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The Bronx (then part of West Chester County) -- 1778

From a map by Thomas Kitchen, Sr,

Map Room, New York Public Library

 

Note: "Frogs Point" for "Throckmorton's Point," now "Throgs Neck"

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"Throckmorton" is a name from Worcestershire England. It possibly meant "farmstead by a pool with a beam bridge" ....

-- From research by Steve (Visual Photons)

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