History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. II, Part 172

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898,
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.E. Preston & Co.
Number of Pages: 1286

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The meetings are held at Odd-Fellows' Hall, Fourth Avenue, Mt. Vernon.

EINHEIT LODGE, No. 461, 1. O. OF O. F .- This lodge was chartered April 26, 1878, with John Russell as the first N. G. The initiation fee is sixteen dollars and the annual dues six dollars. The meetings are held in Odd-Fellows' Hall, Mt. Vernon. There is a fund on hand of one thousand dollars, with property in furniture valued at five hundred dollars. The fol- lowing are the present officers: Henry Raby, N. G. ; Ferdinand Metzer, V. G .; Adolph Schindler, Financial Seeretary ; William Wohlermaeher, Recording Seere- tary; Adam Schneider, Treasurer.

GUIDING STAR ENCAMPMENT, NO. 83, was ehar- tered February 10, 1875, with Jesse Law as Chief Patriarch and John H. Jennings as High Priest. The property of the eneampment is valued at four hun- dred dollars. The meetings are held in Odd-Fellows' Hall, Mt. Vernon. The following are the present officers of this organization: Arthur E. Blackmore, C. P .; John E. Marshall, H. P. ; Andrew Jenks, S. W. ; John Cortes, J. W .; Adam Schneider, Treas .; John N. Hoffman, Seribe; John HI. Jennings, Financial Secretary.

FARNSWORTH POST, NO. 170, G. A. R .- From 1874, for some five or six years, several gentlemen of military antecedents, in the town of East Chester, were wont annually, under the assumed name of " Mt. Vernon Veteran Association," to decorate the graves of de- eeased soldiers of the Civil War. This habit led at last to the organization of a Post of the "Grand Army of the Republie," which, after a brave General of that war who was killed at Gettysburg, was styled Farns- worth. The first Commander was Major James HI. Jenkins, who is again this year the superior officer, with Captain Joseph H. Porter and Companion John H. Davis as Vice-Commanders. In 1882 Captain Frederick Whittaker was the Commander, and in 1883 and 1884 Companion Nathan Van Horson. As a social, patriotic and charitable body, this Post has a firm hohl on the hearts of the community, and is of material service with its funds in relieving the wants

of destitute soldiers and their families. The annual aet of devotion of the Grand Army of the Republic to its deceased comrades has been frequently ob- served by this Post at St. Paul's Church and Church- yard.

EAST CHESTER COUNCIL, NO. 477, AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR was organized Mareh 30, 1881. On May 1, 1886, it had one hundred and fourteen members. The total amount paid by this eouneil since its organization is $15,658.52. One death only has occurred, and in thirty days the claim, $5000, was paid. The following gentlemen have been its Commanders : J. Henry Magonigle, 1881 ; William Gibson, 1882; Charles W. Van Court, 1884; James L. Morgan, 1885; T. W. Dale, present Commander.

It is proper at this point to remember the following Temperance associations :

SONS OF TEMPERANCE, organized October 5, 1865. E. A. Rowlinson, first Worthy Patriarch. It had a membership at one time of nearly two hundred mem- bers. It existed for about ten years, meeting at Van Court's Building, Fourth Avenue.

PERSEVERANCE LODGE, No. 830, Independent Order of Good Templars, organized February 18, 1869, of which James B. Spicer was the first Worthy Chief Templar. It lasted about twelve years, at one time numbering one hundred and thirty-four mem- bers.

ALLIANCE TEMPLE OF HONOR, No. 17, was or- ganized July 31, 1867, Mr. William H. Oakley being the first Worthy Chief Templar. This association meets in Temple of Honor Hall on the third Tuesday of each month. Mr. George R. Carroll is the present W. C. T.

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, Mt. Vernon, was organized October 24, 1880. Its first President was Mr. John Van Santvoord. It numbers this year seventy-five members. Mr. Charles R. De Bevoise, who has been a strong supporter of the organization from the first, is now the President of the association. Its Rooms this year are on Fourth Avenue, between Seeond and Third Streets.

