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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 271 (part 5)

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Before the construction of the rail-roads Peekskill was the depot from which Westches-ter County for miles around, from a large portion of Putnam County, and even from Connecticut, shipped their produce to New York City. Apples and other fruit, butter, potatoes, cattle, sheep, calves, live pigs and dressed pork were the principal articles of ship-ment, and were received in such quantities as to give employment at one time, when this commerce was at its height, to six market-sloops, while three passenger steamboats also shared in the business. Among the captains of the market-sloops were Thomas Brown, Charles A. Depew, Frederick W.

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