72 passages in 33 source items for “Croton Dam”
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Macdonald, John. Interview with Buckhout, Mr.; (1848-10-07). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 710. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…You can see where the
dam and pond of the Mill Brook were.
The small brook
that crosses the road between Mill Brook
and the Bronx is called Wigwam Brook,
and, as I have understood was once of
sufficient power…
Macdonald, John. Interview with McGowan, Margaret Benson, 1766-1851; (1845-12-16). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1280. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…Deveau who lived
McComb's dam on the West Chester
side.
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The Dyckman Farm however
long it may have been in the family,
was, I believe, purchased by Jacobus
after the Revolutionary War. Old Mr. Deveau…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Horton, John, 1780-1854; (1848-12-14). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 848. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…The
heavy stone wall at the head of the
hollow must have been the old stone
wall part of which yet remains,
and which ran from the dam along
the road easterly across Merritt's Lane
There was no other…
Westchester County Historical Society / John M. McDonald Interviews — Digital Collection April 2025
The “meeting house” was the predecessor of the First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown.
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McDonald Interviews — Croton-Area Eyewitness Accounts (1844-1851, WCHS digitized 2025) §9
— Item 1090: Interview with Odell, Pierre
Date: 1851-10-17
Interviewee: Odell, Pierre, 1828-1885;
People mentioned: Brown, Abigail; McChain, Hannah; Odell, John, 1756-1835; Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 1721-1814;
Manuscript source: Hufeland Mss. Book 1. Vol. 7, pgs. 1064…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Bates, Jonathan, c.1772-1854; (1846). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1241. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…in
playing cards by moonlight in the farm
yard of one Pennoyer, sitting on some logs
by the mill dam. The Refugees who
landed advanced on the east side of Long
Neck, and concealing themselves behind a
fence reached the…
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Interview with Bates, Jonathan §4
— …in
playing cards by moonlight in the farm
yard of one Pennoyer, sitting on some logs
by the mill
dam. The Refugees who
landed advanced on the east side of Long
Neck, and concealing themselves behind a
fence reached the…
Interview with Bates, Jonathan §5
— …in
playing cards by moonlight in the farm
yard of one Pennoyer, sitting on some logs
by the mill
dam. The Refugees who
landed advanced on the east side of Long
Neck, and concealing themselves behind a
fence reached the…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Vail, Lydia, b.c.1772; (1847-11-19). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1353. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
The widow Budd's house
stood below the Croton, and at Pinesbridge
on the left side of the road leading to White
Plains, and on the right of the road
leading to the North Castle Church - She was
born Griffen…
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Interview with Vail, Lydia §4
— The widow Budd's house
stood below the
Croton, and at Pinesbridge
on the left side of the road leading to White
Plains, and on the right of the road
leading to the North Castle Church - She was
born Griffen…
Interview with Vail, Lydia §3
— …The widow Griffen's house
stood above the
Croton on the north side of
the Crompond road. She was born
Brundage. The widow Budd's house
stood below the
Croton, and at Pinesbridge
on the left side of the road…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Odell, Jackson, 1792-1849; (1845-11-26; 1845-11-28). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 454. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…While delibera-
-ting what to do, they fell in with Andrew
Corsa who informed them there was a
British officer quartered at Deveau's, the
last house in Fordham, near where Ma-
-comb's Dam now is. They thereupon
instantly…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Corsa, Andrew, 1762-1852; (1849-10-27). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 839. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…The road
and bridge then crossed the Mill dam. The old Jail and Court House (one
building) in the Revolutionary war, stood
on the same side of the road as, and between,
the Church and the Quaker Meeting House. The…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Carpenter, Joshua, 1787-1873; (1845-11-01). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1103. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…The road which
passes to the house leads from the
CrumPond and Pines Bridge road
down to the Croton and there stops. There are several houses now on
this road, but in the Revolutionary
war it was probably a farm…
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Interview with Carpenter, Joshua §0
— …The road which
passes to the house leads from the
CrumPond and Pines Bridge road
down to the
Croton and there stops. There are several houses now on
this road, but in the Revolutionary
war it was probably a farm…
