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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)] The front of the Manor hall presents quite a handsome ele-vation for a country residence of the olden time. It is built in the Dutch style, so fashionable at that period; its roof is surmounted by a heavy line of balustrad…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The walks around are laid out in the shape of noble terraces, some of which lead between tall avenues of box. The garden COUNTY OF \YESTCHESTER. 465 is extensive, and enriched by valuable fruit trees and shrubs. The splend…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The farmers bordering the river having greater privileges, paid higher rents. The Courts Leet and Baron were held yearly at the house of John Cockles, the site of the present Nap-pe-cka-mak tavern. This court took cognizan…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] » The Ameiican Loyalists, by Lorenzo Sabine. See also Historical view of the commission for inquiry into the losses and claims of the American Loyalists, by John Eardley Wilmot, Esq., London, 1815. 41^8. HISTORY OF THE., T…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] A." Upon the arrival of the British forces in New York, Colonel Frederick was arrested on some suspicions in the Manor Hall, Yonkers, and removed to Hartford, Connecti-cut, by the American authorities. On this occasion, hi…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] tate. The present proprietor of the Manor House is his nephew, Lemuel Wells, Esq. The Wells family are originally from Cambridgeshire, England, and descend from Richard Wells, who held the manor of Wells at a very early pe…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] In April, 1775, he went to the ground appointed by the whigs of Westchester county, to elect deputies to the Congress; and declared that he would not join in the business of the day, and that the sole purpose in going ther…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Washington ordered the brigade then stationed at Peekskill to march to West Point. This gentleman during the war. escorted 1500 men from Tel-ler's point to the neighborhood of Kings-bridge. In compliment to the services of…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] of Sir Alured Clarke, Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope." [ The American Loyalists, by Lorenzo Sabine, COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. _ 471 LIBERTY, July 4, 1845, at the battles of Lexington, Danbury, White Plains, T…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] James Rich, Gilbert Brown, Thomas Tippet, Samuel Lawrence, Thomas Merrit, Samuel Williams, Israel Underbill, Henry Brown, Benjamin Archer, The commanding eminence rising above the village directly-east of the Philipse Mans…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] vidual took some steps towards the erection of the church previous to his death, which happened in 1751 : (he died of consumption at the age of 53.) In his will, which is dated the Glh of June, of the same year, he directs…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The curious reader will not be displeased with one or two more of these accounts, showing the expenses attendant on building a church at that early period : "Benjamin Fowler's account in full for ye church: May 11th, 1753,…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] III 1713, the Propagation Society founded a charily school for the education of children in this town. The same year £5 per annum is granted to a schoolmaster at Yonkers, where there is a large congregation of Dutch and En…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] allowed, &c. ^ Vol. i. 315. 480 HISTORY OF THE very ample testimonials to he the society's missionary at Philips-borough, with a salary of £30 per annum. June 8th, 1765, Mr. Munro himself, writes, "that on his ar-rival at …
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] himself bound by his oath of allegiance to the king, lie was deemed an enemy to the liberties of Americn, and ordered to be kept in custody. ^ After four month's confinement, his health gave way, and he was then dismissed …
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] This was confirmed by another act of the Legislature, passed April 3, 1792, wherein it is specified : " that all the estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand of the people of the State of New York, in and to the sa…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Frederick Philipse, Maik Noble, Esq., Augustus van Cortlandt, Esq.,a and the wardens and vestry of Trinity Cliurch, New York.b In 1845, owing to the large increase of families within this parish, and the numerous calls mad…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] commission for the purpose of marrying the accomplished Eli-zabeth Fowler of Haarlem; when pasjing with a company of light dragoons he was suddenly fired upon by three Americans of the, water guard of Captain Pray's compan…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Life of Hamilton by tlie Harpers, p 336, COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 487 The old Parsonage, formerly called Babcock's house, appears to have been frequently garrisoned by the troops of both armies. It was here that Lord Howe fi…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] General Kniphausen, who commanded at Kingsbridge, ap-proved of the enterprise, and ordered a detachment of the Yagers to co-operate in it; Lieut. Col. Emmerick undertook to lead the march, having in his corps people who we…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Major Rosa was detached to possess himself of Post's house, to preserve a communication with Lieut. Col. Tarleton ou Valentine's hill; the remainder of the Rangers inclined to the right, towards Gist's camp, and Lieut. Col…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Babcock having stationed herself in one of the dormant windows of the Parsonage, aided their escape whenever they ap-peared, by the waving of a white handkerchief. During the winter of 1780 a gang of six or eight "cow boys…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] This fish begins to bite in March or April. Very large sized trout have been caught here about the middle of March, and they continue till the months of July and August. They lie generally under the shelter of stumps, brid…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Near the vicinity of the school-house, Benjamin Hunt of the continental army, captured thirty of the enemy by stratagem, with a force of half that number. Availing himself of the dark-ness of the night, he called out as if…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Deborah. Barker of Scarsdale. Barker, left three sons, I. William of Scarsdale. mar. Fowler of Eastchester, and had 1. Thomas of Green-burgh, mar. Anne Horton whose sons are Peter, Caleb and Samuel. 2. John mar. Mary grand…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] York. Bertine of New Rucheli.e. The ancestors of the Berlincs, or Berteins (as the name was originally spelt,) were Protestants, inhabitants of Rochelle, in France. On the Revocation of the edict of Nantes, Pierre Bertine …
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 1686; and mayor of that city in 1695, mar. Mar-garet da. of Rutger Jacobsen, A. D. 1667. He d. eet. 91. They had eight children; 1. John, Mayor of Albany in 1701, d. Sept. 1738, ajt. 70, mar. Anna Coster, Oct. 1693; 2. Rut…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 6. Catharine, mar. G. van Rensselaer; 3. Rutger, mar. Catharine Elmen-dorf, and left John R., Elizabeth, Peter Brinckerhoof, Maria and Blandina. James of New Rochelle, second son of first Rutger, mar. Abigail R. Lispen-ard…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Brown, of Peekskill; 6, Phoebe d. July 7 1816, ffit. 38, mar. Daniel W. Birdsall; 7, Samuel d. March, 1, 1815, ajt. 35 504 APPENDIX. mar. Elizabeth, da. of John Titus of Flushing, L. I., and left two da., Mary and Elizabet…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] than Brown, whose son Jonathan left issue; 1st, Jonathan mar. Esther Par-cels, he had, Elizabeth mar. James Butterworth, and Clarissa who mar. ' Perkins; 2nd, Obadiah, he left Isaac and Anne; 3d, Charles mar. Wyrgans; 4th,…