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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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oyal to the Dutch,were hoping and scheming for an English invasion. Theywere, in 1667, after the English conquest, rewarded for theirefforts and erected into a separate borough. This boroughcomprised all the territory south of the present Eastchesterboundary, wrest of Hutchinsons River, Eastchester, and PelhamBay, and east of the Bronx with a front to the Sound and EastRiver. The tedious litigations about proprietary rights in thatsection between the Pells, Cornells, and the Borough, are too de-tailed to set forth in an article so restricted as this; but suffice itto say that the Borough and Cornells were firmly seated in theirholdings, and that East of Hutchinsons River and the bay calledEastchester or Pelham, one Thomas Pell, of Fairfield, Connecti-cut, had prior to 1666 purchased from the Indians all the landsnow in Pelham Bay Park and as far east as New Rochelle ; andin 1666 the English governor Nicolls erected it into a proprie-tary holding, with Thomas Pell as Lord of the Manor.
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5 6 The Great North Side. COLONIAL TIMES. The colonial history of our region abounds with tales ofIndian warfare; tin1 famous John Underhill oi Pequod fanir came over from New England to help the Dutch. The cropswere tobacco, wheat, and indian corn. Controversies arose a^ tolands and jurisdictions, the establishment of ferries over theHarlem and Spuvten Duyvil so as to meet the two main thor-oughfares of the Province, leading respectively to Albany andConnecticut, the portion now Westchester being for a shorttime under the jurisdiction of Long Island while the most west-erly and southerly had in it the three manors of Phillipsbnrgh(the most northerly part), Fordham, and Morrisania witli theirCourts leet and appellate tribunals at Harlem or before theMayor of New York. In 1691, Westchester < ounty w as erected, which brought allour region under the one jurisdiction but wit 11 separate repre-sentatives for the Borough. Cooper, in his Ohainbearer andOak Openings portrays perhaps the m

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