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📖 Westchester County Histories
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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Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] the Indian proprietors concerned " acknowledged to have sold and received satisfaction of Van der Donck." Adrian Van der Donck was a gen-tleman by birth, being a native of Breda, Holland. He was educated at t…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The whole extensive patroonship, styled at first Colen
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] district, and later conferred upon the township, the village, and the city. To the possibilities of this magnificent but as yet utterly wild property Van der Donck gave a portion of his attention during the t…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] In the spring of 1G49 he was selected a member of the advisory council of the " Nine Men," a body chosen by the popular voice to
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] patched to Holland by the commonalty to lay the whole subject be-fore the States-General. In this mission he had the moral support of the vice-director under Stuyvesant, Van Dincklagen, who wrote a letter to …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He even procured the adoption of an order recalling Stuyvesant, which, however, in view of the critical position of political affairs (a war with England being threatened) was never executed. While in Holland…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Pursuant to his perfectly serious intentions respecting his estate in this county, he obtained from the States-General, on the 20th of April, 1652, the right to dispose by will, as patroon, " of the Colonie N…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] in America. Wo reproduce here a facsimile of the title page of this interesting book, which, translated, is as follows: " De-scription of New Xetherland (as It is Today), Comprising the Nature, Character, Sit…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] But upon his return to America, which occurred in the summer of 1653, Stuyvesant, who still harbored re-sentment against him, denied him that privilege. Van der Donck's book, despite its formidable title, is …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] whales, of common size, swam up the (Hudson) river forty (Dutch) miles, from which place one of them returned and stranded about twelve miles from the sea, near which place four others also stranded the same …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] There are Chris-tians who say that they have seen the skins of this species of animal, but without the horns." He also speaks of " a bird of prey which has a head like the head of a large cat "—probably a ref…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Van der Donck's Colen Donck was the only patroonship ever erected in Westchester County, and was the first of the great landed estates which, during the seventeenth century, were parceled out in this section …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] ings in Westchester County at all comparable to Van der Donck's DR. ADRIAN VAN DER DONCK 113 were acquired. He was the only Dutch gentleman— for Bronck be-longed strictly to the burgher class— throughout the …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] CHAPTER VI BEGINNINGS OF SERIOUS SETTLEMENT— WESTCHESTER TOWN, RYE HE destruction by the Indians of the early English settle-ments in the Vredeland on the Sound was followed by a long period of almost complet…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] But while willing to accommodate separate immigrants from New England with homes, the Dutch had always regarded the presence of the English on the banks of the Connecticut River, and their steady advance west…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] At all events, a very large part of Westchester County was embraced in the sale, the recompense given to the Indians consisting of " six fathom cloth for jackets, six fathom seawant [wampum], six kettles, six…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] By the wording of the new deed of l<;r>r>, its bounds extended "sixteen miles north of the town plot of Stamford, and two miles still further north tor the pasture of their [the settlers'] cattle; also eight …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] On the 14th of November, 1(>54, Thomas Pell, of Fairfield, Conn., bought from the sachems Maminepoe and Ann-Hoock (alias Wampage), and five other Indians, " all that tract of land called West Chester, which i…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Gravelly Brook, named in the conveyance from the Indians as its eastern boundary line is a creek flowing into the Sound in the Township of New Rochelle; so that the territory at first called Westchester inclu…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] SETTLEMENT OF WESTCHESTER TOWN 117 was remembered when, in 1683, under English rule, the erection of regularly organized counties was undertaken; and accordingly the name Westchester was selected as the one m…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] affecting the character of the English settlement as upon the desire to vindicate Dutch territorial rights. The director and council, by a resolution adopted March 6, 1656, declared that the English at Westch…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] In his argu-ment he alleged as one of the principal grievances against the people of Westchester that they were guilty of the offense of " luring and accommodating our runaway inhabitants, vagrants, and thiev…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] On March 23 1656, the citizens submitted to Director Stuyvesant their SETTLEMENT OF WESTCHESTER TOWN 119 nominations of magistrates, the persons recommended for these of-fices being Lieutenant Thomas Wheeler,…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] in Mav, 1663; and also, in matters of legal proceedings, to "take the benefit," in common with the towns of Stamford and Greenwich, of a court established at Fairfield. Readily attaching much impor-tance to t…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The claims of Con-necticut to Westchester being persisted in, Stuyvesant made a jour-ney to Boston in the fall of 1663 to seek a permanent understanding with the New England officials about the delicate subje…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] ever arbitrary or unscrupulous; for in the event of an armed conflict over the boundary difficulty, the powerful New England colonies could easily crush the weak and meager Dutch settlements. It is not known …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Indian proprietors a certain tract of land lying on the maine be-tween a certain place then called Bahonaness to the east and to the West Chester Bath to the north, and up to a river then called Moa-quanes to…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] This last-mentioned tract was " the territory of the present Town of Har-rison, a territory owned by the proprietors of Rye, but wrested from the town some forty years later." Baird describes as follows the
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] called Mammaranock Neck, and the Westermost is bounded with richbell's mamaroneck purchase 127 Mr. Pell's purchase." The three necks later became known as the East, Middle, and West Necks. All the meadows, ri…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] From the testimony of Wappaquewam it appears that that chief was overpersuaded by another Indian, Cockoo, to resell the territory to