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.
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Kehcmiah Palmer was elected supervisor in his stead. 'Elected in the place of John Stevenson, who had removed from the town. ^The candidates for supervisor in 1814 wore Henry Merritt and John Pinkney. The result of the election was contested, and in June, 1814, the justice of the [wace appointed Mr. De Lancey suiwrvisor. * Dr. Rogers and Gilltert Budd Horton were tlie …
The following entry however is of much iui])ort:ince showing as it does the burial place of John Richbell the first white man who bought Mamaroneck of the natives -- the Father of the Town, his mother in law, and one of his daughters. As J\lrs. Richbell his widow continued to live in Mamaroneck and survived till the first years of the eighteenth century, though the precise …
Rushmore on the little knoll between the Harbour and De Lancey Avenue, marked by a few trees and a few half buried tombstones of a comparatively late date. How many of the Disbrows are buried there nought remains to tell. They have had for sixty or seventy years a cemetery of their own on West St. The last person whom the writer knows to have been buried on the knoll, was the …
The Freeholders and Inhabitants agree that the overseers of Highways are impowered to call on all the Men in their several Districts for the purpose of Destroying the Barbery bushes, so often as the said overseers shall think proper, until the whole are destroyed, any man refusing to come, if he is legally warned, shall forfeit -is. for every day, to be recovered in the same …
The de Lanceys of New Y'ork, are a branch of the ancient house of de Lancey in France, springing from Guy de Lancey, Ecuyer, Vicomte de Laval et de Nouvion, who in 1432, held of the Prince-Bishop of the Duchy of Laon, the fiefs of the four banier of Laval, and that of Nouvion.' These territories formed one of the fourVicomte-cics of the Laonnois, a division of the old province …
2 The official MSS. of this work, the great National Register of the Trench Noblesse, were firat printed by order of Louis XV., in 17:i8. 3 In two vols. 8vo., published at Paris ami at Laon in 1SU5. *he Nobiliaire de Picardie, Paris, ICOli, title "Lanei," Dictionnaire de The prefixed Roman numerals are so used in the French genealogies to denote the different individuals …
Ciiarles III, de Lancy, 6th Vicomte. Wives, 1. Madeline Le Brun, married 21st of July, 1569 ; issue, Charles IV., de Lancy, Seigneur de Cocquebine, (who died in 1667, leaving by Francoise Crochart, his first wife; Charles V, de Lancy, Seigneur de Charlemont, who died unmarried. By his second wife Marthe de Resnel,. the Seigneur de Cocquebine, who was created a Counsellor to …
He was confirmed in his nobility 1697. by a decree of the King in Council, Nov. 30th, 1697. He had issue, an only son, -- 1707. Pierre Charles de Lancy, Seigneur de Niville et de Blarus, born 5th of June, 1707 ; an officer of 1750. the King's Guards, who died unmarried in 1750. Christophe de Lancy, Signeur de Raray, above named, the younger of the two sons of Charles de Lancy …
He died in 1584, leaving ii son Nicholas de Lancy, second Baron, Treasurer of Gaston, first Dnke of Orleans who married Lucrece dc Lancise, a Florentine lady, and had four children. 1. Henry de Lancy, third Baron, who 1654. was created January 17th, 1G54, Marquis De Rarai. 2. Francois de Lancy, Seigneur D'Aramont, called the Chevalier de Raray, who was killed at the siege of …
Marie Charlotte, wife of Louis des Acres, Marquis de I'Aigle, who died in Paris, August 27th, 1734, aged 82 years.' 1660. Gaston Jean Baptiste de Lancy, second Marquis de Raray, married 4th May, 1660, Marie Luce Aubery, daughter of Robert, Marquis de Vatan, and had two sons, Charles Henry de Lancy, third Marquis, made a page to the King 1679. in 1679, who died shortly after …
Lanci Uari, dame Des Torres et Seigneiiries, d'Hanuuont, Kibecoiirt, I'impre St. Oenniiin ot Ruy, en |uirtie Ch;itelaino Hereditaire et engsigiste des Donmines de Bollii/y ct A'erberie, jtossides pjir ses jR'res de puispliis deux cents ans veuve de ile^ire IJartbelemi tie FlabautClievelier seigneur dc la nillarderie Maitre de camp de Cavalcrie. exempt des gardes du cor|« du …
On becoming a British subject, Ktienne (or Stephen) de Lancy modified these arms which had originated before the use of crests in heraldry, to make them more like those of English families, most of which have crests ; and though not registered in the English College of Arms, they appear as so moditied in most English heraldic works, and have since been so borne in America …
His son the Seigneur Jacques de Lancy of Caen, married Marguerite Bertrand, daughter of Pierre Bertrand of Caen, by his first wife, the Demoiselle Firel, and had two children, a son Etienne (or Stephen) de Lancey, born at Caen, October 24, 1663, and a daughter, the wife of John Barbarie. ' On the revocation of the edict of Nantes, Stephen de Lancey was one of those who …
He was a highly esteemed and influential man, and held, through all his life, honorable appointments in the councils of the city, as well as in the Representative Assembly of the Province. He was elected Alderman of the west ward of the city, live years after his arrival, in 1691. He was representative from the city and county ol' New York, in the Provincial Assembly, from …
The following letter addressed by him, 1591, to hitfriend Alexander Allaire, is still preserved among the public records at New Rochelle. XlKl YiiBli, I.K -JT Jl LIET, IfiOl. SIoNS. Allaire : Monsieur Notri* Amy 3Ions. Boithciler, avant de partir nie <loonem ordre qu'en ras (juSl viii-sc a iiiourir il Kiit fair duiiuation de ses tern*»» k sa filleule votre fillc, Sy vous …
He was a fellow commoner of Corpus Christi College (where he was styled the " handsome American") and studied law in the Temple In 1725, he returned to New York, and on the decease of John Barbaric, his uncle by marriage, was appointed by George II. to succeed him in the Provincial Council. He took his seat at the board, January 29, 1729, and held it to April 9, 1733, when he …
The ministry of England wished to keep the command of New York in the hands of Mr. de Lancey, but it was then, as it is to this day, a rule of the English Government never to appoint a native colonist to the supreme command over his own colony. To effect their object in this case without violating their rule, they decided not to appoint any new Governor as long as Mr. de …
This was a Congress of delegates from all the colonies, which the home government directed the Governor of New York to hold, for the purpose of conciliating the Indian nations who were invited to attend it ; of renewing the covenant chain and attaching them more closely to the British interest, and comprising all the provinces in one general treaty to be made with them in the …
