The Bronx and its people; a history, 1609-1927, Volume II, Part 45

Author: Wells, James Lee, 1843-1928
Publication date: 1927
Publisher: New York, The Lewis historical Pub. Co., Inc.
Number of Pages: 500


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"Pelham Manor," as before mentioned, derived its name from Thomas Pell, the first permanent settler of that region. Pell's possession com- prised 9,166 acres. Of this tract, John Pell, nephew of the first owner, sold 6,100 acres to Governor Leisler in 1688 for the Huguenot settle- ment of New Rochelle, now the city of that name in Westchester County. Pelham Township, of the same county, was also part of the original Pelham Manor. The portion belonging to the borough comprises what was once Annes Hoeck, later called Hell's Neck, and Rodman's Neck, as well as Hunter, Twin, Hart, High and City islands. The original Pell manor-house was situated on the east side of the Eastern Boulevard, near the present Bartow mansion, though another authority says it was located on the extreme end of Pelham Neck. The story runs that while Pell was looking for a site to build his dwelling he noticed nests of fish-hawks in the oaks and chestnuts near Pelham Neck. He was at that time possessed of a superstition that where this bird nested there good luck would come. Between the Bartow mansion and the Sound is the Pell family burial ground. The four stone corner-posts bear the coat-of-arms of the Pell family-a Pelican Gorged-and each has a different inscription.


On the other side of Split Rock Road or Collins Lane along which the Americans retreated, stood the pre-Revolutionary Collins mansion or Joshua Pell House. At the foot of Prospect Hill is the finest Pell mansion of all, remodeled and modernized. The splendid group of pine trees surrounding the house, shade the magnificent columns on either side of the doorway. The unique iron lattice-work forms a pretty bal- cony. On the opposite side can be seen the family coat-of-arms.


At the corner of Wolf's Lane and Boston Road is another modernized Pell house where it is said Howe and his officers seized the very last turkey of the people living there and dined unbidden.


POE COTTAGE


HISTORICAL INDEX


HISTORICAL INDEX


Abolitionism and Secession, 388 Aboriginal Inhabitants, 25


Aborigines and the Settlers, 51 Aid during Civil War, 411


Albany Post Road, 314 Alliance, The Taxpayers, 809


America, The Manor in, 132


American Bank Note Company, 719


Anchoring of British Vessels, Revolutionary War, 179


André's Capture, Major, 202-206


Annexation of The Bronx, 351, 806


Apathy Towards the Revolution, 168


Appellate Court established, 493


Area of The Bronx, 714


Arnold, Benedict, 202-206 Arrival of more Settlers, 75


Arrival of the British Fleet, 176


Arrival of the Dutch, 63, et seq.


Articles of Confederation, 224


Assemblies, The Early, 374


Assembly of the XIX, 79, 119, 121, 133


Associate or Puisne Judges, 490


Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 655


Association for the Aid of Crippled Children, 653


Baby Welfare Station, 639


Banks and Banking: beginning of, 603; banking in relation to commercial expansion, 602; the savings banks in New York, 606; National Bank of New York, 607; general banking circulation, 609; suspension of banks, 609; United States Sub-Treasury, 609; conven- tions and resumption of, 610; first State bank in Bronx, 612; first savings bank, 613; North Side Savings, 613; Bronx National, 614; Bronx Savings, 614; The American Exchange Irving Trust Company, 614; Corn Exchange, 614; Commonwealth Branch. 615; Cosmo- politan, 615; Harlem Savings, 615; The Em- pire City Savings, 615; Bank of Washington Heights, 615; Bronx Borough, 615; Title Guarantee and Trust Company, 616; The Commonwealth Savings, 616; State, 616; The Chatham & Phenix National Bank & Trust Company, 616; The Public National, 616; Morris Plan Company, 617; Banco di Napoli, 617; Colonial, 617; Bank of the United States, 617; Port Morris, 617; Fordham Savings, 617; Bowery and East River National, 617; Manu- facturers' Trust Company, 618; Italian Dis- count and Trust Company, 618; Capitol Na- tional, 618; Hamilton National of New York, 618; Italian Savings, 618; New York Title and Mortgage, 618; Fordham National, 618; Seventh National, 619; Melrose National, 619; Amalgamated Bond and Mortgage Com- pany, 619; Federal Reserve System, 620;


