Reminiscences of West Point, in the Olden Time Derived From Various Sources, and Register of Graduates of the United States Military Academy

Download or read book Reminiscences of West Point, in the Olden Time Derived From Various Sources, and Register of Graduates of the United States Military Academy written by Augusta Blanche Berard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of West Point, in the Olden Time Derived From Various Sources, and Register of Graduates of the United States Military Academy: Corrected to September 1st, 1886, With an Index Through them, and through her great-grandfather, Daniel Coovert, one of the old Dutch settlers in New York, Miss Cox is able to go back to a very remote date in her reminiscences of West Point and its neighborhood. In I723, Charles Congreve obtained by royal letters-patent a grant of acres, comprising the northern portion of West Point. About the middle oi: the century, a Mr. John Moore, commonly called Colonel Moore, by the purchase of this patent, added to an original grant to himself of 3 30 (acres lying to the southwest of it, came into possession of a large part of the, territory now within the limits of the ceded district, and a great extent north and west of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.