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See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
WHITE PLAINS , a See also:village and the See also:county-seat of Westchester county, New See also:York, U.S.A., about 12 M. N. of New York See also:City on the See also:Bronx See also:river, about midway between the See also:Hudson river and See also:Long See also:Island See also:Sound. Pop. (189o) 4508; (1900) 7899, of whom 1679 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 26g were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 26,425. The village is served by the New York Central & Hudson River railway, and is connected by electric lines with New York City, and with See also:Yonkers, See also:Mount See also:Vernon, New Rochelle, See also:Tarrytown and See also:Mamaroneck. White Plains is a beautiful residential suburb stretching over a considerable See also:area of See also:rolling See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree-clad hills and picturesque stretches of meadow lands in the valley of the Bronx and Mamaroneck See also:rivers. Near the village are See also:Silver, Kensico and See also:Rye lakes. Among the public buildings and the institutions here are a See also:fine Public Library See also:building, a See also:town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, an armoury, the Westchester county See also:court See also:house and county jail, several private See also:schools, the White Plains See also:Hospital, St See also:Agnes Hospital, the Presbyterian Convalescents' Sanitarium, the New York Orthopaedic Hospital, Muldoon's Hygienic See also:Institute and Bloomingdale Hospital for the Insane (1821). In White Plains are the grounds of the See also:Century See also:Country See also:Club, the Knollwood See also:Golf and Country Club and the Westchester County See also:Fair Association. There are some prosperous farms and See also:market gardens.
When the Dutch first settled Manhattan, the central portion of what is now Westchester county was the granary for See also:part of the Mahican tribe; it was calied Quarropas by the See also:Indians. To the See also:early traders here the region was known as " the White Plains " from the groves of white See also:balsam which covered it. The first organized See also:settlement (See also:November 1683) was by a party of See also:Connecticut Puritans, who had settled at Rye in what was thendisputed territory between New York and Connecticut; they moved westward in a See also:body and took up lands the See also:title to which they bought from the Indians. The heirs of See also:John Richbell claimed that White Plains was comprised in a See also:tract extending N. from the Mamaroneck river granted to him by the Dutch and See also:con-firmed by the See also:English, and the controversy between these heirs and the settlers from Rye was only settled in 1722 by the See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant to See also:Joseph Budd and sixteen other settlers of a royal patent under which the freeholders See also:chose their See also:local See also:officers and managed their own affairs. In 1759 White Plains succeeded Westchester as the county-seat of Westchester county. In the early summer of 1776 the Third Provincial See also:Congress, having adjourned from New York City, met here in the old court house on See also:South Broadway—the site is now occupied by an armoury and is marked by a See also:monument (1910). From the steps of this building the See also:Declaration of See also:Independence, brought from See also:Philadelphia, was officially read for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in New York on the 11th of See also:July 1776. Here Congress adopted formally the name " See also:Convention of Representatives of the See also:State of New York," and from this See also:dates the existence of New York as a state. After the See also:British under See also:Lord See also:Howe had effected a landing at Throg's See also:Neck on Long Island Sound, See also:Washington withdrew (See also:October) all his forces from the See also:North end of Manhattan Island except the See also:garrison of Fort Washington, and (21st October) concentrated his See also:army near White Plains. His right rested on the Bronx river here, and there was a small force in See also:rude earthworks on See also:Chatterton's See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill on the W. See also:bank. This point Howe attacked (October 28th), his troops advancing in two columns 4000 strong, the British under See also:General See also:Alexander See also:Leslie, the Hessians under See also:Colonel Johann Gottlieb Rall. General Alexander McDougall, in command of the See also:American right wing, reinforced the troops on the hill, making the number of the defenders about 1600. The attack was stubbornly resisted for some time, after which the Americans retreated in See also:good See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order across the river. The British had sustained such a severe loss (about 250) that no See also:attempt was made to follow the Americans, who carried their dead and wounded, some 125 in number, away with them. Washington's forces retired three days later to North See also:Castle township, _where they occupied a stronger position. The old See also:Miller House, which still stands in North White Plains, was occupied at intervals by Washington as his headquarters before the See also:battle and again in the summer of 1778. In 1779 a See also:Continental force under See also:Aaron See also:Burr was stationed here for some months, and in 1781 (July) White Plains was occupied by parts of See also:Lauzun's and See also:Rochambeau's See also:French force. In, 1866 White Plains received a village See also:charter, which it still retains in spite of its large See also:population.
See F. Shonnard and W. W. Spooner, See also:History of Westchester County (N.Y., 1900), and J. T. See also:Scharf, History of Westchester County (2 vols., ibid., 1886).
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