Building and Loan Associations, 625. Baptist Church, First, 153 Baptist Churches, 681


Bar Association, Bronx County, 505 Baremore, The Capture of Major, 213


Barter and Currency, 163 Battle of Long Island, 179


Battle of Pell's Point, 187


Battle of White Plains, 190


Beliefs, Early Education and, 264


Block, Adriaen, Navigator, 64-67


Board of Trade, The Bronx, 714, 731, 822 "Bond News," The, 736


Borough and City Officials, Present, 383


Borough, Early History of the, 19


Borough of The Bronx created, 23, 237, 384


Boston Post Road, 314


Botanical Gardens, 697


Boundaries, Township, 21


Boundary Between Connecticut and West- chester, 229, et seq. Bounty Bonds, The, 413


Bridges, Parks, Parkways and, 685, et seq.


Briggs, Josiah A., 382, 688, title page


British at Throgg's Neck, 184


British Vessels anchored during Revolutionary War, 179


Bronck (Bronk or Brunk) Jonas, first settler, 7, 57, 96, 111, 126


Bronx Board of Trade, The, 731, 822


Bronx Borough Created, 23, 237, 384


Bronx Borough Officials, List of, 382


"Bronx City Islander," The, 736


Bronx Commercial advantages, The, 819


Bronx County Administration at present time, 382


Bronx County Bar Association, 505-11


Bronx County legal officials, 504 Bronxdale, 342


Bronx Dental Clinic, The, 581


Bronx, Growth of The, 821


Bronx, in the Spanish-American War, The, 423


Bronx Lawyers, 495, et seq.


Bronx Park, 695


"Bronx Record and Times," The, 736


Bronx River, A Tribute (poem), by Joseph Rodman Drake, 124


Bronx River Parkway, 690, 791-94


"Bronx Sentinel," The, 736


"Bronx Star," The, 736


Bronx Territory, War in, 114


Bronx Tuberculosis and Health Committee, 574


Bronx Village Skirmishes, 213


Bronze Tablet, commemoration Battle of White Plains, 191


Bronze Tablet for Chief Ninhan, 695


Brouncksland as Manor, 136


Brown, Judge Nehemiah, 478


Building Code, The, 800


Building Construction, Modern, 801, 821


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THE BRONX AND ITS PEOPLE


Building development figures front 1883-1925, 795


Building statistics, 713


Bureaus and Standing Committees: Civic Trade and Commerce; Industrial; Traffic and Waterways; Publicity; Membership Com- mittee; Law Committee, 732


Business in The Bronx, 822


Canal Traffic, 786


Catholic Big Brothers League, Bronx, 637


Catholic Churches, Roman, 684


Catholic Protectory, New York, 641


Cattle imported, 76


Cause of the Spanish-American War, 423 Cemeteries, 706


Chain store branches, 824


Changes in Government, 370 et seq.


Channels, Enlarging New York Harbor chan- nels, 802


Charitable and Philanthropic Organizations, 627 et seq.


Charter of Greater New York, 23


"Charter of Privileges and Exemptions," 366 Chief Ninhan, Bronze Tablet for, 695


Children, Welfare and Relief Societies for, 628 Christiaensen, Hendrick, Dutch navigator, 64- 67


Church and State, 270


Church Early Welfare Agency, 630


Churches, see particular denominations


Circuit Court and Circuit Judges, 492


City Administration in The Bronx, 382


City Island (Minnewits), 346


Civil and Police Courts, 503


Civil War, Decades preceding, 360


Civil War: Leading newspapers in Bronx ter- ritory at beginning of, 387; secession and abolitionism, 388; firing on Fort Sumter, 389; local volunteers, 391; organizing military units, 393; party rancor, 394; Bull Run and the press, 396; draft riots, 400; Lincoln and the press, 406; Lincoln's assassination, 410; societies give aid, 411; county bonds, 413; return of the volunteers, 415; drafted men, 417; Grand Army posts, 419; draft riots, 421 Claremont Park, 702 Clason's Point, 337


