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Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…Nyack signifies " a point of land," and is the equivalent of the Long Island Nyack ("Kings County) Noyac (Suffolk County). Kiwigtignock. — Var., Keioightegnack, He-weghtiquack. An elbow of the Croton River. Whquae-tigu-ack, " land at head of the cove…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…From Pough-keepsie southward, along the east side of the river, the Mohegan tribe had the Wappinger family above, and in the Highlands, the Kitchawank family along the Croton, the Sintsinck family within our present town of Ossining, and the…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…From this point south to the Croton River, the manufacture of bricks forms the leading industry. Within these limits are twenty-four brick yards, giving emploj nent to not far from nine hundred men, and manufacturing about one hundred million…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…of the City of Xew York," lying above Verplanck's Point. Thus Stephanus Van Cortlandt became the proprietor of nearly the whole of Westchester County along the Hudson from Croton Bay to the Highlands. In the interior his bounds, both…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…with three Maryland regiments, to that point; and in addition he ordered General Lord Stirling with his brigade "to keep pace with the enemy's left hank and to push up also to Croton Liver should he plainly perceive that…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…The last dividend was paid in 1849, and the stock of the Croton Turnpike Company was transferred to a non-resident, the gates removed and it became a free road, although still known as the "Turnpike." The last board oV…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…They settled at the point afterward known as Teed's Corners. Mr. Horton was the first town clerk of Somers. It was also in this vicinity that Enoch Crosby and Luther Kinnicutt both began their careers as the the secret…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…There are openings, or gates, all along the lines, by which the pipes can at any moment, and at almost any point, be cleaned or repaired, so that no stoppage of any magnitude can possibly ocean The system of water…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…Thomas Scharf (1886)] 1), being the east town lott from Teller's Point extend-ing all along Croton River, together with the Ferry House and ferry thereunto belonging." " And that all and every of my said four sons, Stephen, Abram…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…Odle Close, of Croton Falls, the present supervisor of the town, is a member of another branch of the Close family, always resident in Greenwich, Conn. Mr. Close resides at Croton Falls in a handsome res-idence beautifully situated on…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…With this corner as a new starting-point, Mount Pleasant runs southerly along the Pocantico, River as far as Buckhout's Bridge, and over it. The line then strikes directly westward to the Hudson -River, at the point where the…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…The large Croton, or Striped Bass, and many smaller speeies, gave him ample sport and em-ployment.1 Van Cortlandt had purchased of the Indians, pre-vious to his receiving the charter, the territory known as Meanagh (Verplanck's Point…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…of Owensville to the hamlet that gathered around the vicinity of the excellent water-power of the Croton River at this point, which was utilized by the erection of a paper-mill, clothier's works, etc., under the ownership of…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…Robert was the oldest son, and the ancestor ol the Underbills of Teller's (or Croton) Point. Abraham I. Underhill, the second son, was born June 27, 1763. He married Rebecca Field, who was descended from a family well known…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…Thomas Scharf (1886)] its western extremity to either the most southern or eastern point was too great for the convenient trans-action of town business, and it lay, like a pair of sad-dle-bags, in such shape as naturally…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…559, 582, blockhouse, 4)\; storming of Stony Point, 452: "■-
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…built over the Croton River, at or m ar the spot where the old bridge formerly stood, by the name of Golding's Bridge." A very neat iron structure now spans the river at this point, erected by the King…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…of Croton Point by the Tellers. 166; of Ryck's Patent. 107: of Oortlandt Manor. 168; of New Rochelle by the Huguenots. 174; of Mamaroneck. 176; of Harrison by John Harrison and others. 215: of White Flains by Rye men…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…The western portion, or west of the " twenty-mile line," to Croton River, belonged to ] Cortlandt Manor, for which a royal patent or • charter was issued to Stephanus Van Cortlandt, June 17, 1697. The commissioners who surveyed the "manor" in…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…Thomas Scharf (1886)] after, this was an important point in the town, situ-ated, as it was, on the road to Lower or South Salem, and about midway between the two points. It was then denominated Yerks' Corners, and for…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…OPERATIONS OF 1TS1 505 On the evening of the 1st of July General Lincoln, with 800 men and several pieces of artillery, left the camp in the vicinity of Peek-skill, marched to Teller's (Croton) Point, and put his…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…lie dispatched from West Point, through our county, a force sufficient for the occupation of Kingsbridge and other outlying posts as they should bo surrendered. And (hen, attended by his staff and joined by Governor Clinton, Lieutenant-Governor Van Cortlandt…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…Upon (he latter point his directions to Lee were unmis-takable. He directed that the stores ami baggage be removed north of the Croton River into General Heath's jurisdiction, and closed with this injunction: " If the enemy should remove…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…It was originally proposed to construct the new Croton Dam at Quaker Bridge, but that plan was abandoned, and in August, 1892, the contract was awarded for the Cornell Dam, now approaching completion, about a mile and a half above…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…Verplanck's Point was named for Philip Ver-THE ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES 269 was an expert knowledge of surveying-. By articles of agreement en-tered into by the Van Cortlandt heirs in November, 1730, Philip Verplanck was appointed to survey and…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…They were followed by a company of Whigs who pursued them to the Croton River, where some were killed and others driven into the stream. It was months before Crosby recovered, and it was then plain that his days of…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…559, 582, blockhouse, 44S; storming of Stony Point, 452; 5S7, 606. Tarleton's raid on Poundridge, 456; British at-Almshouse, The. 544. taeks on Orompond, 458; Hopkins's fight with Amackassin, 106. Emmerick, 459: American descents on Morris-Amerindian names…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…A former British party came there from Verplanck's Point under Colonel Abercrombie, guided by Caleb Morgan, a Tory of Yorktown, and burned a store-house and the parsonage. In fact, the country above the Croton River, which up to…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…THE ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES 273 my house and farm or lott of land, — being the east town lott from Teller's Point extending all along Croton River, together with the Ferry House and ferry thereunto belonging." He married Joanna, daughter of…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…assumed the construction of the bridge across the river and the building of the road as far as a point on the southern boundary of Putnam County. If was not, however, until May, 1840, that the compact between the two…