3 For a full biograpbiral sketch of Governor De Lancey, see Documentary History of New York, vol. IV, p. 1037. * Virginia and Carolina did not send delegates, but desired to be considerecj as present. Doc. Hist. K. T., II, 567. •' See Letter of Lords of Trade, directing the holding of the Congress, and the minutes of its proceedings in full, in Doc. Hist. \. Y., II, 555 and N …
Before the motion for the appointment of this committee was made, Governor de Lancey, being in favor of the colonies uniting for their own defence, proposed the building and maintaining, at the joint expense of the colonies, of a chain of forts covering their whole exposed frontier, and some in the Indian country itself But this plan, like the other, was without effect upon …
On the 31st of October, 1754, Governor de Lancey signed and passed the charter of King's (now Columbia) college, in spite of the long and bitter opposition of the Presbyterians, led by Mr. William Livingston. So decided were they against the Episcopalians at this time, and so determined were the efforts of Mr. Livingston to break down the college, that, though signed and …
The death of Governor James de Lancey, which took place on the 30th of July, 1760, was an event which had a great influence in the affairs of the Province. He was found expiring upon that morning, seated in his chair in his library, too late for medical aid. His funeral took place on the evening of the 31st of July, 1760. The body was deposited in his family, vault, in the …
We had spent, very agreeably, the day before on Staten Island ; after ten at night he left my house perfectly well, in the morning he was as usual, but about nine a servant was dispatched to tell me Ills master was very ill. I mounted instantly and hurried to his house in Bowery Lane, but on the way was alarmed by a call 'that all was over,' and too true I found it ; he sat …
By her, he had four sons ; first, James ; second, Stephen ; third, Heathcote ; fourth, John Peter ; and four daughters; first, Mary, wife of William Walton, who died in 1767 ; second, Susannah, born 18th November, 1737, died a spinster in 1815 ; third, Anne, born 1746, and died in 1817, who married Thomas Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, author of the History …
James de Lancey had two sons, Charles in early life a British naval officer, and James, Lieut-Colonel of Porker's Poit Boy and other newspupei'S. HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. the First Dragoon Guards; both died bachelors, the former May 6th, 1840, and the latter May 26th, 1857 ; and three daughters, Margaret, married July 17th, 1794, Sir Jukes Granville Clifton Jukes, Bart …
Governor de Lancey, was born in the city of New York, July 15th, 1753, and died at Mamaroneck, January 30th, 1828. He was educated in Harrow school in England, and at the military school at Greenwich. In 1771, he entered the regular army as Ensign, and served up to the rank of captain in the 18th, or Royal Irish Regiment of Foot. He was, also, for a time by special permission …
Thomas James, a lawyer, who died in 1822, at the early age of 32, leaving by his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Ellison, an only child, a son, also named Thomas James, who married Frances Augusta Bibby, and died in 1859, without having had issue. 2. Edward Floyd, born 18th June, 1795 and died a bachelor, 19th October 1820. 3. William Heathcote, born 8th October, 1797, at …
William Heathcote de Lancey, the first Bi.shop of Western New York, was born at Heathcote Hill, Mamaroneck, October 8th, 1797. After attending school at Mamaroneck, and then at New Rochelle, where his teacher was Mr. Waite, father of the present Chief Justice Waite of the Supreme Court of the United States, he was sent to the academy of the Rev. Mr. Hart, at Hempstead, L. L …
Eve Jay, daughter of Peter Jay, the first of that name in Rye, (one of whose younger brothers was Chief Justice John Jay) by his wife Margaret, daughter of the Hon. Henry White, of the Council of the Province of New York, and his wife Eve Van Cortlandt, of Yonkers. While a divinity student Mr. de Lancey held the first services of the Episcopal Church in Mamaroneck; and with …
' This man iage was solemnized in the house of Mr. de Lancey, at Heathcote }Iill. .S3S 1865 MAMARONECK. of Pennsylvania, that old " College in Philadelphia" founded by Benjamin Franklin; and also received the degree of D.D., from his Alma Mater, Yale College-- being the youngest man upon whom, up to that time, she had conferred that honor. He remained in the Provostship five …
" In him," said a writer of the day, " the Church in America loses the further services of one of her oldest and wisest Bishops. Descended from one of the oldest and best families in this country -- which dates far back in our colonial history, and was from the first one of the staunchest pillars of the Church -- Bishop de Lancey had also the good fortune to be personally …
With sound principles, earnest devotion, personal gravity, and spotless purity of life, he possessed a clearness of head, a keen knowledge of human nature, and a coolness, caution, readiness, and boldness, which all combined in making him a successful Bishop. His skill in debate was remarkable, and was fully equalled by his mastery of all the resources of parliamentary …
While Hobart College, and De Veaux College, and the Theological Training School, and other flourishing Church schools, manifest his power of organization and maintenance, and his success in rallying aid by means of the confidence which his personal and official character inspired, he never neglected the General Institutions of the Church. Not only in General Convention was he …
The time for that change is much nearer now than it was then, and the shape which it will take, will probably be different in some important respects from Bishop de Lancey's ideas at that time.' But his foresight as to the coming change will continue on record. Another and still more important subject was also introduced first by him into General Convention -- the adoption of …
.John Peter De Lancey by will (dated 28th of January, 1823) devised his property in this town to Thomas James De Lancey, the only child of his deceased son Thomas James, and to his son William Heathcote De Lancey the Bishop of Western New York (except a portion of the western end of De Lancey's Neck which he had conveyed in his life, time to his deceased son Thomas James, who …
The eastern part, has now been sold by the children of Bishop de Lancey except the extreme south-eastern part, the country seat of Edward F. de Lancey. l^eter de Lancey, second son of Etienne de Lancey the Huguenot, prominent in the affairs of the Province, Member of Assembly from Westchester for many years, and High Sheriff was born 26 August, 1705, and died 17 October, 1770 …
James High Sheriff of Westchester at and for several years preceding the outbreak of the American Revolution, Colonel of the Westchester Light Horse, the alert and famous Partisan Chief of the Neutral Ground in the war of the Revolution, Member of the Council of Nova Scotia, died May 2d, 1804 at his residence Willow Park, near Annapolis, Nova Scotia, aged 58 years ; 8. Oliver …
