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Comprehensive histories of the county and Town of Cortlandt
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| J. Thomas Scharf (1886) | 916 | 173,521 | Original → |
| Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) | 572 | 106,421 | Original → |
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J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 1882 Rev. Patrick Mee. The present pastor is a native of Ireland, and came to St. Patrick's Church from Rhinebeck. The number of members is about eight hundred. The church is a handsome brick edifice with seats for five hund…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The road across to the Point was constructed by dumping in earth and stones upon the marsh, to a depth, as is supposed, of about forty feet, and when it was com-pleted, the displaced mud stood up for a time like a little isl…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In I8(i'.) the end of the parish lying about Crugers ami Montrose Point was separated from Croton Parish, and under the name of the " Parish of the Divine Love" was placed under the charge of Rev. (iouverneur Cruger. In 1S70…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] itl III! it. 1 « CORTLANDT. 417 ehurch was built at Montrose Point, capable of seat-ing two hundred persons. With the reetory adjoin-ing, the property is valued at twenty thousand dol-lars. A cemetery of about three-fourths …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] spring of 18S4 largely contributed to avert a wide-spread panic, and won for him the commendation of the comptroller of the currency and t lie business com-munity generally. He is justly considered an authority upon all subj…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Woods is the small cluster of houses to which, from their elevated and breezy situation, has been given the name of Mount Airy. A small church Located at Mount Airy was erected, according to the most reli-able information, i…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Y., on June 23, 1792, and was one of a family long identified with the history and public interests of the county and State. About the year 1730 there came from England and settled near Reading, Mass., two brothers Frost, on…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] He was also judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and a member of the convention that revised the Con-stitution of the State of New York in 1821. Judge Joel Frost had died poor in fortune, but rich in honor, and his son John W…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] After a short illness, with his family around him, on September 7, 1882, in the ninety-first year of his age, he passed away as peacefully and calmly as one falling into a gentle slumber. He left the exam-ple of a long life …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the last. His was the serious, yet serene and cheerful mind, that is (he source of every virtue, and the only character that does honor to humanity. Hi' inherited and transmitted those sterling qualities of the early settler…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Eugene, who was a merchant for inany years in Croton, served a long turn as harbor-master of New York City, and then retired to his farm on the Hud-son, where he erected extensive green-houses, that he might indulge his tast…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] On the top of the hill is the district school, a two-story brick building, in which (in ISS:!) the average number of pupils in attendance, daily, was seventy-two and the number of teachers employed two. The house of Miss Sus…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The old Van Cortlandt manor-house, at the mouth of the Croton River, was long a stopping place for the early Methodist preach-ers, where they were treated with generous hospitality. Among the visitors at this house were the …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The lot of one and one-half acres, in which the building is situated, was purchased from John Conklin the eleventh month and eighth day of the year 1797, by Robert Underbill, Joseph Wheeler, Jesse Fields and Henry Matthews, …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Charles H. Halsey officiated oc-casionally. About the year 1847 some services were held by the Rev. Edward Bowens. In the summer of 1852 more constant services were performed by the Rev. John Henry Hopkins, and in the autumn…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Mission work in this field was commenced from Vcrplam k's Point, and for many years religious services were held on Sundays at the residence of Patrick White, the pastor of the church at Verplanck's Point offici-ating. The C…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. McCloskey, and since that time mass has been said every Sunday, the sacramenta have been administered and religious instruction imparted. A Sunday-school has also been organized. Crotox I'm xt …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Upon the death of Robert Underbill the point be-came the property of his two sons, William A. and
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The land belonging to this estate is that portion of the point lying outside of the salt meadows, the nc. k adjoining the mainland being the property of the Van Cortlandts. Of the two hundred acres which compose the estate, …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Among these are found Franklin and the great preacher and evangelist, Whitfield. (General Tryon in 1774, was an unexpected visitor. He plied Pierre Van Cortlandt (afterward First Lieutenant-Governor of this State), its then …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Iriah Mill. Jr. 1871-77.. ( 'oifln s. Brawn. David \V. TrnviK. ' •• Diary of Hi ina.li. r O.oi. rul I'l. 1 1 1 1. \.in c..iil.in.lt," >| noted \<\ Bol-ton, Vol. II., p. iii., (oUl edition). CORTLANDT. 423 TOWN CLERKS. April …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 1873-75 Charles R. Swain. 1876 Carlton B. Jordan. 1877 John McCord. 1S78-79 James McLnckey. 1880-82 -John S. Jones. 1883 Cyrus W. Hortou. CENSUS — CORTLANDT. 1712.— «..« 1850.— 7,758. 1782.— 798.-1 1855.— 8,468. 1790.— 1,932…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Olaf Stevense Van Cortlandt, the first of the name who came here from Holland, was from Wvk bij Durnstede,6 a village in the Netherlands thirteen miles southeast of Utrecht, and was the son of Stevan and Catharine Van Cortla…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] THE VAN ( ORTLASrm ARMS.10 6Wyk by Dunrstede Portress, the Batavodurum of the Romans, was in the time of Charlemagne a city of important commerce. [^dicker's " Belgique et Hollande." Its present population is not over three …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Kieft and Stuyvesant and boldly insisting upon re-forms. Their petition being unheeded, they renewed a demand "foragood and wholesome government, '' and the company found it needful to defend its course, but steadfastly oppo…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Charles II., at the instance of Stuyvesant, who had returned to Holland, licensed several ships to be sent from that country to New York, and Van Cortlandt went over to attend to their lading. Soon alter his return the Dutch…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Tienhovcn "ill it ml. i nil swaggerer," mnl his reputal »••-»"i "I Uw faired, ii ii quite probable Unit Tlenhoven »« hltnwl OwnUnlj h« was wrong in tin' statement llial I ckerinaus came from llnllainl in tin-"Sunt Martin." S…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] < )f Madame Olaf Van Cortlandt, Valentine writes :* "Every one will recognize the GoetVrow of the famous Burgomaster of Nieuw Amsterdam, anil the mother of his family. Little is known of her personal history, save that she l…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] And there, where.lesus is, true rest and joys abide in. Cod's will did Anna' serve, liod's aid did lliinuuht pray. In Ibis al..lie alike thai bolh have passed una) • 1 I.uko ii., sr.. f'il Samuel i, In, 11. Krom II C Murphi …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It is hardly probable that the wise, well-balanced Van Cortlandt would admit to intimate relations a man who possessed no good qualities.'2 Van Cort-landt received from Edmund Randolph the appoint-ment of deputy secretary an…