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 Westchester County delegates to the ih, m w Od Democratic Stale convention were Thomas larve\ Torter, the ml Jo] of Smith, Gilherl S. Lyon, and Abraham Hyatt. ,', fro -embly Iw; m .it li in esti J. v distil. and William Radford, of Yonkers, was a contesting Roche lie. )ssi yra the Ml of if cle ( , fro district delegate from the nth congressional district the : ai i.sembly …

Washington ville, are described as " suburban villages, inhabited principally by mechanics and men doing business in New York." 7. Bronxville; a railroad station; contained a manufactory of carriage axles. 8. Tuckahoe; a railroad station near the marble quarries. 9. Fleetwood, and 10. Jacksonville, places projected by building associations. Greenburgh. -- Population, 8,929 …

The only locality mentioned by French in this town is Purchase (Harrison p. o.), a hamlet in the northern part, containing two Friends' meeting houses. Lewisboro. -- Population, 1,885. Local particulars: -- 1. South Salem; a scattered village, containing a church and fifteen houses. 2. Cross River; contained two churches, several manufactories, and twenty houses. 3. Golden's …

Port Morris; 3 prominent for its harbor, sixty feet deep, where it was "proposed to land vessels that draw too much water to enter New York Harbor"; connected with Melrose by a branch of the Harlem Railroad two and one-half miles long. 4. Wilton, 5. Old Morrisania, 6. East Morrisania, 7. West Morrisania, 8. South Melrose, 9. East Melrose, 10. Eltona, 11. Woodstock, 12 …

New Rochelle; an incorporated village; population, about 2,000; contained six churches and several private schools; a portion of the village and the lands surrounding it were " occupied by elegant villas and country residences of persons doing business in New York " ; the steamboat landing was " half a mile southwest of the village, on a small island connected with the main …

Sing Sing; an incorporated village; population, about 5,300; contained four churches, the Mount Pleasant Academy, a female seminary, and several other popular female schools. 2. Prospect Hill;8 a scattered settlement on the southern border. 3. Spring Valley and 4. Sparta were hamlets. Pelham. -- Population, 1,025. Local particulars: -- 1. Pelhamville; a newly surveyed village …

Port Chester; population, 1,695; a railroad station, containing five churches, several private seminaries, and ex> For,,, rrly callei 1 Mamarone ck Point, Great Neck, :u id de Lan cry's Neck. -' X.-U1H' (1 for .Ton I.ni L. Mott, principal founder of th< ■ iron win ks. call ed Morns].. >rt. Named ; Solni" times for Gouvern eur Morri: 3, the princi pal owner. .rinorly F< ■' Fi …

Sclmylerville; population, about 300; a scattered village on Throgg's Neck. 4. Integrity; near Bronxdale; had a tape factory. 5. Connersville, 6. Wakefield,°7. Centreville, and 8. Unionport, were "modern villages." Fort Schuyler, at the extremity of Throgg's Neck, wasmenbegun the United States government in 1833, and was built to accommodate 1,250 and by to mount 318 cannon …

Spuyten Duyvil; the seat of several large foundries; inhabited chiefly by operatives. 3. Tuckahoe; a station on the Harlem Railroad; Hodgman's rubber goods manufactory employed about seventy -five hands. 4. Kingsbridge. 5. Riverdale; "a group of villas, and a railroad station." 6. South Yonkers ; a postoffice. Yorktown. -- Population, 2,231. Local particulars: -- 1. Crompond …

It was a spirit conspicuously manifest in the editorial conduct of very able newspapers in New York City, which gave nearly thirty thousand majority against Lincoln. The dominant political party of the metropolis had always been the dominant political party of Westchester County; and opinions which had been insisted on and stood the test of popular 1 This institution of the …

Haskin, had been elected mainly by Republican votes. Mr. Raskin's position was unique. First chosen to congress as a Democrat in 1850, he became disaffected toward the administration on account of President Buchanan's extreme pro-slavery bias in dealing with questions arising out of the organization of local government in Kansas. Consequently, when up for re-election in 1S5S …

The explanation given was preparation for self-defense in the unprotected neighborhood in Washington in which Mr. Haskin resided, in which much lawlessness prevailed. Many years have passed since this incident, but, taken in connection with the Rebellion which soon followed, and the tragic and dastardly scenes in it, it illustrates the dangers in public life at the time and …

The legislature immediately passed an act providing not only for furnishing that number from the State HIRAM PAULDING.1 militia to the government, but for the enlistment of 30,000 volunteers more, to serve for two years; these 30,000 to be " in addition to the present military organization of the State, and as a part of the militia thereof," and to be "liable at all on the …

>f John rauldhu See p. 485. one of the captors of Andre. from to of various amounts. Mr. Waring therefore pledged his word that this aid should be forthcoming, a pledge which he faithfully kept. He was subsequently reimbursed by the town. The company left Yonkers on the 25th of April, and was incorporated in the Westchester Chasseurs. Its original officers were: captain …

