The Hudson (1894) (14779020161)

Identifier: hudson02bruc (find matches)
Title: The Hudson
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Bruce, Wallace, 1844-1914. (from old catalog) Fredericks, Alfred, (from old catalog) illus
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Publisher: Edinburgh (etc.) Blackwood & sons New York, Bryant union
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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ge, and amonument has been erected to his memory. Near at hand is theWayside Inn, where Andre once tarried, and the marks ofhis military boots, still shown, are probably about as genuineas the stain of Rizzios blood in Old Holyrood, Edinburgh. Gal-lows Hill and its immediate neighborhood are full cf historicassociations. Near Peekskill is the old Van Cortlandt house, the residenceof Washington for a short time during the Revolution. East ofthe village was the summer home of the great pulpit orator,Henry Ward Beecher, and Peekskill is also known far and wideas the birthplace and many-storied shrine of that sunny-prismedgenius, orator and wit, Chauncey M. Depew, President of theNew York Central Railroad. Suburban trains give hourly commu-nication with New York, and the well known Steamer Chryste-nah makes daily pilgrimages to the metropolis. Peekskill wasknown by the Indians as Sackhoes, in the territory of the Kitch-awongs which extended from Croton River to Anthonys Nose. o> ro>
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THE HUDSON. 105 Turning Caldwells Landing1 or Jones Point, formerly knownas Kidds Point, almost at right angles, the steamer enters thesouthern gate of the Highlands. At the water edge will beseen some upright planks or caissons marking the spot whereKidds ship was supposed to have been scuttled. As his historyseems to be intimately associated with the Hudson, we will giveit in brief: Tile Story of Captain Kidd.— My name was Captain Kiddas I sailed, are famous lines of an old ballad which was oncefamiliar to our grandfathers. The hapless hero of the samewas born about the middle of the seventeenth century, and it isthought, near Greenock, Scotland. He resided at one time inNew York, near the corner of William and Cedar Streets, andwas there married. In April, 1696, he sailed from England incommand of the Adventure Galley, with full armament andeighty men. He captured a French ship, and, on arrival atNew York, put up articles for volunteers; remained in NewYork three or four months,