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O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851.
…De Peyster for
Isaac Roosevelt Saml Deall self & Doctr Jno Jones
Jacobus Van Zandt William Cockburn Fredk V. Cortlandt
Wm Sheriff by order Garret Rapalje
"1772. April 8. Read in Council
CIVIL OFFICERS FOR CUMBERLAND CO.
A Nomination for 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.
…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…
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.
…s river, at a certain place called by the Indians
Sachus, and stretching by the north side of Stephauus Van Cortlandt, his lar.d
up to the said river, to another creek, and so runs up said creek in several…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…It was built in 1701,
by Etienne De Lancey, on a lot of ground which Stephanus Van Cortlandt had given to his daughter, Anne, when, in the preceding year, that
lady was married to Mr. De Lancey; and it is…
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 second is also richly engraved whh antique figures, representing angels, birds, fruits and flowers, beside, three ovals containing emblematic figures of Faith, Hope
and Charity, near the top is engraved the name of Catharina van
Cortlandt, this cup stands…
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, left
throughout the Manor. Of this about 1200 acres
divided into five farms are, at this moment, still
held, in the Great Lot, No. 6, south of Croton, by
descendants of the heir to whom that lot…
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 speaks for itself of the ability of
Phili]) Verplanck, who was the same Philip Verplanck mentioned above, who sat for tlie Manor of
Cortlandt in the Assembly of the Province from 1734
to 17(jS, thirty-four years.
This…
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.
…New York."
In the instructions to Dongan are to be noted, first,
the naming of Frederick Philipse and Stephen Van
Cortlandt, large landed proprietors in Westchester
County, as members of his Council, and, second, the
order to assemble eighteen representatives…
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.
…Whereas,
our loving subject, Colonel Stephanus Van Cortlandt, one of the members of
our Council of our Province of New York, &c., hath by his petition presented unto our trusty and well beloved Colonel Benjamin Fletcher, Captain General and Governor…
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 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…
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.
…This movement would be
perfectly concealed by the fall of the ground to the
right {i.e., down the slope in Woodlawn Heights, towards the stream at Second Street) and by the woods
on the left {i.e., Van Cortlandt…
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.
…King's Bridge and Van Cortlandt's.
Aqueducts. -- 1. The Croton aqueduct, begun
1837 and completed 1842, passes along the brow of
Valentine's, (iun and Tetard's Hills. 2. The Bronx
River water supply, determined upon in 1879 and…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…remarkable instances of the
inconsistency, if not of the incomprehensibility, of
mere politicians ; but history affords few, if any, such
examples, among those who were really patriotic, as
were afforded by John Thomas and Pierre Van Cortlandt, by Peter R.
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.
…In 1002, Mar
garet having died, li<- married for his second wife Catherina, daughter
of Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt and widow of John Dervall -- another fine alliance from the substantial point of view. His commercial and financial operations continually grew…
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.
…00 from its proprietor, Philip Verplanck, to whom it had
descended from the original Philip Verplanck, grandson of Stophanus
Van Cortlandt. These £>entlemen laid oil the Point into streets and
GENERAL
COUNTY
HISTORY
avenues, reserving portions of it for parks…
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.
…695
is also connected mth the Van Cortlandts, the lords of Cortlandt
Manor. Roger Morris (eleventh in descent from Cadugan of Philip
IXirddu, a powerful Welsh chieftain) who stood high in favor, and on
terms of great friendship, u-ith…
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, on the part of Director Stuyvesant,
and Robert Carr, George Carteret, John Winthrop, Samuel Willys, John Pynchon, {the latter
three of Connecticut), and Thomas Clarke {of Massachusetts) on the part of Governor Nicolls, and consented to by both…
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.
…351
General Assembly of this Province, and particularly to Jolin Thomas and Pierre
van Cortlandt, Esq., two of our Representatives, for their attachment to, and
zeal on a late occasion, for the preservation of the union of the Colonies, and…
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.
…House affair. The,
442.
533, 539. 542. 580. 014. Van
(Cornelia
G. Gerard
Mrs. Beekman,
Baird, C. W. (Rev.), 34. 124. 2n2. 215. 218. 221.
4iiii 444 517 601. Cortlandt), 427. 527. 53a.
Betts. William, of the Yonkers Land. 144…
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, Joseph Van Home, Capt. John Drake, Thomas Pinckncy,
Joseph Drake, Edmund Ward, Henry Fowler and Roger Barton, a grant for a
tract of land in Westchester county, 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.
…Lands near Verplanck's Point, also a locality
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with east
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Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…At the
same time Colonel Van Cortlandt, John Jay, and Robert Harper were
directed to ascertain what property Mr. Seabury had which might be
seized and sold forthe payment for his board and lodging, in his involuntary exile, (Journal of…
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.
…In front of the Van Cortlandt Manor House was Croton Bay,
into which flowed the rushing waters of the Croton River. It is difficult for the last three generations of Americans to realize that the
marshes with their tall reeds…
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.
…By his wife, Anne
van Cortlandt, Stephen de Lancey left issue James, Oliver, Peter,
Susan and Anne. The eldest son, James de Lancey, was a man
of great talents. This individual received his education at the
University of Cambridge, 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 the list of these counselors we again find the names of Philipse and Van
Cortlandt, who were far from being pleased with the
change. In a letter of theirs to the Board of Trade
they join with Lieutenant-Governor…
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
…s Nose at a marked Red Seader Tree, and along said
River Northerly to the Land belonging to Stephanus Van Cortlandt and the Heirs of Francis Rhombout
and G. Verplanck, and Eastwards in the Woods as far along the said…
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.
…At the
same time Colonel Van Cortlandt, John Jay, and Robert Harper were
directed to ascertain what property Mr. Seabury had which might be
seized and sold forthe payment for his board and lodging, in his involuntary exile, (.Journal of…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…would enable them alternately to open the Congress,
"every morning, with prayer;" but Gouverneur Morris, Lewis Graham, Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt,
Colonel James Holmes, Stephen Ward, and John
Thomas, Junior, six of the nine members of the Congress who were…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…That staunch
patriot, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Chairman of the Committee of Safety, addressed a letter to General Lee,
protesting that the city was not capable of acting
i64 The Hudson River
hostilely against the British ships, as it lacked both…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…Not one of the number was from Towns lying northward from the White
Plains ; not one had come from all the country lying westward from the
Bronx-river ; there was not present either a Van Cortlandt or a Thomas, already…