Oliver de Lancey, the youngest of the sons of the Huguenot, and the third of them who left issue, born 16th Sept. 1718, died at Beverly, Yorkshire, England, 27th Nov. 1785, a merchant of New York, but more prominent in Public life, was Colonel of the Forces, and Receiver-General, of the Province of New York for many years ; Member of Assembly for the City from 1756 to 1760 …
Stephen, were, 1. Susan, married 1st Col. Wm. Johnson eldest son of Sir John Johii'-on, Bart., and 2d General Sir Hudson Lowe, K. C. B. Governor of St. Helena during the captivity of Napoleon the Great. Charlotte her only daughter by Col. Johnson married Count Balmain, the Russian Commissioner at St. Helena ; 2. Phila died, single, 3. Anne married Wm. Lawson of the Island of …
Phila wife of Stephen Payne-Galwey of the Island of Antigua, 3. Anna wife of Col. John Harris Cruger, the gallant defender of Fort Ninety Six in Carolina, Member of the Ccuncil of the Province of New York, and as such certified to the correctness and legality of the final Partition of the Heathcote estate in the Manor of Scarsdale in 1774. 4. Charlotte wife of Field Marshall …
In 1811 under a special act of the Legislature was incorporated " The Westchester County Manufacturing Society." * The Act gave this corporation power to purchase, hold, and convey, lands and tenements, goods, wares, and merchandise whatsoever necessary to the objects of this incorporation." Under this sweeping clause it bought two farms on the Mamaroneck side of the river …
The consequence was that the title to the property became so involved, embarra.ssed, and confused, tliat faith was lost in it. The land became unsaleable, and it remained practically dead to the great detriment of the village in every respect. » Ch. 17 Laws of 1811. About 1870 began a change, and now it is understood that the clouds are entirely dispersed. As soon as this was …
The leading man in the enterprise was the late John Griffin. Her landing place was at the foot of Bleecker now Union Avenue in De Lancey's Neck, Bishop de Lancey who owned the spot having at the request of Mr. Griffin and the other gentlemen obtained a grant permitting the building of a Dock below low water mark at that point, and leased them the privilege at a nominal rent …
The necessity of having a fire department was forced upon the attention of the inhabitants of jVIaniaroneck by a conflagration which took place in the business part of the village on January 1st, 1884. Soon after a Hook and Ladder Company was formed, known as Union Hook and Ladder Company, No. 1, of Mamaroneck and Rye Neck. Joseph H. McLoughlin, a very active man and the …
The application was granted, the company was formed and soon after began the construction of a water works, and in the spring of 1885 water was introduced through their pipes into houses in the village. The company has a capital of $25,000. The source from which the water supply is taken is the Mamaroneck River. The site of the old saw mill originally erected by Colonel …
An instance of how oppressive and unjust the School system as now administered is, upon the owners of the real estate of the Commonwealth, is furnished now by our County of Westchester. The writer is informed that the amount apportioned to this County this year, 1880, from the Common School Fund is $56,000 while the amount assessed upon and collected from its real estate last …
The New Haven Rail Road runs through the town, but so far north of the village, tlie harbor and the Necks on each side of it and the Sound, that neither can be seen from the station. The daily trains are numerous and convenient. It is now understood that a new Rail Road will be built in a very short time, which will run near the water and across the upper edge of the harbor …
The meeting at Mamaroneck was organized in 1686 and was held at a private house. ^ This house the writer believes was that of Samuel Palmer, afterwards the " Old House " of Peter Jay Mutiro, before referred to and its position described. They increased so much, that in 1704 an application was made to the Court of General Sessions, Colonel Caleb Heathcote presiding, that Samuel …
The Boston Road to-day at tliat point is still the old Westchester Path. Both plots were directly opposite the entrance to Mr. Peter Jay Munro's grounds within which, in 1819, he erected his splendid Country House, now the Hotel at Larchmont, termed the "Manor House." In the centre of the last mentioned plot, some little distance back from the road, was built, probably the …
Carpenter of the present meeting who at the writer's request made investigations of this point says it was " in 1735 or thereabout." ' On that spot stood the house, and there the Meeting was held, till 1768. On the 6th of the 2d month,-- February-- in that year the quarterly meeting at the Purchase directed five Friends to "review" "the place near the centre of said meeting " …
" The friends that were appointed a Committee to take a review of the place to set the meeting house on made report that they had met the friends belonging to Mamaroneck weekly meeting and taken a review of the places proposed to set the meeting house on for Mamaroneck weekly meeting & arc of opinion that a piece of land of Benjamin Palmers near & adjoining Cornells land is …
The old meeting house was not sold but was taken down and apart and removed to the new location, on the beautiful and commanding hill where it stands to-day. The old plot was not sold but kept as a burying ground. Another plot beside it on the west was sold and is now within the place of Mr. Meyers. This was the lot long known as the Locust lot from its being covered for many …
At the succeeding November meeting at Purchase, six pounds, 13 shillings were reported from the Weekly meeting at Westchester " and paid in," and there was also "paid in" a subscription "from Oswego particular meeting " of seventeen shillings and sixpence, and delivered to Edward Burling jr. It is most surprising that in 1768, a gift from Oswego then a mere frontier Indian …
During the greater portion of its existence the meeting has been large and influential, many of its members have been noted for their prominence in business and social circles and always for their integrity and stability. During very many years latterly there has been no acknowledged minister in connection with the meeting, yet it has continued without it, and from present …
cincts of the Parish of Rye, one of the two territorial parishes erected in Westchester County in the former year under the Act establishing parishes of the Church of England within the Counties of New York and Westchester passed March 24, 1693,' an act which with several amendments made in later years continued in force till repealed by the Legislature of the State in the …