Marshall, a prominent Democrat, was treasurer, having for its object to raise sufficient money to forward the men to camp and to make weekly payments to such of their families as required help during their absence. The 17th Infantry, or Westchester Chasseurs, to which both these first companies of Yonkers and Port Chester (together witn the volunteers from Westchester County) …

Frederick Wkittaker, author of the article on the Civil War in Scharfs History, after giving the particulars of the organization of the Port Chester company (he docs not mention the Yonkers company), says: The Town of Cortlandt, almost at the same time, sent out sixty men, raised by Mr. Benjamin R. Simpkins. For the want of the money that kept the Port Chester company …

Yorktown also lost a great their°captain number of men in the same way, no mention of them being found in the official records of the two years' volunteers; and of other towns there is still less trace in any documents by which whole history of the two years' volunteers, official proof can be furnished of the facts. Thetheir services on the government, which seemed in …

The 5th Independent Battery, mustered in November 8, 1861, included several privates from Yonkers, Mount Vernon, and Peekskill, and in the 1st Regiment Mounted Pities, mustered in all the way from August 31, 1861, to September 0, 1862, there were volunteers from Tarrytown, Mount Pleasant, and Harrison. "This," says Mr. Whittaker, ''concludes the three years' volunteers in …

the 8th senatorial district -- then comprising the Counties of Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam -- which proceeded to raise the troops required to make up the quota of the district. " It began its work by promptly effecting the organization of an infantry regiment of ten full companies of more than one hundred men each, enlisted to serve for three years, which was designated …

Company K. (Nyack, Rockland County): Captain Wilson Defendorf, Lieutenants John Davidson and Frederic Shonnard, of Yonkers. The villages mentioned in this list were the places where the various companies were raised. Absolutely every township of the county, and probably every hamlet, was represented among the volunteers. It was distinctively a Westchester County regiment …

COUNTY States volunteers. To General Morris belongs the honor of having attained the highest rank awarded to any citizen of Westchester County during the War of the Rebellion. The appointment of lieutenant-colonel ofthe regiment was given to Captain Ralph E. Prime, then of White Plains, now of Yonkers, a gallant officer of the 5th New York Volunteers. But for various reasons …

On and after Degex. wm. h. morris, cember 26, 1862, the regiment was sent to Harper's Ferry in detachments. . . . After six months or more of very varied service in the Shenandoah Valley with other troops, guarding the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, performing skirmishing, scouting, and general outpost duties, the regiment formally joined the Army of the Potomac during the …

The remainder, with a battalion of the 10th New York Artillery, became the consolidated 6th New York Artillery." * About a year before the termination of its period of enlistment the regiment unanimously tendered its services to the government for another term of three years. This offer was declined on the ground that the men would probably not be needed. The 6th New York …

A previous writer on this phase of the comity's history stales that in entering upon his undertaking -- which specially involved the satisfaction of local readers -- he had it in view to make a complete compilation, but found that impracticable, ik while an incomplete one might give just offense to men whose names would be unavoidably left out from lack of information." ~ In a …

" In accordance with a resolution adopted at a town meeting held on September 23, 1803, a system of mutual insurance, as it were, agaiust draft, was established, which provided that every person enrolled as liable to military service who should pay into a common fund the sum of $30 should be entitled, if drafted, to receive from the town the sum of $300 to procure a substitute …

Culver finds thirty-five records of enlistment.'' Mr. George Thatcher Smith, in his contribution to Scharfs History on the Town of Poundridge, presents a variety of interesting particulars. At the election of 1860 there were only 328 votes cast in the township, yvt " before the close of the war 94 residents had enlisted in the army and three in the navy," there being also ten …

Of these, 126 were residents of the town and wore volunteers under the first call; 138 enlisted under Governor Morgan's proclamation of August 13, 1802; one man was drafted; forty-one substitutes were provided, and forty-five recruits obtained. The town responded promptly to every call made for troops, either by national or by State government, and provided bountifully for the …

In so doing it has evidently been their purpose to consolidate a party by the aid of whose opposition and influence they might prevent enlistments and retard the successful prosecution of the war. The grand jurors therefore invoke the attention of the district attorney of this county to the prosecution of the editors and proprietors named if hereafter, after this public notice …

On the 14th of July -- the second day of the New York riots -- " crowds visited the enrolling offices of Morrisania and West Farms, tore up the enrolling lists, destroyed the telegraph offices at Williams's Bridge and Melrose, ripped up some rails on the New Haven and Harlem roads near the Bronx River, had pickets on both roads as far as Mount Vernon to signal when a general …

On the evening of the 15th a large public meeting was held in the town hall at Tremont. It was under the auspices mainly of influential citizens of Democratic antecedents, who, whilst deprecating violence, were strongly opposed to the draft on grounds of public policy, and hence were in position to make their recommendations respected by the excited populace. The principal …