Interview with Carpenter, Joshua §1
— On the hill
north of the
Croton and of the bridge
and just over it are the remains of old
works thrown up by Washington to
command the bridge and which
he mounted with several cannon. The following are the…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Barker, William, 1764-1859; (1850-10-23). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1065. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…Fowler had been
out once previously to the Horseneck
excursion - I think it was to Croton, and
'twas said he took too much care of him-
-self. This report was the cause of his
acting so rashly at Horseneck where…
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Interview with Barker, William §4
— …Fowler had been
out once previously to the Horseneck
excursion - I think it was to
Croton, and
'twas said he took too much care of him-
-self. This report was the cause of his
acting so rashly at Horseneck where…
Interview with Barker, William §3
— …Fowler had been
out once previously to the Horseneck
excursion - I think it was to
Croton, and
'twas said he took too much care of him-
-self. This report was the cause of his
acting so rashly at Horseneck where…
Interview with Barker, William §0
— …He was
taken soon after at
Croton by a party of
Refugees from below and conducted to Morris-
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-ania where the loyalty of his brother and
father succeeded in procuring his enlargement
By their request he…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Beagle, Mary; (1848-10-19). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 718. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…They lay for the most part at
the widow Griffen's and widow Remsen's
and Captain David Montross's, on the
north side of the Croton. There was a
splendid military funeral of the officers
who fell a few…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Merritt, David; (1846-10-12). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1188. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…In the Revolutionary war there was
no bridge between the mouth of the Croton
and Pinesbridge until the Continental
or New Bridge was built, which was situa-
-ted about a mile from (that is, above)
the present bridge at the…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Mandeville, James, 1760-1848; (1845-09-23). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1226. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
The
party from Salem and Stephentown
wishing to take the nearest road
home were anxious to leave us when
we reached (approached) the Croton
and we agreed to go to Orser's house
on the banks of the North River…
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Interview with Mandeville, James §2
— The
party from Salem and Stephentown
wishing to take the nearest road
home were anxious to leave us when
we reached (approached) the
Croton
and we agreed to go to Orser's house
on the banks of the North River…
Interview with Mandeville, James §3
— …Captain Williams
had been averse to our halting here,
urging us to cross the
Croton and
join a guard of about twenty five
or thirty man posted at Courtland's
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House before stopping, and he was…
Interview with Mandeville, James §1
— …The
party from Salem and Stephentown
wishing to take the nearest road
home were anxious to leave us when
we reached (approached) the
Croton
and we agreed to go to Orser's house
on the banks of the North River…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Mead, Matthew, 1767-1851; (1847-11-10). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1216. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…The American lines
were drawn back, running from Palmer's
Hill across West Chester Creek towards
Croton river. Titus's Bridge was the most
advanced of the American posts on the
east end of the lines.
Col. Mead was not…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Strang, Thomas, 1763-1851; (1845-10-06). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 380. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…Colonel Greene was surprized at
Davenports house, situated in the fields
between Croton River and the road
leading from Pine's Bridge to Crum-
-pond, said houses being about three fourths
of a mile from Blaine's ford, about
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Interview with Strang, Thomas §2
— …Colonel Greene was surprized at
Davenports house, situated in the fields
between
Croton River and the road
leading from Pine's Bridge to Crum-
-pond, said houses being about three fourths
of a mile from Blaine's ford, about
- Hufeland…
Interview with Strang, Thomas §1
— …Colonel Greene was surprized at
Davenports house, situated in the fields
between
Croton River and the road
leading from Pine's Bridge to Crum-
-pond, said houses being about three fourths
of a mile from Blaine's ford, about
Interview with Strang, Thomas §3
— DeLancey's
troops on their return crossed the
Croton at a ford above Pine's Bridge
Joshua Hett Smith and
Major André were stopped at or
near Crumpond by a Sergeant's guard
under Crawford, a one
eyed man. The…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Hufeland Index to The McDonald Interviews (). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 2131. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…373, 528, 535
Cregier House 528, 536
Cregier August Yonkers 373
