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Comprehensive histories of the county and Town of Cortlandt
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
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| J. Thomas Scharf (1886) | 916 | 173,521 | Original → |
| Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) | 572 | 106,421 | Original → |
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J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] One of the Indians lingered in a canoe beside the vessel with evidently thievish intent, and, although warned away, watched his opportunity, and climbing up the rudder into the cabin window, stole a pillow and a few articles…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] way, he considered his voyage ended. On searching for a passage, however, he discovered the continua-tion of the river. He sailed to a place opposite West Point and there anchored for the night.4 On the 3d of June, 16X2, acc…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] band. The Tellers were descendants of a Dutch cler-gyman of some distinction, and one of the family, Andrea Teller, in lliTl, married Sophia, daughter of the Right Honorable Olott' Stevenson Van Cort-landt. The Teller heirs …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] This tract was included in the following bounda-ries: South, a line running along the north side of the Philipse Manor, from the south side of Kightawanck Creek (Croton River), twenty miles due east to the Connecticut line; …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] " Tiir.sK may certify that the said Thounis Dekey, Richard Abr.nnaon, Jacob Ahniins, Sybout llarche and Sauiucll Ik-key have hereby liberty and license to purchase from the Indians, each of them, all of three hundred acres o…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] December 29, 1729, a deed between Hercules Lent, son of Ryck Abramson Lent (the Richard Abramson of the Ryck's patent), and Jacob Lent, of the first
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] severalty to Sybout Harche Kranckhyte or one hun-dred and fifty acres, and thus became the possessor of ten hundred and fifty acres of the lands held under " Ryck's Patent." Upon his death, in 176(5, he be-queathed three hun…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The Lents and Krankhytes " were of common origin in Germany and located at a very remote period in Lower Saxony, where they enjoyed a state of allodial independence, at that day regarded as constituting nobility. They were p…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] " Ryck Abramsen Lent, eldest son of Abraham Rycken, married Catrina, daughter of Harck Sibout-sen, and in 1685, with others, purchased of the Indians an extensive tract of land, north of Cortlandt, called Sachus. He settled …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Revolutionary Wa k. — The importance of Peeks-kill as a military post — the key, as it were, to the lower gateway of the Highlands — had been recognized from the very beginning of the contest. As early as May, 1770, in the r…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Hugh Gaine's Gazette of the 9th of February, 1778, says: "Major-General Tryon, who was sent to de-stroy the rebel settlement called the Continental Village, has just returned, and reports that he has burned the barracks for …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] on the latter, with Heath, he selected, near Robin-son's Bridge, about two miles from Peekskill, a place where troops were to be stationed to cover the south-ern entrance to the Highlands. Here was established the military d…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Lee, though not in command of this depart-ment, as the senior in rank of Heath, took it upon himself, notwithstanding positive commands from Washington to the contrary, to order over the Hudson with his own troops two of the…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Heath's "Memoir*," pane So. '' I'cokskill Landing, according to tradition, was the Ilolum! fArm, near Cortlamltrille. There was no landing near the present village dur-ing the Revolution. It mult he borne in mind that there …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Heath's punctilious scruples were not yet satisfied. " I have one more request to make, sir," said he to Lee, "and that is that you will be pleased to give me a certificate that you exercise command at this post and order fr…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] He always evinced both sound judgment and tact in the duties assigned him. March 14th, while absent at his home in Roxbury, Mass., he received orders to take command of the Eastern Department, with headquarters at Boston. Af…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] ii. — 34 mile south of the present village. Unable with his meagre force to protect the place, McDougall set fire to the barracks and store-houses, and retreated two miles to a point2 commanding both the entrance to the High…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The enemy were not able to carry off any of the stores left behind in Peekskill, and were only supplied with about forty sheep and eight or ten head of cattle by the Tories. They burnt some houses and plundered the inhabitan…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] was killed at the spot and buried in the immediate vicinity. Shortly before the beginning of the Civil War a human skeleton was discovered in a sand-bank which was being removed from the premises of Har-rison Smith, with a c…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] So tenacious was Putnam of his plan that Hamilton called it Putnam's " hobby-horse." In October, 1777, Sir Henry Clinton gave the old patriot plenty to do. Prior to Burgoync's surrender he attempted to break through the Amer…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Peabody's " Life of Israel Putnam." Sparks' "American lllog-raphy." * Pcahody's " Life of Israel Putnam." > Bui ton's "History of Westchester County," »ol. (. p. 91 (olded.t. above, who issues positive orders in General Wash…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Strang, who made no defense, was tried by court-martial, and condemned to death as a spy. Washington approving the sentence, he was executed accordingly.6 When the eastern wing of the acad-emy was being constructed some year…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of the dead have ever been held sacred by the most barbarous and savage nations. But here, not being able to accomplish their accursed purposes upon the • Pealxidy's " Life of Putnam." • Charles A. Campbell, in " Magazine of…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] General McDougall, " on account of the prejudices of the people," who complained of his ill success in preventing the incursions of the enemy and of his lenity to the Tories. Doubtless the latter were very active and trouble…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] McDougall was placed in command of West Point and Heath summoned from Massachusetts. June 23d the latter took command of all the troops on the east side of the Hudson, a post which he held until the end of the war, with the …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] A regiment was sent to secure the pass over the hills between Drake's and Peekskill. Heath was ordered by Washington to move into the High-lands; the night was passed on Bald Hill. 4 On the 19th Parson's brigade was at Robin…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Seeing a British vessel anchored off the Point, he caused one of a party of six men who were with him to display him-self in Lafayette's uniform, so conspicuously as to draw the attention of the crew, while he and the other …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] one. The snow in this section of country was four feet deep. The Bay of New York was frozen so solid that an army with the heaviest artillery could have crossed on ice. The ships-of-war were fast at the anchorage. The Americ…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Just after midnight of September 20, 1780, Andre left the " Vulture " in a boat sent for him by Arnold to ar-range for the surrender of West Point. Shortly after dawn they were at the house of Joshua Hett Smith, at Haverstra…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Andre at Haverstraw observed the whole scene with deep anxiety, but when the firing ceased resumed his usual composure. The timid Smith, however, refused to row him back to the vessel and he was thus compelled to make the tr…