In 1805 the total number of people living in the portion of the county which now constitutes the Borough of the Bronx was about 20,000. The Village of White Plains was incorporated by an act passed April 3, 1800. The first officers of the village were: president, John Swinburne; clerk, John M. Rowell; trustees, Gilbert S. Lyon, Edward Sleath, II. P. Kowell, J. P. Jenkins, J …

Depew, born in Peekskill in 1834, began the practice of law in his native village in 1859, and in 1801 was elected member of the assembly on the Union Republican ticket from the 3d assembly district. He was re-elected in 1802, and in 1803 was elected secretary of state. In 1807 he was appointed county clerk of Westchester County to fill a vacancy, but declined the office. His …

" He was first elected a member of the assembly in 1869, to represent the 3d assembly district of this county, and he continued being elected and re-elected to the latter office up to and including the year of his death [1892]; serving from 1869 to 1878 from this county, 1879-80 from Rockland County, and again in 1881 and 1883 to 1892 from this county. He ■ ;,>" was speaker of …

It was unfortunate for him that his career in the executive office was coincident with the Tweed Ring exposures, which involved much criticism of his political affiliations with Tammany. Upon the completion of his second term he retired from public life. He died on the 24th of March, 1888. Eighteen hundred and seventy was the last census year in which Westchester County …

By this measure the whole of the former Township of Yonkers, excepting a strip at its southern extremity, was incorporated in the new city. The southern strip excluded from the city limits extended from Spuyten Duyvil Creek to a point on the Hudson beginning at " the northerly line of the land belonging to the Sisters of Charity, known as Mount Saint Vincent de Paul," which …

"When the city was incorporated," says Allison, tk it had no asphalt avenues and streets, no waterworks to supply water for domestic use, for power, and for extinguishing fires, no system of sewers, no firebells, no electric fire-alarm, and no electric lights. There were no steam cars running to Getty Square, no street cars." Prom the 1 Mayors of the City of Yonkers to the …

In the summer of 1850 he lived with his family on the Todd Bailey estate in the Town of North Salem.1 We have seen that during the same year he took a very prominent part in the steps which led to the settlement of Mount Vernon. In 1851 he purchased a farm of seventy-five acres at Chappaqua in the Town of New Castle. Unlike most other prominent New Yorkers who came to …

The sober down-hill of life dispels many illusions, while it develops or strengthens within us the attachment, perhaps long smothered or overlaid, for ' that dear hut, our home.' And so I, in the sober afternoon of life, when its sun, if not high, is still warm, have bought a few acres of land in the broad, still country, and, bearing thither my household treasures, have …

" It was his custom," says Barrett, in his History of the Town of New Castle, "always to vote, both at general and local elections, and it was usual for him to spend the whole day at the polls when the election was important, discussing public questions with those who would gather about him for that purpose." He retired to his farm toward the close of the presidential canvass …

Morrisania, however, received in that year a village charter, which " conferred upon the trustees nearly all the powers of a city corporation without the incidental expenses; and this act enabled the town authorities topioneer annexation by proceeding to make such improvements in streets and highways as were demanded by an increasing population flowing in from below the Harlem …

I had the honor at the time of representing, among other localities, the Westchester towns in the State senate, and regarding it as an act of discourtesy that such a move should have been made without consultation, and without the request of my immediate constituents, on the spur of the moment I arose in my place in the senate and gave notice that I would, at some future time …

On December 1(5, 1872, a further step in the same direction was taken by the erection of the excised strip into a new ''town" called Kingsbridge. Meantime the annexation enterprise had been fairly launched. In the autumn of 1872 some of the principal property-owners of Morrisania and West Farms held conferences, which resulted in the preparation of an annexation bill by Samuel …

This ended the struggle between the rival departments, so far as the annexation bill was concerned, and it became a law."' It provided for submitting the annexation question to the decision of the people of New York City and also of Westchester County at the next ensuing election, in November, 1873. Fortunately the momentous issue was determined by the people on its exact …

In the words of the act, Morrisania, West Farms, and Kingsbridge were " annexed to, merged in, and made part of the City of New York, subject to the same laws, ordinances, regulations, obligations, and liabilities, and entitled to the same rights, privileges, franchises, and immunities, in every respect, and to the same extent, as if such territory had been included within …

It continued under the administrative care of the department of public parks until 1891, when the law creating a special department of public works for the 23d and 24th wards came into operation. Up to that time, and until 1895, there was no further annexation from our county to New York City, Westchester County still retaining the Township of Wrestchester. In 1874 occurred …

One of his last public appearance's was on the occasion of the dedication of the new monument to the captors of Andre at Tarry town, September 23, 1880. He was the presiding officer. His Greystone estate is now the property of Mr. Samuel Unterinyer, the prominent .dt^SSR^fc. New York lawyer. Westchester JP" County gave Mr. Tilden, at the elecw~ tiou of 1870, 12,050 votes, a …

