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O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. II. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
…Read and Referred to M'
G Livingston Mr.- Havens and M' Van Cortlandt , . .-i.-..^^
Ttie Committee to whom were referred the Petition of James
Rumsey setting forth that he hath invented a new method of pro
pelling Boats by Steam…
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.
…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…
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.
…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…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…the first Provincial
Congress, is made on the authority of the official report of that Meeting,
signed by " James Van Cortlandt, Gliairman for the Day," and pub_
llshed in Bivmgton's New-York Oanetteer, No. 108, New-Yobk, Thursday,
May…
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…
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. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
…9 and 10 of the manor of Cortlandt. These
were again subdivided into thirty six smaller lots or farms. The
whole was about four miles square. In the year 1769, Stephen
de Lancey, and Hannah, his wife, conveyed to 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.
…Sound, was incidentally bringing all previously neglected districts of the interior, up to the confines of Philipse's and Van Cortlandt's lands, under definite private ownership, and distributing
through them an enterprising and energetic element of new settlers. 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. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
…The following letter of Chief Justice John Jay to James DePeyster shows that the lands
of Anne Van Cortlandt, daughter of Jacobus, and wife of Judge John Chambers, and sister
of Mary Jay, mother of the writer, had not been…
National Park Service (2021)
…2018. “Van Cortlandt Park.” NYC Parks, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, www.nycgovparks.org/parks/VanCortlandtPark/highlights/11610. Accessed 2 Jun. 2018. “Van Schaick Mansion.” Cohoes Proud, City of Cohoes, 2009, www.cohoes.com/cit-eaccess/webpage.cfm…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…in conformity with the published
terms of the Congress itself, be permitted to stand in
the way of a Van Cortlandt, the latter with nothing
else than two ex-parte Affidavits to sustain the evidently ridiculous charge of wrong-doing…
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.
…Catherine Philipse, daughter
of OloflT Stevens Van Kortlandt, and wife of Frederick Philipse, seems to have taken great interest in its
erection and to have been largely its benefactor.
IXFLCEXCEOF THE Cler(;y. -- Certain it is that no
class 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.
…When the latter event occurred he was, in
conjunction with Stephen Van Cortlandt, left in charge of the government by Lieutentant-Governor Nicholson. After resisting for a few
days the proceedings of Leisler, as became his position, he wisely, when…
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 delegates
from Westchester County were Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt, Colonel
Lewis Graham, Colonel Gilbert Drake, Major Ebenezer Lockwood,
Gouverneur Morris, William Paulding, Jonathan G. Tompkins, Samuel Ilavilaml, and Peter Fleming. The third provincial congress was
the last of 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.
…few, if any, such
examples, among those who were really patriotic, as
were afforded by John Thomas and Pierre Van Cortlandt, by Peter R. Livingston and Nathaniel Woodhull, by George Clinton and Philip Schuyler, in the
instance under consideration, when…
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 old oak tree east of the Van Cortland t residence, served
the purpose of a military whipping post.
Upon the summit of a high knoll, south east ot the Yan Cortlandt residence, stands the Episcopal Church of St. Peter…
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.
…Committee of Arrangement, " Fishkili.,
"Jany 1.3, 1777 ;") but, in February, he declined to continue in the
place, {Philip Van Cortlandt to the Committee of Arrangement, "FiSHKILL,
"Feby. 25, 1777.")
' Moses Hetfield was Captiiin of the Company of Minute-men…
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.
…General Van Cortlandt states that Paulding wore
this dress on the day of the capt ure, which tended to decieve Andre, and led him to exclaim,
in answer to their reply, " Thank God, I am once more among friends."
b…
National Park Service (2021)
…Van Cortlandt Park was the site of the Battle of Kingsbridge on August 31, 1778. Indian Field honors the Native Americans who died fighting the British in this battle, including Chief Daniel Ninham, his son Abraham, fifteen other Stockbridge Munsee…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…referred to Captain Richard Montgomery, of Duchess-county, Henry
Glenn and Robert Yates, of Albany-county, and Colonel James Van Cortlandt and Colonel James
Holmes, of Westchester-county, with orders " to view
" the ground at or near King's Bridge…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…of the departure of the ships
was received from Lieutenant-colonel Hammond,
the Convention very promptly despatched Colonel
Pierre Van Cortlandt and Zephaniah Piatt, the former
a Deputy from Westchester-county and the latter one
from Duchess-county, " to the…
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.
…presents do for us, our heirs and successors, give, grant, ratify and confirm unto our said loving subject, Stephannus
Van Cortlandt, all the aforesaid certain parcel and tracts of land and meadow
within their several and respective limits and bounds…
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.
…Peter's church, in the borough town of Westchester, and the county of Westchester, in our province of New York, and John Bartow, Isaac Willett,
Lewis Morris, Jr., Peter de Lancey, Nathaniel Underbill, James Graham and
James van Cortlandt, inhabitants…
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…
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 departure of the ships
was received from Lieutenant-colonel Hammond,
the Convention very j)romptly despatched Colonel
Pierre Van Cortlandt and Zephaniah Piatt, the former
a Deputy from Westchcstcr-county and the latter one
from Duchess-county, " to 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.
…third
parts tliereof which belong tc the government, with said guai'diar.s by name,
.Mlss'- John Lawrence, Stcphfmus van Cortlandt and Walter Wcbly, for the onethird part thereof inlierited by them ; to adjust and settle the debts and credits…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Miller, Hannah Mabie, c.1759-1849; (1845-11-19). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 426. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.
…Colonel Van Cortlandt and Major
Fish quartered at Mrs. Brewers. The
Generals Lee and Gates and McDougall
at different [times] had their Head-
Quarters at aunt Annetjie Millers. Andre's captors had splendid dinners
given them by General Washington and…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
"Resolved, that the thanks of this Body be given to
" the virtuous minority of the general Assembly of
" this Province, and particularly to John Thomas and
"Pierre Van Cortlandt, Esqrs., two of ourrepresenta-
" tives for their firm attachment to 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.
"Resolved, that the thanks of this Body be given to '
" the virtuous minority of the general Assembly of
"this Province, and particularly to John Thomas and
"Pierre Van Cortlandt, Esqrs., two of ourrepresenta-
" tives for their firm attachment to 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.
…to Captain Richard Montgoniery, of Ducheas-county, llenry
Glenn' and Robert Yates, of AJbany-county, and Colj quel .lames Van Cortlandt aud Colonel James
I Holmes, of Weslchest^r-county, with orders " to view
' " the ground at or near King…