Clergymen, Early, 273


Clinic, The Bronx Dental, 581


Clothes and Textile Manufacturing, 721


Clubs of The Bronx, 744


Code, The Building, 800


Colonial Legislature, First, 77


Colonizing territory of New Netherland, 134 Comfort, Randall, historian, 825


Commerce, Early, 811 Commercial advantages of The Bronx, 819 Commercial background, 810


Common Pleas, Court of, 477


Common Pleas Judges, Early, 488


Condition of Bronx Territory, 241


Condition of two armies at beginning of Revo- lutionary War, 183 Confederation, Articles of, 224 Congregational Churches, 682 Congressional District, Eighteenth, 475


Constitution Revised, 359


Controversy among the medical profession, 598 "Copperheads," 421


Cornwallis, The Surrender of, 219 County Judges, 490


County Seats and Courthouses, 479


Court House in White Plains, The first, 479 Courts and Lawyers, Chapter, 475-512 Courts in 1757, 368


"Cowboys" and "Skinners," 200, 316 Crippled Children Association, 653 Croton Dam, Plot to blow up, 410


Crotona Park, 702


Crystalline Rocks, 15-18


Currencies, Indian and other, 275


Currency, Early, 163


Customs, Early, 267


Decades preceding Civil War, 360 Declaration of Independence, 225; received at White Plains Courthouse, 479


De Laet, Johan, historian, 68, 75, 86


De Lancey, James, 696


De Lancey Mansion, 696


de Rasieres, Isaac, secretary Colonial Govern- ment, 78, 79, 81


Description of The Bronx about 1642, 125


Description of "Rustic" Bronx, 310


Development in Medical practice, 565


De Vries, David Pietersen, (David Pieters), 89 ct seq.


Director-General Appointed, 78


Disciples of Christ, 682


Discovery of Hudson River, 57-63


Disputes during Civil War, Party, 394


District Attorneys, 490


District Court, Justices of the United States, 493


District Schools, Establishment of, 521


Domestic Economy among Huguenots, 255


Drafted Men in Civil War, The, 417


Draft Riots in Civil War, 400, 421


Drake, Joseph Rodman, Poem by, 124 Drink and Food, 276


Dutch and English Language Schools, 531


Dutch and English meet, 107


Dutch and Indian difficulties, 53


Dutch Claims, 228


Dutch Settlers' private property, 797 Dutch Trading, 65


Earliest Settlers in The Bronx, 69, et seq.


Early Happenings: Bronx homes, 827; Bronx villages, 312; care of the sick, 560; customs, 267; ferry transportation, 786; material pro- gress, 259; period homes, 242; social life, 247; trails, 284; transportation, 259-64, 292, White Plains Courthouse destroyed by fire, 479; early writers' description of the Red Men, 39


Early Inhabitants, Chapter, 19-56 Eastchester, 343


"Eastern State Journal" quoted, 396 Education and Beliefs, Early, 264


Education, Chapter, 513-53


Education, Early, 534


Education in the Colonies, 514


Education on the Manors, 158


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HISTORICAL INDEX


Education, Modern, 534 Electioneering, Old Time, 358


Elevated and Underground Railways, 303-308 Embargo and Non-Intercourse, 356 Enforced Labor, 156


England, Manors in, 130


England's attempt to carry on a fur trade, 89 English and Dutch Language Schools, 531 English attempt to leave Holland, 71


English Puritans in Holland, 69


English Rule, Under, 797 Enmity of the Indians, 112 Erection of Manors by the English, 134 Erection of New Schools, 535


