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Comprehensive histories of the county and Town of Cortlandt
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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)] in the political bounds of Westchester town. John Leggett was a shipbuilder, and under date of November 30, 1676, he executed a bill of sale reading as follows: " John Leggett of Westchester, within the Provi…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] By an act passed May 11, 16!>3, "a public and open market" was ap-pointed to be held every Wednesday at Westchester; and it was enacted that "there shall likewise be held and kept twice yearly and every year …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] advocacy of the governor's cause was such that, on account of violent language in the course of debate, he was expelled from the assem-bly. He was thereupon re-elected to his seat by his Westchester con-stitu…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] and was a typical representative of the thrifty and solid Dutch trading-class, who, notwithstanding the English conquest and the 240 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY changes brought about by it, had never ceased…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Xcw 'host One of his sons. Rip Van Dam, Jr.. mar-iam Coekroft, of i granddaughter of Steph-brother James was the ancestor of the present This couple had a daugh-Coekroft family of Sing Sing. Dam, who married …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] to compass that end. Not content to leave the case to the decision of the ordinary courts of the province, he proceeded to erect a Court of Chancery for its trial. Equity courts, of which the governor was ex …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] This, of course, brought matters to a crisis. Cosby, incensed at the act of the chief justice, wrote to him in decidedly discourteous terms, requesting a copy of his opinion. Morris, in transmitting the docum…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] purpose of procuring a judgment in his own favor was an outrage deeply offensive to their sense of decency and right; and the rude expulsion of Chief Justice Morris from the bench, because of his un-willingne…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] This description gives, however, so interesting a picture of the political customs of the times, and, in its entirety, is so pertinent to our nar-rative, that we copv it here without abridgment:
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] put them upon the doing of it. The indentures being sealed, the whole body of Electors waited on their new Representative to his lodgings with trumpets sounding and violins playing, and in a little time took …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] landlords, the case was widely different. In this county the real battle was fought and won, determining unmistakably the exist-ence of a decisive majority against royal oppression among the peo-ple of the pr…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He made the journey in 1731, duly laid the grievances of the colonists before the privy council, and procured a. decision pronouncing the grounds of his own removal from the chief justiceship inadequate, but …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Rochelle, whence he went to Boston in the Thereupon, Peter Faneuil, actuated by public year 1720, at the age of eighteen. His uncle spirit, erected Faneuil Hall, and presented it Andrew was a wealthy merchant…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] But he had previously devoted many years to the purchase of the estate and its gradual preparation for aristo-cratic pretensions, had built two mansions, one on the Nepperhan and one on the Pocantico, had est…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] its development and transmitted it to his successors in a condition of reasonably good preparedness for rapid progress. At the census of 1712, only ten years after his death, the population of Philipseburgh M…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He was reared to mercantile pursuits, and according to all accounts was, like his father, a shrewd and successful man of affairs. From old official documents it appears that he was his father's trusted and ac…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] This was " upon pretence of a voyage to Virginia, but really to cruize at sea, in order to meet the said vessel from Madagascar. Upon meeting of that vessel great parcells of East India goods wore by directio…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Frederick Philipse was forced to give up the seat in the council which he had held for a score of years; and Adolph, who had been nominated for membership in that body a short time previously by Governor Bell…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Adolph Philipse, at his deatii, left the Highland Patent, with all his other landed possessions, to his nephew, the second Frederick, who divided it equally among his three chil-dren— Frederick (3d), Mary, wi…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] THE ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES 259 Chester County until the election of 1726, being then returned as one of the four members from New York City. He occupied the speaker's chair until 1737, when he lost his seat; b…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] It is hence an extremely curi-ous fact that, six years before the removal of Lewis Morris from the chief justiceship, Adolph Philipse, the senior member of this family, gave his voice and exercised his offici…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] On the other hand, antago-nism to the Court of Chancery was emphatically a popular cause, only less so in degree (because of the less emergent circumstances) 260 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY in Burnet's time…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] His parents were Philip, eldest son of Frederick and Margaret Philipse, and Maria, daughter of Governor Sparks, of Bar-badoes. Philip Philipse, born in New York City in 1663, went to THE ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] A broad, velvety lawn appeared skirted by garden ter-races, horse chestnuts, and the old Albany and New York Post Load, above which rose Locust Hill. To the right and left were laid out gardens and grounds, i…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] About the time of his return to America to claim his inheritance, young Frederick was married to Joanna, daughter of Lieutenant-Governor Anthony Brockholst, who also had been tenderly reared in England. Durin…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] It is related in Governor Cosby 's official letter to the home government concerning Morris's famous decision that Jus-tice Philipse, in common with Justice de Lancey, heard k' with aston-ishment " the abrupt…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Judge Philipse is described in an official communication from the council to the English government as " a very worthy gentleman of plentiful fortune and good education." On his manor — or rather his section …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] finally, by his will he directed his executors to expend £4(10 for the erection of a church, he took care to specify that the money should come out of the rentals from tin-tenants, lie donated,, however, a fa…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] same as that of the ordinary rural sections of the county. The vil-lage of Mamaroneck, lying within its borders, but not belonging to the manorial estate, enjoyed steady but slow growth as one of the old com …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He was a member of the general assembly for many years, was a vestryman of Trinity Church in New York, and was noted for his public-spirited interest in the concerns of the city. He was a warm friend of the H…