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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)] longed to the old m inor of Philipsburgh, which was forfeited to the State when its proprietor, Frederic! 1 From BiubM Him-llh'-rralrd, oopyrlglit, 1875, by P. Applolon A.Co. MOUNT PLEASANT. 307 Philipse, went over to the en…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Irving was a frequent visitor, and seemed to watch its successive advances with great interest. In this way he had frequent and prolonged conversa-
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] was Washington Irving, whose delightful descriptions of Sleepy Hollow and the Pocantico have made this region famous and classical for all time. On the southern slope of Prospect Hill is the pleas-ant home of Mr. Stephen H. …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] son Park " and the places above it, and also on the north from the Ichabod Crane Bridge, the point where the river turns toward the Hudson, but east of the old Post Road, now known as Broadway, stands the Old Dutch Church of…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The number of bricks in this chimney was a marvel. They had all been brought from Holland, and landed on the north
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] whose father's name was Slidell and whose mother's name was Mackenzie, added her name to that of his father's at the request of a maternal uncle. He will be remembered as commanding the United States brig " Somers," on which…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] As stated elsewhere, it was formerly thought to be in Mount Pleasant, but a recent survey has shown it to be in Ossining. The County House. — At East Tarrytown, form-erly called Knapp's Corners, a short distance north of the…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] property, from which fact the house afterwards built took the name of" The Van Wart House." The Young house of the Revolution was within what was called "the American lines," by which was meant that it was within that part o…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] American Revolution " and in Riving ton's Rotjal Ga-zette, published in New York City February 9, 1780. General Heath was the last surviving major-general of the Revolutionary army, and he died at Roxbury, Massachusetts, his…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] from a letter written by Judge Samuel Young to R. V. Morris, member of Assembly, under date of "Mount Pleasant, January 25, 1814," and published in the Historical Maijazine for June, 1871. Judge Young wrote, — " I resided in…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] great uncertainties and dangers during the Revolu-tionary War. The site of the old farm-house, now owned by Mr. Alvah Newman, is said to have been the scene of a bloody tragedy in those perilous times. Two Continental soldie…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] time was the Rev. Samuel Rushnell. The member-ship at the beginning was very small, but now num-bers two hundred and forty. The present pastor is the Rev. William Colden. The ancestors of the Palmer family in America were th…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] church there. He h:is served as a local preacher for many years, and h:is been exceedingly active in re-i ligious work. He married Esther Fowler, daughter ' of Moses Fowler, of Mount Pleasant, and has three children — Fannie…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] broad philanthropy and her remarkable executive ii. — 30 force, has since been carried on by a band of gener-ous-hearted women, who are every way worthy of the honor and the responsibility devolved upon them. CHAPTER IV. OSS…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In 1862 Clark & Wagner, of Philadelphia, published a very accurate 11 Map of the Town-ships of Ossining and Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, N. Y., from Kccent and Actual Survey." The scale was three inches to a mile. At …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It was laid out in plots lying on six parallel streets running north and south, which were crossed by one at right-angles, put down as Hudson A ve-nue. Other sections have been mapped out iu village lots in a similar manner,…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] began Indians, known;is " Sint Snicks." They owned the territory as far north as the Croton River, then called the "Kitchewan," the tribe inhabiting above this stream being the " Kitchawongs." An Indian village occupied the …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It will be found variously written on old maps and in ancient documents — Cinque Singte, Cinquesingte, Sink Sink, Sinck Sinck, Sin Sinck, Sint Sinck and Sin-sing. Ours is the only village in the world that bears this musical…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] are from five hundred to nearly one thousand feet above tide-water. There is but very little level land in the whole township. At different elevations there * are beautiful terraces, or small plateaus, which atlord delightfu…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Most of them are fragments of our own rock-beds, while many are of foreign ma-' terial, having found their way here during the drift I period, of which they are not the only remaining evidence. The surface of most of our roc…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Grace Church on Broadway, the United States Sub-Treasury building in Wall Street, New York, for-merly the United States Custom-House, were also -built of Sing Sing marble. To these can be added I the city hall and the hall o…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The result of sixty years of convict labor has been to leave the grounds back of the prison in a very rough and unsightly condition, with great excavations and enormous heaps of debris. The treatises of Prof. Dana and others…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] tremolite, cubical and octahedral crystals of iron pyrite, asbestos, calcite and poor specimens of mal-achite and azurite. There are two very interesting dykes of granite to be seen in these quarries; one of them is from two…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The opera-tions of this mining company were suddenly termi-nated by the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, never again to be resumed. There are two references to these mines in the office of the Secretary of State, at Al…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In order to inspire increased confi-dence in the minds of investors in the silver-mining stocks, and to show the people that the precious metal had formerly existed in these mines, having been worked successfully, and only a…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] According to the best of my recollection, there were twenty tivo persons constantly employed alsjiit the mine, sixteen of whom were considered the first-rate miners from Europe, all concur-ring iu the opinion that the mine w…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] After penetrating for some dis-tance, they found that the character of the rocks sud-denly changed, and the silver vein was entirely lost. They then gave up the search. ■\ Still another attempt was made to open up the old mi…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The operations of the company were conducted under the direction of Joseph Tregaskis. an expe-rienced miner of Cornwall, England. The company had a lease of the ground for forty years. About twenty-five years ago Mr. Kemeys …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Daniel Delevan Man-gam that he well remembers hearing his grandmother relate her personal knowledge of the Indians — of their going forth in their canoes in the mornings from the Kill-brook to the Hudson, and of their return…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the other early settlers were the Ackers, Millers, Storms, Bayles, McCords, Ryders, Yale and others. The descendants of almost all of these families are still quite numerous in our community. The sources of information for t…