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Title: The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC North Side Board of Trade (Bronx, New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher: New York : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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s and out-posts along the Harlemand Spuyten Duyvil. lie, Emmerich, a soldier of fortune, andSimcoe of the Rangers made1 for themselves a reputation asdaring cavalry officers equal in acts of bravery hai/r-breadth9scapes by flood and field to any of the dashing ventures ofPrince Rupert, Lord Cardigan, Fitzpatrick, Forrest, or Gril-mour. But De Lanceya reward was a sad one ; his estateswere confiscated, and he died an exile in a foreign land, yet atthis late day we can honor an adversary by respecting hisfidelity to principle. The attack on the British lines by way of Van Cortlandtand Williamsbridge, unsuccessful, but yet notable; AaronBurrs destruction of a British block-house at West Farms;Washingtons and De Rochambeaus reconnoissance in forcethrough our region, as far, as near where St. Anns Church nowstands ; the defeat of the Stockbridge Indians in a part of Van-cortlandt Park, near Woodlawn ; a brisk cavalry encounter atthe bridge crossing Tibbetts Brook near the old Mill, also in
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I; The Great North Side. Van Cortlaodt Park, are all events worthy of record and enterinto our Revolutionary history; and tin* last scene is (lie mostpleasing of all, when the Father of our Country, escorted bythe Westchester horse, crossed Kingsbridge to take possessionof New Yrk city when evacuated by the British. No betterworks descriptive of the manners, customs, and condition ofthe country at that period can be consulted than Coopers Spyand Dwights /ranis. FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE HARLEM RAILROAD. Our region was wasted by fire and sword, hut an era ofpeace and plenty again began: nature restored the forestswhich American and British soldiers had cut down; the far-mer laid his flint-locked musket aside or blazed away with itat harmless squirrels and woodchucks, and wealthv men ofNew York recognizing the beauties of the hilly, river and bay-girt region, sought rest from their labors by purchasing someof the worn-out farms, and erecting costly mansions, layingout well kept

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