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DOBBS FERRY

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 350 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FERRY , a See also:village of Westchester See also:county, New See also:York, on the E. See also:bank of the See also:Hudson See also:river 2 m. N. of See also:Yonkers. Pop. (1890) 2083; (190o) 2888; (1910 U. S. See also:census) 3455• Dobbs Ferry is served by the Hudson River See also:division of the New York Central railway. There are many See also:fine See also:country places, two private schools—the See also:Mackenzie school for boys and the Misses Masters' school for girls—and the See also:children's village (with about See also:thirty cottages) of the New York juvenile See also:asylum. The name of the village was derived from a Swede, See also:Jeremiah Dobbs, whose See also:family probably moved hither from See also:Delaware, and who at the beginning of the last See also:quarter of the 18th See also:century had a skiff ferry, which was kept up by his family for a century afterwards. Because Dobbs Ferry had been a See also:part of Philipse See also:Manor all lands in it were declared forfeit at the See also:time of the See also:War of See also:American See also:Independence (see YONKERS), and new titles were derived from the commissioners of forfeitures. The position of the village opposite the northernmost end of the Palisades gave it importance during the war. The region was repeatedly raided by See also:camp followers of each See also:army; earthworks and a fort, commanding the Hudson ferry and the ferry to Paramus, New See also:Jersey, were built; the See also:British army made Dobbs Ferry a See also:rendezvous, after the See also:battle of See also:White Plains, in See also:November 1776, and the See also:continental division under See also:General See also:Benjamin See also:Lincoln was here at the end of See also:January 1777. The American army under See also:Washington encamped near Dobbs Ferry on the 4th of See also:July 1781, and started thence for See also:Yorktown in the following See also:month. In the See also:Van Brugh See also:Livingston See also:house on the 6th of May 1783, Washington and See also:Governor See also:George See also:Clinton met General See also:Sir See also:Guy See also:Carleton, after-wards See also:Lord See also:Dorchester, to negotiate for the evacuation by the British troops of the posts they still held in the See also:United States.

In 1873 the village was incorporated as Greenburgh, from the township of the same name which in 1788 had been set apart from the manor of Phillipsburgh; but the name Dobbs Ferry was soon resumed.

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