Home / Westchester County Histories
📖 Westchester County Histories
Comprehensive histories of the county and Town of Cortlandt
1,488Passages
2Source Documents
Sources
| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| J. Thomas Scharf (1886) | 916 | 173,521 | Original → |
| Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) | 572 | 106,421 | Original → |
Passages
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 1770 he returned to Ticonderoga, when dates took command, and was sent to Skenes borough in place of Colonel Wynkoop, who was ill. "I remained sulli-cient time to discover the vile conduct of Arnold, in procuring goods from …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] "No one shewed more zeal at this time of alarm than Colonel Van Cortlandt, of an old colonial family, which held its manorial resi-dence at the mouth of the Croton. With his regi-ment he kept a dragon watch along the eastern…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Van Cortlandt's regiment was engaged first against the Hessians and next against a troop of light infantry. " This was one of the longest, warmest and most obdurate battles fought in America.'' 1 " The theatre of action was …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] While pre-paring to do so, news was brought that the Indians were at hand, and with Colonel Cantine and the Ulster militia, they set off and the Indians retired. During the skirmish, as Colonel Van Cortlandt was leaning agai…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] When Brant visited England in 1776 he was received at court with marked distinction, and Romney painted bis picture in full war costume. From this likeness some line engravings had been published, ami the general (for he was…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] They ran and left their dead behind them, which they seldom do unless obliged to." 5 The troops proceeded to the Genesee Flats and the Indians retreated to Niagara, their confederacy broken. The Second Reg-iment returned to …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] falling into conversation, they walked hack to the tavern, where they dined together and talked over their various adventures during the war. In the course of their interview the skirmish near Lagbawack was spoken of, and Br…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] General Washington then directed Col-onel Van Cortlandt to keep his men as they were at present disposed, out of sight of the battery, and at night to surround the town to the right with sentinels all the way to York River, …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] ' After the redoubts were taken,' continues the colonel, ' we ad-vanced our lines in their range, and the next morn-ing 1 advanced the New York Brigade, which I then commanded, with drums and colors Hying, and carried arms u…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] it was necessary to cut away a part to get a mortar to play on the enemy. One of Captain Vandenburgh's fatigue party was killed the first stroke he struck by a nine-pound ball, which carried oil' his thigh dose to his body. …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Silver in those war times seems to have been a rari-ty in the Old Dominion, for the colonel remarks : " I was asked at Hanover Court House five dollars for a bowl of apple-toddy, but was satisfied by paying onesil-ver dollar…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Soon after the army was disbanded, and the musical instruments of the band of the Second New York and the colors of the two regiments were presented by Colonel Van Cortlandt to (Jeorge Clin-ton at Poughkeepsie. In 1 7S:{ Con…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] An express notifying General Van Cort-landt, reached Croton at midnight, and at daylight he set off to the city, where" he had the inexpressible satisfaction of embracing his old compatriot, and felt it one of the happiest m…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] On one of his visits to his home at Peekskill, made on horseback, from his college, he met on the road a carriage in which was a lady apparently in distress. Near the carriage rode his acquaintance, Lieutenant Franks, to who…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Van Cortlandt was energetic and vivacious and the old house was gay and cheerful. In 1811 she died, alter a short illness. Van Cortlandt was sent by his district to Congress in 1811-12. During his time of service his father-…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] When the States Prison was removed to Sing Sing, he was made one of the board of inspectors and faith-fully and carefully performed the duties of this office, serving most of the time as president of the board, lie was warde…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] later years. Four sons preceded him to the grave, — Romeyn Heck and Philip, in their infancy, and Pierre and Theodrie Romeyn, in their manhood, He was laid to rest in t lie old family burial-ground, the last hearing the name…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] His death brought many proofs nl the esteem in w hich he was held by neighbors and friends, and it was well and truly said of him, " re-siding during all his years, from boyhood to old age, in this town which bears his name,…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It has borne, prior to its present name, the designations Round,1 Hollow and.Icll'erson. In the centre are the two lakes now called Mohansic. In a deed -bearing date of March 20, 1)686, conveying a tract id' land called " Ke…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The drainage of the northern portion of the town reaches the Hudson through Annsville Creek, that of the centre through the Muscoot and Croton Rivers, and that of the lower through the latter. These rivers bear their present…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The earliest grant bears the date of August 24, 1683, covering certain districts in the town of Cortlandt. June 17, 1697, William III. of England, conferred on Stephanus Van Cortlandt what are really feudal rights and made h…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The-Manor included about what are now the towns of Cortlandt, Yorktown, Somers, North Salem and a portion of Lewisboro.3 The town, as early as 1760, seems to have borne the name of Hanover, one undoubtedly derived from the r…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] i., (old edition),
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] ; Albert Strang, M.D., of in 1867. He was junior assistant in Bellevue Hos-pital in 1866; senior assistant, October, 1867; house surgeon, 1867-68; assistant to the Chair of Descrip-tive and Surgical Anatomy in Bellevue Hospi…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] pursue the avocation of a farmer. He has taken an active part in local politics and is widely known and respected throughout Westchester County. He early connected himself with the Dem-ocratic party, and was elected in April…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] He then entered as a clerk the carpet establishment of Benjamin Clinton, in New York City, remaining with the house till its failure, two years later, when he returned to Peekskill and was employed by his father in the manuf…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] from Amboy, New Jersey. They were sons of Joseph Lee, of Long Island, whose father, William, came from Nottingham, Eng-land, in 1675. The elder settled on the Hyatt place, now in the possession of David F. Lee, of Crom-pond.…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the name are descendants of the latter. North of Mohansic Lake about the same date located Ephraim Bedell on a farm of three hundred acres. Edmund Bedell (recently deceased) a grand-son, oc-cupied a portion of the old homest…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] He was the son of a Moses Knapp who was born in England in 1(555, and died in the lower part of the county in 175G, aged one hundred and one years.
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of Lewis, and Henry and Josephus L., sons ofThe-odosius (youngest son of Dr. Ebenezer, Sr.). The-odosius died July 27, 188.">, jn his ninety-sixth year. Three brothers, named Frost, came from England in 174ti to Oyster Bay. …