…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…

…Livingston, to the State Senate, in opposition to General James Talmage and General Pierre Van Cortlandt, Clinton-ians. Mr. Townsend was, for seven years, a Vestryman and for twenty-six years Warden of St. Paul's Church. Jonathan Ward, son…

…in all probabi-lity they owed their lives to the Indians' expectation of surround-ing and taking them prisoners."* Bordering the road north west of the Van Cortlandt's, is the old Hadley property, now owned by Major Joseph Delafield…

…The reso-lutions which the committee of safety have passed upon the subject are here-with transmitted. " I have the honor to be, with great respect, sir, your most obedient and very humble servant, " By order " Pierre van Cortlandt, Vice…

…The Bronx The Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy: Van Cortlandt Park, the fourth-largest park in New York, once served as the right-of-way for the Old Croton Aqueduct. The Old Croton Aqueduct Trailway, operated by the New York City…

…Ward, Daniel Drake, Esq., Colonel James Holmes, John Thomas, jr., Esq., Jonathan Piatt, Esq., Robert Graham, and Major Philip van Cortlandt. The two following resolves were then unanimously entered into, viz. : Re-solved, that the thanks of this body be…

…James Van Cortlandt, of the Borough of West-chester, occupying the chair. It appointed a permanent county com-mittee of ninety persons, twenty of whom were empowered to act for the county, and to that committee was referred the authority…

…it had deposited its sick and wounded in the yet unfinished stone church, nor if the tradition in the Van Cortlandt family be correct, until after a grand evening parade on the Green. A halt was made lor a few…

…rendered, The prisoners were sent to the interior, ami as both (iencral Clinton and Colonel Dayton were ill, Colonel Van Cortlandt took command of the New York Division and the New Jersey troops, and marched seven hundred Hessian and British…

…New York, and John Bartow, Isaac Willett, Lewis Morris, Jr., Peter de Lancey, Nathaniel Underbill, James Graham and James van Cortlandt, inhabitants of the said borough town of Westchester, in communion of the church of England, as by law established…

…both their lands, and that, if either the said Frederick Philipse or the said John Pell, shall at any ' Van Cortlandt papers. b This individual was for many years alderman, and mayor of New York city iu 1678. « See Royal…

…Thus these men took, or tried to take, all of Bedford south of the line which Van Cortlandt had caused to be surveyed across that town for the southern bound-ary of his manor, but which he had to abandon…

…Among the names are those of Pierre ' Van Cortlandt, Jr., Peter Jay Munroe, Lewis Morris, I Stephen De Lancey, John Quick, etc. Epenetus Wallace, M.D., was at this time clerk of the board. I The reports of subsequent years…

…younger branch of the Van Cortlandts, but this was a strictly friendly conveyance, the two families being closely allied by marriage. Even in the three manors where no second lord succeeded to exclusive proprietorship — Cortlandt, Fordham, and Scarsdale — sales of…

…The delegates from Westchester County were Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt, Colonel Lewis Graham, Colonel Gilbert Drake, Major Ebenezer Lockwood, Gouverneur Morris, William Paulding, Jonathan G. Tompkins, Sam-uel Ilavilaml, and Peter Fleming. The third provincial congress was the last of…

…York, July ye 10th, 1733, this day at 4 o'clock in ye morning dyed Eva van Cortlandt, was buried ye next day ye 12 en ye voute at Mr. Stuyvesant's about six and seven o'clock." The situation…

…The painting captures recognizable Croton area features, including the Croton River emptying into the Hudson, Croton Point in the distance, and Van Cortlandt Manor visible among trees along the roadside. The marshland shown predates the area's later use as…

…Gertrude Beeck-man, daughter and devisee of Stephanus van Cortlandt. Here are situated an extensive snuff factory, and a wire factory, both propelled by water power; also about 20 dwellings. The scenery of the Peekskill creek is remarkably rich and…

…The first Lord Phil ipse and his second wife, Catharina van Cortlandt, gave proof of sub-stantial interest in their denomination by securing the organization of the Tarrytown church in 1697 and building a house for it in 1699. No…

…At the death of General Philip Van Cortlandt, his brother succeeding to the inheritance of the Manor House, he gave it to his son Pierre for his residence, 1 " Known over the civilized world as the author and founder of…

…A locality in Sing Sing and in Cortlandt. Probably a variation of Kitchawong. Keskistkonck. — Var., Kisco, Keskisco, Cisqua. Originally an Indian village situated on the bank of a creek. Massachusetts, Kishketuk-ock, " land on the edge of a creek." Kestaubnuck…

…It ap-pears that Adolph Philipse and Jacobus van Cortlandt purchased (in the lifetime of John Richbell,) the fee simple of certain lands in Mamaroneck, embracing one full and equal half moiety of the west neck; the whole of which…

…Oloflf Stevensen van Cortlandt. Oc^ Coat of Arms and Signatures of the Founders of Sleepy Hollow Church. To face page 322, vol. i. Arms. az. a demi lion rampant, rising out of a ducal coronet ar, si Hon. Vrederyck Fe…

…Philipse and Van Cortlandt, who had been sent into retirement by Leisler, were recalled to the council by Sloughter, and both of them thus resumed their old-time prominence. It has already been recorded how Philipse, on account of the…

…Y., ii, 364.) MacGregories sold to Van Cortlandt in 1696.

…On the following day a skirmish took place not far from the Van Cortlandt mansion, near Cortlandtville. The enemy having possessed the village of Peekskill, a party of them, numbering about two hundred, the next day took position on a…

…On questions involving a division the vote was usually fifteen to ten, Pierre Van Cortlandt and John Thomas being inva-riably among the minority.

…Isaac Wiilett and Nathaniel Underbill, the elder, to be the present churchwardens and Peter de Lancey, James Graham, James van Cortlandt, Lewis Morris, John Smith, Theophilus Bartow, Cornelius Wiilett and Thomas Hunt, to be the present vestrymen of the said…

…1772-74, Colonel James Van Cortlandt; 1773-82, none; 1783-84, Israel Honeywell; 178G, William Iladley; 1787, David Hunt. This closed the precinct period. We find the following proceedings of the supervisors with their dates : October 7, 1772, William Stivers…

…For the latter, the Van Cortlandt family, see that part of this history relating to our late town of Kingsbridge. But we have given all that is necessary for any one who wishes to know the general history of Yonkers…