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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)] This was the post of honor, but still Arnold did not seem satisfied, and Washington, perceiving it, promised to meet him at his headquarters at the Birdsall house, Peekskill, and converse further on the subje…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] On the afternoon of the day before, Arnold went down the river in his barge to the western landing of King's Ferry (Stony Point) and stayed overnight at the house of Joshua Hett Smith,' about two miles above …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] ()u the 17th Arnold and his aide-de-camp, Colonel Richard Varick, came to Peekskill, went to Stony Point, there met Washington, Mar-quis de Lafayette, and Alexander Hamilton, conducted them in Ar-nold's barge…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] A second shot from Sherwood compelled the barge to return to the " Vulture." The British returned the fire, with no effect except to alarm the neighborhood. This occurrence, when told Andre upon his arrival, …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Near midnight, Smith, in the boat thus obtained, rowed by two of bis tenants, Joseph and Samuel Colquhoun, with muffled oars, pro-ceeded on ebb tide to the " Vulture " and brought Andre on shore, where he fou…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The Americans fired with effect, shivering some of the spars of the vessel, and compelled, her to weigh anchor and drop down the river. One of the shots from the "Vul-ture" lodged in an oak tree, where it rem…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Headquarters, Robinson House, September 22, 1780. Permit Mr. John Anderson to pass the guards to White Plains or below, if he chooses, he being' on public business by my direction. B. Arnold, Maj. Gen. Andre …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] When about three miles east of Peekskill on the Crompond Road they were stopped by a military patrol under command of Captain Ebenezer Boyd. This event is best told by Captain Boyd in his testimony on the sub…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] and Smith occupying the same bed. The Miller house was on the southerly side of Crompond Road in Yorktown, about one-third of a mile east of Lexington Avenue. It has been torn down, but the cellar is still to…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] THE CAPTURE OF ANDRE 473 a horse to bo saddled, mounted him, told Major Franks to inform General Washington that he had gone to West Point and would return in an hour, hurried down the steep road to the river…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] to find Arnold. While Washington was across the river, Lieutenant-Colonel Jame-son's second messenger, Captain Jerome Hoogland, with the captured papers and a letter written on the 21th by Andre at Salem to W…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Andre, with a strong cavalry escort under command of Major Ben-jamin Tallmadge of the 2d Light Dragoons, left South Salem a little after midnight on the morning of the 26th by way of Long Pond.Mountain, North…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] In the evening he was taken To Fort Putnam, West Point, where he was confined until the morning of the 2Sth, when he was taken, still in charge of Major Tallmadge, in a barge down the river to Stony Point, an…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Resolved, That Congress, having a high sense of the virtuous and patriotic conduct of the said John Paulding, David Williams, and Isaac Van Wart, In testimony whereof, ordered, That each of them receive annua…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Arnold came down the river on the afternoon of the 10th, spent that night at the Smith house near Haverstraw, and the next day went farther down and waited till night at a place opposite Dobbs Ferry. Andre di…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The great enterprise shown by the Americans on the Westchester shore in bringing a cannon down from Verplanck's Point and firing on the " Vulture " from Teller's (Croton) Point probably had quite as much to d…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] tive. Hence the decision upon the fatal return journey by land. Although Arnold departed from Joshua Ilett Smith's house at ten o'clock on the morning of September 22, leaving passes for Smith and Andre, it w…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] William Abbatt, of Westchester, under the auspices of the Empire State Society Sons of the American Revolution, a work of eminent literary and artistic excellence, entitled "The Crisis of the Revolution; bein…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] John Paulding was born near Tarrytown, October 16, 1758, and at the time of Andre's capture was therefore not quite twenty-two years old. He was descended from early settlers of Philipseburgh Manor. FLis gran…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] After the capture of Andre, he says, he was taken a third time, in a wounded condition, and " lay in the hospital in New York, and was discharged on the arrival of the news of peace there." The farm given him…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Warts were a patriotic family, residing in the present Town of Green-1 It is of interest that one of the principal that he wished Andre to conic ashore, was ad-benefactors of Saint Peter's Church was the dres…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] have been duly reprimanded by his superior officer. On this point an intelligent writer remarks: They were branded as " cow-thieves," etc. Perhaps they were cow-thieves; but at that period the most honorable …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Association to the Captors of Major Andre" was organized in the village, the most prominent promoters of the movement being Amos 494: HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY R. (Mark and N. Holmes Odell. The locality w…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] interest was felt, and it was decided to hold a grand celebration at Tarrytown. With great propriety, the monument was first remod-eled. The original base was retained, but a bas-relief, depicting the capture…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] part of our coast the expected fleet would arrive, or when. Upon his return Washington occupied himself with the details of improving the organization of his army, meantime giving such attention as he could t…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] One of the enemy's mortally wounded on that occasion was Donop himself, whom Greene very tenderly cared for until his death. Greene, at his post on the Croton, says General Heath in his Memoirs, had "practice…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] tional with him whether to come to New York Harbor or to Chesa-peake Bay. As we shall see, Washington remained in absolute un-certainty regarding the French admiral's intended destination until after the latt…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Washington had two immediate objects in view — first, to surprise and, if possible, capture the British position at Kingsbridge; second, to cut off de Lancey's large body of Refugees at Morrisania and any oth…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] with their main bodies, were to descend swiftly down through West-chester County and be ready for further immediate operations in force if Kingsbridge should be taken. It was a thorough plan of instant aggres…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He was discovered by a strong foraying party of the enemy, which came across the bridge just about day-break, and skirmishing ensued the noise of which alarmed de Lancey at Morrisania. De Lauzun had arrived a…