Evening Star (Peekskill, NY)

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Montrose Grammar
Hilan Gedney, principal & 6th grade;"

"Mr. and Mrs. Hilan Gedney entertained the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gedney, Coeymans Hollow, N.Y. last week end."

"The Van Tassel Family
by Maureen McKernan

Van Tassels of Westchester can rightly claim to be "an original American" family, for the founder of the family in this county, Jan Van Texel, was the son of a Montauk [actually probably Matinecock-rvt] Indian Princess.

Cornelis Janezan Van Texel as the name was often spelled until almost Revolutionary War times married Catoneras, daughter of a Montauk [prob. Matinecock-rmv] Sachem, some time after he came to New Amsterdam from his native Schoondenwort in South Holland where he was born about 1600.

Cornelis' son, Jan, was born in New Amsterdam where he married Antje Alberts. In 1684 he went up the Hudson to an Indian village in Ryck's Patent. Two bits of land along the Hudson were there, that the Van Cortlandts were never able to lay their hands upon.

Peekskill now occupies these patents which were purchased direct from the Indians by Dutch settlers. The larger tract, where Jan Van Texel settled, was commonly known as Ryck's Patent, a contraction of "Ryck Richard Abramson's Patent," and it lay between Peekskill Creek to Verplanck's Point. The Lent family, so numerous in Yorktown and elsewhere in the county, descends from Ryck Abramson who changed his name to Lent."