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Thomas Casey
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    [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="811"] Jacbus Van Cortlandt Slave reward[/caption]

    Many Bodies were diinterred from the DYCKMAN-NAGEL CEMETERY located in Inwood. I am sure there were many African American burials nearby this site. Maps from the early 1900s indicate that the cemetery was bounded by Ninth and Tenth Avenues and 212th and 213th Streets in Inwood.