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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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J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] present grounds south of the gateway to the Sprain road, and including the site of the gateway itself, were purchased at a later date. This cemetery has a number of handsome monuments. Of course, it is not for general use, b…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] mer bondholders became stockholders to an equal amount. The amount of stock issued was twenty-six thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars. The officers elected at the time of reorganization still hold. They are Edward …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] grounds. Section XXIV. The Bi-Centennial Celebration. (October 18, 1882.) Duringthe mayoralty of the Honorable William A. Gibson, the Yonkers Common Council, on the 19th of December, 1877, adopted the following preamble and …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] I. W. Maclay. J. G. P. Holdun. W. W Wilson. E. L. Thomas. F. A. Itigby. H. M. Pratt. George H. Warren. Charles E. Finkel. W A. Pardoe. George liayner. James Brevoort. Professor Wm. II. C. Barilett. Davis Paton. John Avery. W…
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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Collins' Baud of Newburgh. Nicholas Powell, Chief Engineer, Charles Miller and Samuel J. Hewitt, Assistants, of Newburgh Fire l>e|sirtiiieut-Washington Steam Engine Company, No. 4, of Newburgh — seventy-four men, including i…
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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] good taste and skill. The splendid display made by the firemen of Yonkers, as well its by (hose of New-burgh, Sing-Sing and Mount Vernon, formed a most attractive part of the procession. The Newburgh comJ panies were brought…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Hon. Waldo lint, bins Hon. Fdwin K. Keyes. James C. Ball, Ks.p Judge Malt. II. Ellis. Bon. Norton P. (His. Ethan Flagg, E»i|. Hon. G Hilton S.ribncr lion,.hours C Courier. Judge Edward P. Baird. Robert P Getty, Esq. Aug. Van…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] J II. K color. The raised platform, prepared for six hundred persons, was reserved for the officers of the meeting, the city authorities, the guests and the reporters for the press. The representatives of families whose succ…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] "So many, so good as of Douglas blood have been. Of one sirnaine, in one Kingrick, never yet were seen.M Mrs. Frederic Shonnard's mother is Julia Gabriella Ogden, a daughter of Samuel Gouverneur Ogden. who was the great ship…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] seems improbable. Its inhabitants at the time were largely of Hollandish descent, and in the language familiar to them, the word;;roe/>, signifying green, and the words graan and grein, both signifying graim might well, eith…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It is said to mean "the place of the bark kettle,"' and to have been corrupted by the English into " Wickers Creeks." The terri* tory occupied by these Indians is described by De Yries, in 1640, as lying on the east bank of …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] From Poughkeepsie down the Mohicans had on this (the east) side of the river the Wappinger family above and in the Highlands, the Kitchawank family along the Croton, the Sintsinck family within our present Ossining, and the …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The treaty of peace concluded between Director-General Kieft and the Indians represented by their chiefs on August 30, 1645, led to the re-establishment of a good understanding with the natives in what is now Westchester Cou…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Thus the same property bought for the Dutch West India Company by Governor Stuyvesant, in July, 1649, was sold again to Connecti-cut by the Indians in 1662. Three years after that it was seized by the English,as property of …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] There is a vane in shape of a banneret on the east end of the old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, which was probably his own device, and put there by his own order, and into that is cut the monogram of the church's founder, i…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] For this tract Frederick Philipse gave a quantity of wampum and other goods enumerated in the deed of conveyance as follows : " 10 fathom of duffils, 10 blankets, 8 guns, 7 shirts. 1 anker of rum, 25 lbs. of powder. 10 bars …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] On September 6, 1682, five months later, Frederick Philipse made his third purchase of land in Green-burgh from the native Indians, " being on the east side of Hudson's River, beginning on the north side of the land belongin…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The payment consisted of the usual quantity of clothing and other dry-goods, and of kitchen uten-sils, together with guns, powder and rum, to which were added " 10 spoons and 2 rools of tobacco." By these successive conveyan…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The title to the possessions thus acquired and the rights and prerogatives conferred by the royal c har-ter were transmitted by inheritance through a period of eighty-six years, until they were all extinguished in 1779 by th…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] RESIDENCE OF FREDERIC A. LORD AND W. ADDISON BURNHAM.
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] those Reformers before the Reformation, some of its members became the subjects of persecution. They suffered severely, both in person and property, and were at length constrained to leave their native country and to seek fo…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] indeed, that the pulpit of that church was the work of his own hands. Having made his way by industry and thrift, he afterwards left his trade and engaged in mercantile business. At length he married the rich widow of Peter …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] She marri< d Jacobus Van Cortlandt in 1(591, the year before his own second marriage. 2. Adolphus. 3. Philip, who died in Barbadoes in 1700, two years before his father. He left an 6nly child, Frederick, five years old. 4. A…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of England. His wife was Joanna Brockholes, daughter of General Anthony Brockholes, whom he married in 1719. He died in New York City, July 2(5, 1751, aged fifty-seven years, leaving a widow and five children. The oldest of …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] only good Mr. Wetmore and two Dissenting Teachers that are capable of duty. Northward of that is Coll. Philips's Manour, on which are people enough for a large Congregation without any minister at all. The Coll. has himself …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] At the present day, with a larger development and broader views of public business and policy, these records may excite the reader's smile, but they were matters of importance in the condition of society then existing, and t…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The stream was call-ed by the In-
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] and a high opinion of his talents. The continent of North America, from Boston to Charleston, is a great volume, every page of which presents his eulogium.' "The object of Washington, in concentrating the forces in Westchest…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] which were not satisfactory to those who afterwards moved in. He set up a bone-factory, which tainted the air. He manufactured sulphur, which was not agreeable. He opened a distillery for the production of cheap spirits, whi…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] tic struggle, the glorious consummation of what had been through so many dark years so ardently hoped for. The papers there signed gave freedom to a nation and initiated another grand test of repub-lican institutions. The sp…