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📖 Westchester County Histories
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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Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] SETTLEMENT AND BEGINNINGS OF THE MANORIAL ESTATES N the 6th of September, 1664, the City of New Am-sterdam surrendered to an English fleet which had been secretly dispatched across the Atlantic to take J poss…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] forced to au issue on Long Island by the stubborn attitude of the English towns there, they entered into an arrangement by which all controverted matters in that part of their diminishing realms were determin…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] here referred to by Stuyvesant was one granted by Charles II. on the 23d of April, 1662, to the Colony of Connecticut, wherein the westward bounds of Connecticut were stated to be " the South Sea" — that is, …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Four ships of war, car-rying ninety-two guns and about four hundred and fifty land troops, and commanded by Colonel Richard Nicolls, appeared before New Amsterdam at the end of August, and demanded the surren…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] reciting, under seven different heads, their local grievances against the Dutch. In this paper no specific remedy was prayed for, and it appears to have been drawn merely to put on record the real and suppose…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] settlements which later sprang up west of that stream being under the government of Harlem and New York City until Westchester County came into existence, in 1GS3. Governor Nicolls, after proclaiming the Duke…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] That every purchaser, etc., shall pay for every hundred acres as an acknowledgment two shillings and six pence." The Dutch submitted cheerfully to the regulation, but some oppo-sition to it was offered by the…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] 28th of October, lf>C>4, it was agreed that the line should start on the Sound at a point twenty miles east of the Hudson River and pursue a north-northwest coarse until it intersected the line of Massachuset…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] West of Greenwich there were only three settlements on the Sound— those at Rye and Westchester, and an infant colony at East-dies) er — and all of these had been established exclusively by Con-necticut people…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] fulfillment of this obligation, and on the 16th of June, 1664, three months before the surrender of the province to the English, they signed a document restoring to him all rights, titles, and claims to the t…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Pell set up the plea that the so-called Cornell's Neck was comprehended within the tract that he had bought from the Indians in 1054; that the governor and council of Connecticut had taken " notice of this la…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] tion, conducted by Johannes Verveelen, in whom the privilege was vested for six years. He was required to maintain a tavern for the accommodation of the public. Special favors were extended to him in consider…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Each passenger whom he entertained was to pay " for his meal, eight pence; every man for his lodging, two pence a man; every man for his horse shall pay four pence for his night's hay or grass, or twelve stiv…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] After the English conquest and the issuance of notification to existing land proprietors to renew their patents, she and her husband journeyed to New York, and ap-peared before Governor Mcolls with satisfacto…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The new proprietor very soon began to receive and accept offers for portions of the estate. In March and September, 1667, he sold to John Archer, of Westchester, -fourscore acres of land and thirty acres of m…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Of these various sales, the first, to Archer, and the last, to Philipse and others, arc of special historic interest, each of the two being fol-lowed by consecutive developments which will demand particular a…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] survives the record of an from Papirinemen down to to the Bronx. This pur-VIEW OK KINGSBRIDGE.1 chase, which made him the sole owner probably as far south as High Bridge, was effected on the 2Sth of September…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] styled " The West Farms," a name descriptive of its local relation to Westchester, by whose citizens it was opened up and upon whose government it depended. Between the West Farms patent and the lands of the …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The Nicolls patent describes it as " a certaine tract or parcel of land formerly in the tenure or occupation of Jonas Bronck's, commonly called by the Indians by the name of Ranackque, and by the Eng-lish Bro…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] ous and valuable section. lie lived on his Bronxland property until his death, in 1001, occupying a handsome residence, which even in those early colonial times was a place of liberal hospitality. He was a pr…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] E have seen that the old patroonship of Colen Donck, after being confirmed by Governor Nicolls in 1GGG to Van der Donck's widow and her second husband, Hugh O'Neale, was conveyed by them to Mrs. Q'Neale's bro…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Betts had lived for a number of years in Westchester, where he served as one of Stuyve-sant's magistrates, and later was a patentee of the town under the English patent. Tibbetts, Hadden, and Betts, as settle…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] sued, the independent holdings of Hadden, Metis, and Tibbetts had been completely extinguished..Such of their former proprietors, or their descendants, who continued to live on the lands, remained not as owne…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He bought additional lands successively as follows: 1081 (confirmed in 1683X, the Pocantico tract, covering the territory around Tarrytown; 1682 (confirmed in 1684), the Bissightick tract, or Irvington; 1082 …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] ',„t channel, formed at high tide another across the shallow tideway that the "cause-(though shallow) tideway; and the land in-way >' was built before the days of the Kings closed between the main channel and…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Although along the Hudson the lands of Philipse reached as far north as Croton Bay, their limits in the interior were considerably farther south, not being above the headwaters of the Bronx River; and thus th…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] There his father, Frederick, married Margaret Dacres, sup-posed to have been a lady of good family from the parish of Dacre, in England. The son was born in Bolsward, Friesland, in 1626, and. 158 HISTORY OF W…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] tracted a very advan-tageous marriage, es-pousing Margaret Har-denbroek DeYries, the daughter of Adolf Har-denbroek and widow of Pietries Rudolphus De Vries, a wealthy New Amsterdam merchant. This lady proved…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] A girl attempt-ing to rinse out the ship's mop let it fall overboard, whereupon the captain put the ship immediately to the wind and launched the jolly-boat, into which two sailors placed themselves at the ri…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He was the largest trader with the Five Nations at Albany, sent ships to both the Fast and West Indies, imported slaves from Africa, and, besides enjoying the profits of irregular commerce, shared, as has bee…