MOUNT VERNON LITERARY ASSOCIATION .- This association was formed on the 12th of January, 1855. The following gentlemen were the first officers of the association : P. L. MeClelan, president ; J. Q. A. But- Ier, Vice-President ; G. F. Byram, Secretary; and G. W. White, Treasurer. Its meetings were generally held in the basement of the Methodist Church. The inter- est of the village and town was largely invoked by the able debates which the subjeets diseussed brought out. Among the questions were the following, which were much considered at the time: "Is or is not the Anglo-French allianee entitled to the sympathies of the American people?" " Do the exigeneies of the times demand a distinctive American organization ?" " Will the so-called spiritual manifestations have a good or an evil tendeney ?" "Should Uiah be admit- ted into the Union, with her present laws of polyg-

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amy?" This lyceum continued its work of useful- ness for several years.

MOUNT VERNON HORTICULTURAL SOCETY was or- ganized on the 28th of February, 1855. The new sct- tlers at Mount Vernon had already, during the two years previous, exhibited much zeal and judgment in the cultivation of the plots of ground adjoining their residences, and their labor had been attended with encouraging results. Their conferenecs, in view of the coming season, led them to associate for mutual benefit. Mr. Henry Biggins was elected President, Mr. James Howland Secretary, and Mr. Richard At- kinson, still living in the village, was Chairman of the Finance Committee. The neighboring farmers encour- aged this movement of their new fellow-townsmen, and the meetings were sources of much pleasure. In the au- tumns both of 1855 and 1856 exhibitions were held and premiums bestowed for the best specimens of fruits, flowers and vegetables. 1 Again, on the 1st of July, 1857, a summer display of flowers, early vegetables and berries and small fruits was awarded with prizes.

The organization of the MOUNT VERNON MENNER- CHOR grew out of the effort of some of the early Ger- man settlers near Hunt's Bridge to provide, for the enjoyment of themselves and members of their fami- lies, dramatic and musical entertainments. The so- ciety at one time was in numbers one hundred strong, forty of whom were singers. Dr. Doenges is remem- bered as the director. The meetings were held for awhile at Boek's tavern, and afterward at Diecman's. Mr. Henry is now the president.

MOUNT VERNON QUARTETTE CLUB, organized August, 1867. The first President was Mr. Charles Korn, who now occupies the position. The club meets at Scheuerman's Central Hall.

EAST MOUNT VERNON SINGING SOCIETY, or- ganized 1856, existed for five or six years. Henry Kortlang president. This society met at Hagman's, in Franklin Avenue.

THE MOUNT VERNON ATHENEUM, which was organized on the 2d of July, 1872, is an association of gentlemen and ladies, having as its avowed purpose, as stated in its Constitution, "the cultivation of liter- ature, music, elocution, art, and the promotion of social acquaintance." Its meetings are held at its members' homes, and have been throughout its his- tory a source of great enjoyment. Mrs. Anna Ver- milye was the first President, which position is now held by Mrs. Charles C. Bigelow. Two hundred and fifty persons have been enrolled on its books, and the number present at its meetings have ranged from thirty to one hundred and twenty-five. "The programme for the evening," says one of the most earnest friends of this society, " has usually consisted of an original essay, a recitation and a reading, also

music, and has been carried out often with such celat as to be stimulating in the extreme."

STATISTICS .- In the year 1710 we have the first information, after the settlement, of what was the population of the town. It seems that in that year there were one hundred and fifty-three " male Chris- tians " and one hundred and thirty-six female, while there were seventeen male slaves and eight female residing in it. Of the men, sixty-one were from six- teen to sixty years old, and their names and ages are as follows :

Captain John Drake . 55

John lladdon, Jr. 27

Michael Chadderton 52

John Stanton (mulatto). 32

Joseph Tompkins. 32

Jolin Lancaster 43

Nathaniel Tompkins 32

Joseph Taylor 24

Moses Taylor. 21

John Bloomer 28

John Taylor. 17

John Hyat. 32

Joseph Gee.

Thomas Shute 40

Arthur l'aile.

Jeremiah Fowler. 37

Richard Curry

Isaac Lawrence 55

Robert Stivers 19

Isaac Lawrence, Jr. 18

William White. 26

Edward Fitz Giarral 28

John Shute . 39

William Fowler 50

John Thompkins, Jr. 26

William Pinkney.

