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CONTENTS:
ОглавлениеCHAPTER I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY.. 3
CHAPTER II. THE ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS. 13
CHAPTER III. DISCOVERY AND PRELIMINARY VIEW... 46
CHAPTER IV. EARLIEST SETTLERS. 63
CHAPTER V. THE REDOUBTABLE CAPTAIN JOHN UNDERHILL — DR. ADRIAN VAN DER DONCK 82
CHAPTER VI. BEGINNINGS OF SERIOUS SETTLEMENT –– WESTCHESTER TOWN, RYE 98
CHAPTER VIII. THE PHILIPSES AND THE VAN CORTLANDTS. 133
CHAPTER XI. A GLANCE AT THE BOROUGH TOWN OF WESTCHESTER 192
CHAPTER XII. THE ELECTION ON THE GREEN AT EASTCHESTER, 1733 199
CHAPTER XIII. THE ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES AND THEIR INFLUENCES 217
CHAPTER XIV. FROM THE STAMP ACT TO THE LAST SESSION OF THE COLONIAL ASSEMBLY 234
CHAPTER XV. WESTCHESTER COUNTY IN LINE FOR INDEPENDENCE – EVENTS TO JULY 9, 1776 250
CHAPTER XVI. THE STATE OF NEW YORK BORN AT WHITE PLAINS — EVENTS TO OCTOBER 12, 1776 283
CHAPTER XVII. THE CAMPAIGN AND BATTLE OF WHITE PLAINS 301
CHAPTER XVIII. FORT WASHINGTON'S FALL — THE DELINQUENCY OF GENERAL LEE 335
CHAPTER XIX. THE STRATEGIC SITUATION — THE NEUTRAL GROUND 348
CHAPTER XX. EVENTS OF 1777 AND 1778. 361
CHAPTER XXI. FROM JANUARY, 1779, TO SEPTEMBER, 1780. 377
CHAPTER XXII. THE CAPTURE OF ANDRE.. 393
CHAPTER XXIII. THE WESTCHESTER OPERATIONS OF THE ALLIED ARMIES, 1781 – END OF THE WAR 421
