HISTORY - TIMELINE
1609-1779 ~ 1781-1806 ~ 1808-1827 ~ 1828-1840 ~ 1841-1850 ~ 1851-1865 ~ 1865-1866
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Amawalk Indian Village of Appamaghpogh known to exist by this year.
Dutch trade with local Indians believed to exist.
Naniechiestawack Indian village residents near Woods Bridge massacred by Dutch and English mercenaries.
Stephanus Van Cortlandt licensed to purchase land from Indians.
Stephanus Van Cortlandt becomes Mayor of New York City.
Westchester County established
Lordship and Manor of Cortlandt established; Stephanus Van Cortlandt takes title to some 83,000 acres which includes present-day Somers.
Stephanus Van Cortlandt dies
91 people in Cortlandt Manor.
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 aras sometimes known as Hanover. Stephen Van Cortlandt is alloted over 5,000 acres.
Samuel Brown buys 1,000 acres from Van Cortlandt heirs.
Daniel Wright is a Van Cortlandt tenant in Somers.
Pierre Van Cortlandt represents Manor on Board of County Supervisors.
Hachaliah Brown of Rye purchases several acres of land from Van Cortlandt heirs; conveys 370 acres to his son Hachaliah of Somers.
Tomahawk Street appears on land records in Westchester County Clerk's
office.
Hachliah Brown of Somers acquires an additional 240 acres.
Daniel Wright purchases land on Primrose Street, his brother Jacob does the same on Moseman Avenue.
John Hempstead, Thomas Combs and William Teed also purchase land.
Anglican church erected in North Salem - attended by Somers area residents.
A few tenants of John Van Cortlandt join Dutchess County Manor riots.
[Stamp Act repealed].
Pierre Van Cortlandt elected to Colonial General Assembly.
Hachaliah Brown, John Green, Andrew Brown, William Teed, Daniel Wright, John Hallock and Joseph Osborn among voters.
Hachaliah Brown acquires 40 more acres. [Boston Massacre]
He acquires another 50 acres.
He acquires another 102 acres.
Cortlandt Manor appraised at $48,000. [British pass Tea Act; Boston Tea Party]
Quaker Meeting House established on Yorktown side of Quaker Church Road.
[First Continental Congress meets April 19]
Hachliah Brown acquires an additional 230 acres. [Paul Revere's ride]
County Convention in White Plains. [Battles of Lexington & Concord]
Philip Van Cortlandt named to Provincial Convention.
Pyne Brothers build first Pines Bridge. [Battle of Bunker Hill]
[Washington named Commander-in-Chief of Continental forces]
Anglican minister taken prisoner by patriots.
People flee fighting in White Plains; find refuge in what is now Somers area.
[Declaration of Independence adopted by Congress July 4; British capture New York City after battling Washington's army from Brooklyn to White Plains; Nathan Hale executed as a spy Sept. 22; Washington crosses the Delaware]
British Army crosses Deans Bridge when Danbury is burned.
New York State Constitution adopted.
[John Paul Jones named Naval forces commander; British defeated at Saratoga; Troops winter at Valley Forge; Congress adopts Articles of Confederation]
Washington surveys show rebel armies' crossing at Deans Bridge.
Inhabitants of Cortlandt Manor taxes by Provincial Government.
Somers and Yorktown designated as the "Middle District."
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