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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)] After that he was escorted before the Westchester County commit-tee, on complaint made by the Cortlandt Manor committee, to be examined as to his political principles. These several unpleasant in-cidents all …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] cerned about this movement up the Hudson. Referring to it in a letter to the convention dated the 11th, he expressed the opinion that the ships "may have carried up arms and ammunition to be dealt out to thos…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] County is concerned, no evidence exists that any results to sustain him in such an expectation followed the undoubted attempts to stim-ulate Tory courage incidental to the dispatch of the " Phoenix " and kk R…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The convention pledged itself to defray the expenses of any practicable plans for obstructing the naviga-tion of the Hudson and annoying the enemy's ships. Not having sufficient ammunition for the militia, it…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] At Tarrytown, on the 4th of August, they were boldly engaged by a number of galleys — the " Washington," kk Lady Washington," kl Spit-fire," kk Whiting," kk Independence," and " (Vane " — which Washing-ton ha…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Manhattan Island, it was now imperatively necessary for Washing-ton to withdraw his whole command to the northern portion of the island, which lie was fortunately able to do, following the Blooming-dale Koad …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Beverly Robinson, between who of friendship subsisted, which, indeed, continued without severed by their opposite fortunes twenty years aft Revolution. It happened that Miss Mary Philipse, a sist Robinson, an…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] LH 350 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY formed of every import nut event. In a few months intelligence came that a rival was in the field, and thai the consequences could not be answered for if he delayed to ren…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] of emergency. The royal army made no attempt against the Amer-ican intrenchments, but contented itself with taking possession of the city and throwing up new defenses for its more adequate pro-tection, while …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] enforce both, in case the enemy landed; and that he should be sup-ported." Upon the arrangements thus made were to depend, a tew days later, perhaps the very salvation of the American army. Of the fio-ht whic…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The State convention, in ordering out these mili-tiamen, directed that if any of the men were without arms they should bring -a shovel, a pickaxes or scythe, straightened and fixed OI1 a poie." They were, mor…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] the British commander in dispatching ships up the Hudson almost immediately after his arrival in New York Bay. During the pause after the bitter American defeat on Long Island, all the conditions seemed to in…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The escape of Washington to New Jersey would then have been cut off, and he would have been obliged to retreal into New England, with the single alternative oi waging a defensive local war there or proceeding…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Washington was entertained at the.Manor House either during the period under consideration or subsequently. Amid the consum-ing anxieties and incessant labors incident to the great military 384 HISTORY OF WES…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Far be it from me to add to the dis-tresses of a lady who 1 am but too sensible must already have suffered much uneasiness, if not inconvenience, on account of Col. Phillips' absence." He adds that the seizur…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] It is unquestionable, however, that on more than one occasion during the Revolution he was the guest of the patriotic Colonel James Van Cortlandt at the old Van Cortlandt mansion in the " Little Vonkers." The…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] the attacking general, unless blindly indifferent to his reputation, should not have hesitated to pursue that course rather than suffer the campaign to come to a humiliating end. finding that Washington had r…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Washington consequently, on October 31, sent General Rezin Beall, with three Maryland regiments, to that point; and in addition he ordered General Lord Stirling with his brigade "to keep pace with the enemy's…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] proceed up the Hudson River along its west bank and take posses-sion of the Highlands. In the case of an intended capture of Forts Washington and Lee it was manifestly impossible to do anything more toward re…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] In making this disposition ho had two fundamental purposes — first, to keep Heath's body of 3,000 permanently in the Highlands, without drawing upon it in any event for the re-enforcement of the main operatin…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] About ten o'clock on the morning of the 12th he crossed the river to embark upon his ever memorable winter campaign in New Jersey. Allusion has been made in a previous chapter to the burning of
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] the boats to be kept in constant readiness for Lee at a point on the east bank of the stream. Lee's defiant behavior in tarrying in Westchester Connty was ag-gravated by everv circumstance of formal pretensio…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] In a letter to Bowdom, then at the bead of the Massachusetts government, Lee characterized Washington's instructions to him to move from North Castle as « absolute insanitv," and complacently added that for h…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Lee thereupon detached two of Heath's regiments for his own use but the next morning, after sober second thought, he concluded that he was playing too bold a part, and ordered them back to Heaths 410 HISTORY …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] were given which entitled them to reimbursement upon application to the proper army authorities. CHAPTEK XIX THE STRATEGIC SITUATION — THE NEUTRAL GROUND I Til the breaking up of the North Castle camp and the…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] the contending armies did not once take a direction east of the Hud-son River. And like the Rhode Island expedition, the various British attacks on Connecticut (with one minor exception) proceeded by water fr…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The lower river, all the way from New York Bay to Ver-planck's Point, was controlled absolutely by the British ships, and on account of its great width, as well as of the barrier from west to east interposed …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] It can not, however, be said of the main American position at Peekskill, as of the enemy's at Kingsbridge, that it was one upon which its possessors could rest in calm and undisturbed confidence and without r…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The safety of the Hudson was Washington's greatest concern, and with the beginning of each campaign he suf-fered torments on that subject. There was an incessant marching and countermarching of troops to and …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The fortification of the Highlands was begun under the auspices of the New York convention shortly after the arrival of the British invading expedition. At the time of Washington's visit to Peek-skill, in Nov…