Establishing a town government, 78


Establishing First Colonies, 75 Establishing "patroonshins." 84-85


European Settlement, 57 et son. Evacuation of New York, 220 Evangelical Churches, 682 "Evening Journal," The, 733


Families, Old Homes and, 825, et seq. Ferries established, 347 Ferris Mansion, 834 Ferry transportation, 777 Feudalism and the Manor, 129 First New York Volunteers, Spanish-Ameri- can War, 426 Fordham Hospital, 557, 559 Fordham University, 547-550


Fort Sumter, Firing on, 389 Fourth Provincial Congress, The, 375 First Colonies established, 75


First White Child, The, 73


Food and Drink, 276 Food Supply of the Indians, 30


Fordham Manor, 144


Foresters of America, 750 Fort Amsterdam, Settling of, 74


Fort Good Hope, 75 Fort Independence, 208 Fort Nassau, 75 Fort Orange, Settling of, 74 Food Products, 724 Fort Schuyler, 341 Forts at Kingsbridge, 176


Franz Sigel Park, 691 Fraternal Orders and Societies, 741, et seq. Free Home for Young Girls, 648 Furniture and Cabinet Work, 731


"Gazette," The, 407-410 General Assembly convened, 372 Geology of New York, 14 Geology of The Bronx, 1 Glacial Period, 10 "Glover's Rock," 12; tablet, 700 Government, Indian Form of, 41 Grace Church, West Farms, 152 Gradual emigration of the Indians to other points, 55 Grand Army Posts, The, 419 "Great Patents," 135 Greater New York Charter, 23 Growth of The Bronx, 821


Haffen, Louis F., 351, 382, 384-86, 687, 688, title page


"Half-Moon," The, 60-63 Hardships in New Colony, 82 Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad, 768 Hebrew United Charities, 638


Hessians, The, 192


High Schools and Pupils, 544 History in Bronx Territory, Civil, 365 History of Assemblies and Conventions, 372 Holidays for the Dutch and the English, 165 Home Life of the Indian, 35 Homes in the Early Period, 242 Homesteads, Old, 833


Hospitals: Fordham; 557, 559; Lincoln Hospital and Home, 557; Lebanon, 557, 559; Riverside, 558; St. Francis, 558-59, 592-98; St. Joseph's, 558-59; Seton, 558; The Home for Incurables, 558; Union, 559; Montefiore, 583-92.


Household interiors, 829 Houses of the Manor-Lords and Tenants, 153 Howe's Defense, 200 "Hudson River" Railroad, The, 765 Hudson, Statue of Henry, 320 Hudson's Exploitation, Henry, 60-63


Huguenot Thrift, 255 Hutchinson, Anne, 47, 53, 98, 114, 700


Importing of Cattle, 76 Incidents in Revolutionary War, 206, 278 Indian and other currencies, 275 Indian Characteristics, 36-38 "Indian Field" attacked 211


Indian History: General Review, 25-126; local tribes, 27, 44; population and food supply, 30; manufacture of implements, 33-35; home life, 35; their dress, 39; form of government, 42; religion, 43; languages, 48; early Indian names, 50; invasion by the whites, 51; first meeting with the white man, 58; the Wal- loons, 72; settling Forts Amsterdam and Orange, 74; purchase of Manhattan Island, 78; enmity of Indians, 112; war in Bronx territory, 114; peace with the Indians, 120. Indian Implements and Ornaments, 33 Indian property ownership, 796


Indian's first meeting with the White Man, 58- 59 Industrial and commercial development, 714 Industries, 713, et sca. Inhabitants, Early, Chapter, 19-56 Intercourse and Conflict with the Indians, 105 ct seq. Interior of early households, 829


Jay, John, First Chief Justice of the United States, 486 Jay, Judge William, 480 Jenkins, Stephen, historian, 695 Jewish Congregations, 685 Jewish Ladies' Day Nursery, 637 Jorisz, Adriaen, 74, 79


Joseph Rodman Drake Park, 703 Judges and Personnel, 480 Judges appointed, Early, 378 Judges, Early. 476-479