Lewis Guyon .. 24

Jonathan Oadele. 35

Edmond Ward 39

Moses Hoit, Jr. 40

Samuel Ferris 34

Eliezer Hoyt. 16

Henry Fowler, Si 52

Edmond Thompkins 34

Abraham Hiatt . 29

John Fowler.

Henry Fowler, Jr

Thomas Pinkney

John Ward .

Isaac Oadele. 35

John Lawrence

Mathias Valentine 40

Sanmel Cansten, Jr .

John Valentine 19

Jeremiah Looper.

Richard Osburn 34

Thomas Chadderton

Thomas Astin . 26

Edward Aury

Joseph Drake, Jr. 24

Benjamin Chipp 21

Isaac Taylor, Sr . 45

Moses Fo ler .

John Iladdon, Sr. 47

The census of 1712 gives the number of male per- sons above sixty as four; between sixteen and sixty, as fifty-seven ; under sixteen, as seventy-nine; of females above sixty, as one; between sixteen and sixty, as sixty-seven ; under sixteen, as sixty-seven.2 In 1790 there were in the town white malcs of six- teen years and upwards, one hundred and seventy- four, and under sixteen years, one hundred and sixty ; white females, three hundred and twenty ; all other free persons, eleven, and seventy-five slaves.

The number of inhabitants in East Chester, as re- ported by cach census since the commencement of this century, is as follows :

YEAR.

POPULATION.

YEAR.

POPULATION.

1800

738

1845

1369

1810

1039

1850

1769

1814

942

1855

4715

1820

1021

1860

5582

1825

931

1865

5620

1830

1030

1870

7491

1835

1168

1875

8333

1840

1502

1880

8737

2 Doc. Hist. of N. Y., vol. iii. p. 949.

1 " Mr. Richard Atkinson, of this village, was awarded the premium for the best potatoes, three varieties, at the New York Horticultural Exhibi- ion, on Wednesday, 26thi inst."-Mount Vernon Gazette, September 29, 1855.

John L'aile. 24

Roger Barton, Sr

Roger Barton, Jr 17

Isaac Terhill. 56

Thomas Pinkney. 27

William Fowler 23

Joseph Drake, Sr 47

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HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

As early as Jannary 6, 1670, the following order was made at a meeting of the inhabitants :

" All children that are born in this place or those that decease or those persons that marey belonging to this place shall be recorded and tow penc allowed nnto recorder to be paid for eatch child & six penc for every man." 1

The following certifications of marriages and birthis are taken from the Town Minutes :

" Thes are to Certifie whom it may consern that Richard Saniey and Ann ('anie weare Lawfully married the 28th day of December 1685 By me Morgen Joans, menester of the gospell."

" Thes are to Certifie whom it may concern that Joshep Drake & mary SIinte both of East Chester weare Lawfully mareied The 31th of Decem- ber 1685.

By me Morgen Joans miuester of the gospell

" Entered according to order by me

" Richard Shnte Recorder." 2

" Sollomon Hvite the Son of Moses Iloite Junr was born on the 9th day of feberary 1703%."

How strange to read immediately after this,-

" Ilear ffolloweth a perficte Reccord of Cattell that have bine killed in East Chester in the yeare 1670 killed by Phillip Pinknie."

We present now, under our own arrangement, a list of other births recorded :

Name. l'arent. Date of Birthi. Place.

" Sanmel . . . Joshep Drake . November 3, 1697 . . . E. C.

Saraha . . . Josliep Drake .

. Jnne 20, 1695. . . . . E. C.

Jean . . . . Jolın Drake August 4, 1695 . . . . E. C.

Susana . . John Jackson September 10, 1670 . . E. C.

John . . Richard Shnte

June 9, 1671.

Elizabeth . . Richard Shute September 3, 1672. . . E. C.

Rebecke. . . Richard Shute July 1, 1675 . . . . . E. C.

Rachell . . . Richard Shute

(Wednesday,) Feb. 13, 1677.

Jonathan . . Jeames Enests

November 12, 1667.

Juda . . . . Jeames Euests

March 16, 1671.

