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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
…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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 the with east ** AppamaghpTgT Cortlandt. The main stem of this term is the same as that in the previous name, of place a i.e., water-place," covering (lodge) -The pond." « or…
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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…
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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…
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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.
…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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
…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…
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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…
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