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1609-
1609 Amawalk Indian Village of Appamaghpogh
known to exist by this year.
1624 Dutch trade with local Indians believed to exist.
1644 Naniechiestawack Indian village residents near
Woods Bridge massacred by Dutch & English
mercenaries. ("Blood Flows, War Threatens"
& "Martyred Missionary Eyewitness Account"
by Steve Wick, Newsday; "New Netherlands in
1644" by Rev. Isaac Joques, Newsday, all
retrieved 08/29/2008; The Dutch, The Indians,
and The Fur Trade in the Hudson Valley,
1609-1664 by Howard Vernon, State University
College, New Paltz, retrieved 08/29/2008)
1677 Stephanus Van Cortlandt licensed to purchase
land from Indians.
1679 Stephanus Van Cortlandt becomes Mayor of
New York City.
1683 Westchester County established.
On November 1, 1683, the county of
Westchester was created by an act of the
New York General Assembly.
1697 Lordship and Manor of Cortlandt established;
Stephanus Van Cortlandt takes title to some
83,000 acres which includes present-day
Somers.
1700 Stephanus Van Cortlandt dies.
1712 Ninety-one people in Cortlandt Manor.
1734 Cortlandt Manor is divided into 30 Great Lots.
Lots 5, 6, 7 and a portion of 8 make up the
Somers area. Somers and Yorktown areas
sometimes known as Hanover. Stephen Van
Cortlandt is alloted over 5,000 acres.
(View page 388 from The Greatest Street
in the World by Stephen Jenkins, 1911 in
Google Books).
("There is a 1734 map of Cortlandt Manor,
which incompassed Somers, showing the
names of property owners, with such
landmarks as John Peek's Creek, The Old
Mill Stream, ''The Neck of Land belonging to
Philip Verplanck,'' and the ''Elbow of the River
by the Indians called Kewightequack.'' from
"Atlas Traces History of Local Property" by
Betsy Brown, New York Times, Jan. 20, 1985).
1743 Samuel Brown buys 1,000 acres from Van
Cortlandt heirs.
known to exist by this year.
1624 Dutch trade with local Indians believed to exist.
1644 Naniechiestawack Indian village residents near
Woods Bridge massacred by Dutch & English
mercenaries. ("Blood Flows, War Threatens"
& "Martyred Missionary Eyewitness Account"
by Steve Wick, Newsday; "New Netherlands in
1644" by Rev. Isaac Joques, Newsday, all
retrieved 08/29/2008; The Dutch, The Indians,
and The Fur Trade in the Hudson Valley,
1609-1664 by Howard Vernon, State University
College, New Paltz, retrieved 08/29/2008)
1677 Stephanus Van Cortlandt licensed to purchase
land from Indians.
1679 Stephanus Van Cortlandt becomes Mayor of
New York City.
1683 Westchester County established.
On November 1, 1683, the county of
Westchester was created by an act of the
New York General Assembly.
1697 Lordship and Manor of Cortlandt established;
Stephanus Van Cortlandt takes title to some
83,000 acres which includes present-day
Somers.
1700 Stephanus Van Cortlandt dies.
1712 Ninety-one people in Cortlandt Manor.
1734 Cortlandt Manor is divided into 30 Great Lots.
Lots 5, 6, 7 and a portion of 8 make up the
Somers area. Somers and Yorktown areas
sometimes known as Hanover. Stephen Van
Cortlandt is alloted over 5,000 acres.
(View page 388 from The Greatest Street
in the World by Stephen Jenkins, 1911 in
Google Books).
("There is a 1734 map of Cortlandt Manor,
which incompassed Somers, showing the
names of property owners, with such
landmarks as John Peek's Creek, The Old
Mill Stream, ''The Neck of Land belonging to
Philip Verplanck,'' and the ''Elbow of the River
by the Indians called Kewightequack.'' from
"Atlas Traces History of Local Property" by
Betsy Brown, New York Times, Jan. 20, 1985).
1743 Samuel Brown buys 1,000 acres from Van
Cortlandt heirs.
| Van Cortlandt Manor (From Historic Hudson Valley) |
| Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt |