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Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) — source
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] Valeyen, 70 Valley grove, 147 Valley Stream, 38, 229 Valley Stream road, 180 Van Brunt lane, 169 Van Corlaer, Jacobus, 156 Van Cortlandt, Frederick; 93, 94, 226 Van Cortlandt avenue, 117 Van Cortlandt Park, 92, 226…
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Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) — source
…An important village-site on the west bank of" Mosholu brook, near the Van Cortlandt mansion in Van Cort-landt park. The title Keskeskick ap-plied to the range of hills forming part of Kingsbridge, Fordham, and Univer-sity Heights…
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) — source
…Kewighecack, the name of a boundmark of Van Cortlandt's Manor, is written on the map of the Manor _Keweghteuack_ as the name of a bend in the Croton west of Pine Bridge. It is from _Koua, Kowa, Cuwé,_ "Pine…
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Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) — source
Van Cortlandt avenue, once the Indian Shore path 116 INDIAN NOTES ILLUSTRATIONS 7 XIII. Acqueanounck, the Hutchinson river, where the Shore path
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Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) — source
…The path curved around Tetard hill as Albany avenue now runs, crossing near 238th street a small brook descending the hillside, and thence extending on a nearly straight course northward toward Van Cortlandt Park, where it found a practicable crossing…
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their lands were 80 THE INDIAN TRIBES principally included in the manor of Cortlandt, from which was subsequently erected the towns of Cortlandt, Yorktown, Somers, North Salem and Lewisborough. 5th. The Tankitekes^ The lands occupied by…
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) — source
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] The tract was known for years as "The end place." Sankapogh, Indian deed to Van Cortlandt, 1683--Sinkapogh, Songepogh, Tongapogh--is given as the name of a small stream flowing to the Hudson south of the…
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Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) — source
…Thence curving northeastward, as Van Cortlandt avenue now runs, it passed the site of the old Varian homestead, which is still standing at Rochambeau street (pi. xh), and then continued diagonally across the site of the present Williams-bridge reservoir…
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) — source
…Y., ii, 364.) MacGregories sold to Van Cortlandt in 1696.
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Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) — source
…The trail passed to the south of this village-site along the low ridge, on which the Van Cortlandt mansion was later placed, crossed Broadway at 244th street, and turned north and extended parallel with Broadway. This old highroad, now…
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
…Its precise location was at the entrance or neck of Teller's point (called Senasqua), and west of the cemetery of the Van Cortlandt family. Their burial ground was a short distance east of the castle; a roman tic and…
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) — source
…A long place, or neck of land." (See Aquchung.) Sackonck and Matightekonck, record names of places petitioned for by Van Cortlandt in 1697, are located in general terms, in the petition, in the neighborhood of John Peak's Creek and…
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