BY SPECIAL REQUEST--CROTON'S CONNECTION TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

On the afternoon of July 9, 1776, at the Court House in White Plains, Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt voted to approve the Declaration of Independence. He was one of eleven deputies from Westchester County at the meeting of “the Provincial Congress of the Province of New-York.” READ MORE AT Resolved, Unanimously, July 9, 1776 – CROTON