It is noteworthy that four of these places belonged to the Town of Greenburgh, while a fifth was located on its borders. Population of Westchester County in 1880: POPULATION towns Bedford Mount Kisco Village Cortlandt 12>664 Peekskill Village Eastchester ^ 8'737 M93 Mount Vernon Milage Greenburgh Tarrytown Village Harrison Lewisboro ^ 8,934 4,686 3>731 3,025 1,494 l,bl …

Garfield to the presidency in 1880, Judge William II. Robertson, of our county, was a Republican s figure." The conspicuouconvention which faction thethe between by e Garfield a compromisof was nomination national Roscot of leadership the under which, that and Blaine Mr. favored Colliding, urged a third term for General Grant. At the Republican State convention held to select …

Hence resulted the bitter feeling which first caused a lunatic to assassinate the president, and subsequently brought the WILLIAM H. ROBERTSON. the Democratic party back to power. Judge Robertson's part inwith political strife of those memorable times has been reviewed great fairness and discrimination in a public address by the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew.1 In theVear 1880 works …

On the 1st of June, 1883. the legislature authorized the construction of the necessary works, and on the 21th of June, 1891, the second aqueduct was finished and turned over to the department of public works of New York City. Since 1888 the building of subsidiary basins and reservoirs in Westchester and Putnam Counties has been steadily prosecuted. It was originally proposed …

Takings, under provisions of Chapter 490 of the Laws of 1883, were commenced in the years 1892, 1891, 1895, and 1897. " Many attractive residence localities in the territory taken will soon be, if not so already, among the things of the past. What was known as the Village of Katonah, in the Town of Bedford, has become extinct, and is now only a matter of history; its …

The Huntersville section of the Town of Cortlandt, well known to sportsmen, as it is famous for its excellent trout brooks; the Quaker Meeting House locality, in the Town of New Castle, the Wiremill Bridge, iu the Town of Cortlandt, and other localities of historic interest, are among the places that will be extinguished and k go under with the Hood.' « To give some idea of …

The old highways on the condemned land, taken by the city, have been left open for public travel until such time as the city shall substitute others, which right the city is now endeavoring to obtain from property-owners." 1 The daily delivering capacities of the three aqueducts leading through Westchester to New York City are, according to Wegman: Old Croton Aqueduct …

According to a report submitted to Controller Coler in May, 1900, embodying \ a careful study of the whole matter, the present supply will safely meet all demands for live years to come, and if proper measures are taken to curtail the excessive waste of water \ i now prevalent, a period of ten years of abundance can reasonably be calculated on; but SCKNE IN PEEKSKILL DURING …

of establishing an annual encampment for the national guard had been impressed upon the attention of the authorities for several years, but no definite action had been taken. In March, 1882, Governor Cornell appointed a commission with instructions to make a thorough investigation. Mr. James T. button, a public-spirited citizen of Peekskill, at once entered into communication …

We have already noticed the purchase of the Philipse Manor House by the municipal authorities in 18G8, and its use as the seat of the local government. In 1877, during the mayoralty of the Hon. William A. Gibson, resolutions (offered by Frederic Shonnard) were adopted by the board of aldermen providing for the appointment of a permanent " committee on history and historical …

David Cole.1 In 1883 proceedings were begun on behalf of the City of New York for the acquisition of land for new public parks in the " annexed district," and also in territory at that time still belonging to Westchester County. Up to that year the city had been very deficient in park area, not fewer than five cities in the United States exceeding i The Soldiers' Monument in …

Cortlandt Park was constructed mainly out of the ancient Van CortThe city's purchase included landt estate of the Lower Yonkers. the historic mansion (erected by Frederick Van Cortlandt in 1748), which was placed in the custody of the Colonial Dames of the State Van of New York, and by them converted into a historical museum. Bronx Park Cortlandt Park is now utilized for …

Ferry Village " I™^on Tarrytown "" Part of White Plains " rT . Harrison Lewisboro Part of Katonah Village Mamaroneck 15,139 . '' w . jj<° bd2 ft r„a J^TO l.olo 1 ,. aciri iU>8dU „ .Rr, ^jj v>'29g 3,562 9„„ l,4o.) 1 4.1 7 ^ . ±(> 14b HISTORY WESTCHESTER COUNTY POPULATION TOWNS 5,847 Mount Pleasant 3.179 2,110 Part of Mount Kisco " i:v,\ 9,057 New North Castle Pelhani Rochelle …

At the first city election, held in the succeeding May, Dr. Edward P. Brush was chosen mayor.1 By the organization of the city the old Town of Eastchester was dismembered-- in fact, divided into two remotely separated parts, with Mount Vernon lying betwixt them. The lower part of Eastchester Town lias since been annexed to New York City. The development of Mount Vernon in all …

Mayor Weller, finding it impossible to deal otherwise with the problem than summarily, and believing the dams to be a public nuisance which should be abated by arbitrary methods in the absence of other It was a courageous act, remedy, caused them to be torn down. similar to the one of the citizens of Westchester in Macomb's In the legal processes that resulted the mayor and …

straight line drawn from the point where the northerly line of the City of New York meets the center line of the Bronx River, to the middle of the channel between Hunter's and Glen Islands, in LongIsland Sound, and all that territory lying within the incorporated limits of the Village of Wakefield, which lies northerly of said line, with the inhabitants and estates therein." …

