider on
the land now known as Orchard…
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…
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 chalices are inscribed as follows: -- ist. " The gift of Frederick
Van Cortlandt, St. Paul's Chtirch, Eastc luster, A. D. 1829." 2d and
3d, marked " A. S."a 4th, " St. Paul's Church, Eastchester, N. K,
from Mrs. 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. II. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881.
…One of these was
recently disinterred in making some improvements on the Kings-Bridge
road, nearly opposite the Van Cortlandt residence ; it proved to be on
examination the full sized skeleton of an Indian, in a sitting posture,
holding 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…
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 New York City and Northern Railroad enters
the county in Kingsbridge, and diverging there from
the Hudson River Road, passes through Van Cortlandt. South Yonkers, and North Yonkers, up the
Neperan Valley through Odells, Ashford, Elmsford or
Hall's…
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.
…John Townsend, of East Chester, who had been,
a year or two before, a member of the Lower House,
was elected Senator in opposition to Pierre Van Cortlandt, the Clinton candidate. It was at this timetliHt
the significant name, "Bucktail…
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.
…He died in 1702, aged seventy-six, survived
by a son Adolphus, a daughter Annetje, wife of Philip
French, an adopted daughter Eva, wife of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt, and a grandson Frederick (son of his
deceased son Frederick,) to whom…
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.
His country…
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.
He ioined Captain Philip Van Cortlandt's company,
boats
ordinate officer. ' While on duty at Teller's Point, in the spring of 1780, he decoyed adressed
on the beach a soldier
crew from a British ship in the stream 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 all probability they owed
their lives to the Indians' expectation of surrounding and taking them
prisoners "*
Bordering the road north-west of the Van Cortlandt's, is the old Hri'!-
ley property, ov.-ncd by the late Major Joseph…
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.
…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.
…The Representative in
Congress from this District, General Philip Van Cortlandt, voted against the Embargo, and was drawn into
opposition to Mr. Madison's aspirations. It is certain
also that the Vice-President, George Clinton, did not
apitrove 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.
…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…
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…