John Lane and John Brondig (Brundige) were elected church Wardens, and Jonathan Hart Joseph Horton, Joseph Purdy, Timothy Knapp, Hachaliah Brown, Thomas Merritt, Deliverance Brown, and Isaac Denham, vestrymen.' In 1702 is the record of another election, when on the 12"' of January at a lawful town meeting in the Precinct of Rye Colonel Caleb Heathcote and the Justice Theall …
A view based on the mistaken idea that it was the Act of 1693 which established the church 1 II. Bradford's Laws, 19. 2 Ante pp. 98 to 108 inclusive. 3 Town Records of Eye. * Town Records of Rye. ^ In 1704, Madame Kuight, in her Journal before referred to, says in speaking of the towns of Mamaroneck, Rye, and Horseueck (Greenwich) "that one church of England parson officiated …
So strong was the connection of Mamaroneck with Rye as a part of that Parish, in fact and in feeling, that it continued practically down to the founding of St. Thomas' Church, Mamaroneck. All Mamaroneck people of the Episcopal Church attended at Rye church, and were married and buried, and their children baptized, by the Rectors of Rye. A very few went to the New Rochelle …
William Gray, Benjamin Hadden, Henry Gedney, Samuel Deal, Abraham Guion, and Matthias G. Valentine Vestrymen * at the first election held on Tuesday in Easter week of that year. The Rev. Mr. Haskell Rector of Rye and several of the clergy of the neighbouring parishes took charge of the services, which were held in the present Town Hall, then a Methodist Church just built, by …
The Church Wardens were the same, John Peter de Lancey and Peter Jay Munro. The vestrymen under the new organization were Henry Gedncy, Benjamin Hadden, Jacob Mott, Thomas .J. de Lancey, Benjamin Crooker, Guy C. Bayley, Monmouth Lyon, Edward F. de Lancey. The Rev. Mr. Haskell, who was Mr. John P. de Lancey's Rector at Rye, and under his influence long afforded a nursing hand …
W'hile at Mamaroneck he was called to St. Thomas's, accepted, and served gratuitously, till 1822 when through Bishop Hobart's recommendation he was invited by Bishop White of Pennsylvania, to become his personal assistant in the " three United churches " of Christ church, St. Peter's, and St James's in Philadelphia of which he was also Rector. This invitation Mr. de Lancey …
It was enlarged some years later, in 1835 by a chancel, and again in 1857 -- atthe chancel end by an addition containing another window on each side, and so remained until removed, and subsequently torn down, on the erection of the present striking and exceedingly handsome stone church, built at their sole expense and presented to the church corporation, by Mr. James M …
The entire length is 127 feet, that of the nave alone 70 feet, the chancel, a square one, is 25 deep by 19 feet wide, and the height of the tower is 87 feet. It has a high open timbered roof in the rich yellow pine of the Southern states. The altar and reredos are of Caen stone richly sculptured, the latter showing an exquisitely executed bas-relief of the Last Supper of …
The whole together, though the general eflect is impaired by being in the business and not very attractive part of the village, an evil that has been partially remedied by the liberal purchase and removal of adjoining buildings, and throwing their area into fair gardens, form one of the most thorough, complete, beautiful and churchly group of Parish edifices, with appropriate …
It there continued with a small congregation till about the year 1850, when it was removed to Rye Neck and a large and handsome frame church edifice was there erected about a third of a mile from the Mamaroneck River Bridge and nearly at the junction of the old Westchester Path with the road running east from that Bridge, an account of which falls appropriately in the chapter …
They had a market within a day's journey or a day's sail for all that they could raise beyond their own wants. Their taxes were light and they managed their local concerns for themselves under the easy laws of the Province. They felt no pressure of any kind or from any quarter. Even in the politics of the day there was no high party feeling, still less any undue excitements …
It is so in all countries under all systems. Those who excite revolutionary movements to overthrow old governments, are always a minority, and usually a very great minority, of the inhabitants of the Country the institutions of which are changed by violence or war. Hence it was that in 1774 the people of Mamaroneck opposed the action of the Committee of Correspondence, set …
It is not related that any second attempt was ever made. The most important Revolutionary incident, was the night battle on Heathcote Hill and the high ridge above it, between the Delaware Regiment, and parts of First and Third Virginia Regiments of Washington's army, under Colonel Haslet and Major Green, and Roberts's Rangers of Howe's Army under Major Rogers, resulting in …
Learning there of Rogers's advance and position, he at once sent orders to Colonel Haslet to take his Delaware regiment of 600 strong, and 150 men of the First and Third Virginia under Major Green, and surprise and cut him off.' The Virginians were to lead the attack and the Delaware troops to support them. Rogers bad been a scout of Sir William Johnson's with Israel Putnam …
Roused by the noise, he flew up to the fight not knowing how it was going, but roaring out with presence of mind, in stentorian tones, "They are running," " they are running," " give it to 'em boys, damn 'em, give it to 'em." Reassured by his voice and words the Rangers, actually on the point of fleeing, rallied, redoubled their ettbrts, and the American forces fell back …
All of both sides were buried just over the top of the ridge almost directly north of the Heathcote Hill house, in the angle formed by the present farm lane and the east fence of the field next to the ridge. There their graves lie together friend and foe but all Americans.^ The late Stephen Hall, (father of the late Abram, Isaac, and Thomas, Hall) a boy of 17 or 18 at the …
The writer, knowing that Mamaroneck did her full duty in the late civil war, tried some years ago to get at Albany the returns of enlistments and names of the men, but failed, the supervisor never having tiled them. The following is an account of the descendants of .John Richbell, who left only daughters, and of the Mott family of whom one of them was the ancestress. The …
Elizabeth, the eldest who became the second wife of Adam Mott of Hempstead, about the time that her father removed from Oysterbay, -- where he had been Adam Mott's neighbour,-- to make his final settlement at Mamaroneck. -- 2*. Mary, who in 1670 married Captain James Mott, second son of Adam Mott of Hempstead by his first wife Jane Hulett. Captain James Mott was long prominent …
Melancthon Smith of New York one of the most prominent men of the State during and alter the Revolution in the policy opposed to that of Alexander Hamilton. Richbell Mott Smith, one of the sons of Hon. Melancthon and Margaret (Mott) Smith died on the coiist of Japan in 1800. Another son was Colonel Melancthon Smith, the father of Admiral Melancthon Smith U. S. N. on the …
