Historical Sketch of the Van Cortlandt House (Classic Reprint) download PDF, EPUB, Kindle
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Historical Sketch of the Van Cortlandt House (Classic Reprint) by Catharine Van Cortlandt Mathews
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Author: Catharine Van Cortlandt Mathews
Number of Pages: 30 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9781330601976
File size: 36 Mb
File Name: Historical.Sketch.of.the.Van.Cortlandt.House.(Classic.Reprint).pdf
Download Link: Historical Sketch of the Van Cortlandt House (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Van Cortlandt House Built in 1748, stands upon lands secured, in 1646, by the eminent Adriaen Vander Donck, the first lawyer of the Colony of New Netherlands, as a reward for successfully negotiating an Indian treaty of considerable importance. The situation of the lands and the salt meadows which formed a part of them - "a flat with some convenient meadows about it" - pleased his fancy, bringing to him, as it did, memories of his home in Holland, and a purchase from the Indians, ratified by a grant from Director-General William Kieft, made it his. He built his bouwerie or farm-house, at the side of the present lake, then a brook, and farmed at his pleasure that plain which lies between it and what is now Broadway, and which extends from the salt meadows of which he spoke to the southerly end of Vault Hill. When he died in 1654, this tract of land passed into the possession of his widow, the daughter of the Reverend Francis Doughty of Maspeth, Long Island. She afterward married Hugh O'Neale of Patuxet, Maryland, and by a new grant, made to herself and her husband in 1666, Vander Donck stract became "O'Neale's Patent." They in their turn assigned the patent to Mrs. O'Neale's brother, Elias Doughty, considering themselves unable to manage its affairs properly, from the considerable distance of their Maryland home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Historical Sketch of the Van Cortlandt House (Classic Reprint) by Catharine Van Cortlandt Mathews
Author: Catharine Van Cortlandt Mathews
Number of Pages: 30 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9781330601976
File size: 36 Mb
File Name: Historical.Sketch.of.the.Van.Cortlandt.House.(Classic.Reprint).pdf
Download Link: Historical Sketch of the Van Cortlandt House (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Van Cortlandt House Built in 1748, stands upon lands secured, in 1646, by the eminent Adriaen Vander Donck, the first lawyer of the Colony of New Netherlands, as a reward for successfully negotiating an Indian treaty of considerable importance. The situation of the lands and the salt meadows which formed a part of them - "a flat with some convenient meadows about it" - pleased his fancy, bringing to him, as it did, memories of his home in Holland, and a purchase from the Indians, ratified by a grant from Director-General William Kieft, made it his. He built his bouwerie or farm-house, at the side of the present lake, then a brook, and farmed at his pleasure that plain which lies between it and what is now Broadway, and which extends from the salt meadows of which he spoke to the southerly end of Vault Hill. When he died in 1654, this tract of land passed into the possession of his widow, the daughter of the Reverend Francis Doughty of Maspeth, Long Island. She afterward married Hugh O'Neale of Patuxet, Maryland, and by a new grant, made to herself and her husband in 1666, Vander Donck stract became "O'Neale's Patent." They in their turn assigned the patent to Mrs. O'Neale's brother, Elias Doughty, considering themselves unable to manage its affairs properly, from the considerable distance of their Maryland home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Read online Historical Sketch of the Van Cortlandt House (Classic Reprint) Buy Historical Sketch of the Van Cortlandt House (Classic Reprint) Download and read Historical Sketch of the Van Cortlandt House (Classic Reprint) for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Historical Sketch of the Van Cortlandt House (Classic Reprint)