840


THE BRONX AND ITS PEOPLE


Judicial Districts of The Bronx, 475 Jumel Estate, 279 Justices of Sessions, 489


Kieft, William, Director-General, 105; his suc- cessor appointed, 121


Kingsbridge forts, 176


King's Bridge. Old, 315 Kingsbridge, Township of, 313, 321


Kingsland Orphan Children's Home, 637


Knights of Pythias, 751


Knight's, Sarah, trip from New York to Bos- ton in 1704, 314


Labor and Slaves. 265 Labor, Enforced, 156


Land prices, 792 Land Transportation, 259-264, 292


Languages of the Indians, 48


Lawyers, Noted Early, 484


Lebanon Hospital, 557, 559


Lee, Major General Charles, 175, 186


Leggett, Gabriel, pioneer settler, 9


Legislature. First Colonial, 77


Libraries, 552


Lincoln attacked by the Press, 406 Lincoln Hospital and Home, 557


Lincoln's election, 364


List of drafted men who sent substitutes, 417


Locomotive, First Steam, 762


Lorillard Mansion, 696


Lutheran Churches, 682


Maccabees, The, 751


Macomb's Dam Park, 703


Magistrate's Courts, 503 "Maine," Sinking of the, 424 Mainland advantages, 714


Manhattan Island purchased, 78


Manila, Battle of, 424


Manners in Revolutionary Period, 252 Manors: Use of, 127; Feudalism and the, 129, in England, 130; in America, 132; and Pat- ents, 134; in Westchester County, 135: Brouncksland, 136; Morrisania; 138; Ford- ham, 144; Pelham, 146; Philipseburgh, 149; education on the, 158


Manors and Patents, Chapter, 127-166


Manufacturing formerly of slow growth, 715 Manufacturing in Greater New York, 717 Markets, 823


Masonic Lodges in The Bronx, 749


Masonic Society, The first, 743


"Mauritius,"The, 66, 123


May, Captain Cornelius Jacobsen, explorer, 73- 75


Medical Profession, The, 555-99


Medicine in the Nineteenth Century, 571 Mercantile Interests, 809-24


Merchandise, Modern, 824 Merchants' business in The Bronx, 822 Metal Products, 729


Methodist Episcopal Churches, 682


Michaelius. Rev. Jonas, first clergyman to settle in Manhattan, 81 Military Units Organized in Civil War, 393 Minuit, Peter, 76, 77, 78, 81, 88, 91, 811


Missions, Church, 685


Modern building construction, 801, 821


Modern Merchandise, 824


Montefiore Hospital, 583


Moravian Churches, 683


Morris Family, The, 140


Morris, Gouverneur, 142, 353


Morris, Lewis, pioneer settler and signer of the Declaration of Independence, 20, 98, 140, 141, 330 Morrisania, 329, 332


Morrisania Manor Grant, 138


Mosholu Parkway, 689


Mott Haven Canal, 330


Mullally, John, active in park development, 687


Municipal Courts and Judges, 504-05


Musical Instruments, 725


Names, Origin of Indian, 49


National Administration in The Bronx, 383


Navigation, Steam, 780


"New Netherland Company," 68


New Netherland granted Seal, 75


"New Netherland," The, 73


New Netherland, Trade in, 67


New Netherland Unprofitable, 119


Newspaper article on Bronx campaign in Rev- olutionary War, 205 Newspaper, The first, 733


Newspapers, Early, 733


New York an independent State, 370


New York and New Haven Railroad, 768


New York Port Authority, 789


New York State organized, 223


New York University, 550-52


North Side Board of Trade, The, 809


"North Side News." The, 736, 737


Nurse Service, Visiting, 634


Nurseries, Day, 629


Nursery, Bronx Day, 639


Nurses and Pharmacopoeias, 564


Occupations in The Bronx, 162


Odd Fellows, Independent Order of, 751


Offenses and Punishments, 278 Official Record and Personnel, Chapter, 351 Officials, Early Bronx, 352


