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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 36 (part 2)

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 63 large quantities of stoves and plongli castings, belonging to the Messrs. Thos. Southard, Taylor, Flacrjer <fc Co.; Minor, Horlon & Co.; Reuben R. Finch 6c Co.; C. A. Depew & Co.; Whiiney (fe Montanya; Rikeman & Seymour, and Judson H. C^Jilbert & Son; besides the salamander fire brick manufactory of Abraham M. Lord, and C. C. Queen's manufactory of portable blacksmith's forges. There are now owned in this village 1 steamboat engaged in transporting passengers and produce, G sloops besides a steam-boat which runs daily to and from the city of New York, land-ing at Sing Sing, Tarrytown, Yonkers, (fcc. The Hudson river steamboats also land passengers several times daily at Caldwell's Landing, opposite Peekskill, affording almost hourly communi-cation with the city of New York, by the aid of a steam ferry boat. The village of Peekskill was incorporated A. D., 1839, under the style and title of the '' Corporation of the Village of Peekskill." Its officers consist of a president and four trustees. The Peeks-kill Academy is a flourishing chartered institution, delightfully situated on Oak Hill. Near it is still standing the tree on which was hung, during the revolutionary war, Daniel Strang, the British spy.a-" One Daniel Strang, (says Thatcher,) was found lurking about our army at Peekskill, and on examination enlisting orders were found sewed in his clothes.