…It was said to have been erected by the sachem, Croton, to secure himself and his tribe in the possession of these rich fishing and hunting-grounds. The Indian burying-ground was located a short dis-tance east of the…

…Spooner (1900)] The first settlements were in the neighborhood of Croton and Peekskill. The Indians continued numerous, though for the most part peaceable, until an advanced period in the eighteenth century. Stephanus had fourteen children,1 of whom eleven were…

…Iii3|j* South of the Croton River the next Hudson tributary of interest is the Sing Sing Kill, which finds its mouth through a romantic ravine crossed by the notable Aqueduct Bridge. Next comes the Pocantico River, entering the Hudson…

…While the war was going on, this hill, now called Prospect Hill, was much resorted to as a point of observation, and Washington himself frequently repaired to it to make reconnoisances of the British ships of war as they moved…

…The Upper Yonkers tract, containing seven thousand seven hundred and eight acres, bounded on the north by the rivulet Mackackassin and the;/reaf stone (a stone still lying on the Hudson River bank Bad marking the point from which our…

…north line of the manor and of the original township of Mount PleasAiit commenced at a point on the south shore of the Croton River, two miles above its mouth, and. ran thence by " a direct east line " to the…

…Thomas Scharf (1886)] six feet above mean tide; passes along the valley of the Croton to near its mouth, and thence into the valley of the Hudson; goes through the villages of Sing Sing, Tarry town, Dobbs Ferry, Hastings and…

…Gertrude, his only child, married Philip Verplanck, from whom this property received its present name of Verplanck's Point. In 1^06 Oliver, one of the sons of Stephanus, -died, leaving his share of the manor to his surviving brothers…

…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…

…Thomas Scharf (1886)] son Park " and the places above it, and also on the north from the Ichabod Crane Bridge, the point where the river turns toward the Hudson, but east of the old Post Road, now known as Broadway…