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Dutch colonial documents, Van Cortlandt deeds, and early Westchester settlement
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
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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)] This incident has been well described in the Sketch Book, by Washington Irving, although he has fixed a much later date for the origin of the name than we find it recorded in the Colonial annals. It is entitled, " The Dole…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Alas never more were they to be gladdened by the melody of their favorite trumpeter It was a dark and stormy night when the good Anthony arrived at the famous creek (sagely denominated Harlem river) which separates the isl…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Tlie small settle.jnent of Kingsbridge bordering on the Haarlem river, took its name from a ferry and bridge established here at a very early period of the Colonial administration. The Westches-ter side of the bridge (wher…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] That as Frederick Phillipse will undertake to build the bridge at the said place, for the conveniency of all travellers and droves of cattle at a moderate and reasonable toll; they do therefore humbly pray, that if the sai…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] >• J^m-HISTORY OF THE :vi to Spiting Devil, else Kings Bridge, where they pay three pence for passing over with a horse, which the man that keeps the gate set up at the end of the bridge receives.''^ During the war of the …
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] confluence of the Hudson and Haarlem Rivers. It is almost Heath's Mem. 109. '-Spy, i. 24. Heath's Mem. 294. 446 HISTORY OF THE -surrounded by high rolling hills whose tops are crowned by hill forts and fine spreading woods…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] war with Great Britain he furnished five sons for the service of his country in the militia and regular army. He afterwards re-moved to Detroit, where he amassed a large fortune in the fur trade. Here he married Catharine …
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The latter, by will, bequeathed the same to his grandson Augustus Morris, "provided he assumed the name of Van Cortlandt." Augustus van Cortlandt subse-quently sold the property to Samuel B. Thompson, John Ewing, William C…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Prior to the purchase of the Philipses this estate (as before shown,) formed a portion of the fief of Colen-donck, and was styled the " Old Yonckers." From the Patroon Adriaen van der Donck it passed through the hands of v…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 1728, ob. Ic23 I clay, of Santa Cruz, West In dies. James van Cortlandt, nat. 3d March, 1:2(5, ob. 1st April, 1781. Helen van C.=James Morris, nat. 4ih Jan. 1768 I III
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Frances=Tlios. Augusta James de l.an-cey 448 HISTORY OF THE of the Hudson and palisades; the entrance is by a beanfifiil road that winds through a thick wood to the house. The Van Cort-landt mansion and surrounding propert…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Jacobus van Cortlandt, the first of the name who erjjoycd this estate was the second son of the Right Hon. Oloff Stevensen van Cortlandt, a native of Cortlandt in Holland, who came out to this country in the military servi…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] To his eldest daughter, Margaret, wife of Abraham de Peyster, property in the city of New York, and the same to his remaining daughters, Anne, wife of John Chambers, and Mary, wife of Peter Jay. a Frederick van Cortlandt o…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] bears date 2d Oct. 1749. To his wife Frances he bequeathes two negro girls and a four wheeled chaise. His children were James, Augustus, Frederick, Anna Maria and Eva. Surrogate's office, N. Y. fol. xviii. 62. Vol. H. 57 4…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] By the will of the above Augustus van Cortlandt, dated 20th of December, 1823, he bequeathes his property after the follow-ing manner:... -,, ' " Whereas the greatest part of the lands and real estate which I occupy and ho…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 451 White, and in case Augustus, the son of the said Henry White and my said deceased daughter shall survive the said Henry White, then to hold the same for the use of the said Augustus, and his heirs and assignees, on con…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The situation commands nearly the whole length of the vale of Yonkers; stretching south, the view is terminated only by the high hills of New York island, and heights of Fordham. The pleasure grounds in front, appear to ha…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] To the east of the house, the Mosholu (Tippetts brook) pent up by the mill dam, forms an extensive sheet of water, which is greatly en-riched by the vicinity of green meadows, orchards and neighbor-ing hills. South of the …
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] and lighted camp fires for the purpose of deceiving the enemy, whilst he secretly withdrew to join La Fayette before Yorktown in Virginia, A. D. 1781. There are still the remains of a considerable fort on the north end of …
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Emmerick with his corps marching north to Boar hill; then crossing over the hills east, Lincoln followed ihe course of Tippett's brook, for the purpose of avoiding Pruschank's corps, stationed upon Cortlandl's ridge. Passi…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The consequence was, the whole corps were either killed or made' prisoners. Colonel Armand then made good his COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 455 retreat, passing in front of the Van Cortlandt residence, and re-turning by the way o…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Simcoe understood that Nimham, an Indian chief, and some of his tribe, were with the enemy; and by his spies, who were excellent, he was informed that they were highly elated at the retreat of Emmerick's corps, and applied…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] had lined the fences of the road, and were exchanging shot with Lt. Cok Emmerick, whom they had discovered. The Queen's Rangers moved rapidly to gain the heights, and Lieut. Col. Tarleton immediately advanced with the Huss…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Near forty of the Indians were killed, or desperately wounded; among others, Nimham, a chieftain, who had been in England, and his son; and it was re-ported to have stopped a larger number of them, who were excellent marks…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] landt woods still goes hy the name of Indian field. Here the dead were buried. The Indians according lo the British account led down the ridge across the present acquednct, to what is called Indian bridge; which then, as n…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Eighteen Indians were buried in one pit in Indian field; it is still a current tradi-tion, that the old Sachem haunts the scene of conflict. Does fancy's mimic dread pourtray "■ •-; Amid the boughs a spectre gray, '',-... …
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] dragoon, alighted and took down a fence of Devaux's farm yard for them to pass through; around this farm the Indians were lying in ambuscade; Wright had scarce mounted his horse, when these officers, for some trivial reaso…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] consternation among them.' What must have been the wonder then, of the Nap-pe-cka-mak settlement, when they beheld the apparition anchor off the mouth of the Saw mill, especially when we conjure up old Mas-ter Hendrick Hud…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The follow-ing extract occurs in the journal of Lewis Morris, Judge of the Admiralty : June 4th, 1746, returned home, dined at Westchester, when the detachments from Q,ueens county and Westchester marched to Colonel Philip…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] ral Grey. Col. Baylor's detachment consisted of one hundred and four horsemen. The attack was so sudden, that they were entirely defenceless, and the enemy immediately commenced the horrid work of slaughter; their entreati…