The large adverse majority in Mount Vernon caused the advocates of the Greater New York programme to omit that city from their calculations; but notwithstanding a majority of one against consolidation in Westchester Town, there was no hesitation in preparing to annex the other three localities interested. The present City of New York, with its five Boroughs of Manhattan, the …

owners' associations in behalf of such a reform, and in 1889 a bill was submitted to the legislature which provided for the creation of tk a department of street improvements of the 23d and 21th wards of the City of New York." This measure did not pass, but the State senate appointed a committee to make an investigation and report as to the necessity of the proposed …

With the inauguration of the department of public improvements a new order of things obtained soin the North Side, and it presently began to be realized that the styled " annexed district " was something more than an outlying integral locality, and was in process of rapid transformation into an of part of the metropolis. When it is considered that the portion nearly River …

One of the most valuable improvements of the last ten years, apparent to anybody who makes a trip out of the city over the Harlem road, is the depression of the tracks of that railway, so that from the Harlem River to above Bedford Park it nowhere crosses a public thoroughfare at grade. Magnificent avenues and parkways have been opened, and there is now in process of …

At the time of the opening of the canal, in 1895, 550.000 tons of rock had been removed, 102,000 cubic yards of earth excavated, 1,000,000 cubic yards of earth and mud dredged, 5,000 cubic yards of retaining walls built, and 2,000,000 tons of dynamite exploded. The canal follows the course of the Harlem River to near Kingsbridge, where it leaves the natural waterway and passes …

The following striking facts of progress in the Borough of the Bronx are taken from a recent statement by Mr. James L. Wells : "The fact should be realized that in point of population the 23d and 24th wards constitute the fourth largest city in the State, leaving New York out, of course, and that, with the rapid transit road to aid in development, it will be but a very few …

With the newly annexed territory the portion of the city above the Harlem River is double the size of that below, and if you can put two millions on Manhattan Island, there is surely ample room for a million and a half in twice as much space. -In 1874, when the original 2:5(1 and 24th wards were annexed to New York, the total assessed value of the property was about $23,05 …

A potent factor of the general improvement in this section has been the introduction of trolley roads, affording quick transit and a practically universal " transfer " system. In 1894 the elevated railway established a uniform fare of five cents from the Battery to the end of its suburban line at Tremont. This produced a vast increase in the trans-Harlem traffic: in 1893 …

The trolley is likewise exercising a peculiar developing influence in the Hudson River municipalities, where the steepness of the ascent from the railway and from the village centers to many of the residence localities has always been a hindrance to diversified progress. Two trolley routes now cross the county: one from Yonkers through Mount Vernon to New Rochelle, the other …

White Plains (Town of White' Plains) Port Chester (Town of Rye) Tarrytown (Town of Greenbnrgh) North Tarrytown (Town of Mount Pleasant) Mamaroneck (Towns of Mamaroneck and Rye) Dobbs Ferry (Town of Greenbnrgh) Irving-ton (Town of Greenbnrgh) Hastings (Town of Greenbnrgh) Mount Kisco (Towns of Bedford and New Castle) 7,363 7>25 ' 4,674 4,011 3,729 2,840 2,013 1,712 1,374 Croton …

officers chosen being: treasurer, J. Arthur Huntington; police justice, John A. Van Zelm; assessors, Augustine Smith. P. B. Brady, and II. \Y. Tassler; aldermen at large, Henry C. Kuchler, Jacob Ilollwegs, John Stephenson, John Kress, and Frank Holler; aldermen, William II. Neilson, Robert C. Archer, John Grab, Ulric X. Griffen, II. A. Siebrecht, Sr., and Peter Cunneen …

Cortlandt's Ridge, 37. 442: the Babeoek's House affair, 443: Burr's capture of the West Farms blockhouse, 4)\; storming of Stony Point, 452: Tarleton's raid on ['oundridge, 456; British atompond, 458; Hopkins's fight with (59: American descents on MorrisSastchester (17791. 459, 460; the .use affair, 461; American attacks ia (early in 1780), 462; Hull's raid on January, 1781) …

Gerard G. (Cornelia Van 427. 527. 530. lliani. of the Youkers Land. 144. rvey. sec Crosby, Enoch onei. Expedition by. against Peek louse. 427. ■k Tract. The. 156. •ok, 11. 124. Irian. 59. the British snips on in.,.Mo„„,..,^ ...„., Bolton's first blood of the Island, 346; battle ofin Long 344; Revolution Westchester County, 348: battle 5N5. . Everardus, ••History of 88 …

officers chosen being: treasurer, J Arthur Huntington; police justice, John A. Van Zelm; assessors, Augustine Smith. P. B. Brady, and II. \V. Tassler; aldermen at large, Henry C. Kuchler, Jacob Hollwegs, John Stephenson, John Kress, and Franh Holler; aldermen, William II. Neilson, Robert C. Archer, John Grab, Ulric X. Griffen, II. A. Siebrecht, Si-., and Peter Cunneen …

