rvA^piV-' CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Digitized by Microsoft® Date Due — ■'-;;: — -APf^= Cornell University Library F 127H8 B12 olin 3 1924 028 853 658 Digitized by Microsoft® This book was digitized by Microsoft Corporation in cooperation witli Cornell University Libraries, 2007. You may use and print this copy in limited quantity for your personal purposes, but may not distribute or provide access to it (or modified or partial versions of it) for revenue-generating or other commercial purposes. Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® By E.DGAR MAYHEW BACON Narragansett Bay : Its Historic and iVomantic A.ssociations 8°. Uniform with "The Hudson River." With 70 Illustrations TKe Hudson River from Ocean to Source Historical — Legendary — Picturesque 8°. With over 100 Illustrations. CKronicles of Tarryto-wn and Sleepy Hollow 16°. With 23 full-page Illustrations. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Ne-w "VorK London Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® The Hudson River From Ocean to Source Historical — Legendary — Picturesque By Edgar Mayhew Bacon Author of " Chronicles of Tarrytown, ' ' etc. With I oo Illustrations, and with Sectional Map of the Hudson River G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London Xtbe IkuicherbccKer ipress 1907 lb EM. Digitized by Microsoft® F 111 Copypight/iqo2 G. p. PUTNAM'S SONS Published, November, igoa Reprinted, February, 1903; January, 1907 Vbe Itnfclierbocfeer Drees, 'new Perk Digitized by Microsoft® Preface IN treating of the history and traditions, the men and the manners of the valley of the Hudson River, the author has undertaken to present in one coherent work the gist of many volumes and to add such hitherto unpublished material as he has been able to discover. From the nature of this book it has not been pos- sible to make the historical narrative continuous, but in treating of separate localities the main events con- nected with each have been grouped, the method of arrangement being topical rather than consecutive. A reference to the index may in many cases dispel an impression that some important event or person has been neglected or forgotten because its place in a chronological sequence has of necessity been disre- garded. In commencing the story with the arrival of Henry Hudson, the claims of Verrazani and other early navi- gators have been ignored, not because history disowns them, but for the reason that the record of the river, so far as it is clearly written, commences with the Half Moon and the first Dutch settlers. In collecting and producing illustrations for this work great care has been taken to illustrate the text and not merely to make a picture-book, but the beauty Digitized by Microsoft® iv Preface as well as the fitness of the many engravings with which it has been embellished is a source of satisfac- tion to both the author and the publishers, who pre- sent them without misgiving. It is a pleasure to acknowledge with hearty apprecia- tion the courtesy of many friends who have aided the writer in his search for material. Among others, Mr. M. H. Bright, the Directors of the Lenox Library, and Mr. Joel Benton have the author's sincere acknowledg- ment for memoranda and the use of rare pictures. To Mr. Francis Whiting Halsey, especially, he is indebted for a manuscript journal of a voyage up the Hudson in the year 1769. This, it is believed, has never before been printed. The Hudson River is offered to the public with a con- sciousness of the vastness of the subject and the impos- sibility of treating it exhaustively in a single volimie. The author will ask his arch^ological readers kindly to bear in mind that for no town in the land would the antiquaries be found in accord concerning all points of local history. Whoever writes the history of a single village, whether on the Hudson or elsewhere, must ex- pect the honest criticism of some who do not agree with his conclusions. He can only claim to have made a careful study of the very interesting records of the communities of the Hudson River Valley, and may hope that his narrative and conclusions may be found in substantial accord with the accepted authorities. Digitized by Microsoft® Contents CHAPTER I — Introductory ..... II — Two Cities on One Site . Ill — New Buildings and Old . IV — 'Festivals and Pageants . V — ^Along the Manhattan Shore VI — On the Jersey Shore ... VII — Early Settlers of the Hudson Valley VIII — The Passing of the White Wings . IX — Fulton and the Hudson River Steamboat X — Riverside to Inwood XI — The Island and the River in 1776 XII — Forts Washington and Lee XIII — From Spuyten Duyvil to Yonkers XIV — Spectres