Coddington the first Governor of Rhode Island. The Underbills and the Coddingtons and the Willets and the Motts had become Quakers. James Mott, after a few years as a successful merchant in New York retired just before the Revolution, with a moderate competence, at the early age of thirty-three and settled in Mamaroneck, on the " West Neck " of his Grandfather's grandfather …
But the ancient tide Mill which stood near the house on the land locked bay which made the Mill Pond, and which James Mott continued to operate after the Revolution, was replaced about the end of the last century by a large new Mill, and a new dam about half a mile lower down the bay near its mouth. -- James Mott's three sons Richard Robert and Samuel had grown to manhood, and …
He died in Mamaroneck in 1857, in his 90th year. James and Mary (Underbill) Mott had four children, born in New York but brought up in Mamaroneck. Their eldest son Richard just mentioned was born in 1767. Their only daughter Anne born 1768 married at Mamaroneck in 1785, while still wanting three months of her seventeenth birthday, her father's cousin Adam Mott of Hempstead, in …
The young Adam between 1785 and 1790 built a new Mill at Cow bay -- (now Port Washington,) and prospered therefor more than fifteen years, and when his wife's brother Richard retired from the Premium Mill, the remaining brothers Robert and Samuel induced their brother-in-law Adam Mott of Hempstead to leave his prosperous Mill at Cow bay and join them in the Premium Mill, and …
But she was then only 21 years old, and did not so much as imagine that she could speak in public, and the spinning project not coming to satisfactory terms they returned to Philadel{)hia. Adam and Anne Mott's youngest son Richard, born at Premium Point in 1804, now for many years the Hon. Richard Mott of Toledo Ohio still survives in a vigorous old age of 82, one of the best …
He was a man of culture and high character, unusually handsome in person, tall, erect, and of much grace and dignity of manner and stood high in general esteem. In dress and habits he was always a strict Quaker of the old days, and active in the interests of his religious society travelling much in their serA'ice in the States of New York, Pennsylvania and New England. He gave …
Very closely connected with Mamaroneck and Scarsdale as parts of the Manor of Scarsdale, was that part of the County lying between that JIanor and Harrison's Purchase on the south, the Manor of Cortlandt on the north, the Colony of Connecticut on the east, and the Manor of Philipseburgh on the west. This immense area containing 70,000 acres of land, was bought from the natives …
These Great Patents were not Manore, though two of them were larger than either of the Manors of Pelham, ilorrisania or Fordham. They were simply Patents for great tracts of land issued according to law to three bodies of grantees as individuals, who each possessed an undivided share, bodies which in modern parlance would be called " syndicates.'' They were based uj^on a …
This covered all the present town of New castle and most of North castle as it now exists, and other lands south and east of the latter. It is hence sometimes called " North castle Indian Deed," or from one of the Indians " Wampus's Land Deed." Colonel Heathcote made most of the purchases of the Indians of Northern and Central Westchester then inhabiting it, in accordance with …
The same day the following Indians " in consideration of a certaine sume of good & lawful money " executed a deed for the land to the above named four persons and Coll. Heathcote, Capt. James Mott, Jonathan Lockhard, Gershom Lockhard's son, and Henry Disbrow, the same persons mentioned in Heathcote's license, thus describing it, " to begin at Byram river at y'' Collony Line & …
" Biet* known to all home it may consarn That I Saringo hafe This day Sold unto Joseph Horton saner (senior) A sarten Track or parsal of Land Setuaten and Lyen within the profence (province) of Nu Yorcke which land beginen at the purch[ase] lastly purch"* by Cornal Hacoc' " John Horton Cap" Thall Joseph" Purdy and all the Land from biram reuer * wassward unpurch'* and so to …
* Ancient copy of the original deed with Heathcote's license appended, in the writer's possession. .\lso recorded in West. Co. Records Lib. C, 96. s Be it. ' Colonel Heathcote. 'Capt. Theall. 'Byram River westward unpurchased. ' Bronx River. "Heirs. 11 Mark it. 12 Appear here again. Instant. MAMARONECK. he performen his part accorded to bagen ' as may apen connsarnend Land …
In the month of June preceding, on the eleventh, twenty-three days prior to the execution of the above deed, Seringo and two other Indians "in consideratione of a certain sum of money" deeded to Colonel Heathcote, Capt. Joseph Theal, Lieut. John Horton,' and Mr Joseph Purdy of Mamaroneck a tract " bounded as followeth, -- Southerly by Byram River, Northerly to the Northwest …
On the 27th of March 1702 a deed for lands north of Cross River above Bedford village was executed to Colonel Heathcote by Katonah the Sagamore of all that region, which as it is not recorded is here given from the original in the hand writing of the > According to bargain. 2 Rest. ' Follows. * January. ' Mentioned. •So in the original. ' Shirts. 8 This extraordinary deed is …
We the aboue sd indiens trew proprietars of ye aboue sd land as the bounds are named we have sold & doe set over from us our ayrs executors administrators, or asignes for euer unto the aboue named Caleb Hethcut, petter Mathews, Joseph Purdy, Richard Scoffeld to them their ayrs executors administrators and asignes for euer with all the rights titles privileges & apurtenances …
to one 6 guns to anker of rum to 20 bars of lead to 12 drain '* knifs to 12 par sockins to 12 citels " to G iron citels to cotun cloth 11 Roberts was the loading man of Bedford, noted for his bitter hostility to the Church of England, and bis intense desire to profit by all the public employments he could obtain. 12 Peter. •^Sickles. 1^ Drawing-knirei. HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER …
Caleb Heathcote impowering him to buy any lands from the Indian Proprietors betwixt Scroton's River * and the north end of Harrisson's Pattent, the said Heathcote and Joseph Horton have [bought] & are about to buy of the Indian Proprietors considerable tracts & parcells of Land ; Now know all men by these presents that It is mutually agreed & concluded betwixt the said Caleb …
Ann Richbell late deceased, the bounds whereof run with Mamaronock River to the head thereof thence in a north line twenty miles into the woods from Westchester Path, now all such lands as fall within the lines of those deeds as before mentioned shall be and remain to the said Caleb Heathcote his Heirs & assigns forever notwithstanding any deed or bill of sale in Partnership …