Officials of City and Borough at present time, 383


Old Homes and Families, 825 et seq. Old Homesteads, 833


Old Time Electioneering, 358


Old Time Taverns, 280


Organization of New York State, 223


Organizations. Early social, 742 Organizing Military Units, 393


Ownership of Indian property, 796


Parks, Parkways and Bridges, 685, et seq. Parkway, Bronx River, 791-94 Party disputes during Civil War, 394 "Patroonships" established, 84-85 Peace Overtures, 219


Peace Treaty, Signers of the, 120


Peace Treaty in Spanish-American War, 426 Pelham, 346 Pelham Bay Park, 698


841


HISTORICAL INDEX


Pelham Manor, 146 Pell family burial place, 701 Pell manor-house, The, 834 Pell, Judge John, 475 Pell, Thomas, first manor-lord, 701 Personnel of Political Parties, 355


Philanthropies, Private, 632 Philipse, Colonel Frederick, pioneer settler, 20 Philipseburgh Manor, 149


Physicians, Early, 569


Piano Manufacturing, 726


Plans for greater New York Harbor channels, 802


Plot to blow up Croton Dam, 410 Poe Cottage, The, 703, 834 Poe Park, 703


Poem on the Bronx River, by Joseph Rodman Drake, 124


Political Status of the Territory, 227-308


Population of The Bronx, 713


Port developments on Real Estate, 802


Port of New York Authority, 789 Porter Statue, General Josiah, 694


Post-Revolutionary Days, 238


Post-Revolutionary Education in The Bronx Territory, 518


Post Roads, Boston and Albany, 314


Posts attacked in Revolutionary War, Various, 214-219 Posts, Grand Army, 419 Preparations for War with the Indians, 1642, 110


Presbyterian Churches, 683


Presbyterian Church in City, Oldest, 153 Present-day County Administration, 382 Press attacks Lincoln, The, 406


Press, The, 732, et seq.


Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Society for the, 658 Primordial Bronx, 1 Private Philanthropies, 632 Privateering carried on, 814 Property of Dutch Settlers, 797


Prospect and Retrospect, 804 Protectory, New York Catholic, 641


Protestant Episcopal Churches, 683 Provincial Congress formed, 171 Public Schools, 537-44 Public Welfare, Department of, 631 "Pudding Rock," 10 Punishments for Offenses, 278


Pupils in High Schools, 544 Purchase of Manhattan Island, 78


Purchase of Manhattan from the Indians, 811 Puritanism, revived, 274


Putnam Division, New York Central and Hud- son River Railroad, 769


Queen's Rangers, The, 172, 208


Racing Parks, Early, 704 Railroad, Coming of the, 762 Railroad facilities, 714 Railroads, 294-301 Railroads electrified, 768 Railroads, The Bronx, 762, et seq. Railways, Underground, 774


Randall's Island, 329 Raritan Indians incite trouble, 108 Real Estate along the waterfront, 802 Real Estate and Building, 795-809 Recreations and Festivals, 164


Recruits urged, 173


Red Men, Improved Order of, 751 Reformed Church in America, 683 Reformed Church in the United States, 684


Relief Agencies, Special, 629 Religion of the Indians, 43


Religious Aspect, The: pioneer churches, 663; churches in 1926, 663; early religious, min- isters and churches, 664-668; during the Revolution, 668; rectors of St. Peter's, 669; St. Ann's Church, 671; Society of Friends, 673; Reformed Dutch Church, 674; the Estab- lished Church, 676; Catholicity, 677; early Methodists, 680, Baptists, 681; Churches of Christ, 681; list of present-day churches, 681, et seq .; Missions, 685


Representatives in Congress, 377


Residence building in The Bronx, 803


Residents in the '60's, 825


Restoration of River Valley, 792


Retrospect and Prospect, 804


Return of the Volunteers in Civil War, 415 Revision of the Constitution, 359


Revolutionary Incidents, 206, 278 Revolution, Building progress after the, 798 Revolutionary Companies from Bronx Ter- ritory, 172


