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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 259 (part 2)

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] H< v Mirlincl i'iiIIiikIihh. • On UiU fin ill wit* tlir first landing for IhmCs nt Peekskill. dred and thirty persons. The large boys from the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum on Fifth Avenue, New York, are sent thither and instructed in farming or other useful work, and in the elementary branches of study. They are not retained on the farm after reaching the age of sixteen years, but homes are ob-tained for them in well-regulated families. The farm has been, since September, 1 87*>, under the charge of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a society num-bering about twelve thousand members and three

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