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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)] With the Frosts came a family, Cox by name, who settled near Hal-lock's Mills. W. H. Flewellen is the present proprietor. John Tomp-kins (born at Greenburgh in 1739) must have set-tled on the farm now in the possession of El…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] fare of the children of his native place. It was through his influence that the statues of Farragut, in Madison Square, and of the Poet Halleck, in Central Park, were added to the memorials of the famous sons of New York. Of…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] An earnest member of the Episcopal Church, his labors for its advancement have been unceasing, making the Church of St. Mary's, at Lake Mohegan, the subject of his peculiar care. Here, as lay leader, he has conducted service…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] passed through Yorktown, and on occasions the French army under Rochambeau was here. From 177G to 1782 out-posts of the army which held pos-session of the Highlands were maintained at Crom-pond and at Pine's Bridge. Though b…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] as Purdy, Bailey, Fowler, Horton, Brown and Caleb Morgan; 1 the latter afterwards acted as guide to the British troops in their raids into this town.'-' When the British fleet with Howe's army appeared before New York, Washi…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of Morgan. a Irvine's Life of Washington, vol ii.. pp. 284 and 285. I Mi HISTORY OF WESTCHESTEB COUNTY. North Castle witli the recommendation that he fall haek on Pine's Bridge, or at least by way of precau-tion remove his s…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] * Xnmher of Itofugees from forthmdt Manor in 1782, 804. property nor life were safe. Some found it mee^ary to keep a horse always saddled, that they might have ready a means of escape. Against the cowboys the neighbors would…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Bolton says it was called by Colonel Robertson the d — d committee house." Here, too, commissions were distributed by a committee of the Provincial Congress to the officer* I of the militia. In the month of June, 17751, the …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] squadrons of Tarleton's ami Simcoe's British Light i j Horse, about two hundred in number, who had proh-| ably come from White Plains by way of Pine's Bridge, "Bolton's History of the County of Westchester, vol. ii., p. 382 …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] As the British soldiers were returning from this foray, they met at the distance of about a quarter of a mile from the church a colored boy belonging to Abraham Purdy, and commonly called "Broad Toes" from his possession of …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 1 Anecdotes of the Revolution, collected by the late Alvan I'urdy. -Heath's Mem., p. 20G. brigades, by way of Crompond, toward Bedford." A storm detained them until the 12th, when this little army marched to Amawalk, which t…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Captain Boyd of Sheldon's Regiment of Light Dragoons, who, it is said, although shown their pass from Arnold, suspected them, and recommended them to stop at the tavern of Andreas Miller in such significant tones, that they …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The house was then occupied by Isaac Underbill and Sarah, his wife, and their family. After breakfast Smith left his companion, directing him to take the road to White Plains, while he him-
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. were staying, thus another link was forged in the chain of circumstances which led Andre to his doom, as, if this separation had not taken place, the know-ledge of the country possessed by Smit…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the notorious freebooter, Joshua Hueson— and was taken down Hog Lane. They were fired upon by a party of Americans, and Dr. Brewer, thinking it a good time to escape, leaped from the horse and was shot and mortally wounded b…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] About a mile and a half south of Yorktown Station, on a lane leading from the Pine's Bridge road, is a house occupied at the time of the Revolution by Richardson Davenport as a sort of public house. At this place, on the 14t…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of Colonel Greene's method of stationing his guards, out of a spirit of revenge. Colonel De Lancey, who was smarting under an attack made upon him in his quarters not long before, by the Americans, at once fitted out a force…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] his captors that they tied, leaving him at liberty. A bold ruse that was devised and carried out suc-cessfully by a number of residents of Crompond and vicinity, upon another occasion, may not be unwor-thy of notice. A party…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] and the Royal Deux-Ponts (of Alsace), and there were besides the independent legion of cavalry, commanded by the Due de Lauzun, and five hundred artillerists. The French army had arrived at Newport, R. I., in July, 178(1, bu…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 22d — We left Hun's tavern to march to King's Ferry. Nine miles from Hun's tavern is Peskill (Peekskill), a village of about twenty houses, quite close to each other." * A deed bearing date of February 15, 1802, given by "So…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] it, probably for the most part to the south at each side of the road. On the 2(5th of August the French army crossed the Hudson at King's Ferry and started with the Amer-ican forces on their march to Yorktown, Va. A por-tion…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In a recent history of the French in America1 the following reference is made to the encampment at Crompond: " The American army remained in camp at King's Ferry with its vanguard at the mouth of the Croton, on the Hudson Ri…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The head-quarters of the Count de Rochambeau are said to have been at the residence of Captain Henry Strang, which was near the present Fair Grounds, and several hun-dred feet east of the residence of the late J. Hazard Stra…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Fair Oaks, Va., 1861. William Sarles, Fifty-Seventh New Y'ork State Volunteers. Elias Sarles, Eighty-Seventh New Y'ork State Volunteers.. William Sheppard, Eighty-Seventh New York State Volunteers. William Sherwood, died in …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Shrub Oak. — In the northern portion of the town, about one mile east of Lake Mohegan, is located the village of Shrub Oak, containing about one hundred and sixty people. It is situated on the road leading 454 HISTORY OF WES…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] where I had but few. Returned to F s. We had a comfortable time at Oakley's church at 7 o'clock." Mr. Garretson was pre-sent five days later and made the following note: " Both at the Stony Street church on the morning of th…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 1827, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and in the fifty-second year of his itinerancy. The first legal incorporation of church trustees was made April 14, 1792. At that date " The male per-sons of full age belonging to …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In 1842-43 Peekskill and Shrub Oak were ministered to by Daniel De Vinne. In 1843 Shrub Oak became a station, having then one hundred and ninety -one members. The pas-tors since that time have been as follows : 1843 Kev. W. …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] son Valley, containing about one hundred inhabit-ants. Osceola Lake is a beautiful little body of water, nearly elliptical in shape and about one hundred acres in area. Within the village is the Osceola House (no longer open…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Gertrude, his wife, the owners, to John Hyatt, John Haight and David Travis, yeomen, "for a Presbyte-rian congregation,... exercising their religion and public worship of God Almighty after and ac-cording to the form of wors…