Excerpt from Stony Point Illustrated: An Account of the Early Settlements on the Hudson; With Traditions and Relics of the Revolution, and Some Geneological Records of the Present Inhabitants It is not the object of the writer of this hook to confine the attention of the reader to any one line of thought so as to make a specialty of any particular class of facts, as would a writer on commercial affairs make the national exchange of commodities and the laws of trade his theme; or as would an ecclesiastical historian dwell exclusively upon matters connected with the church; or as the military historian would confine himself to wars, campaigns, strategetical movements of armies, and battles upon land and sea; but in the selection of events the author has evidently sought to group and combine the leading local facts of this town, both historical and biographical, together with narratives, incidents, traditions and illustrations that cannot fail to be deeply interesting, especially to the people of Stony Point and its vicinity, covering, as it does, more or less of the whole period of our national existence. Besides, this work can hardly fail to interest the children also, inasmuch as it speaks of persons, many of whom they have already become more or less interested in as neighbors and friends, while some sustain the more endearing relationship of kindred. In addition to this it treats of events that have occurred principally within a district with which they are themselves familiar, and which has already become endeared to them by their every day associations. 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.