Book/Printed Material The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from the Indians in 1639 to the present day,
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Image 1 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from …- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 7 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2010 witii funding from Tine Library of Congress littp://www.arcliive.org/details/storyofbronxfromOOjenk- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
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Image 8 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … By STEPHEN JENKINS The Greatest Street in the World Broadway The Story of The Bronx- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
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Image 9 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from …- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
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Image 10 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from …- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
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Image 11 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … The Story of The Bronx From the Purchase Made by the Dutch from the Indians in 1639 to the Present Day By Stephen Jenkins I Member of Westchester County Historical Society Author…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 12 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … ■68 Copyright, igi2 BY STEPHEN JENKINS tTbe Rnfcftcrbocfter pteas, Hew iorft- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 13 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … This Book is Dedicated TO THE NORTH SIDE BOARD OF TRADE OF THE BOROUGH OF THE BRONX WHOSE EFFORTS NOT FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OR BENEFIT OF INDIVIDUALS, BUT FOR THE GENERAL WELFARE…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 14 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from …- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
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Image 15 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … TO THE BRONX I sat me down upon a green bank side, Skirting the smooth edge of a gentle river, Whose waters seemed unwillingly to glide. Like parting friends, who linger while…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 16 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from …- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
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Image 17 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … INTRODUCTION THE preparation of this history has taken over a decade, during which time I have jotted down various facts and incidents as I have run across them, either in books, or…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 18 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … viii Introduction in other matters, and I here wish to thank those who have so kindly taken the trouble to answer my inquiries or to give me information. There are to-day in…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 19 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I.— The Political Formation of the Borough, AND ITS Topography i II. Under the Dutch 24 III. Under the Lord Proprietor, 1664-1685 45 IV.^As A Royal Province, 1685-1776 68…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
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Image 20 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … X Contents CHAPTER PAGE XIII. The Parks and Cemeteries 289 XIV. KiNGSBRIDGE .325 XV. FoRDHAM Manor 342 XVI. MORRISANIA 358 XVII.— West Farms 380 XVIII. Westchester 396 XIX. Eastchester AND Pelham 421…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 21 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … ILLUSTRATIONS The Purchase of Keskeskeck, 1639 Frontispiece After the painting in the Morris High School by E. W. Deming. Courtesy of Mr. C. B. J. Snyder. Map Showing the Townships Act of…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 22 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … xii Illustrations At the End of the English Period. [Insert:] Battle- field of Pell s Point, Oct. 1 8, 1776 .82 y Facsimiles of New York Colonial Currency 106 Map Showing British…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 23 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … Illustrations xiii The Present Third Avenue, or Harlem Bridge, Opened August I, 1898 197 Courtesy of the Department of Bridges, New York City. Kingsbridge 197 From an old print in the Collection…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 24 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … xiv Illustrations PAGE The Reformed Dutch Church on the Kingsbridge Road, Fordham 274 The Presbyterian Church, East i8oth Street, West Farms 280 The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Raymond Westchester Van Cortlandt…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 25 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … Illustrations xv PAGE Memorial Tablet on Glover s Rock, Pelham Bay Park 310 The Split Rock Boulder on the Prospect Hill Road, Pelham Bay Park 311 The Tree under which Pell Made…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 26 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … xvi Illustrations PAGE first second-story window on the porch side is the bronze tablet marking the site of Fort Number One 332 Courtesy of William C. Muschenheim, Esq. Statue of Henry Hudson…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 27 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … Illustrations xvii PAGE The Gouverneur Morris Mansion. View from the Bronx Kills Side 364 Buildings on Randall s Island 364 Morrisania, about 1861, i6oth Street at the Junction of Brook and Third…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 28 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … xviii Illustrations PAGE The Black Rock on Cornell s Neck .402 Near the Mouth of Pugsley s Creek 402 •The Wilkins Mansion from Clason s Point 408 Ferris Grange (1687) on Ferris…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 29 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … Illustrations xix PAGE The Vincent-Halsey House, for Several Months the Executive Mansion of President John Adams, East- chester 425 The Marshall House on Rodman s Neck, the type of Mansion Erected in…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 30 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from …- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
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Image 31 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … The Story of the Borough of The Bronx CHAPTER I THE POLITICAL FORMATION OF THE BOROUGH, AND ITS TOPOGRAPHY T ^HE city of New York is divided for administrative purposes into five…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 32 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … 2 The Story of The Bronx of the county. The county also included the islands contigu- ous to its shores. By act of the State Legislature, March 7, 1788, all the counties…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 33 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from …- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
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Image 34 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … Southern Part of the Township of Yonkers, 1867, Made into the Township of Kingsbridgd and Part of the Annexed District, 1875.- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 35 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … Political Formation and Topography 3 township is not clear, unless it was by reason of the influ- ence and prominence of its owner, Lewis Morris, the signer of the Declaration of Independence.…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 36 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … 4 The Story of The Bronx that Morrisania being distant only twenty miles from the State of Connecticut, and eight miles from the City of New York, that it therefore can be…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 37 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … X M V^A»t) 4 -y- ..J ARj^v -I ft M Map of Morrisania and West Farms.- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 38 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from …- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
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Image 39 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … Political Formation and Topography 5 1855. were the same as those of the ancient manor. The northerly line, which was also the southerly line of Fordham Manor, began at the Harlem River…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912
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Image 40 of The story of the Bronx from the purchase made by the Dutch from … 6 The Story of The Bronx with a northerly boundary at the Eastchester line from Black Dog Brook to the Bronx River. This included about one half the Borough. The town was…- Contributor: Jenkins, Stephen
- Date: 1912