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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
south of Fort Amsterdam; supposed to contain 160 acres; called by the Dutch Nutten Island, now Governor's Island......1637 Jonas Bronck purchases a tract in Westchester, opposite Haerlem......June, 1637 Pavonia and Staten Island purchased by the Amsterdam directors of Michael Pauw for 26,000 guilders ($10,000)......1637 General thanksgiving day appointed......Aug. 12, 1654 Discovery of salt springs in central New York by Father Le Moyne......August, 1654 English settle at Westchester under Thomas Pell......November, 1654 Seal and coat of arms of New Amsterdam received from Holland......Dec. 8, 1654 Governor Stuyvesant sails to West I.1669 Staten Island purchased from the Indians......April 13, 1670 Katherine Harrison, widow, banished from Weathersfield, Conn., for witchcraft, comes to Westchester. Citizens complain, but the court of assizes directs her release. She is obliged to leave......August, 1670 George Fox, the Quaker, visits Long Island.....
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vail, Stephen Montford 1818-1880 (search)
Vail, Stephen Montford 1818-1880 Clergyman; born in Union Dale, Westchester co., N. Y., Jan. 10, 1818; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1838, and at the Union Theological Seminary in 1842; began to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church and founded the first church of that denomination in Brunswick, Me.; was Professor of Languages in Amenia Seminary in 1843; held pastorates in Fishkill, N. Y., Sharon, Conn., and Pine Plains, N. Y.; Professor of Oriental Languages in the General Biblical Institute of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Concord, N. H., in 1849; and became United States consul for Rhenish Bavaria in 1869. He wrote for the Methodist press; and published essays on slavery and church polity. He died in Jersey City, N. J., Nov. 26, 1880.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Wart, Isaac 1760-1828 (search)
Van Wart, Isaac 1760-1828 Patriot; born in Greenburg, N. Y., in 1760; engaged in farming in Westchester county, N. Y. During the Revolutionary War he was an ardent sympathizer with the patriot cause, and on Sept. 23, 1780, with John Paulding and David Williams, captured Maj. John Andre (q. v.) when that officer was returning from the American lines. For this act each of the three captors received the thanks of Congress, a pension of $200 per annum for life, and a silver medal. He died in. During the Revolutionary War he was an ardent sympathizer with the patriot cause, and on Sept. 23, 1780, with John Paulding and David Williams, captured Maj. John Andre (q. v.) when that officer was returning from the American lines. For this act each of the three captors received the thanks of Congress, a pension of $200 per annum for life, and a silver medal. He died in Mount Pleasant, N. Y., May 23, 1828. A monument was erected to his memory by the citizens of Westchester county in 1829.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), White Plains, battle of. (search)
camp on Harlem Heights, so he attempted to gain the rear of Washington's headquarters at White Plains. Washington's army, and hem them in on the upper part of Manhattan Island. To do this he landed a considerable force at Throgg's Point, Westchester county, and sent armed ships up the Hudson to cut off supplies for the Americans by water from the north and west. Perceiving the gathering of danger, Washington called a council of war at his headquarters on Harlem Heights, which was the desertipse The Morris House. (Washington, George). Morris had espoused the cause of the crown, and fled from his mansion with his family. At that council, held Oct. 16, 1776, it was determined to extend the army beyond the King's Bridge into Westchester county, abandoning the island, excepting the strong work known as Fort Washington, on the highest point of the island. Arranged in four divisions, under Generals Lee, Heath, Sullivan, and Lincoln, the army concentrated at the village of White Pla
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilkins, Isaac 1742-1830 (search)
Wilkins, Isaac 1742-1830 Clergyman; born in Withywood, Jamaica, W. I., Dec. 17, 1742; graduated at Columbia College in 1760; became a member of the New York colonial legislature in 1772. He supported England prior to the Revolutionary War, and owing to some political pamphlets which he wrote was forced by the Sons of Liberty to flee from the country in 1775. At the conclusion of the war he settled on Long Island, and afterwards studied theology, and was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1801. He died in Westchester, N. Y., Feb. 5, 1830.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Witchcraft, New York (search)
Witchcraft, New York In 1665 Ralph Hill and his wife Mary were arrested for witchcraft and sorcery; they were tried by a jury, which included Jacob Leisler, afterwards governor, and acquitted, the jury finding nothing considerable against them. The event created but little excitement. In 1670, however, the case of Katherine Harrison led to complications between the judiciary and the people. She was a widow, who on being banished from Weathersfield, Conn., as a witch, settled in Westchester. As soon as her antecedents became known, a formal complaint was lodged against her, and she was taken before the court of assizes for examination. There nothing could be proven against her, and she was, accordingly, released from restraint. Her neighbors, however, were not satisfied with the decision of the court, and took such means of showing their resentment that she was compelled to seek a home elsewhere. This was probably the earliest case in the colonies of what is now known as
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Yonkers, (search)
Yonkers, A city in Westchester county, N. Y.; on the Hudson and Bronx rivers; adjoining the northern part of New York City. It is a charming residential place and has important manufactures. The place received its name in 1788; was incorporated as a village in 1855 and as a city in 1872; and is the seat of the The Falls of the Yellowstone. Philipse Manor, erected in 1752, and now the city hall; Greystone, the suburban residence of Samuel J. Tilden; the Hebrew home for the aged and infirm; and the Leake and Watts orphan home. Population in 1900, 47,931.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), York, James, Duke of -1701 (search)
ed to England by treaty. It was decided that these political changes had cancelled the Duke of York's title to the domain, and a new one, with boundaries defined as in the first grant, was issued, June 29, 1674, but the line above mentioned was fixed upon as the eastern limit of the province of New York. In 1665 a meeting was held at Hempstead, L. I. (Feb. 28), at which thirty-four delegates assembled—two representatives of each of the English and Dutch towns on Long Island and two in Westchester. Some of them had been members of Stuyvesant's last General Assembly of New Netherland the previous year. The meeting had been called by Governor Nicolls to settle good and known laws in their government for the future, and receive their best advice and information. The governor laid before the delegates a body of general laws, which had been chiefly compiled from statutes then in force in New England, with more toleration in matters of religion. The delegates were not satisfied with
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