Crompond 552, 656, 708, 709, 713,
Crompond Meeting House 555
Crooker Robt *?* 989
Column(L)
Croton bridges 441
Cudney's ford over Croton 708
Cunningham, Provost 990
Cushings raid…
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Hufeland Index to The McDonald Interviews §6
— …373, 528, 535
Cregier House 528, 536
Cregier August Yonkers 373
Crompond 552, 656, 708, 709, 713,
Crompond Meeting House 555
Crooker Robt *?* 989
Column(L)
Croton bridges 441
Cudney's ford over
Croton 708
Cunningham, Provost 990
Cushings raid…
Hufeland Index to The McDonald Interviews §3
— …90
Blenis Ford over
Croton 79, 124, 202, 240, 251, 255, 567
Column(L)
Blenis Ford, Fight at 568
Block house at West Farms 116, 119
Bloomer's at Rye Neck 293, 507
Blue Bell Tavern 340, 531, 668
Booth…
Hufeland Index to The McDonald Interviews §39
— …650, 724
Vails ford over
Croton 552, 555, 564, 656
Valentines East chester 482
Valentine Dennis skirmish near 120, 917
Valentine Dennis Int 100, 102, 518
Valentine Elijah N.Y.C Int 134, 481
Valentine Fredk N.Y.C Int…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Lyon, Samuel, 1764-1856; (1844). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1895. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
They pursued the Refugees
from the Croton, and first saw them at
the great white wood tree where Andre
was taken, and overtook them at the
village of Irving [where the village
of Irvington now stands]. Took the
cattle, two…
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Interview with Lyon, Samuel §1
— They pursued the Refugees
from the
Croton, and first saw them at
the great white wood tree where Andre
was taken, and overtook them at the
village of Irving [where the village
of Irvington now stands]. Took the
cattle, two…
Interview with Lyon, Samuel §0
— …They pursued the Refugees
from the
Croton, and first saw them at
the great white wood tree where Andre
was taken, and overtook them at the
village of Irving [where the village
of Irvington now stands]. Took the
cattle, two…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Odell, Jackson, 1792-1849; (1845-09-30). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1469. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…DeLancey marched his detach-
-ment along by roads and across
fields so as to pass all American
outposts and patrols unobserved
and gained the Croton without discovery. My father being down with a
flag in 1778, Colonel DeLancey took
him…
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Interview with Odell, Jackson §2
— …DeLancey marched his detach-
-ment along by roads and across
fields so as to pass all American
outposts and patrols unobserved
and gained the
Croton without discovery. My father being down with a
flag in 1778, Colonel DeLancey took
him…
Interview with Odell, Jackson §1
— …DeLancey marched his detach-
-ment along by roads and across
fields so as to pass all American
outposts and patrols unobserved
and gained the
Croton without discovery.
Macdonald, John. Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel, c.1770-c.1854; (1844-11-01). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 862. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…Colonel Green and Mayor Flagg had their
Head quarters at the house of Richardson
Davenport about a mile (?) from Blenis's
ford on the road which is north of the
Croton towards the Hudson. When they
came to the Ferry…
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Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel §1
— …Colonel Green and Mayor Flagg had their
Head quarters at the house of Richardson
Davenport about a mile (?) from Blenis's
ford on the road which is north of the
Croton towards the Hudson. When they
came to the Ferry…
Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel §0
— …Colonel Green and Mayor Flagg had their
Head quarters at the house of Richardson
Davenport about a mile (?) from Blenis's
ford on the road which is north of the
Croton towards the Hudson.
Macdonald, John. Interview with Brown, Nehemiah, 1766-1847; (1844-10-28). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1508. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…When Colonel Greene was attacked
at Croton, he said to the soldiers in the
house as the Refugees advanced: "Fire
away, boys! They are only a party of
Cowboys!"
Miss Mary Kniffen [X1], who lost her
life in 177 , was…
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Interview with Brown, Nehemiah §3
— …When Colonel Greene was attacked
at
Croton, he said to the soldiers in the
house as the Refugees advanced: "Fire
away, boys! They are only a party of
Cowboys!"
Miss Mary Kniffen [X1], who lost her
life in 177 , was…
Interview with Brown, Nehemiah §4
— When Colonel Greene was attacked
at
Croton, he said to the soldiers in the
house as the Refugees advanced: "Fire
away, boys! They are only a party of
Cowboys!"
Miss Mary Kniffen [X1], who lost her
life in 177 , was…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Cregier, Augustus, b.c.1769; (1846-11-17). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1764. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…Colonel Hatfield commanded
he party that pursued Captain
Daniel Williams to Croton in '83.
- Seven or eight prisoners taken at the
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Interview with Cregier, Augustus §2
— …Colonel Hatfield commanded
he party that pursued Captain
Daniel Williams to
Croton in '83.
