…The general introduced himself, and, After the retreat of the Indian force Colonel Van Cortlandt joined Sullivan, who ordered him to con-struct a road to Wilkesbarre, a duty for which his early training as a surveyor fitted hint. Here…

…province, and the citizens were called upon to come together and choose by popular election a successor to Stephanus Van Cortlandt in the mayoralty of the city, which they did accordingly. Finally, in December, by vir-tue of a letter…

…00 from its proprietor, Philip Verplanck, to whom it had descended from the original Philip Verplanck, grandson of Stophanus Van Cortlandt. These £>entlemen laid oil the Point into streets and COKXEI.irS YAXm.RKILT. GENERAL COUNTY HISTORY TO 1842 563…

…important body whose sessions began within its walls on the 9tli of July were Colonel Lewis Graham, Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt, Major Ebenezer Lock-irt house was erected. His ef-ly seconded by John Thomas,.if the credit of having…

…The successive presidents have been General Pierre Van Cortlandt (elected 1833), Isaac Seymour (elected June 26, 1848), Charles A. G. Depew (elected April 7, 1851) and D. F. Clapp (elected January 8, 1878). The cashiers have been Isaac Seymour (elected…

…Tompkins, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr., and Ebenezer White, and to that of 1821 Peter A. Jay, Jonathan Ward, and Peter J. Munro. Both conventions made revisions in the constitution de-signed to render it more acceptable to the democratic masses…

…A small piece of land containing two acres, belong-ing to Pierre Van Cortlandt. was situated on the south bank of the Kill, between the farm of Moses Ward and the small tract of Samuel Drake. The little map is…

…June If), 1789, Freeborn Garretson again preached in Peekskill, and " found much freedom in preaching j the word of truth." He stopped overnight with General Van Cortlandt, whose hospitality received his warn praise. An indenture was made February 2(i…

…Early on the1 morning of September 20, two residents of Cortland-town, Moses Sherwood and John Peterson (a colored man, and a sol-dier of Van Cortlandt's regiment of Westchester militia), who were engaged in making cider at Barrett…

…He ioined Captain Philip Van Cortlandt's company, and was appointed a sub-ordinate officer. ' While on duty at Teller's Point, in the spring of 1780, he decoyed a boats crew from a British ship in the stream to…

…385, at the Van Cortlandt Mansion and Birdsall House (Peekskill), 427. at Joseph Appleby's (Dobbs Ferry), 507; on Howe's return movement from White Plains. 100; departure from Westchester Countv to New Jersey. 401; his consuming anx-iety about…

…1 The following is from the records of the Bale of this html by Isaac Stoutenburgh and Philip Van Cortlandt, OOtnmlBBlODBn of forfeitures : "Sold to Cornelius P. Low, of New York, Gentleman, for fourteen thousand five hundred and twenty [suinds…

…Stephanus Van Cortlandt by the Indians of that region, a little after the time when our first settlement was made.1 No official survey of the town has been made in late years, nor is any on record, so far…

…If any accident ensues from obeying them, the fault will be upon me, not upon you." During the winter of 1TTT-TS General Putnam and the two Clin-tons, with Lieutenant-Governor Pierre Van Cortlandt, John Jay, and others, reconnoitered…

…Into the Spuyten Duyvil Creek empties Tibbet's Brook, a small runlet which rises in the Town of Yonkers and flows south, passing through Van Cortlandt Lake ( artificial ). The most noteworthy of the streams emptying into the Sound is the…

…Thomas Scharf (1886)] Lord Philipse (1st) left all his real estate in New York City and Bergen County to his two (laughters, — Eva Van Cortlandt and Anna French. The Philips-burgh manor he left in two sections. -one from Dobhs…

…On the 26th Washington established his headquarters at the Van Cortlandt house, north of Peekskill, as the following extract from the journal of Claude Blanchard, commissary-general of the French army shows : " I set out [from Crompond] very early on…

…A supplementary act was passed on May 12, 17*4, under which Isaac Stoutenburgh and General Philip Van Cortlandt were duly appointed as said commissioners, and in 1785 they accordingly sold the lands in fee to those largely who had…

…It appears from •several memo-randa that Philip Van Cortlandt made frequent vis-its to the Manor estate. Mills were built, Hour soid to the tenants and shipped to convenient markets, t he sloop, or J'erini/ii't plying…

…Spooner (1900)] The next day there was a lively encounter between Willet and the foe near the Van Cortlandt mansion,1 which resulted in the rout of the latter. According to Irving the British lost nine killed and four wounded…

…Gerard G. (Cornelia Van 4iiii 444 517 601. Cortlandt), 427. 527. 53a. Barbadoe's, 130, 150. Betts. William, of the Yonkers Land. 144. Barrett Joseph 223 224. 420. 457. 600. Birch, Harvey, see Crosby. Enoch Barretto Point, 5. Bird. Colonel…

…After the Revolution, David Bedell and his brother William came across the Muscoot River and purchased the present farm of Pierre Van Cortlandt for $6.25 per acre. Together they built a log house, in a lot just southwest of…

…On May 12, 1784, the Legislature passed a further act by which it appointed Isaac Stoutenburgh and Philip Van Cortlandt Commissioners of Forfeitures^ for the Southern District of the State, to sell and to dispose of all the real estate…

…The ownership of the land passed out of Indian hands into those of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, mer-chant of the city of New York.

…the record of a deed conveying land at "Old Yonkers," adjoining "George's Point," from John Tarry to Jacobus Van Cortlandt in 1693. It is stated in the deed that John Tarry came from Long Island, and the records of…

…Then, again, he gives us an Indian deed for the same fifty acres to Jacobus Van Cortlandt and others, bearing date August, 1701, although the property had then already been owned by the parties named for years. The explanation of…

…A large hotel had been built there about the same time by Pierre Van Cortlandt, known as the Fort Independence Hotel, and access to the village was furnished by a wooden bridge across the mouth of the creek, fourteen hundred…

…It is bounded on the north by Putnam County, on the east by Somen and New-Castle, on the south by New Castle and on the west by Cortlandt. The distance from White Plains to the centre of the town…

…Fowler, a great-grandson, on what was called the "tenement-farm, {probably at first a leasehold from the heirs of Van Cortlandt). Among the children of Joseph were Joseph and Jesse. All of the Fowlers of this section are descended…

…In 1699, perhaps at the prompting of his wife, Catharina Van Cortlandt, he built the He-MAXOR HOl-SE AND SURROUNDINGS IX 1842 formed Church of Sleepy Hollow, which still^stands. In the communion of that church he died. The…