Acker house. The. 56S. Action al Tarrytown, The, 507. and Montgomery, 433: rout of Donop's yagers, 440; the Ward's House affair, 442: ambuscade of the Stockbridge Indians at Alexander, James, 241. 244. 24s. Alipconr-k, 25. Allison, C E. (Rev.), 261, 329. 528, 53s. 559, 582, 5S7, 606. Cortlandfs Ridge, 37. 442: the Babcock's House affair, 443: Burr's capture of the West Farms …

to New York city. 608, 621. Ann-Hoock, 27. 92, 115. Anthony's Nose. 2. 4. 8, 5.",. 310, 341. 415. Orser's (January. 1782), 517; American attacks on Morrisania (17s2i. 518. Bayard, Nicholas. 168, 204, 205. Bedford (township ami village), included in Appleby Island. 532. Aqueducts, 0. 11. 548, 013. Archaeology of Westchester County. 20. Archer. John. 13s. 144. Captain Nathaniel …

Th dians by Captain John Underbill in Bedford Blind Brook, 101; battle of Golden Hill. 2S0; affair of the tire 11. 121. Block Adrian. 59. ships. 341; attack by the American -alleys oi dns. Everardus, the British ships off Tarrytown (August 4. 1770) •ster County Bogai l's "History of 344: battle of Long Island. 340: first bl 1 of tin West Bolto Revolution in Westchester County …

Bronx River, 5. 11. 550. 551. 553, 502, 567. 89, 2. 89. 95, 603, 623. 625, Manor, Kingsbridge, ,-ni(l West Farms. 373, 3SS. 389. Bronx River Pipe Line. 11. 548, 014. Bronxville (incorporated village), Budd, John, of Bye. 124. 506, 590. Cortlandtville, Cortlandt's 415. Ridge, Battle at. 37. 442. 549. Couch. Franklin, 4i'.4. County commit! .f 1775, .-.05. County convention of …

River, 9, 107. 350. 399, 500. 550, 552. Charles P.. 16, 424, 600. dimming, William J. (Rev.), 197, 599. 1 tankers. Jasper, 73, 158. Chatterton's Hill. 388, 389, 393. 395. 506, 550. Chenowith, Alexander C, 21. 42. 51. Chevaux de frise at Port Washington, 351, 361, 373. Christiansen, Henry, 59. City Island, 6. 174, 352, 532, 620, 621. (Mason's Point, 5. "Clermont," The, 538 …

Cortlandt (township), created a town by the act of 1788. 532: the town and its villages in 1860, 589; population at various periods, 533, 539, 542, 577, 589, 605, 611, 619; Other references, 170, 269, 614. Cortlandt Manor. 157. 168, 226. 268. 305. 338, 527. Cortlandt own. 466. Davenport's Neck, 5, 37*. David's Island. 6. Davids. William. 424. Dawson. Henry I!.. 287, 317, 319 …

Dobbs Perry (incorporated village), occupation by Howe's army. 400; junction of the American and French armies. 506; battery at (1781), 50S; the departure for the Yorktown campaign, 516; concerning the meeting of Washington and Sir Guy Carleton, 522; the village in 1860, 590: incorporation. Oil : various references. 3, 25. 156, 160, 344, 351, 403, 410. 428. 440. 450, 465. 466 …

lolden's Bridge, 122. 590, 614. ; rahain, Robert (Dr.), 335, 429. Iravelly P.i k. 113. 129. 141. Ireeley. Horace, 579, 607. ireonburgh (township), created a town by ■ act of 17ss. 531: the town and its villages I860, 590; population at various periods. 533, '. 512. 577. 590, 605, Oil. 619; other references, . 459.■H599. a (irei ne. Christopher (Colonel), 500. (irei ne …

Eastchester i ownshipi. purchase of lands by Connecticut mi n from Thomas Pell. 139; support given to L •isler. 2ns: designated as a parish. 233: the el .,-tion on the green (1733), 243: created a town by the act of 1788, 532; settlelUellt of Menu 620; annexation of the City of Mi unt Vernon. a portion to N •w York. 621; population at various periods. 2 26. 533, 539. 577, 590 …

Fort Lafavette, 415. 410. 451. 156. Heath. General, 351. 353. 365, 375, 381, 395. 401. Fort Lee. 310, 4H7. 107. 409, 415. 425. 452. 455. 400. 101. 402. 500, 517. 520. Fort Lookout, 415. Heathcote, Caleb. 130, 17s. 217. 230, 231. 354. Fort Montgomery, 410. 431. Heathcote Hill. 181. Fort Schuyler, 5. 592. Heermans, Augustine, 158. Fort Washington, 31a. 351. 372, 386, 400, 4n4 …

