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O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1850.
Cortlandt M^ Van Vleck
M^ Olave Stephens M«" John Darvall.
M' Mayor
M*- Beeckman
M^ Jacobs
M"" Coenraet
M^" P. Bayard
D^ Newenhuysen
Mr Woolly. If this way shall not be effectuall to raise a competent summe-
That some other…
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 31s;t
of August, 1778, they took part in the engagement at Tibbet's Brook, on the Van Cortlandt's estate, in Yonkers. They fought bravely and over
forty of their number were killed. When Nimham
saw that…
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.
From this George Tippett, or Tippits, as the name
is spelled in his inventory made the 29th of September, 1675,* the stream is called Tippetts brook, which
forms the van Cortlandt Lake, and, thence flowing
southerly in a sinuous course…
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…
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.
…A long place, or
neck of land." (See Aquchung.)
Sackonck and Matightekonck, record names of places petitioned
for by Van Cortlandt in 1697, are located in general terms, in the
petition, in the neighborhood of John Peak's Creek and…
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.
…To his daughter Eva, wife of Jacobus van Cortlandt,
a house and ground in the city of New York, &c., also a mortgage of
Dr.
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.
…of it, by a •
vote of nine, in the affirmative, against sixteen, in
the negative -- Judge Thomas and Pierre Van Cortlandt, of course, being among the former, and Colonel
Philipse and Isaac Wilkins, of course, among the lattor.=
On 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.
…James van
Cortlandt, obtained restitution of everything. Within a few years, trees
have been cut down near the site of Gist's camp and found to contain
balls buried six inches in the wood.
North of the Parsonage, on 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.
…Colonel James Van Cortlandt
3 Dominie Tetard was born in Switzerland about 1721; graduated from
Univei'sity of Lausanne and received ordination about 17.52 ; soon after
was pastor of French Church, Charleston, S. C; came to Xew York 17…
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.
…Pierre Van Cortlandt, i. lio
cf Iloii. Robt. A. Morris, ti. 4i5
of Moses Field, ii. CCS
of ;\Irs "M.-iry Morris, ii. 453
of FlBv. Andrew Fo^'.er, i. 133
of r.ev. Isa;\c V.'iliin^, n. 3…
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.
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.
…Jacobus van Cortlandt, Joseph van Home, Capt. John Drake, Thomas
Pinckney, Joseph Drake, Edmund Ward, Henry Fowler, and Roger Barton,
a grant for a tract of land in Westchester Co., beginning at Hutchinson's
brook, at the end 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.
…Early on the1 morning of September 20, two residents of Cortlandtown, Moses Sherwood and John Peterson (a colored man, and a soldier of Van Cortlandt's regiment of Westchester militia), who were
engaged in making cider at Barrett's farm…
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.
…385, at the Van Cortlandt
Mansion and Birdsall House (Peekskill), 427.
at Joseph Appleby's (Dobbs Ferry), 507;
on Howe's return movement from White
Plains. 100; departure from Westchester
Countv to New Jersey. 401; his consuming anxRiver and the…
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. 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.
…Melchior lived to return, but Hans perished in that ill-fated expedition."
" In time the descendants of Melchior Van Rycken extended themselves
from Holland to the region of the Rhine and into Switzerland." " In
the Spanish war Capt. Jacob Simons…
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."
COUN IT…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…The Beat or District of Yonkers made its election
of Officers, agreeably to the provisions of the
Congress's enactments ; but the result was not satisfactory to Frederic Van Cortlandt and others, who
had been rejected by the Company ; and…
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.
Some of these lands must have subsequently reverted to the Indians, for in 1699 the Kitchawan tribe
again released the same territory to Stephanas van Cortlandt. This individual had previously obtained a charter from the
» Salem was incorporated on 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.
…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.
…Washington assembled his troops from their different encampments
on the west side of the Hudson, brought them across King's Ferry,
and ou the 2(>th established his headquarters at the Van Cortlandt
house north of Peekskill. lie at once…
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.
And 1
do give, devise and bequeath to my eldest daughter, Eva, the wife of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt, the house and ground with ye appurtenances in ye city of New
Yorke where they at present live in with all ye…
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.
…these presents do for
Us our heirs & Succesors give grant ratifie and Confirm unto our Said Loving Subject Stephanus van Cortlandt all the Afore recite'' Ceartain Parcell & tract
of Land and Meadows Within theire Several and Respective Limits and bounds…
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.
…We are
indebted to the Evening Gazette for the subjoined notice of this remarkable lady : " Cornelia Beeckman was the second daughter of Lieutenant-
Governor Pierre Van Cortlandt, by his wife, Joanna Livingston, whose
birth took place in the old manor…
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.
…Some were of quite fine
ware, entirely white, as in the Van Cortlandt Manorhouse, where one or two were spared by the soldiers
when removing the rest to use as plates.
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…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…A notable instance of this contempt
was seen at Yonkers, where Frederick Van Cortlandt,
an unprovided-for member of that extended family,
aspired to the command of the Company in that
Beat, probably as a stepping-stone to something better.
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.
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…Livingston, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Gouverneur Morris, Colonel De Witt, Gansevoort, Scott,
Ten Broeck, and others met to deliberate about the
form of government to be adopted by New York State.
Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard.
…The tide was ebbing, and as we approached the
mouth of the Croton, the current became more and more rapid, until we
found ourselves in a shallow rift abreast the Van Cortlandt Manor House,
unable to proceed. After vain efforts…