Cowboys & Skinners: The Perilous Life in Neutral Ground
Hear Jan Kelsey, Rye resident, President of the Board of Trustees of the Westchester Historical Society, and former archivist for the Rye Historical Society, discuss the Cowboys and Skinners, two notorious gangs that ravaged Rye and Westchester County during the Revolutionary War. Our communities endured 7 years of fear and lawlessness from 1776 to 1783 as they faced foraging troops, gangs of marauders, military skirmishes, economic hardship and political upheaval on a daily basis.
Families had divided loyalties and many fled to either New York or Connecticut to escape the violence of the so-called “Neutral Ground.”
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