Hudson River, 2. 310, 357. 361, 538. 503. Huggeford, Peter (Dr.), 327, 531. Huguenots. 174. Hull, William. 393, 117, 151. 498. Hunt, Josiah, of Westchester, 230. Hunt. Thomas, of West Farms. 150. Hunter's Island. 6. Hunt's Point. 5. Hurlbut, George (Captain), 508. Hasted. James W. (General), 495. 603. Hutchinson, Anne, 89. Hutchinson River. 5. 11. 89, 140. 376. incorporated …

Lafayette, .Marquis de, 474. 497. 535, 542. Lake Mahopac, 9. Lake Mohegau, 13, 485. Lake Waccabuc, 12. Larchmonl (incorporated village), 130, 027. Larchmonl Harbor, 6. La slier. Colonel. 381, 3S6. Lauzun, Duke de, 504. Charle * (General), 323, 371 , 385, 387, 401, 7. 439. 453,. Fat ms, 150. Leggett. Ha briel, of West Leggett, Jol n. 229. ilia in. 572. Leggett, W Leisler, Jac …

Kidd, William. 212. 454. Kingsbridge (village ami former townshipl, fortification of. 308, 309, 341, 351: spiking of the guns, 323; General Knyphausen encamps at, Washington tegic importance, 412; Heath's siege of Fort In425: Washington's purposed attack dependence, on (17S1), 504; Macomb's tide mill, 541; set off from Yonkers as a town, 606; annexed to New York, 609; various …

Mohawk Indians, 21. Mohican Indians. 21. Mompesson, Roger, 221. Montgomery, Richard (General), 321. Morris. Fordham. 232. 351. 540, 556. 597. Morris, Gouverneur, 254. 305, 306, 307, 308, 311, 327, 336, 337, 429. 534. 566. Morris. Lewis, of Barbadoes, 150. Morris. Lewis (Chief-Justice), 151. 154. 230, 235. Morris. Lewis. Jr. (son of the chief-justice), 230, 253. Morris, Lewis …

Mount Kisco (incorporated village), 589. 591. 611. 619. 620. 627. Mount Pleasant (township), created a town by the act of 1788, 532: Ossining set off from, 575: the town and its villages in 1860, 591: population at various periods, 533, 539. 542. 577, 591, 605, 612. 620: other references, 160. 544, 599. Mount Saint Vincent. 6, 582. Mount Vernon, sett lenient. 579: village …

Norse Theory. The. 51. North Castle (township). North Castle Indian tirem'ent to the North Castle Hills. 397: General Lee's encampment, 401, 4t)7; burning of houses by Tarleton. 457: created a town by the act of 1788, 532: New Castle set off from (1791). 532; population at various periods, 533, 539, 577, 591. 605, 612. 620; various references. 87, 125. 214, 305, 472, 482. 516 …

Paine, Thomas. 531. Palisades. 4. 13. Papirinemen. 25. 113. 145, 146. 156. 157. (534 Parks GENERAL in the Annexed Parsons, Samuel Districts. 617. H. (General), 389, 420. 474. Patents (see also Purchases and Settlements) :-- to John Throckmorton, 92; to Thomas Cornell. 93; to Adrian Van der Donck, 106; to Hush O'Neale and wife, 113: to John Richbell, 129: to Westchester Town …

Peekskill (incorporated village), occupation by General Heath after the battle of White Plains. 401; Geueral Lee's demands on General Heath, 409; Strategic importance, 413. 426; defensive works, etc., 415; General McDougall takes command, 426: Colonel Bird's expedition against, 426; General Putnam supersedes McDougall, 428; Sir Henry Clinton's expedition against the Highland …

Philip, 275. 301. 535. Pell, Thomas. 92, 115, 138, 141. Poningo Neck, 124. Penn, William, 153. Philipse, Adolph, 160, 256. Philipse. Catherina (wife of Frederick 1st). 159, 163. 256. Philipse. Eva landt). 160. (wife of Jacobus Van Cort- 1st. 144, 156, 204. Philipse, Frederick Philipse, Frederick 2d. 160, 241, 243, 260. Philipse. Frederick. 3d. 289. 293. 297, 299, 301, 3d, 289 …

Purchases (see also Patents and Settlements):--of Keskeskeck. 84; of lands running to the Norwalk River, 84: of Connitelsock, 85; of the Toquams, x7: of lands by Daniel Patrick. 87; of Bronxland by Jonas Bronck, SS: of Colon Donck by Adrian Van der Donck, 106; of Weckquaesgeck by Stuyvesant, 114: of lands by Thomas Pell, 115; Turner's purchase, 115; of Rye and adjacent lands …

Putnam, Israel (General), 401, 429, 431, 432, 43."). 436, 438, 418. Putnam, Rufus (Colonel), 310. 380, 415. Quaker Bridge, 614. Quakers, 124. 151, 153. 217. 224. 244. Quaroppas Tract. The 177. Queen's Rangers, The, 379, 382, 411. 432, 442. 44:'., 45,>. Rahl, Colonel, 3S9. Kail ways. 546. 573. Randall's Island. 4. 34S. 352. 425, 509. Raymond, Henry J.. 494. Raymond, M. I> …

