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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)] 438 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY vented his needful re-enforcement in New Jersey. Thus at two criti-cal emergencies in two successive years Westchester County was made the&scene of a large and idle military …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Hamilton was greatly enraged against Put-nam, and advised Washington to make an example of him, saying: -His blunders and caprices are endless." But Washington was un-willing to too deeplv wound the sensibili…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] refit leaving General Sullivan in a dangerous situation from which he had much difficulty in extricating himself. The behavior of the French in this first test of the practical value of the alliance excited o…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] -The detachment on the east side of the Hudson ( we quote from Irving's Life of Washington) made a predatory and disgraceful foray from their lines at Kingsbridge toward the
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] fc A§ ^ ^ -^ * ^ ®! \3^ 442 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY chapter on the Indians transpired. A band of about sixty so-called Stockbridge Indians (descendants of the Mohican tribe which orig-inally possessed w…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Reverends Samuel Seabury, of Westchester; Epenetus Townsend, oi Salem; and Ephraim Avery, of Rye, the Yonkers parson was per-severing in his devotion to the British cause, and suffered accordingly. Soon after…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The ardent Colonel Gist, during his occasional warlike employments below the lines, made his rendezvous at the foot of Wild Boar Hill, opposite the parsonage;
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] through White Plains to the Sawpits, or Rye," a distance of fourteen miles. Colonel Burr made his headquarters at White Plains. FROM JANUARY, 1779, TO SEPTEMBER, 1780 447 On the very morning of his assuming c…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] cut to proceed against him in front, while he would fall upon his rear. This well-laid plan, if it had been carried out, would probably have resulted in the capture of Tryon; but Putnam was unable to co-opera…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] William Hull. Considering the heavy odds brought against him by the enemy during the exciting campaign that followed, he made a very creditable record. In the rirst few months of 1770 Sir Henry Clinton confin…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The American army was at this time on the west side of the Hudson in the vicinity of the Highlands. Sir Henry Clinton sailed up the Hudson on the 30th of May with a formidable expedition. The fleet, under the…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] It is an interesting reminiscence that Major John Andre, who a year and some months later passed that locality on the errand that took him to his death, signed the articles of capitulation on be-half of the B…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] But while waiting there the great achievement of Anthony Wayne at Stony Point compelled him once more to change his arrangements.1 The storming of Stony Point on the night of the 15th of July was wholly plann…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] engage the country people as lookouts alonK should be upon our watch this way. Your ac-the River— I could wish you to have such per-tivity and care I rely upon, sons on whose fidelity and vigilance you can 1 …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Americans had arrived close to the outer works. Then, heedless of shot and shell, they made the assault in two columns, which ar-rived in the center of the works almost at the same instant. The garrison surre…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] On the other hand, whilst the recollection of this prodigious 454 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY deed of valor was still fresh in men's minds, Major Andre, who was to be the next central object of sentimental …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] It was estimated that a garrison of 1,500 would be required for it, which could not be spared from the army. So after trans-porting the cannon and stores to West Point, the works were de-molished.1 The loss o…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] deck had been penetrated by a very large Wayne. The cannon brought up by the anchor auger, which encountered haul substances, and was doubtless one of these." its thread was shown with silver attached, FROM J…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Consequently there was no further em-ployment for the British general on the Hudson, and indeed his occupation of Verplanck's and Stony Points, involving two succes-sive demonstrations with a loss of (500 men…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] After that it looked for a time as though the northern part of West-chester County was to be the scene of large military operations. Washington detached Robert Howe to take Fort Lafayette on Ver-456 HISTORY O…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] On the 11th of October, he says, fourteen British seamen were taken prison-ers at Teller's (Croton) Point by Captain Hallet's company of New York militia. From the time of the landing of the British expeditio…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] gees in the British service. This was in the summer of 1781. It is but just to say that Colonel James Holmes was a type of the un-fortunate rather than the bloody-minded Westchester County Tories who ultimate…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Martlinoli was a one-armed man. With Emmerich's troop from be-
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] lected and a skirmish ensued, in which the enemy had a number of men killed and wounded; our loss, two killed and two wounded." And on the 3d of October " Lieutenant Gill, of the dragoons, patrol-ing in Eastc…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] But d'Estaing stopped at Savannah to assist General Lincoln in his effort to recover that place, and afterward, the joint operation having failed disastrously, returned to France. Clinton next carried his arm…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] This house, owned by Joseph Youngs, was situated about four miles east of Tarrytown and about the same distance northwest of White Plains, at the intersection of an east and west road from Tarrytown and a nor…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] which subsequently, with the whole property, was owned for many years by his son, the Rev. Alexander Van AYart. The house was in the present Town of Mount Pleasant, just beyond the Greenburgk border. " Youngs…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] On the night of February 2, 1780, " a force of between four and five hundred in-fantry and one hundred horsemen, composed of British, Germans, and Colonel de Lancey's Tories, set out from Fort Knyphausen (for…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] 462 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY and wounded was between thirty and fort}', about half the total number being killed on the spot or dying of their wounds. The enemy acknowledged losses of five killed and eig…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Having knowledge of this fact, General Benedict Arnold (who had for several months been in traitorous correspondence with Sir Henry Clinton, the commander-in-chief of the British forces in America) re-solved …