Samnel . . . Richard Shute

May 24, 1674.

Joshep. . . . Joshep Drake, Sr.

. August 18, 1686.

Samewell, Jr.3- Drake .

Jannary 12, 16:4

Jolın, Jr.+ . . Joshep Drake

November 8, 1689.

Mary . . Joshep Drake. November 1, 1691.

John, Jr. . . . - Jackson.

October 27, 1674 . . . . K. (.

Margery . . . John Jackson. July 14, 1677.

Ann. . . John Clarke

March 24, 1681.

Abigealle

William . . . Nathaniel White . . August 26, 1684 . . . E. C. Moses noite, Junr. . June 16, 1692. Mary . Edward Emery . . . May 14, 1694 . . . F. C.

Joshep .. Ilenry Fowler . . October 30, 1701.

Sara . . . Jolin Shute

September 22, 1700.

Abigall . Jolin Shute

Angust 10, 1702.

Richard . . . John Shnte

August 10, 1704.

Elliases

Edward Hancocke . December 15, 1693 . . K. C.

Matlıa . Ruth Slater

. March 31, 1683. Mile Square.

Mickelle.

Ruth Slater November 18, 1689.

Ruth Ruth Slater

March 13, 169.1.

Ellinor. . . . Moses Ilvit, Jr. .

June 24, 1694 .. .. . E. C.

Moses . . Moses lloit, Jr . . October 28, 1696. . . . F. C.

Rachell . . . Moses Iloit, Jr .. . February 6, 4888 . E. C.

rone. . . Moses lloit, Jr. . March 27, 1700.

Samuel . . . John Godin . . Jannary 26, 1699.

John . . . . John Godin May 1, 1702.

Solloman . . . Joha Godin

. October 1, 170-1.

Mary . . . . Edmund Ward . . . May 23, 1691.

Elenar . . . . Edinnud Ward . . . May 2, 1696.

Sarah . . . . Edmund Ward . . . November 1, 1698.

1 Town minuten.

" Town minutes, p. 316.

s " In the third year of the reigen of Kinge Jeates the Second."

4 " In the first year of the relue of Kinge William and Quen Mary."

\bigall . .. Edmund Ward . .. January 26, 1700.

Meriam . . . Edminnd Ward . .. Jannary 21, 1703.

Edmund. . . Elmond Ward . . . December 9, 1705.

Samuel . . . Edmund Ward . . . March 14, 1708.5

Thefollowing statistics are gathered of a later date :

Births. Marriages. Deaths.

1847

1848

1849

1×50

1851

18826

182

1883

180

339

1884

185

215

1885

208

330

In the Mount Vernon Gazette of October 20, 1855, we have the following announcement: "First twins in Mount Vernon .- On Wednesday, October 17th, Mrs. David I. Smith was safely delivered of a pair of sprightly, bouncing boys. Mrs. S. and her boys are getting along finely."

PROMINENT RESIDENTS.

Of the eitizens of East Chester during the first seventy years of its existence, no one is more promi- nently presented than

JOHN DRAKE .- In the dividing off of the land, in the appeals to the Governor, as an officer of the East Chester company in the defense of the town and the City of New York, as a member of the New York As- sembly and opposor of Leislerianism, activity and fearlessness characterize him. He lived to an ad- vanced age and to the last was most useful.

RICHARD SHUTE was the Recorder of East Chester, the first town elerk. The early minutes for more than thirty years are in his antiquated handwriting. Ile gives us the records of town-meetings, first deeds and early transfers of land, the births, the marks and even private business transactions. He was upon numerons committees, and most important duties and trusts were assigned to him. He died in December, 1703.

HENRY FOWLER and EDMUND WARD both were members of the General Assembly and Supervisors of the town. Mr. Ward was also Sheriff of the county. As we get toward the middle of the eighteenth century we meet the names of Samuel Sneden and Jonathan Fowler.

SAMUEL SNEDEN was for twenty -seven years, at least, town clerk and for ten years, at least, held the higher office of Supervisor. We say "at least " because he may have been and probably was, after 1768, re-elected, but there are no town records between 1768 and 1774, nor after that year until 1783. Mr. Sueden was also one of the Wardens of the Parish of West and East Chester, Yonkers and the Manor of Pelham. In a list of civil officers of Westchester County, Mr. Sneden is described as an assistant judge.7

6 Town minnes, Bk. 1, p. 14. 15, 16.

" Last eight mouthie.