Revolutionary War: apathy towards, 168; Bronx companies formed, 172; forts at Kings- bridge, 176; hostilities, 179; Battle of Long Island, 179; Washington's headquarters, 182; contrast of two armies at beginning of war, 183; British at Throgg's Neck, 184; Battle of Pell's Point, 187; of White Plains, 190; Lower Westchester County in, 196; Howe's defense, 200; André and Arnold, 202-206; Young's House, 204; Surrender of Corn- wallis, 219; New York evacuated, 220; Ar- ticles of Confederation, 224; Declaration of Independence, 225; Manners and customs during, 252


Riots in Civil War Draft, 400 Riverdale, 317 Riverside Hospital, 558


River Valley restored, 792


Roads through The Bronx region, 285-292


Robinson Rev. John, 70


"Rocking Stone." The famous, 11


Rocks, Crystalline, 15-18


Roosevelt's Rough Riders, 433 Rough Riders, Roosevelt's, 433


Royal Arcanum, Order of, 751


"Rustic" Bronx, 310


Sacred Heart Academy, The, 537


St. Francis Hospital, 558-59, 592-98


St. John's College, 536


St. Joseph's Hospital, 559 St. Joseph's Institute for the Care and In- struction of the Deaf and Dumb, 536


St. Mary's Park, 703 Salvation Army, The, 633, 655


842


THE BRONX AND ITS PEOPLE


San Juan Hill, Capture of, 425


Savages still aggressive, 117


Schaghen, Peter Jans, quoted, 80


Scharf, John T., historian, quoted, 198


Schoolmasters, Early, 160, 517


Schools above and below the Harlem, 524


Schools for the Dutch, 158


Schools: See Chapter on Education


Seal granted New Netherland, 75


Secession and Abolitionism, 388


Second Regiment, New York Volunteers, Spanish-American War, 427


Seventh-Day Adventists, 685


Seventy-first


Regiment,


Spanish-American


War, 431


Shipbuilding industry, 720, 758


Shipping facilities, 777


Signers of the Peace Treaty, 121


Sixty-Ninth Regiment, Spanish-American War, 430 "Skinners" and "Cowboys", 200, 316


Skirmishes in Bronx Village, 213


Slavery in New Amsterdam, 156


Slaves and Labor, 265


Social Life, Early, 247


Societies and Clubs, Older local, 752


Societies giving succor during Civil War, 411 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals, 658


Spanish-American War: Cause and general review, 423; call for volunteers, 425; five regiments called, 426-434; the "Maine," 424; capture of San Juan Hill, 425; peace treaty, 426


"Split Rock," 11 State Administration in The Bronx, 383


State and Church, 270


State Constitution of 1777, The, 375


State Government changes, 370 et seq.


Steam Navigation, 780


Street Car Lines, 771


Street Cars, Companies in the 1850's, 301-303


Stuyvesant, Peter, 121, 123, 229


Substitutes in Civil War, 417


Supreme Court Justices, 491 and 494


Surrender of Cornwallis, 219


Surrogate's Court and list of Surrogates, 488- 89


Tablets, Bronze: commemoration Battle of White Plains, 191; for Chief Ninhan, 695 Taverns, Old Time, 280


Taxpayers' Alliance, The, 809


Terms of the Settlement of New York by early colonists, 132


Territories of Various Tribes, 44


TextileManufacturing, Clothes and, 721


The Bronx: Geology and topography, 1-18; early history, 19; borough and county created, 23; Indian settlements, 25; European settle- ment, 57; early settlers, 96; war in Bronx territory, 114; peace, 116; Manors and pat- ents, 127; early education, 160; early occupa- tions, 162; in Revolutionary War, 167; its political status, 227; former villages, 309: official record and personnel, 351; in Civil