- Seven or eight prisoners taken at the
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time. Colonel Philipse was taken up
the country as a royalist, but broke his
parole…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Wood, James; (1847-11-18). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1372. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…and paths among their
friends, hiding in the wood and hills, &c. -
When they arrived at or near the Croton, they
then employed guides living about there to
pilot their droves down below till they were
out of all danger…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel, c.1770-c.1854; (1845-11-01). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1169. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…Samuel
Kipp of Mount Pleasant near Croton
River is a son of Captain Samuel
Kipp. Captain Samuel Kipp was
lost at sea in going to Nova
Scotia whither his wife refused to
accompany him. When the book of Joshua
Hett…
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Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel §5
— …Samuel
Kipp of Mount Pleasant near
Croton
River is a son of Captain Samuel
Kipp. Captain Samuel Kipp was
lost at sea in going to Nova
Scotia whither his wife refused to
accompany him. When the book of Joshua
Hett…
Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel §4
— …Samuel
Kipp of Mount Pleasant near
Croton
River is a son of Captain Samuel
Kipp. Captain Samuel Kipp was
lost at sea in going to Nova
Scotia whither his wife refused to
accompany him.
Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel §0
— …At this place which is
about a mile from Richardson Daven-
-port's farm house where Colonel Greene's
Head Quarters were, they crossed the
Croton
pushed on and were not seen until
they arrived within pistol shot of a…
Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel §2
— …down
daily to see them, returning at night
to his quarters in York Town some
where north of the
Croton and near
Pines Bridge. On his return from
one of these visits he was waylaid
by James Totten, James Tillott…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Montross, Nathaniel, 1770-1858; (1848-10-17). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1489. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…Nathaniel Mon-
-tross aged seventy eight: "When
Tarleton came out to Crompond in
1779, he crossed the Croton at Cudney's
ford two and a half miles above Pines
Bridge. He then went about two miles
on the Somers road…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Davis, Abraham, c.1765-1854; (1846-11-24; 1846-11-21). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1232. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
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1846 November 24th Abraham Davis: -
"Totten once went above the Croton,
and took some cattle from the active
Whigs which he entrusted to a small
party, returning himself by another
direction. John McFadian was of
the…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Strang, Thomas, 1763-1851; (1847-10-20). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1344. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…On the 24th of June,
Tarleton came up by a circuitous route
going up the Croton above Pines Bridge
one mile and a half or more above, crossed
at Vail's ford, advanced upon Crompond
from the east by a…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Montross, Nathaniel, 1770-1858; (1848-10-19). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1423. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…Nathaniel
Montross: "Upon the bluff
on the north side of the Croton at
Pines Bridge are remains of fortifi-
-cations said to have been thrown
up by Washington in 1776 to command
the passage of the river at this spot…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Vail, Lydia, b.c.1772; (1848-10-19). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1403. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…Part of them
approached in front of the building
and part by the road from the Croton,
which road then passed by the rear
of the house, that is, on the north and
north west of it. Greene, Flagg, and…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Macdonald's Research Notes (). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 2168. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…Convention ^also assembled on the 5th of September.
/
[X]Next* to *Croton river* at the house of John *Blagge* p.601-609.
"July 11 1776. The Troop of horse of the County of West Chester (as is said?)
have refused…
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Macdonald's Research Notes §32
— …Convention ^also assembled on the 5th of September.
/
[X]Next* to *
Croton river* at the house of John *Blagge* p.601-609.
"July 11 1776. The Troop of horse of the County of West Chester (as is said?)
have refused…
Macdonald's Research Notes §42
— …847.
/
"Thursday, May 22d, 1777." "Levi Quimby brought before the coun-
-cil of Safety & examind, says, - he left New York on last Wednesday week, came
into thro' Westchester, & crossed
Croton: - that there are about 800 men at the
Bridge & Fort…
Macdonald's Research Notes §69
— …375-377.
/
Rogers's rangers at Courtland Farm,
Croton river &c. p. 387.
/
"Letter from Brig. Genl. John Marin Scott" "North Castle, January 11th, 1777."
Sir \….Rogers with about 900 of the enemy, are now plundering at & about
New Rochelle…
Macdonald's Research Notes §41
— …847.
/
"Thursday, May 22d, 1777." "Levi Quimby brought before the coun-
-cil of Safety & examind, says, - he left New York on last Wednesday week, came
into thro' Westchester, & crossed
Croton: - that there are about 800 men at the
Bridge & Fort…
Macdonald, John. Interview with Hobby, Enos, 1761-1857; (1849-11-05). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1363. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
…We moved first up the North
River road with the intention of surprising
the guard at Pine's Bridge; but when
within three or four miles of the Croton information
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came that the rebels there had…