: N. Y. Col. MISS., vol. Ivxxi. fol. 77.

Jolın

Ruth Slater

May 29, 1687.

Elizabeth . . Ruth Slater

February 4, 1858. Mile Square

Jeames . . . Jeames Euests

February 15, 1669.

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JONATHAN FOWLER .- For twenty years before the Revolution no mau would seem to have exercised a greater influence in the town than Jonathan Fowler. For many years he was on the committee on public buildings, in 1759 was Supervisor and for some time before 1776 was one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Westchester County. His residence was at what is since called Cragdon. An eye-witness de- scribes the dignity with which he held his court on the Green for the disposal of offenders. At the breaking out of the Revolution, Judge Fowler op- posed it and joined in the protest against " unlawful Congresses." With the Rev. Mr. Seabury and Mr. (Lord) Underhill, he was seized, November, 1775, and con- veyed to New Haven and there confined. He after- wards recalled his protest, as appears from the follow- ing: "Whereas I, Jonathan Fowler, one of his Majesty's Judges of the Iuferior Court of Westches- ter, in the Province of New York, did some time ago sign a protest against the Honorable Continental Congress, which inconsiderate conduct I am heartily sorry for aud do hereby promise for the future not to transgress in the view of the people of this Continent nor in any sense to oppose the measures taken by the Continental Congress." Judge Fowler died in 1787, and is buried in the Family Vault in St. Paul's Church-yard. His son Theodosius was a Captain in the American army during the war.

STEPHEN WARD was a son of Edmund Ward, and a Supervisor of the town at the commencement of the struggle for independence, to which he gave his most hearty and valuable support. He was elected a mem- ber from this county of the Provincial Congress of May, 1775, and in 1777 of the New York Assembly. After the war he was Supervisor, also Judge of the county, State Senator, member of Congress and in 1792 a Presidential Elector. His early residence was in the historical mansion knowu as " Ward's," which was burned down in the Revolution. He afterwards lived at what is now the corner of Sixth Avenue and Fourth Street, Mt. Vernon, and there died in 1797, in the sixty-eighth year of his age.

LANCASTER UNDERHILL was a native of Long Island, but in early life removed to East Chester. He purchased two hundred acres on the Bronx, at a point since called Bronxville, where he established his mills. He had been married about two years to Miss Theodosia Hunt, daughter of Dr. Joseph Hunt, a physician of the town, when the Revolution broke out, to which he was thoroughly opposed. His name appears on the White Plains protest. He was sub- jected to great indignities and losses during the con- test. " After peace " he was one of the first Wardens of St. Paul's Church, a position which he held for twenty-nine years. He was greatly respected and lived to the advanced age of ninety-eight.

BENJAMIN MORGAN, the grandson of James, the first of the family of that name, once so numerous and influential in the town, was born in it in 1759.

He was for nine years Town Clerk and for fourteen years its Supervisor. In all important matters he was conspicuous. The map of East Chester of 1797, and which cost £21 38. 6d., was made through his in- strumentality. Mr. Morgan was frequently an exce- utor of the wills of his neighbors, and was one of the most useful men which the town has produced. IIe died in 1844, aged eighty-five years.

JOHN TOWNSEND, who deceased in 1849, at the age of seventy years, rose to the highest trusts and exercised great influence among liis fellow-citizens. As Supervisor, Assemblyman, State Senator, a mein- ber of last "State Council of Appointment," County Judge and Sheriff, he was extensively known and highly esteemed. Mr. Townsend was a pronounced opponent of Governor De Witt Clinton, and on that personal issue was elected, with Peter R. 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 of General Stephen Ward, was born in 1768 and died in 1842. At twenty-three years of age he was chosen one of the assessors of the town, and two years afterwards town clerk. From 1802 to 1806 he was Sheriff of the county. The succeeding year he took his seat as one of the six representatives of the Southern District of New York in the State Senate, and in 1809 was a member of the Council of Appointment, which at that time controlled the official patronage of the State. In 1814 Mr. Ward was elected to the Fourteenth Con- gress, and held the position for one term. In 1821 he was a member of the Convention to revise the State Constitution, and in 1828 became Surrogate of West- chester County. The duties of this important office he discharged to general satisfaction, and in 1840, having reached the age of seventy years, retired in obedience to the Constitutional provision.

