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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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J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In this case, however, a " direct east " line does not mean a " due east " line. The Van Cortlandt patent starts at the same point on the Croton River, and runs "due east," whereas the Philipse Manor line bears about southea…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] MOUNT PLEASANT. 2sr> the Crotou River, as well as of the present Cort-landt township line, is an oak-tree by a rock oppo-site the north end of Deer Island, this having been ad-judged by the Commissioners of Forfeitures to be…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The dividing line as run out in 1884, in accordance with the statute of 1845, passes a little north of the parsonage occupied by the late Rev. Edward N. Mead, D.D., which is situ-ated about two hundred feet south of St. Mary…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] North Tarrytown, an incorporated village of two thousand six hundred and eighty-four inhabitants by the census of 1880, and situated on the Hudson River twenty-five miles north from the Grand Central Depot, New York City, by…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The Beekman family, into whose hands the prop-erty thus fell after the Revolution, were descended from some of the early settlers of New Amsterdam or New York. William Beekman, the founder of the family in this State, came o…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] odor of salted hides and fresh sole leather is always perceptible to the stranger passing through it. Wil-liam Beckman died in 1707 at the age of eighty-five, leaving one daughter and three sons, Henry, Gerard MRS. COKXK1.IA…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] An incident or two from the second volume will give an idea of her courageous spirit and will, and shows that while she was personally lovely, she was also heroically brave. The story of the way in which she overawed the ene…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] what vast results depend on thins.'* apparently trivial, favors the suppo-sition, in dwelling on this simple incident, that under the l'rovidence that disposes all human events, the fate of a nation may have heeu sus-pended …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] After the Revolution the lands in the Manor of Philipsburgh were parceled out and sold, Frederick Philipse having been attainted of high treason, and his property confiscated to the State of New York. Gerard ( I. Beekman pur…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 'LEASANT. i'87 sides these, I do not remember any buildings on Broad-way, except an old academy building just north of the Andre Brook." Amos R. Clark, Esq., states that "About 1835 Mrs. Cornelia Beekman laid out new roads, …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of Sleepy Hollow, which is preserved as a relic and memorial of the past. Its history is full of interest, and deserves a larger commemoration than the limits appointed for this record will allow. It is much to be regretted …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] confirm the unvarying tradition that the bell was cast to order, and so must have been ordered before 1685. In his historical discourse delivered in 1X66, the Rev. Abel T. Stewart (afterwards Dr. Stewart i, for fourteen year…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Brodhead says in his history that permanent agricultural colo-nization was begun along the Hudson River as early
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] from the best data that can be obtained, that the inter-ments in the Old Dutch Church-yard began between 1645 and 1655. This would agree with the date which Mr. Irving assigned to the erection of " Wol-fert's Roost " in 1656…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] At sucb times an opportu-nity has been afforded to look into the crypt below, and it is said that there are, or were, coffins there bearing dates as far back as between 1650 and 1660. In an-swer to his inquiry, the writer ha…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] building committee, who, desiring to put over the church entrance the inscription, "My house shall be called the house of prayer," referred the stone-cutter, for the sake of exactness, to Matthew xxi : 13, where the passage …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Bolton gives a story, it is true, about her riding up from New York with her brother on " moonlight nights " to superintend the erection, but on what authority no one knows. It was a pretty long ride to be taken at night, an…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Both the language and the spirit take us l>ack for three or four hundred years into tin-past, and stand in the broadest contrast with the sell-reliant individualism and independence of our America* citizenship at the present…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] us for many years. "In continuation, A.D. 1716. On the 18>!> and 19* April tho Rev. G. Bartholf again performed religious service in this Christian church, for which both he and Teuuis Van Houten, who conveyed him to and fro…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] "In this 2l1 Hook of Church Minutes, Anno 1G97, on the Manor of Philipsburgh' ore noted down the names of all persons respectively, who, after Christian examination and admonition, have been received as mem-bers of the Churc…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Dear Sir: In response to your inquiry, " Why it is assumed that the first Interments in what is now the Old Dutch Church-Yard at Sleepy Hollow were made as early as 1645 to 1655," I can only say that its probabilities seem t…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of all the cities of the dead in this country. It con-sists of about thirty-two and one-half acres, ex-tending northward from the upper line of the old church-yard, and lying between Broadway on the I west and the beautiful …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] be caught at the blue bills ot the Hudson. To look upon its grass-grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so ipiietly, one would think thai there at least the dead might rest in peace.' •'It has sometimes been proposed …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The lord of the manor was much impressed by the dream, completed the church and 1 Io n the dam, probably taking care to build it a little more securely than its predecessors; any way it stood, and in its standing seemed to b…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] vane at the western end is of equal antiquity or not. Mr. Irving, w ith bis gentle humor, cannot resist making the quiet, not ill-natured remark that these two vanes, like most ecclesiastical vanes, usually point in contrary…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] They are of heavy oak, and in the bottom are holes which show bow the stanchions which supported them were mortised into them. The sturdy Dutchmen of the good old times disdained any sup-port for the back as he listened w it…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] organized as early at least as 1834. Unfortunately, there are no records attainable, and it is difficult to ascertain the date with certainty, but it is learned front some old printed minutes of the conference thai a pastor,…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] ton, who had " gone over to Rome" with Cardinal Newman, the late Archbishop Bayley and others, and who is now Monsignor Preston, vicar-general of the archdiocese, became pastor of the Catholic Church at Yonkers, and by him a…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] and adviser. Its aim has been, like that of all kin-dred institutions, to prepare the young for the varied positions and activities of life, and the efforts put forth have been attended with a gratifying success. Its teacher…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] under the visitation of the Regents of the University, •and in June, 1877, the advanced pupils were exam-ined in the Regents' questions by a committee acting in their name. Before the opening of the new build-ing in lKiJO it…