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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)] 266 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY sition until 1755, serving-so acceptably that when another vacancy occurred in 1757 the home government permitted him to practically succeed to the full dignity of governor, …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He received a military education in England, and fought on the British side in the Revolution, but after the war retired from the army and returned to America, taking up his residence on the Ueathcote estates…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The de Lancey family, as a whole, was emphatically pro-British in the American struggle for independence, and contributed many brave officers to the armies of the king. In this latter respect the de Lanceys c…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Although after the death of Stephanus there was always a recognized ''head" of the Van Cortlandt family, there was never a second "lord" of the manor. Johannes, the eldest son of Stephanus, died at a comparat…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Philip Verplanck1 6,831 £973 Margaret Bayard2 7,398 948 Stephen de Lancey3 7,377 999 Philip Van Cortlandt 0,(348 975 Stephen Van Cortlandt 6,894 972 John Miln4 7,714 988 Gertrude Beekman5 8,062 912 William Sk…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The subsequent history of the whole great Van Cortlandt estate, from the proprietary point of view, is well repre-sented by that of the share which fell to young Stephen de Lancey, the son of the chief justic…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] rolls and map showed the farms, which were all numbered, the tenants' names, and the rent payable by each. It was always understood that the tenants might buy " the soil right," as the fee was termed, at any …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Ii was not until 1788, under the regime of the State of New York, when Westchester County was divided into townships, that Cortlandt Manor ceased to exist. The apportionment to this manor of a separate assemb…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He was born in 1683. He was a merchant in New York, and has been described as " a man 272 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY of clear head, of good abilities, and possessed of great deci-sion of character." From 1…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Not an old man, ami yet arrived at an age of gravity; not a politician in the common sense, but well experienced in public af-fairs and having a reputation for great judiciousness and virtuous love of truth a…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He had twenty-three children, twelve of English branch no male descendant of the whom reached maturity, the sons all attaining name is living.— The Van Cortlandt Family, by high rank in the British army and t…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He lies buried in the cemetery of the Van Cortlandts. The following is the inscription on his tomb: " Mark the perfect man and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace." In memory of the Honorable…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He promptly began to improve his estate. About 1700 he dammed Tippet's Brook, thus creating the present Van Cortlandt Lake; and probably not long afterward he erected below the dam the Van Cortlandt mill, whi…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] It was erected in 1748 by Frederick Van Cortlandt — a stone on the southwest corner bears the date — and possesses within and without many peculiarities of the last century.... The style of architecture of th…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] 1750. This Jacobus (third proprietor) anglicized his name to James; he was the highly respected and prominent Colonel James Van Cort-landl of the Revolution. Though an undoubted patriot, and resi-dent within …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Moreover, the THE ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES 275 successors of John Pell in its kk lordship " did not compare in influ-ence or public activity with the descendants of the founders of Mor-risania, Philipseburgh, Va…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] This was the third recorded land grant in point of time with-in the borders of what subsequently be-came Westchester Comity, being antedated only by the grants to Jonas Bronck of Bronxland and to John Throckm…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] relative influence and ability numbers. With all their boasts of superiority, the Tories of New York have left few names remarkable for anything more meritorious than proud faithfulness to the British monarch…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] unjustified but the most trivial, have given a general tendency of such extreme unaccept ability to American readers. We have char-acterized his performance as astonishing, and we know of no other fitting ter…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] son of Peter and a nephew of the chief justice, in addition to his duties as high sheriff of Westchester County, represented a New York City constituency during the period in question. With the names of Phili…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] After a varied career, which com-prehended a prolonged residence (subsequently to the war) among the forlorn refugee Loyalists in Nova Scotia, he returned in 1798 to West-chester and became rector of Saint Pe…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The Morrises were known chiefly as an aggressive polit-ical family, with a well-defined follow-ing, but hardly adapted to attract the normally conservative or as yet unde-cided classes. Thomas represented a c…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] They remained for a night at the Manor House, and the next morning Governor Tryon proposed a walk. They all proceeded to one of the highest points on the estate, and, pausing, Tryon announced to the listening…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] grandfather, Pierre Jay, a Huguenot of La Rochelle, France, emi-grated to England during the troublous times of Catholic persecu-tion, leaving a son, Augustus, who came to New York about 1686, married Anna Ma…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] eir an pest or, J a ci ilms V; in Cortlandt, •hnsed it of the Indian sa
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] "That they think it their greatest happiness to live under the illus-trious House of Hanover; and that they will steadfastly and uni-formly bear true and faithful allegiance to His Majesty, King George the Th…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] sembly of the Province of New York convened on the 10th of January, 1775, in New York City. Although the general aspect of affairs had undergone no improvement siuce the adjournment of the Philadelphia congre…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] But the house framed and passed a state of grievances, petition to the king, memorial to the lords, and rep-resentation or remonstrance to the commons, to which little or no exception could reasonably be take…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The committee decided that the delegates should be chosen this time not by the individual counties in an independent capacity, but by a provincial convention; and such a convention was called for the 20th of …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] ostentatious life of a country gentleman. Even in the first move-ment of protest against the policy of Great Britain organized in this county, resulting in the White Plains convention of August, 1774, he had …