S.)' Out of the lands the Indian title to which was extinguished by the various Indian deeds above set forth were formed the three Great Patents that have been mentioned, the West Patent dated 14"' February 1701 to ten Patentees, the Middle Patent dated 17* February 1701 to 13 Patentees, and the East Patent dated 2'i March 1701 to 11 Patentees. Ten of these Patentees were the …
Several of these Patentees held their shares not for themselves but in trust for friends and some of them sold their shares to other persons. Immediately after the Patents were issued, all the different Patentees named in each executed joint covenants under seal, that no survivorship should take place aniong them, and that each should be divided into as many distinct parts as …
Patentees Names In trust for or sold to, R. Walter Schellenx & Lyon L. At wood Clarksons C. Depeyster C. Heathcote M. Clarkson Jno. Chollwell Quinby R. Slater T. Weaver R. Lurting C. Heathcote Barne Cosens Peter Fanconnier ' Original deed in Colo. Heathcote's handwriting in possession of the writer. It is not recorded. 8 From ancient copies of these covenants in the writer's …
Fanconnier Robert Lurting C. Heathcote Bounded Southerly, by the Division Line betweene y" Colony of Connecticut and the Province of New York parallell to the Sound. Easterly, By Mahanas River. Northerly, by Bedford Line and Mark' Trees runing westerly to Mahanas River. Westerly, again and as the said River goes against the stream to the head thereof, then along the Easterly …
Y. and said Colony of Connecticut, and so along said Line until it meets with the Patent of Adolph Philipse, and so along his southern bounds till it meets witii the Mannor of Cortlandt and from thence by a Line that shall run upon a direct course until it meets with the first easterly Line of 20 of the said Mannor of Cortlandt, and from thence along the said line Westerly …
The laud was then worth very little, and the Rye claimants were very few. Colonel Heathcote died February 28, 1720-21, and his entire estate passed under his will to his two daughters, Ann, the elder, subsequently the wife of James de Lancey chief justice of the Province of New York who died its Governor in 1760, and Martha, the younger, subsequently the wife of Lewis …
Not till after Colonel Heathcote's death, which occurred on February 28, 1720-21, was the matter closed, though negotiations were pending in his lifetime, and Governor Burnet's Patent for White plains was issued to Joseph Budd, Humphrey Underbill and others, bearing date the 13th of March 1721. The Patentees named therein, with four or five exceptions, were entirely different …
Heathcote for the purchase lands." This was carried out by a deed from Robert Bloomer, John Budd, Samuel Purdy, John Horton, Nathan Kniffen, John Disbrow, Samuel Brown, Roger Park, Joseph Galpin, Abraham Brundige, and nineteen other inhabitants of Rye and White plains, to Mrs. Ann de Lancey and Mrs. Martha Johnston dated September 5th 1739 for all the lands referred to in the …
They claimed that territory under an Indian deed to Peter Disbrow and three others of 2d June 1662, for " a certain tract of land above Westchester Path to the marked trees bounded with the above said Blind Brook," (this is the whole description) and as being in Connecticut of which they insisted Rye was a part, but they never would take out a patent for it. Hence when the …
The New York government by peaceful means tried to bring them back, but in vain, and this secession continued for about three years, until King William by a sharp " Order in Council," made on the 28th of March, 1700, ordered them back to the old jurisdiction, in the words of the order "forever thereafter to remain under the Government of the Province of New York." * That …
I told them that their argument might pass with such as knew nothing of the matter, but that I knew better; for that to my certain knowledge they might have had a patent had they not rejected it; and that it was so far from being done in haste or in the dark, that not a boy in the whole Town, nor almost in the County, but must have heard of it ; and that I must always be a …
The West Patentees remained quietly in possession however of all their territory. About twenty-three years after the issuing of the West Patent, and about two after Colonel Heathcote's death, a suit in ejectment was brought, by the persons named in the Bridges grant of 1705-6 against Robert Walter and other owners of the West Patent. The resisons for it are now unknown as the …
" Coll. Caleb Heathcote well acquainted with the North bounds of the Tract of land called Well's and Coxe's purchases, being the lands long before claimed by, and since patented to, the Town of Rye the 11th day of August 1720; " With the East and Xorth bounds of the lands granted the 25th day of June, 1698, to William Nicoll Esq., Ebenezer Willson, David Jamison, John …
" And well knowing how, and where, the three several lines which have to divide this Province from the Colony of Connecticut, are to fall and to run, and consequently the location, extent, and limits, of the then still vacant lands adjoining thereunto ; he did acquaint there with the Persons hereinafter named jointly with, and for the use of, whom, with and by the assistance …
" Notwithstanding all w'''' yet, and the said lands being vacant and unappropriated, the purchass thereof was so lawfully made, and the grant obtained: Oq the 12th day of January, 1706, being near five years after, Anne Bridges, John Clap, Augustin Graham, John Horton, and Thomas Height, on a wrong notion of an insufficiency of power and authority in the then …
Westerly j to the eight miles stake standing between three white oak trees markt [viz.] one of the said trees is marked with the letters C C R on the north side and Y D on the south side, and from the said trees on a direct line, runs to the Northernmost corner of Rye pond, and thence south ten degrees Westerly to a white oak sapling marked by the Pond side with the letters T …
" That this last-mentioned grant is all included in, and that the east, south, and most of the west bounds thereof are, the very same with the southmost ] ones specified in the aforementioned grant of the 14th I February, 1701-2 to Robert Walter &c., will unques- I tionably appear by comparing the southern bounds I of the one with those of the other, and both with the I …
Secondly, Why, having been atthe trouble and charges thereof, they not only left the said first Patentees so long quietly owne, but also survey the same, and not only be present thereat without the least objection, but also shew them the East and North lines of Well's and Harrison's purchasses ; to let them dispose of several pieces part of it, and the buyers thereof without …
The West Patent remained, undisturbed, and is the foundation of the jjresent title to the region covered by it (now New Castle and a large part of North Castle and a part of Bedford). The suit was probably a scheme of some lawyer, or some person, who was a personal or political opponent of some one or more of the proprietors of the West Patent, for the value of the land then …