War, 387; in Spanish-American War, 423; in World War, 435; its courts and lawyers, 475; education, 513; Medical profession, 555; banks, 601; welfare organizations, 627; re- ligious activities, 663; parks, 687; industries, 713; newspapers, 733; fraternal orders and societies, 741; transportation and shipping, 757; real estate, 795; Mercantile interests,' 809; old homes and families, 825. "The Bronx Home News," 736


The Bronx in Revolutionary War, 167


"The Purchase of Keskeskeck,"painting visual- izing life of The Bronx, 123


Third Regiment Infantry, Spanish-American War, 428


Thoroughfares, Old Bronx, 759


Throckmorton (Throgmorton), John, patroon, 98, 365


Throgg's Neck, 340


Tibbett (or Tippett), George, pioneer settler, 9


Title to New Netherland, 91


Tompkins, Judge Caleb, 478


Tompkins, Judge Jonathan G., 478


Topography of The Bronx, 4


Totem, The, 43


Towns and Villages, 312


Township Boundaries, 21


Trade in New Netherland, 67


Trading, Early, 814, et seq.


Trading in the Seventeenth Century, 812


Traffic, Canal, 786


Transportation and Shipping, 757 et seq.


Travel, Early, 259-264, 292


Treaty of Peace with England, 224


Treaty of Peace between the Dutch and the Indians, 54


Tribes and Their Territories, 44


Trouble with Raritan Indians, 108


Trouble with the Indians, 94


Under English Rule, 797


Underground Railways, 774


United Odd Fellows' Home and Orphanage Association, 652 United Presbyterian Church, 683 United States offers aid to Cuba, 423


Van Cortlandt, Frederick, 693 Van Cortlandt, Jacobus, 692


Van Cortlandt Mansion, 322, 692


Van Cortlandt Park, 692


Van Der Donck, Jonkheer Adrien, 100, 122 Van Nest, 335


Van Twiller, Walter, 88, et esq.


Various duties of the early schoolmasters, 161


Verrazano, Giovanni da, 57-59; quoted, 58


Veterans Bureau of The Bronx, United States, 578-81


Villages, Early Bronx, 309-349


Visiting Nurse Service, 634 Vocational Training, 547


Volunteers and Copperheads in Draft Riots, 421 Volunteers for Spanish-American War, 425 Volunteers, Local, 391


Volunteers return from Civil War, 415


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Walloons, The, 72 War in Bronx Territory, 114 Washington's arrival, General, 173 Washington's Headquarters, 182 Waterfront development, 802


Water travel, 283 Watts, Judge John, 478 Weapons of Warfare, 41


Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, (Webb Academy), 536, 650, 827 Webb, William H., builder of ships, 721


"Weckquaesgacks," The, 46, 47, 53, 110 Wells, James L., 351, 687, title page Westchester, 334


Westchester a county, 367 Westchester and Connecticut Boundary, 229, et seq.


Westchester County formed, 233


Westchester County Manors, 135


Westchester County, Pillaging Lower, 196


"Westchester Globe," The, 736


Westchester, Revolutionary incidents in Low- er, 279 West Farms, 324 West Farms Patent, 151


West India Company, 68, 72, 75, 77, 89, 121 White Child, The first, 73


White Plains Courthouse, Declaration of In- dependence received at, 479 Williamsbridge, 325


Woman's Club, Bronx, 746 Wood, James, quoted, 25, 26, 37 Woodmen of the World, 752


World War, The: Preparations for, 435; the 27th and 77th Divisions, 435, et seq; mobili- zation, 437; the 27th in camp, 438; National Guard of New York, 440; starting overseas, 444; at the front, 445; relieving the British, 449; the Hindenburg Line, 453; the armistice, 460; homeward bound, 461; war decorations, 461; the Argonne, 463; welcome from the Germans, Chateau Thierry, 466; distinguished service crosses awarded to men of 77th Divi- sion from The Bronx, 469; Bronx welcomes its soldiers, 469-472; 258th Field Artillery, 472


Young's House in Revolutionary War, 205 Zoological Park, The, 697


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