…In a deed -bearing date of March 20, 1)686, conveying a tract id' land called " Kechtawong,'' extending from the mouth of the CrotOU River, north along the Hudson River to the land already owned by Van Cortlandt, thence eastward…

…Timothy Oakley, John Oakley, Solomon Fowler, Joseph Hadden, Thomas Kirkham and Jacob Badeau as trustees." April 13, 1796, Pierre Van Cortlandt, for the sum of five shillings, deeded one and a quarter acres, upon HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. which the…

…the family of his daughter Anna, who married Henry White, the White heirs of Augustus assuming the name of Van Cortlandt agreeably to a requirement of his will. The Manor of Pelham, having been reduced to one-third its original…

…Stephen de Lancey married Anne van Cortlandt, one of the above devisees, and left issue three sons and two daughters. By will, Stephen de Lancey devised all his property in this town to his eldest son, James de Lancey. On…

…Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr., who had legitimate concerns about the Croton River diversion through past litigation and the devastating 1841 dam failure, did accept the invitation in a letter dated October 8, 1842, though his actual attendance remains undocumented.

…Patthunck. — A personal name; "pounding-mortar." Pachamitt.— (Van der Donck's map. ) Name of a tribe taken from the place where they lived, "at the turning-aside place." De Laet says : " Visher's Rack, that is the fisherman's bend…

…The news GENERAL COUNTY HISTORY TO 1342 543 of his arrival had been brought by express to General Philip Van Cortlandt, then living at the Manor House on the Croton, who at once set off for the city, "'where he…

…of lands in the Lower Yonkers by Jacobus Van Cortlandt 171; of lands in Bedford by the same. 171: of New Rochelle lands by Leisler, 174; of the Richbell lands by Caleb Heathcote. 178; of the Fox Meadows by the…

…Robert P. (Jetty, Ethan Flagg, Augustus Van Cortlandt, George W. Cobb and Wil-liam W. Woodworth, who held those offices respec-tively in the order named. As their successors, Mes-srs. James C. Courter, Thomas Smith, Lyman Cobb, Jr., and…

…A party of them, about two hundred strong, took possession of a height south of Van Cortlandt's. In the mean time Lieutenant-Colonel Willett, having reinforced Mc-Dougall with about eighty men, obtained permission to attack the enemy on…

…Lieutenant-Governor Nicholson's councilors were Anthony Brockholst, Frederick Philipse, Stephanus Van Cortlandt, and Nicho-las Bayard. Dongan, before being superseded, granted to the City of New York, in 1GSG, its first charter as a corporation, under the style of…

…Tompkins Elementary School, Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School, and Croton-Harmon High School, over 100 teachers and serves approximately 1,350 students, as of 2002. Approximately 75% of its student body lives in Croton-on-Hudson. PAGE 53 CROTON COMPREHENSIVE…

…put in the box of the church." £254 1 Upon the 24th of August, 1787, Isaac Stoutenburgh and Philip van Cortlandt (commissioners of forfeitures for the southern dis-trict of New York,) conveyed to the trustees of this church and…

…Scrugham; 1858-59, Augustus Van Cortlandt; l.Siio, Ktlian Flagg; 1861-62, James L. Valentine; 1868, Ethan Flagg; 1864-66, Isaac H. Knox; 1867-68, Ethan Flagg; 1869, Edward De Witt; 1870-71, Ethan Flagg. The city, coining in at…

…Van Cortlandt, that the afore-mentioned Church shall be bound, without moving any exception against it, to pay ami deliver over a just fourth part yearly for the religious service in the Church at Philipsburgh, in order that the Jlev…

…Jacobus Van Cortlandt, of y* city and province of New York, and Zachariah Roberts, sen'r, of Bedford, a sertain track of upland medow land and swamps... to begin where Bever dam river and y* Cross River meets and so…

…Pierre Van Cortlaildt in 1773. This must not be confounded with the manor-house at Croton, to which reference has already been made. A year after the building of the Peekskill house, Van Cortlandt seems to have been living in…

…Bear then in mind, my friends, and impress it on the hearts of your chil-^ General Philip van Cortlandt. i> Isaac van Wart. Vol. I. 12 90 HISTORY OF THE dren, and upon all that shall nestle in old age…

…Nearly half a century before this monument was built, the Con-'■" The late General Philip van Cortlandt. COUNTY OF WE^STCHESTER. 241 script Fathers of America had, in the senate chamber, voted he was a faithful patriot, one in whom…

…167; to Stephanus Van Cortlandt. 168; to John Pell. 173; to Caleb Heathcote, ISO, 183; to John Harrison and others. 215; to Joseph Budd and others (White Plains), 219: to the people of Bedford, 222: to Roger Mompesson and others…

Resolved, Unanimously, July 9, 1776 On July 9, 1776, Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt and ten other Westchester County deputies met at the Court House in White Plains to vote on the Declaration of Independence. They convened as part of "the…

…Other purchasers were John Hadden, who bought some three hundred and twenty acres on both sides of Tippett's Brook just north of the present Van Cortlandt Lake, and Francis French and associates, who wore the original owners of the…

…In 1700 he married Ann, second daughter of Stephanus Van Cortlandt. James de Lancey, the future chief justice and governor, was their eldest son, born in New York City, November 27, 1703. James was educated at the University of Cambridge…

[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…

…Spooner (1900)] Moreover, the THE ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES 275 successors of John Pell in its kk lordship " did not compare in influ-ence or public activity with the descendants of the founders of Mor-risania, Philipseburgh, Van Cortlandt, and Scarsdale Manors…

…General Van Cortlandt states that Paiilding wore this drees on the day of the capture, which tended to deceive An-dre and led him to exclaim, in answer to their reply, " Thank God, I am once more among friends." COUN…

…Besides other appropriate memorials to Peter Jay, Peter Augus-tus Jay, Esq., Mary Rutherford Jay, Margaret Munro, Golds-borough Banyar, Eva Munro, Harriet van Cortlandt and Mary Jay, wife of Frederick Prime, Esq. The adjoining territory upon the west, constitutes…

…6th July, 1658=Jaco'jus van Cortlandt. Annetje Philipae— Philip French, Hon. Frederick Philipse, second Lord of the Manor of Phllipsboroodh, heir to^Joanna, da his grandfather Vrederyck, and hia uncle Adolphus, born at Uarbadnes A. I lady was D…

…His sec-ond wife, Catherina, a sister of Stephanas Van Cortlandt and widow of John Der-vall, survived him many years, dying in V 1730. She lived witli her stepson, Adolph, \a at Castle Phiiipse, and was universally beloved for…

…The engagement occurred in present-day Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Nimham died in this battle, aged 51-52. His death was described as "an irrevocable blow to the tribe." LEGACY Memorials to Nimham include: the 1906 Daughters of…