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Dutch colonial documents, Van Cortlandt deeds, and early Westchester settlement

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E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856) 1005 189,431 Original →
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848) 325 61,761 Original →
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848) 236 43,115 Original →
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849) 153 26,639 Original →

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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] " We, William Kieft, director general, and the council, in behalf of their high mighty lords, the States General of the United Netherlands, his highness the Prince of Orange, and the noble lords, the managers of the Genera…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Alb. Rec. from 1638 to 1642. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 147 sisting from this time forih and forever, promising moreover this transport firmly, invariably, and irrevocably to maintain, fulfil, and execute, and to do all that i…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The grandsons of Colonel Samuel Vetch Bayard (who still re-side in the vicinity) are William Bayard, M. D., of West Farms, and Mr. Edward Cooper of Throckmorton's neck. A portion of Col. Bayard's estate was subsequently pu…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] other his patrimonial lands and effects, without our the grantors in the quality as aforesaid thereunto any longer having, reserving or saving any part, action or control whatever, but to the behoof as aforesaid for all de…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Thomas Pel!, Defendant. William Wilkins, John Emans,. -. Charles Morgan, John Forster, ' ' Joseph Bayley, Robert Terry. " The attorney for the plaintiffs produced a copy of the heads of the trial at the court of sessions h…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] risania. « Dunlap's Hist. N. Y. vol. i. 95. «i Alb. Rec. vol. ix. ^75. • • See trial between Thomas Pel! and Charles Bridges, page 154. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. WT tract of land called " Westchester,'' of the sachem Ann-hock…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] » Tlie Sacliems Pennekek and Oratang were very troublesome to the West-cliester settlements in 1655. — Editor, h Alb. Rpc. vol. ii. p. 283. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER 159 places have been lured and decoyed by Mr. Pell or any ot…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Alb. Rec. vol. xxi. 80. t See preceding c'ocuments. 166 HISTORY OF THE with the promises made by them, to dispose if possible, the in-habitants to make a new nomination of magistrates, and due obedience, resolved to let th…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 2 coats, 2 kettles, 1 barrel of cider, 6 bitts in money. DISBURSEMENTS UPON THE INDIAN PURCHASE. William Barnes, 1 kettle. To expences to ye Indians, John Hunt, I coate, -.-.., For money,...'■:".'. To Indian supper and oth…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] sloops to the New York market. The Westchester ereek (at high water) admits of vessels carrying 300 tons, to the landing. There are three school districts in the town, viz., Westchester village, Throckmorton^s neck, and Be…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 1st, 1657, William Binfield for contempt of authority, is bound over to answer at next court." On the same occasion, ".John Archer, plaintiff against Roger AViles, in an action of debt for the value of seventy-four guilder…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 200 HISTORY OF THE We the subscribers appointed a sub-committee to inspect Iheelection of mili-tia officers for the said town, do most humbly certify, that the following per-sons were chosen this 24th day of August, 1775, …
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] mains are supposed to be interred in the family burying ground. la 1705, he married Helen, second daughter of John Read of Middrovv Castle, parish of Kirkleston, Scotland, and sister of Col. Read, Governor of New Jersey. B…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] ing manner : CHARTER OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH, WESTCHES-TER. George the third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ire-land, king, defender of the faith, &c., to whom these presents shall come, greeting : wherea…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Peter's church, in the borough town of Westchester, and the county of West-chester, in our province of New York, and John Bartow, Isaac Willett, Lewis Morris, Jr., Peter de Lancey, Nathaniel Underbill, James Graham and Jam…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] us, our heirs ind successors, ordain and appoint that there shall be for ever hereafter belonging to the said church one rector of the Church of England as by law established, duly qualified for the cure of souls, two chur…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 215 the said church and confer in manner as hereafter is established and appoint-ed, and for the more immediate carrying into execution our royal will and pleasure herein we do hereby assign, constitute and appoint Isaac W…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] YoL. II. 30 234 0 HISTORY OF THE looking the Eastchester bay and opposite shores. The grounds are tastefully arranged and ornamented with thriving phuitations. The Eastchester creek bridge comaiunicates with tlie Westclies…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] John Ferris was one of the first patentees of the town of Westchester in 1667; he lived to an advanced age, and died in 1715, leaving five sons, viz., Samuel, one of the first assistants and common council of the borough o…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] passed through it on his way to Boston. On the west side of the Planting Neck lies the dehaleahle ter-ritory already alluded to.
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] In 1740, Lewis Morris and Isabella, his wife, conveyed to James Graham, as a marriage portion with their daughter Ara-bella, " All that certain tract of land being part of the manor of Morrisania, situ-ate, lying and being…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] : the grantee paying therefore yearly, on the 25th of March, six ears of Indian corn, &c." From Austin Graham this property passed to the Leggetts,
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] merous in the vicinity of Coxsackie, Green county, and Coey-mans, Albany county, N. Y. By the marriage of Antonia Slaghboom, BroncJc's land passed into the Van Curler family. In a letter to the patroon Van Rens-selaer, dat…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 22d of Oct. 1664. " Herman Smeeman of Comoonepan on the maine, sold to Samuel Edsall all that certain tract of land situated on the East river through Hell-gate, commonly called Broncks' land, containing 500 acres." This s…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] By the Commander in Cheif. Whereas, Lewis Morris, gent., administrator of the goods, 294 HISTOKY OF THE rights and credits of Lewis Morris, deceased, is obliged to make and exhibite a true and perfect inventory of all and …
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] One in the dining room, 18 0 0 One in the lodging room, 15 0 0 4 other ditto, 36 0 0 5 bedds without furniture, ' 20 0 0 Plate. 900 oz. plate at 6s. 9d 303 15 0 Cash and wampum, 89 2 0 COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 299 Gold. (169…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Besides the negroes in fol. 7, more. Appraised by us underwritten. More 17 doz. scissors at 33. 2 11 0 7 ewt. 1 qr. 9 lb. old lead at 30s. per cut, 11 0 0 £\3 11 0 S. V. CORTLANDT. Exhibited the seventeenth day of February…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] part of the creek where it was practicable, the British sentinel asked the American, who was nearly opposite to him, if he could give him a chew of tobacco; the latter, having in his pocket a piece of thick twisted roll, s…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 0 On this stream a mill was erected by Lewis Morris in 1760, of which nothing remains but the mill dam. d A word of Saxon origin, and compounded of Ford (ford) ham (mansion.) 3?* 320 ■ HISTORY OF THE -" River, to the Dutch…
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Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] that they would not join in the business of the day, or have any thing to do with the Deputies or Congresses; but that they came there for the sole pur-pose of protesting against such illegal and unconstitutional proceedin…
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