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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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Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] 150 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY particularly proved by depositions," "be removed from his place in the council." He died in 1702. His children, four in number-Philip, Adolphus, Annetje, and Rombout— were al…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Annetje Philipse, the daughter of Frederick, the first lord of the manor, mar-ried Philip French, and left descendants who intermarried with prom-inent patriotic families, including the Brockholsts, Livings t…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The date 1682 was ac-cepted at the time when the -Manor House" became the City Hall of Yonkers; but it is sturdily maintained by respectable authorities on the early history of Philipseburgh Manor that the dw…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Although in the former quarter his proprietorship was the earliest of legal record, the question whether private settlers boasting no legal pretensions had not ar-rived there before his purchase is, of course…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Cole says that " around were farmers who brought to the mill their grain to be ground and their logs to be sawed. ' They (the Philipses) found the old graveyard, as old as the settlement, with regard to which…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The Yonkers and Tarrytown mills were styled by Philipse, respectively, the Lower Mills and the Upper Mills. The residence on the Nepperhan at Yonkers was very substan-tially built, " the bricks, and indeed al…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Minnerly, well known in inches deep, to the same height as before, and Tarrytown as a builder, states that in 1864 he a new partition built, fifteen feet long and was Vmplovod to make some alterations in the …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The portion of the chimney taken down was three and one-halt inches wide, and seven relaid with the bricks, Ave feet breast, sixteen inches Iong.-ScMrf, n., o09. THE PHILIPSES AND VAN CORTLANDTS 163 port and …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He points out that its bell was cast to order in 1685 — " proof positive,'' he declares, " that the building had already been begun/' But according to the only au-thentic records in existence, it was not unti…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] This embraces all the exterior portions of the county except the section from Croton Bay to the Highlands — that is, the present Town of Cortlandt, — which, as we have indicated, was bought by Stephanus Van C…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] At the time of the surrender of the province to Nicolls he was one of the Dutch commissioners to nego-tiate the terms of the capitulation. Under the English government he continued to be a prom-inent and infl…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] His first public employment was therefore under English rule. He was a member of the original Court of Assizes created by the duke's laws, and thereafter was constantly engaged in official service, hold-ing p…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] His letters and dispatches to Governor Andros, and to the different boards and officers in Eng-land charged with the care of the colonies and the management of their affairs, remain to show his capacity, clea…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The general situation of the purchase thus made is described in the deed as follows: " Being on the east side of the Hudson River, at the entering in of the Highlands, just over against Haverstraw." Earlier i…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] To him was conveyed also a tract owned by " Hew MacGregor, Gentleman, of the City of Xew York," lying above Verplanck's Point. Thus Stephanus Van Cortlandt became the proprietor of nearly the whole of Westche…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The second of the two strips on the Hudson which always remained independent of the Van Cortlandt estate was a three-hundred-acre parcel front-ing on the inner and upper part of Peekskill Bay, which was deede…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Sit-uated just where the road from Sing Sing to Croton Landing crosses the wide mouth of the Croton River, where that stream empties into the Hudson, it commands a magnificent view of the broad Tappan Sea. In…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] On the 17th of June, 1G9T, the whole was established as the Lordship and Manor of Cortlandt, bv royal letters patent from Governor Fletcher, a quit-rent of " forty shillings current money " to be paid annuall…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The first settlements were in the neighborhood of Croton and Peekskill. The Indians continued numerous, though for the most part peaceable, until an advanced period in the eighteenth century. Stephanus had fo…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] (This peninsula was so called for Philip Verplanck, grandson of Johannes, who inherited it, and in whose family it con-tinued uutil sold to a New York syndicate in the first half of the present century.) One …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] twenty miles from the Hudson, and coincid-ed at the time with the boundary line be-tween New York and Connecticut; but the ultimate State line, as adjusted by com-promise under the " Oblong " arrangement, ran…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He left the property to his son, Frederick, who mar-ried a daughter of Augustus Jay (ancestor of Chief Justice John Jay). Frederick built in 171S the line Yan Cortlandt mansion, which, together with the then …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The reader has, of course, borne in mind that throughout the period we have traversed in tracing the originial land acquisitions under English rule in the western division of the county — that is, a period re…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] tion, proprietorship, and patronage. But in recurring to the history of the eastern portions of the county and of the gradual movement of settlers thence into the interior, Ave shall first review the progress…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The reader will remember that Heathcote, in addition to buying the Kichbell estate and some adjacent Indian lands, called the Pox Meadows (the latter being secured in order to extend the limits of his propose…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] It contained five thousand acres of improvable land. The Middle Patent, dated February 17, 1701, to Caleb Heathcote and twelve others, extended from the West Patent to the Mianus River, and had fifteen hundre…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] the Sound the Eye, Harrison, Mamaroneck, New Eochelle, East-chester, and Westchester tracts and settlements; on the upper Hud-son the Ryke and Kranckhyte patents, upon which the village of Peekskil] has been …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] These great original proprietorships were, indeed, only nine in number, as fol-lows: (1) Cortlandt Manor, the property of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, which went after his death to his children and was by them pr…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] and associates on the basis of purchases from the Indians, and by the patentees gradually subsold, mainly to settlers who in I he course of time occupied the lands. In the nine estates and patents thus enumer…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Throughout the colonial period tenant farming continued to be the prevailing system of rural economy outside of the few settlements and tracts which from the start were independ-ent of the manor grants — a sy…