A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 52
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Abrm. M. Valentine, John Agnew, John Lozier, Gideon Ostrander, Jameson Cox. The Baptist burying gronnd is situated north of the Episcopal yard. Here is a memorial to Caleb Hall, who died October 1st, 1791, aged 91 years, beside other monuments. The village of Annsville, in this town, is delightfully situated near the niouth of the Peekskill creek, one mile north of the vil-lage of Peekskill. This place formed a part of the Indian territory of Wishqua. Here also was an Indian settlement. Upon the survey of the manor of Corllandt, Annsville and lands adjoining constituted a portion of lot INo. 10, the river portion of Mrs. Gertrude Beeck-man, daughter and devisee of Stephanus van Cortlandt. Here are situated an extensive snuff factory, and a wire factory, both propelled by water power; also about 20 dwellings. The scenery of the Peekskill creek is remarkably rich and di-versified. 1'his stream rises 14 miles north of Annsville, in the town of Kent, Putnam County; south-west of Annsville, it receives the waters of the Canopus, (Sprout creek,) a current of water which derives its source from Horton's lake, called by the Indians the " Fire-fly lake," a name derived from that beautiful insect whose bright phosphorescence illumines the dark woods of a summer's evening.