prayed our Grant & confirmation of a Certain tract of Land in our County of West Chester Bounded Northerly by the Mannor of Courtlandt Easterly with Bedford Line of three Miles Square the white feilds & Byram River Southerly by the Land of John Harrison Rye line Stretching to Byram River afores*, & the White plains & Westerly by Bronckx river &the Mannor of phillipsburgh …
Clarkson Jn° ChoUwell Rich'' Slater Lancaster Symes Robert Lurting & Barne Cosens all the aforesaid tract of Land within our County of Westchester & within the limitts & bounds afores'^ together with all and Singular the woods underwoods trees timber feedings pastures meadows marshes swamps ponds poolles waters water Courses rivers rivulets runs brooks Streams fishing ffowling …
MAMARONECK. York unto us our heirs and Successors or to Such Officer Or Officers as shall from time to time be impowered to receive the same the Annual & Yearly rent of Six pounds five Shillings Current money of New York in Leiu & stead of all other rents dues duties Services demands vv'soever In Testimony whereof we have caused the great Seal of our said Province to be …
" It is this day agreed between the proprietors of that part of the West Patent in Westchester County which was released to the said proprietors by Caleb Fowler Benjamin Smith, & Joseph Sutton & the persons settled upon the same Lands and claiming a title thereto under the Township of Bedford, that the whole matters in Dispute between the said parties, shall be submitted to …
said RefTerees or any three or more of them are to award what sum the persons claiming under Bedford are to pay by the acre for the said Lands and the West Patent proprietors are, upon payment thereof, to release all their right in the Lands to the persons claiming under Bedford, & shall warrant & Defend them agt. all persons claiming under the West Patent. The Improvements …
A somewhat similar settlement had been made six years before, in 1765, by the Proprietors of the Middle Patent, or "the Whitefields Patent" as it was often called, which adjoined the West Patent on the East, by a like arbitration with Samuel Banks and some twenty four others, who having bought the rights of two or three of the Patentees entered upon, and took possession of the …
Governor and Commander-inchief of our Province of New York and territories depending thereon in America, &c., and prayed our grant and confirmation of a certain tract of land in the county of Westchester, bounded southerly by the colony line of Connecticut, easterly by Mahanas river, northerly by Bedford line and marked trees to Mahanas river again, and southerly as the said …
Caleb Heathcote, Joseph Theal, John Horton, Joseph Purdy, Robert Walters, Leigh Atwood, Matthew Clarkson, Lancaster &ims, Cornelius Depeyster, Richard Slater, John Chollwell, Robert Lurting and Barne Cosens, all the afore recited tract of land within the county of Westchester, and within the limits and bounds aforesaid, together with all and singular the woods, underwoods …
In testimony whereof, we have caused the great seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness John Nanfan, Esq., our Lieutenant Oovernor and Commander-in-chief of our Province of New York and territories depending thereon in America, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at our Fort in New York, this 17th day of February, 1701-2, and in the fourteenth year of our reign.'' ' …
A true copy From y' Originall by Sam'. Purdy." ' Mr. Purdy accepted the appointment and acted. He divided the Patent into two parts which he called the " East " and " West " Ranges, containing thirteen " Lotts " each. The number of acres in each is not now known, but the value of each lot is shown by the original list and valuation by Purdy, in the writer's possession, which …
The names of the persons living on this Patent six years after Purdy's appointment above given were collected by Benjamin Fox of King Street and sent to Mr. Murray of New York, who was the lawyer and agent of some of the patentees. Under date of " King St. 8"' y' 7'", 1739," Fox writes Murray, "Inclosed have sent you the names of the People Possessed on the Whitefeild, or …
When, twenty-five years later, the final settlement of 1765, between the patentees and the settlers above referred to, was made, the parties then in possession, whose names are recited in the award, were ; -- Sam" Banks, John Banks, Benoy Piatt, Jonathan Piatt, John Runnels, Jonathan Owens, John Rundle, John Armstrong, Roger Sutherland, Smith Sutherland, Charles Green, Charles …
The arbitrators in 1765 were : " Daniel Kissam, Samuel Townsend, George Weekes, Benjamin Treadwell and David Batty, all of Queens County" and their award dated October 6, 1765, recites that they, " having sat as arbitrators and heard the said disputes, and having deliberately heard, examined, and considered all the proofs and allegations of the said Parties in Controversy, do …
1 Original letter and list in the writer's possession. ^One dollar and twelve centK. patentees in the said Letters Patent Named, or of those claiming under the said patentees, or some or one of them." ^ The East I'atent was granted March 2'* 1701 to the same Patentees as the West Patent with the addition to their number of Peter Jlatthews of Bedford. Five days before, on the …
The East Patent Boxmds " Bounded South, by the division Line between New York and Connecticut, East, by the other division Line between New York and Connecticut, and so along said Line untill it meets with the Patent of Adolf Philipse,* and so along his southern bounds till it meets with the Mannor of Cortlandt, and from thence by a Line that shall run upon a direct course …
The Patents themselves only give their respective areas in what those instruments term " profitable land," that is, land that could be easily cultivated. But as the greater part of northern and central Westchester abounded in high semimountainous ridges, rocky heights, and great forests, characteristics which to a large extent it still retains, the " profitable land " really …
An account showing the amounts due from each owner, arranged under, the head of each Patent separately, dated in 1716, in the handwriting of Fauconnier is in the writer's possession, and it shows that the three Patents together contained seventy thousand, 70,000, Acres of Land. The headings of the accounts of the three patents are these ; -- " The first of the 3 Patents above …
the " Profitable Land '' of the Patents themselves. As will be seen, by referring to it, that document gives for the different Patents these areas ; -- In the West Patent, 5,000 Acres Improvable Land, In the Middle Patent, 1,500 Acres Improvable Land, In the East Patent, 6,200 Acres Improvable Laud, In all together, 12700 Acres Improvable Land, which is not quite one sixth of …
