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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)] Vol. I. 27 210 HISTORY OF THE the bridge, and the territory below was considered their appro-priate domain. The travellers partook of a frugal breakfast to-gether at the house of a good Dutch woman, who had been plun-dered…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] same kind of lace. He had on a round hat and nankeen waist-coat and breeches, with a flannel waistcoat and drawers, boots and thread stockings." According to John Yerks, the lower party were observed coming up the hill, Pa…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Your Excellency's most obedient servant, by order To his Excellency Gen, Washington. July 16th, 1776. A letter from Colonel Hammond then sta-tioned at Tarrytown, was read. The Colonel therein informs the convention, that t…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Vol. I. 30 234 HISTORY OF THE The Presbyterian Church of Greenburgh, (situated on the east bank of the Saw mill) was first organized about the year 1790, under tlie ministry of the Rev. John Townley. This individual labore…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 6th. The invited guests. 7lh. The clergy of the county. 8lh and last, the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revokition, the com-mittee of arrangements and General William Hammond and suite. The column was marched in t…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Friends Fellow citizens and Soldiers \ ' '. • ^ ^. We have assembled on an interesting occasion, a solemn, not a melancholy one. We have come to this spot, to discharge a part of our duty, to one who has paid the debt of n…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] still forming its habits and fixing its principles; and I thank God, that among her best habits is that of cherishing the memory of her benefactors. The deed that we are now doing, my friends, in gratitude and modesty, is …
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The tirst proprietor of this land of whom anything is known, was Shanasockwell or Shanarocke, sagamore of Poningoe, who, with other Indians in 1661 conveyed to John Budd of Southhold, Long Island; " one neck of land lying …
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] now underwritten, do own to have received full satisfaction of the within mentioned John Harrison for all the within mentioned tract of land beirfg but-ted and bounded as within specified. As witness hereof, we have hereun…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] By his Excellency the Governor in Council, i^'c. — You are hereby required to survey and lay out, for John Harrison, a cer-tain tract of land in Westchester county which he hath pur-chased by virtue of a license, b^arius: …
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Joshua Hunt, ^., ^ ^. • John Haight, \ Assessors, "" "^. Wellsey Dosenbery, ) --Joseph Carpenter, Highway Master for lower part, David Halstead, " -' the middle, force of horse. Seven of Mosher's party were from the farm o…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] name.a-In 1840 the name was again changed to Lewisborough, in compliment to John Lewis, Esq., a liberal benefactor to its common schools. The earliest sale of lands in this town is to be found in an In-dian deed bearing da…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] troversy between tlie two colonies of New York and Connecti-cut concerning it lasted nearly a century, during which time the disputed ground afforded a sort of sanctuary for the most desper-ate kind of outlaws and robbers.…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The equivalent land they estimated at 61,440 acres, which has to be taken from Connecticut on the east side of the parallel line."^; The angle above mentioned (sometimes called Cortlandi's Point) was situated near the sout…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] lency do grant the prayer of the same, &c., given, &c. four several tracts, the first of which begins at the monument where the two lines intersect which are the eastwardly bounds of the said surrendered lands, and is one …
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The same year letters patent were granted to James Brown of the county of Westchester, gentleman, for •• four several tracts of land within that tract of land called the Equivalent lands, lately surrendered by our colony o…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] "Richard Nicholls, " Deputy Receiver General.^^ * Alb. Book of Pat. No. i. 1. b Alb. Book of Pat No. xii. 451. 26S HISTORY OF THE Upon the partition of Cortlandt's manor in 1734, the lots (in-cluded in this town) fell in t…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 27S HISTORY OF THE " The Indians (continues the same authority) burn the beaver bones and never permit their dogs to gnaw the same; alleging that afterwards tliey will be unlucky in the chase. Among all the beaver skins 1 …
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] a religious turn of thought and entirely happy in her situation. Of this she has given repeated proofs, by refusing to quit this dreary abode. She keeps a bible with her, and says she takes much satisfaction and spends muc…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Lyons, and John Brady.^ The waters of the Cross River are abundantly supplied with all kinds of fresh water fish. Near the intersection of the Beaver Dam and Cross River are situated the fishing falls. Golden's Bridge is a…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] have been inhabited by one of the numerous sea coast tribes termed SuwanoeSj or Sewanoos, by Jolm De Laet, one of tfie earliest historians of the New Netherlands, A.D. 1625.^ This people he describes " as dwelling along th…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] It must also be borne in mind, that all the Indian villages on the sea board were noted for the manufacture of seawant, the materials for which were found here in great abundance.*^ The beautiful scenery of the bay, and ad…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] They consist of four circular pits in the form of a square, having a small mound upon the soutli, " The use of these excavations it is impossible to imagine, unless we suppose them to have been iised by the aborigines in d…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Pell's land, promising that all persons who, with the supplicant's permission or order, would settle there with him, shall be willing to solicit letters patent for such a par-cel of land as they may intend to settle; in th…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Sig. sealed and delivered Patthunek. in the presence of us, Wapetuck. Joseph Hiatt, Joseph Purdy. In the year 1700, Sa:nuel Palmer of Mamaroneck obtained an assignment of the great neck from Robert Richbell, former mort-ga…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] all and singular the members, rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, &c. The mark of Ann Hook, Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us, Besly, Benj. Collier. The heirs of Samuel Palmer, viz. Obadi…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The whole matter ultimately came before the court of chancery, on the 2d of May, 1727.^ On the 8th of December, 1708, William and Thomas Pennoyer did grant unto Caleb Heathcote their home lot, laid out to them by the inhab…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] of De Lancey, but a feud existed between him and many of the Protestants against Burnet. The Assembly claimed the right of judging of their own members; and although the governor still held a majority, his conduct in this …
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] He is praised for his political skill in successfully preserving to the Assembly the right of annual ap-propriation, and evading the prohibition of the crown to issuing bills of credit. The historian Smith, his political e…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] the old town of the same name, and erected into a distinct town-ship;a both having been formerly included in the Manor of Phil-ipsburgh. It is situated six miles north-west of the village of "W'liite Plains, distant thirty…