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Comprehensive histories of the county and Town of Cortlandt
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
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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)] 1822. Abijah Lee. 1823-25. Thomas Tompkins. 1826-27. David D. Webbers. 1828-30. Barnardus Montross. 1831-32. James Underbill. 1833-35. Cornelius F. Ferris. 1836-40. Samuel Fowler. 1841-12. Stephen Lee. 1813. Barnardus Montro…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The town contains eleven school districts, in each of which is located a school-house. But one school-teacher is employed in each district. In 1883 (the last year of which a report is available) the average daily attendance …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] * Resigned and succeeded by Stephen II. Knapp. 170 H1STOKY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. and north by Putnam County, and south by Bedford and New Castle. Somen was carved out of the old Cortlandt Manor and was first called " Stephe…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 1801, and was at the time of his death, on September 4, 1804, a master commander. In 1803 he commanded the schooner " Nautilus,'' in Commodore Preble's squadron in the Mediterranean, and bore a distin-guished part in the sev…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The principal streams running through Somers are the Croton on its eastern boundary, being, in fact, the boundary line itself; the Muscoot, whose course runs southeasterly from near the northwest corner to its mouth, where i…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In the northern portions of the town, high ridges are the prominent topographical features, in which lie embedded vast quantities of iron-ore, some of which, on assay, yield sixty-one per cent., although as yet these hidden
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] aboriginal ownership of the land, and upon which are now situated some of the finest farms in the State. In the intervale level, well-watered plains are found, which show evidences of having been the bottoms of extensive lak…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] At this date some evidences of these early settlers may be found, far from highway or prosperous farm-houses, but still significantly point-ing out their silent history to the careful searcher after antiquities. Later on, th…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Sound, and the shores of the Pilgrim fathers' home until, at last, a settlement of sturdy, honest, intelli-gent yeomanry was founded and maintained in the heart of the wilderness, which extended from the Connecticut River on…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 5, Pelah Mead, three hundred and eighty-nine acres. Nos. 4, 5 and 6 extend north to the Muscoot River. Nos. 7 and 8, north of 4, 5 and 6 and the Muscoot River, are marked respectively to Abijah Crossey, two hundred and seven…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Light, while of his great-grandchildren three only survive — Hiram Hitt, of Connecticut; Mrs. Phebe Darby, of Syracuse; and Mrs. Jerusha Corsa, of Somers, all of them over seventy years of age. John Hempstead's tomb is to be…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] ilow few can reach those years of time, Which here are numbered to our view, Since death calls most while in their prime, And leaves behind so aged few." In this connection it may be remarked that this same John Hempstead wa…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 7 at Plum Brook, consist-ing of two hundred and thirty acres." Thus it will be seen that Hachaliah Brown became, next to the heirs of the Van Cortlandts, one of the largest landed proprietors in the town. His original grant …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the northeast corner of lot No. 4, west range, being part of Andrew Johnson's Great Lot No. 7. Thus it is evident that the great lots were subdivided and re-subdivided by the successive heirs of the original families. Among …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] To the west, the line of blue hills beyond
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] season by the angler for the trout which breed in the clear, cold spring water that flows swiftly over their stony beds. Deer were numerous here as recently as 1780, and some were shot during the early part of the present ce…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] regions, some from one hundred, two hundred and three hundred miles, to replace the consumption." From 1825 to 1850 there was an average of five thou-sand head of horned cattle annually fattened in this district for the New …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] tained the power to confine the waters in the lake basin during the summer season, destroyed the value of the immense water-power at Empireville. and the gigantic wheel, which, with its systems of cogs and belts, gave the hu…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Marv P-inckncy, Murtba Osburn, Benjamin Green, pound masters. David Montross, Nathaniel Wright, Reuben Wright, Thomas Sea" niour, Nathan Brown, Abram Hrown, Joseph Griffin, Archer Heed, Win. Powell, John o. Bryant, fence and…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It was not the first time Hachaliah Brown had occupied the supervisor's position, as he had held the same office in Upper Salem two years previously. William Horton, the town clerk, was a farmer and merchant, residing on the…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It seems, however, that some property was vested in the cause of the later War of the Rebellion, as we find records in 1789, the next year after the erection of the township, of the manumission of slaves, as follows: ' "We, …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] permuted to keep an Inn or Tavern, and to Retail Strong or Spiritous Li'iuors under Five Gallons to be Drunken in their Respective Dwelling-houses and Stores, Each of them Seperately untill the First Tuesday of May next, etc…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] thus making the matter of identification a com-paratively easy task. The town-meetings were usually held at the house of Benjami'i Green or at the store of C. G. & W. E. Teed with an occasional variation to the house of Uel …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Tlie assessment of real and personal property in Somen in 1808 was $3317.57. In 1815 it was $5,773.70, and in 1885 it is $1,278,635". In 1883 it was " voted to raise by tax $750 to build a bridge over Muscoot River, near the…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] became settlers of the town. In this way William Horton and wife came from White Plains on horse-back, bringing with them all they had saved from the ruins of their property, inclosed in a sack and placed across the horse's …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] At one time, as he was passing a church on Sunday, he looked in and saw the congregation assembled, but the minister had not yet arrived. He coolly walked up the aisle to the high pulpit and took his seat. After a time the p…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 477 »| ' inclosure in a swamp on the rear of the estate and tiei there keeping them in order to save them from the "« dreaded "Cowboys" who infested this region. At mi last came the end, and peace permitted the veterans i v …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 479 cupied a residence and land in the northeastern quar-ter and near the present Oroton Falls. The house on the place is still standing, a long, low-rambling farm house with sloping roof and verandah along the front, which …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] His residence is pleasantly situated on the Peekskill road, near the village of Somers, and is a large roomy farm house, having been somewhat re-modeled a few years since, and now presenting a semi-Gothic appearance with its…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the valley of the Muscoot, His house is a large, sub-stantial, partly Gothic building, the diamond-shaped window-panes giving it more of the Gothic character than do the actual proportions of the building. A beautiful lawn e…