Justice Samuel Purdy, and as the Patentees of the latter were only awarded nine shillings, one dollar and twelve cents, an acre, for their unsold lands in the same patent in 1765, a generation later, it is easily seen how very little, was the actual value of the 70,000 acres of the three great patents when they were granted, and during the lifetime of their original Patentees …
Algonquins, 10. ' .\lison, \., 1. Allen, J., 323. .\lloUial (.See Land), 8. Alsop, J., 341. Amsterdam, Bank of, 58. Audros, H)2. Anthony's Nose, .'>. Archbishop of Canterbury, 107. Archer, Jno., 77(1. Arrow Heads, Indian, 14. Art, WK). Assembly, General, 223, 234, G4!). Assessors, 98, 99. Association of Cortlandt Manor, 220. Atitochthonic Theory, 9,35. Axe, Indian, 1.5. B …
between New York and Connecticut, map of, 3. agreement as to, 4. settlement of, 5. Bounty Bonds, 505. Bout, J. E., 68, 69. Bow, Indian, 15. Brewster, J. B., 700, 701. Bronx, Herr, 23. Bronx River (See River), 709. Broucksland, map, 769. Brown Bluffs, 324. Brom, Nehemiah, 528. Bucktails, 485. Budd, G., 301. Burghers, 59. Burials, Mohegan, 16. Burke, 225. Burr, A., 539. Butler …
of West Farms, 836. of Westchester Town, S09. of White Plains, 7-23, 732. Civil History, 039. Civil List, 646. Civil War, 490. Clergy (See Church). Clerks, 653. Clinton, De Witt, 484. Clinton, G., 168, 223, 484. Clothing- Indian, 13. of Settlers, 30, 170. Cobb, L., 038. Cobbling Stone, 8. Coffee, Rev. W. S., 634. Coffin, 0. T., 550. Cole, Key. D., 630. Colegate, R., 765. Colen …
Counties, Division of Province into, 112. County Organization, 111. County-seat, 044. Cortlandt Manor, 90, 109, 115. Hanor-Honse, 127. Court-House, 729. Court Leet, 87, 91, 92. Courts, 042, 043, 651. Cozzens, F. S., 629. Cromwell, D., 740. Cromwell Post, 515. INDEX. Cromwell, C. T., 552. Gross, John, 26. Cross Lake, 5. Croton Aqueduct, 796. Crotou Lake, 5. River, 6. Crown …
Dissenters, 25. District Attorneys, 653. Doctors, 568. Domesday Book, 86. Dongan, Thos., 156. Dongan, T., 104, 127,161. Doughty, E., 72. Doughty, F., 70. Doughty, M., 70. Dowling, Rev. J., 75. Downing, Sir G., 74. Draft Riots, 499. Drafted Men, 508. Drake, G., 299,334. Drake, J., 164. Drake, J. R., 616. Drake, S., 329. Draper, J. W., 6.35. Dross of the People, 461, 462 …
Ferries, 748, 772. Feud (see De Lancey's). Feudal System, 23, 62, 80, 81. Finances, 524. Findlay, Andrew, 843. Fire Department, 738. Fire Ships, 390. Fisher, G. J., 581. Fishing, 12, 265, 706. Flagg, L. W., 587. Flax, 30. Flushing, 29. Folcland, 80. Fordham, 772. " Kordham Manor, 96, 159. Kordham and the Ferries, 772. Forestalling, 322. Fort Independence, 7.53. Fort William …
Godyn, Samuel, 49. Gould, J., 635. Government (see Church* -- Dutch, 57. English, 78. Indian, 10. Grand Army Posts, 509. Gravesend, 28. Greeley, H., 626. Griswold, R. B., 597. Gymnasium, 697. H. Haines, Godfrey, 291. Hall, E., 563. Hall, H. B., 836. Hamilton, A.., 604. Hammer stones, Indian 15 Hand, N. H., 741. Harlaem, 394. Harlem River, 795. Harlem River, Bridges of, 796 …
Hudson Park, 759. River, 5, 33. Huguenots, 22, 27, 692. Huguenot House, 691. Street, 686. Hulst, P. E., 42. Huntington, H. K., 595. Huntington, C. P.. 818. Husted, J. W., 126. Hutchinson, A., 19. 2 Hutchinson River 6. Hyatt, E., 331. Hyatt, J., 714. Imports, 53. Indians (see Sales'). -- Origin, 9. INDEX. Divisions and Government, 10, 31, 32. Names, 11. Numbers and Food, 12 …
Knives, Indian, 15, 16. Ij. Lampo, Jan., 43. Land Ownership, Indian, 11. Land Tenure, -- Allodial, 80, 90. Copyhold, 97. of Duke of York, 79. of Glebe, 98. of Farmers, 179. of Patroons, 62. Socage, 82, 89. Wished by Colonists, 45. Larkin, F., 557. Law (see Canon, Roman, York). Lawyers, 526, 549. Lee, C, 304, 324, 3:13, 336. Legislature, 112, 124, 649. Leisler, J., 27, 102 …
New York, Incidents, etc., 90, 93. Origin and History, 31. Order of Erection, 108. Relation to County, 108. Saxon and Norman, 86. Westchester, Six, 91. Mapes, Daniel, 841. Mapes, Leonard, 841. Maps, -- Boundary between New York and Connecticut, 3. Broncksland, 769. Verplanck's, 131. White Plains, 727. Marble, 7. Manufactures, 178, 523, 661. Marriage, Mobegan, 16. Massacre …
New Rochelle, 520. New Netherlands (see Manors). New York, -- Boundaries between, and Connecticut, 2, 22, 37, 42, .53, 00, 73, 78. Capture of, 402. City, 77, 516. Poet Boy, 172. Province, 78, 106, 112, 176. New York City and Northern Railroad, 481. Newspapers, 172,179, 303, 471, 482, 084, 738. Nei)erhan River, 0, 68. Nepperhaem, Patent for, 71. New York and Harlem R. R. (see …
Patroons (see Tenure), 23, 46, 52, 57, 61. Patroonships, -- Colen Donck, 06. Patent,-- Nepperhaem, 71. Rykes, 123, 126. York's, 78, 79. Patents, 96, 687, 703, 775, 877, 884, 88.5, 887. of Confirmation, 84. Patuxet, 39, 40. Paulding, J. K., 616. Paupers, 659. Pauw, Michael, 51. Peach Lake, 5. Peale, C. W., 466. Peat, 6. Peekskill, 121. Creek, 6. INDEX. * Pelham, 520, 701 …
M,, 268, 269. Pinkney, P., 300. Railroads- Scribner, G, H,, 564. Pipes, -- New York and Harlem, 0, 478. Scribner, J. W., 592. Indian, 15, 16. New York and Hudson, 6,479. Scnigham, W. W., 544. Plymonth Company, 2, 36. New York and Northern, 6, 481. Seabury, Rev. S., 303. Pocantico Kiver, 6. New Y'ork, New Haven, etc., 48". Sears, Q., 184, 304. Politics, 179, 482, 6G2, 75G. New …
Rents, 83, 84, 94, 95, 124. SievaBean, 13, Primogeniture, 83. Restless, 21. Sing Sing, 519. Probationary Act, 4. Return of Volunteers, 506. Sint Sinks, 11. Protestant Patition, 104. Returning Officers, 238. Sisters of Charity, 760. Protestantism, 102. Revere, P., 191. Siwanoys, 11. Province, Origin of Word, 100. Revolution, 177. Skin-Scraper, Indian, 16. Provincial Congresses …
Third. Croton, 5, 6. South Pond, 5. Organization, 338. Hudson, 5. South worth, E, D, E, N,, 639, Resolution as to Independence, 339. Hutchinson, 6. Spanish Settlements, 20, Committee on Dangers, .341. Maharness, 0. Spear-heads, Indian, 14, Resolutions as to Arrests, 343. Mamaroneck, 6. Spuyten Dnyvel, 517, 7.59. Resolutions as to Committee on Con- Neperhan, C, 68. Squanto, 39 …
Elects Brigadier-General, 366. Conmiission at, 4. Steenrood,C., ,322. Disbanding, 367. Meeting, 205. Stewart, L, S,, 77, Fourth. Parish, 93, 99. Stewart Hart Post, 513. Meeting, etc., 371. Pond, 5. Stille, Opinion of Colonial Religion, 102, Resolution of Independence, 372. Territory, 29. Stockbridge Indians, 755, Direction to Sherifls, 374. Ryke's Patent, 123, 126. Stocks …
Tea, 182, 183, 341. Tea Sets, 459. Tecuiuseh, 35. Ten Broeck, A., 225. Tenure (see Laud), 79. Texas, 487. Thouias, 91. Thomas, J., 228, 266. Three Years' Volunteers, 493. Throckmorton, J., 25, 639. Throgg's Neck, 406. Tibbitt's Brook, 6. Tibbitt, G., 72. Tienhoven, C, 08, 69. Tilden, S. J., 554. Tilford, J. M., 742. Title, ludian, vesting of, 'ij. Tobacco, 9, i:). Todd, Ki v …
Town ot To-day, 908. Town, Natural Characteristics of, 802. Town, Political History of, 801. Town since the Revolution, 908. West Farms, 836. West India Company (see Dutch). Wetmore, T., 209. White family, 962. White Plains, 714. Whittaker, F., 636. Wilkins, I., 231, 232,245,254, 601. William I., 80. William III., 4. William and Mary, 116. Williams, Isaiah T., 547. Williams' …