Rye (township and unincorporated village), settlement of. 124: claims to the White Plains tract. 177 : I lie Rye Rebellion, 201, 213; ferry to Oyster Bay, 218; the Rye fair. 229: parish of, 233: attitude of citizens on the question of resistance to Great Britain. 2:':,. 294; the whale44!: engagement near Merrill's Tavern boats, (1781), 317: created a town by the act of 1788 …

Settlements (see also Patents and Pur chases):-- of Manhattan Island. 71; of Bronxland by Jonas Bronck, 87; of Anne Hutchinson at Pelham, 89: of Throgg's Neck by John Throckmorton, 92: of Cornell's Neck by Thomas Cornel!, 93: of Colen Donck (Yonkers, etc.) by Adrian Van der Donck, 106; of Westchester Town by Thomas Pell's settlers, 116; of Rye by Peter Disbrow and others. 124 …

Smith. George Thatcher, 225, 600. Smith. Henry T. Manual of Westchester County, 335. 527, 535, 5S0. 587. Smith. Joshua Hett, 465, 467. 469. Smith, William. 241. 244. 248. Snakapins, The. 93. Solomon, Captain. 36. Somers (township), this name substituted for Steplientown (1808), 533: population at various periods. 5.33, 539, 578. 592, 605, 612. 620; various references to, 16 …

Lieutenant-Colonel, 442, 443. 450. 458. Tarrytown (incorporated village), British warships ascend to, 311: the attack by the Clinton's feint (October, 1777). 134; incidents of the military campaign of 1779. 458, 459; capture of Andre, 470: the monument to the captors of Andre. 493; the action at. July 15. 1781, 507: Irving's residence near, 508; the village in 1860, 590 …

Tilden, Samuel J.. 495, 611. Tilghman, Tench (Lieutenant-Colonel), Letters on the military situation, 359. 309. 370, 379. Tippett, George, of tin- Yonkers Land, 144. Titicus River, 9. Tompkins, Jonathan G., 305, 300, 314, 325, 336, 348, 487, 536, 542, 564. Tooker, William Wallace, 23, 25, 45, 127. Toquams. The, 26, 87. Tories, The. 312, 325, 326, 338. 361, 370, 3S2, 400, 446 …

Van Cortlandt Mansion near Peekskill, 427. Van Cortlandt Park. 160, 171. 619. Van Dam, Hip, 239. Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 563. Van der Donck, Adrian. 38. 39, 42, 45, 105. Van der Donck's planting field, 144. Van Dyck, Hendrick, 97. Van Blslandt, Claes, 117. Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen, 168. Van Tassel, Daniel, 523. Van Tienhoven. Cornelius, 84, 118. Van Wart. Alexander (Rev.), 461 …

Washington, George, on the patriotic services of the Mohican Indians. 37: passes through Westchester County to take command of the army. 312: orders the removal of Frederick Philips.'. 329; on the fireships affair. 340: Washington and Mary Philipse, 349: remarks on the militia. 355: the White Plains campaign, 358396; address to the army after Howe's landing on Throgg's Neck …

Purchase, Weckquaesgeck 150. The, Tract. k Weckquaesgec Weckquaesgeck*, an Indian tribe. 2». 9,. Wegmann, Edward, 5-18, 015. Wells, James P.. 025. Wells, Lemuel, 559. The. 595. Chasseurs, Westchester Westchester County. Creation of, 19,. Historical Society, 396, County Westchester 305. Creek.The.5. 11: ' Westchester 505. battle of. 353. Westchester a 1654, of. purchase Pell's …

West P.. int. 415. 438. 401. Whaleboats, The, 444. White, Henry. 274. While Oak Address. The. 299. White Plains (township ami village), early proprietary disputes, 177, 219: settlemve^ Westchester ('utility convention of 1774. 293; caucus of March 28, 1775, 298; meetings of the rival factions, April 11. 1775. 299; meeting of May 8, 1775. 305; tin' proclamation of the …

Woodworth, Samuel, 572. Wright's Mills. Six. Yelks. J, dm, 470. Yoiikers (township, village, ami city), origin of the nana'. 107: the Philips.- purchase. 150: the Philipse. 329; Washington's arrest of Frederick headquarters at the Valentine house. 383; the Babcock's House affair, 443: purchasers ofactforof feited lands, 52s: created a town by the 17S8 531- beginnings of the …

sponse to Lincoln's .'all for troops. 594; Kings- Yorktown (township), the movement at Crornbridge set oft', 606; incorporation of the pond. 501; of the French army at 606; water system, 616; the Manor House city, eel,- Crompond encampment (1782), 520; created a town l»v the act 1. ration. 017; removal of milldams, 621: popula- of 17SS. 532: population at various periods, 533 …