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Title: History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City /
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898,
Subjects: Manors
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.E. Preston & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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removing, almost every month orsix weeks. After this date we hear little more of 008 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. Indians at Rye, except as slaves. Tradition statesthai in old times a band of Indians used to visit Ryeonce a year, resorting to the beach, where they bad afrolic which lasted several days. Another place whichthey frequented as late, certainly, as the middle ofthe last century, was a spot on Grace Church Street,at the corner of the road now called Kirby Avenue.Here a troop of Indians would come every year andspend the night in a pow-wow, during which theircries and yells would keep the whole neighborhoodawake. Many interesting relics of the Indians have beenfound along the shores of the Sound in the neighbor-hood of Rye. Heaps of clam-shells mark the sites oftheir villages. These occur in great abundance onManussing Island, on Parsonage Point, in the vicinityoft lie beach, and near Blind Brook and the creek intowhich it empties. Indian graves have also frequently (Tift;
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BTRAKG s TAVERN, RYE. been discovered. The former existence of Indianhabitations on the great neck of Poningo, says Mr.Bolton, is amply proved by the number of huntingand warlike weapons found in that neighborhood.The site of the principal Mohegan village was on ornear Parsonage Point. In the same vicinity is situated Burying Hill, their place of sepulture. The re-mains of six Indians were discovered on excavatingthe present foundations for Newberry Halsteds resi-dence. Manussing Island was undoubtedly the siteof an Indian village. Another site was in a field onPcningo Neck, about seventy-five roils south of theroad to Rye Beach. Swamp Mortar Rock, nearby, is pointed out as the place where the Indianwomen used to pound their corn in a circular basincut in the rock, about two feet and a half in diameterand about as deep. Another Indian mortar is to beseen on the shore of a cove called Wares Cove. TAVERN8 AND Pi 111.If Roads.—The public- house or tavern at Rye was an important institu
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