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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 241 (part 3)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] As appears clearly from early military maps of the town of Cortlandt, as well as from reference in a number of old writings,and from positive tradition, the village of Peekskill in early times stood about a mile north of the centre of the present village, where the road from Pemart's Dock met the New York and Albany Post road, and where the property of Calvin Frost, Boland Darm and Harrison Smith is at present located. At Pemart's Dock was the port of the village. For many years subsequent to the settling of the village further south along Magregaries Brook, this upper settlement continued to be the more important of the two. According to Bolton's history of the county,1