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

village and the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Westchester county, New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, U.S.A., about 12 M . N. of New York See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City on the See also:

• BRONX, THE

Bronx See also:

• RIVER

river, about midway between the See also:

• HUDSON
• HUDSON, GEORGE (180o-1871)
• HUDSON, HENRY
• HUDSON, JOHN (1662–1719)

Hudson river and See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

Long See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

Sound . Pop . (189o) 4508; (1900) 7899, of whom 1679 were See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and 26g were negroes; (1910 See also:

• CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

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

Yonkers, See also:

• MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount See also:

• VERNON
• VERNON, EDWARD (1684-1757)

Vernon, New Rochelle, See also:

• TARRYTOWN

Tarrytown and See also:

• MAMARONECK

Mamaroneck . 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 is a beautiful residential suburb stretching over a considerable See also:

• AREA

area of See also:

• ROLLING

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
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers . Near the village are See also:

• SILVER

Silver, Kensico and See also:

• RYE

Rye lakes . Among the public buildings and the institutions here are a See also:

• FINE

fine Public Library See also:

• BUILDING

building, a See also:

• TOWN

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
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house and county jail, several private See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools, the White Plains See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

Hospital, St See also:

• AGNES, SAINT

Agnes Hospital, the Presbyterian Convalescents' Sanitarium, the New York Orthopaedic Hospital, Muldoon's Hygienic See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute and Bloomingdale Hospital for the Insane (1821) . In White Plains are the grounds of the See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

Century See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

Country See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club, the Knollwood See also:

• GOLF (in its older forms GOFF, GOUFF or GOWFF, the last of which gives the genuine old pronunciation)

Golf and Country Club and the Westchester County See also:

• FAIR

Fair Association . There are some prosperous farms and See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market gardens . When the Dutch first settled Manhattan, the central portion of what is now Westchester county was the granary for See also:

• PART

part of the Mahican tribe; it was calied Quarropas by the See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians . To the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early traders here the region was known as " the White Plains " from the groves of white See also:

• BALSAM (from Gr. f &X raµov, through Lat. balsamum, contracted by popular use to O. Fr. basme, mod. Fr. bdme; Eng. balm)

balsam which covered it .

The first organized See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement (See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1683) was by a party of See also:

• CONNECTICUT

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

body and took up lands the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title to which they bought from the Indians . The heirs of See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Richbell claimed that White Plains was comprised in a See also:

• TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract extending N. from the Mamaroneck river granted to him by the Dutch and See also:

• CON

con-firmed by the See also:

• ENGLISH

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
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph Budd and sixteen other settlers of a royal patent under which the freeholders See also:

• CHOSE (Fr. for " thing ")

chose their See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• OFFICERS

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 (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress, having adjourned from New York City, met here in the old court house on See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South Broadway—the site is now occupied by an armoury and is marked by a See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument (1910) . From the steps of this building the See also:

• DECLARATION (from Lat. declarare, to make fully clear, clams)

Declaration of See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

Independence, brought from See also:

• PHILADELPHIA

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

July 1776 . Here Congress adopted formally the name " See also:

• CONVENTION (Lat. conventio, an assembly or agreement, from convenire, to come together)
• CONVENTION, THE NATIONAL

Convention of Representatives of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

State of New York," and from this See also:

• DATES

dates the existence of New York as a state . After the See also:

• BRITISH

British under See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• HOWE
• HOWE, EIJAS (1819 — 1867)
• HOWE, JOHN (1630-17o6)
• HOWE, JOSEPH (1804–1873)
• HOWE, JULIA WARD (1819–1910)
• HOWE, RICHARD HOWE, EARL (1726-1799)
• HOWE, SAMUEL GRIDLEY (1801-1876)
• HOWE, WILLIAM HOWE, 5TH VISCOUNT (1729-1814)

Howe had effected a landing at Throg's See also:

• NECK (O. Eng. hnecca; the word appears in many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch ride, Ger. Nacken; in O. E. the common word was heals; cf. Ger. Hals)

Neck on Long Island Sound, See also:

• WASHINGTON
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

Washington withdrew (See also:

• OCTOBER

October) all his forces from the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North end of Manhattan Island except the See also:

• GARRISON
• GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD (1805-1879)

garrison of Fort Washington, and (21st October) concentrated his See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army near White Plains . His right rested on the Bronx river here, and there was a small force in See also:

• RUDE, FRANCOIS (1784–1855)

rude earthworks on See also:

• CHATTERTON, THOMAS (1752-1770)

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

bank . This point Howe attacked (October 28th), his troops advancing in two columns 4000 strong, the British under See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander See also:

• LESLIE
• LESLIE, CHARLES (1650-1722)
• LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT (1794–1859)
• LESLIE, FRED [FREDERICK HOBSON] (1855–1892)
• LESLIE, SIR JOHN (1766-1832)
• LESLIE, THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE (1827-1882)

Leslie, the Hessians under See also:

• COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

Colonel Johann Gottlieb Rall . General Alexander McDougall, in command of the See also:

• AMERICAN

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, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

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 (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

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
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

Castle township, _where they occupied a stronger position . The old See also:

• MILLER, HUGH (1802–1856)
• MILLER, JOAQUIN (CINCINNATUS HEINE) (1841- )
• MILLER, JOE (JosEPH or JosIAS( (1684-1738)
• MILLER, SAMUEL FREEMAN (1816-1890)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1782-1849)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1795-1861)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1796–1882)
• MILLER, WILLIAM HALLOWES (18o1–188o)

Miller House, which still stands in North White Plains, was occupied at intervals by Washington as his headquarters before the See also:

• BATTLE

battle and again in the summer of 1778 . In 1779 a See also:

• CONTINENTAL

Continental force under See also:

• AARON

Aaron See also:

• BURR, AARON (1756-1836)

Burr was stationed here for some months, and in 1781 (July) White Plains was occupied by parts of See also:

• LAUZUN, ANTONIN NOMPAR DE CAUMONT, MARQUIS DE PUYGUILHEM

Lauzun's and See also:

• ROCHAMBEAU, JEAN BAPTISTE DONATIEN DE VIMEUR, COMTE DE (1725-1807)

Rochambeau's See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French force . In, 1866 White Plains received a village See also:

• CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter, which it still retains in spite of its large See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population . See F . Shonnard and W . W . Spooner, See also:

• HISTORY

History of Westchester County (N.Y., 1900), and J . T . See also:

• SCHARF, SIR GEORGE (182o—1895)

Scharf, History of Westchester County (2 vols., ibid., 1886) .