JAMES SOMERVILLE, a much respected and influen- tial citizen of this town, was a native of Scotland, but very soon after the Revolution settled upon the property lately the confiscated estate of Edmund Ward. This property had been presented by the State to David Williams in consideration of his ser- vices iu apprehending Major Andre. Mr. Somerville soon rose to positions of honor and usefulness. He was Supervisor for three years, associate Judge of the County for a long time, and for a still longer period Commissioner of Common Schools. He died in 1838.

GEORGE FAILE, a native of Scotland, settled in the town at the commencement of this century, and for forty years was the leading store-keeper in it, realizing a fortune and a wide-spread reputation for integrity and wisdom. His contracts with the government during the War of 1812 essentially contributed to insure his prosperity. Mr. Faile was a public-spirited citizen and a considerate and useful neighbor.

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HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

JOHN R. HAYWARD, who was born in New York City in 1811, became, soon after entering upon man- hood, an influential citizen of this town. As early a> 1834 he was elected Town Clerk, which position he continued to hold until 1838, when he was made Supervisor. This office he held for three years. Dur- ing this period he was also Colonel of the Regiment of Light Horse Artillery. In 1846 Colonel Hayward was elected a member of the Assembly, and again in 147 was a candidate for the place, but failing, con- tested the seat of his opponent, but without success. In 1841 Colonel Hayward purchased of the Executors of Richard Shute, deceased, a farm on the Mile Square road, just out of the village of East Chester, where he continued to reside until the sale of this property to the Industrial Home Association, in 1851. The homestead is still standing on Fourth Avenue, near Sixth Street. Colonel Hayward was, for nine years, a Vestryman of St. Paul's Church, six of which he was Clerk of the Vestry. In 1851 he removed to New York City, where he died in 1867.

JESSE LYON was born in New York City on the 5th of February, 1798, and deceased on the 25th of December, 1879. Mr. Lyon was Town Clerk and Supervisor of this town for a number of years, and in 1850 represented the Second District of this County in the Assembly.

FRANCIS W. EDMONDS, a distinguished financier and father of the New York Clearing-House, took up his abode in this town in 1852, erecting on one of the eminences at Bronxville a substantial mansion of stone. Mr. Edmonds, in his early years of resi- dence, was Cashier of the Mechanics' Bank of New York, and Chamberlain of the City. He was also President, for a short time, of the New York and Harlem Railroad Company. During his hours of lei- sure he devoted himself with ardor to the produc- tion of works or art with his brush, which have had very general commendation. "The Image Ven- dler " (in the New York Historical Society Collec- tion), " Facing the Enemy," "Scene in a Hayfield," "St. Paul before Felix," (in St. Paul's Church, East Chester, of which he was Junior Warden) and " Christ's Lament over Jerusalem " are recalled with interest and pleasure. Mr. Edmonds died in 1863, and is buried in Beechwood Cemetery.

DARIUS LYON, a son of Hon. Jesse Lyon, and born April 23, 1822, still living, was town clerk and super- visor of East Chester for a number of years; also Sheriff of Westchester County from 1864-67, and Ex- cise Commissioner of the county for 1867 and 1868. The Lyons have always been noted for their devotion to the interests of the Democratie party.

WILLIAM H. PEMBERTON was born in the city of New York on the 4th of December, 1834. His earlier education was obtained at the academy at Yonkers. Hlis legal studies were pursued under the direction of Mr. J. Warren Tompkins. He was admitted to the bar in 1856, and in 1856, and again in 1859, was.| Church-yard.

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History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. II, Part 172

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898, Publication date: 1886 Publisher: Philadelphia : L.E. Preston & Co. Number of Pages: 1286

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898,
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.E. Preston & Co.
Number of Pages: 1286