A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . of the Manor,I do not know, but there was a mill there in 1759,which, with house, farm, and bridge, was to be let,and entered upon immediately, in April of that year,on application to theManor of Phillipsburg,in the county of West-chester, now the cityof Yonkers. Presuma-bly the mill groundwheat and corn for the philupse manor-house farmers of that county and of the upper part of the Island of correspondent writes the name of the famousstream at Kingsbridge Spuyt-den-Duyvil, and it iscurious to n
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . of the Manor,I do not know, but there was a mill there in 1759,which, with house, farm, and bridge, was to be let,and entered upon immediately, in April of that year,on application to theManor of Phillipsburg,in the county of West-chester, now the cityof Yonkers. Presuma-bly the mill groundwheat and corn for the philupse manor-house farmers of that county and of the upper part of the Island of correspondent writes the name of the famousstream at Kingsbridge Spuyt-den-Duyvil, and it iscurious to note the variety of spelling to which thisRubicon of Anthony the trumpeter has been subject-ed. Prior to 1693 there was no bridge across thestream, but in January of that year the ColonialCouncil met to consider the offer of Frederick Phil-lipse the elder to build a bridge at Spikendevilfor the convenience of cattell and waggons, aswell as the general public. This was the only bridgeconnecting the Island of Manhattan with the main-land for sixty years. Madam Knight, in her journal. 274 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK of 1704, recounting her journey from New York toNew Haven in December of that year, says that aboutthree oclock in the afternoon we came to the Half-way House, about ten miles out of town, where webaited and went forward, and about five came to Spit-ing Devil, else Kingsbridge, where they pay three-pence for passing over with a horse, which the manthat keeps the gate set up at the end of the bridgereceives. This Half-way House stood at the bot-tom of the hill on the old Middle Road, about OneHundred and Seventh Street, between the line ofFifth and Sixth avenues. The only road to Bostonthen, and a rough one it was, led across the island toKingsbridge, and here the gates were locked and barredat night, and people stood and knocked until a servantcame from the farm-house fifteen rods distant. Itwas a monopoly, and a grievous one. So oppressivedid it become that in 1759 Benjamin
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