" When the parade reached Battle Hill, halt was called, and the Sons of the Revolution, and the guests and committees assembled about the monument, which was veiled with a large American flag. At a given signal the flag was hoisted by Miss Mabel Requa, the little granddaughter of Captain Samuel Requa, and slowly raised to the mast head. The monument had been unveiled, and the national salute from the batteries and menof-war had been given, when R.ev Dr. Brockholst Morgan, Chaplain of the Sons of the Revolution, offered an appropriate prayer, which was followed by a dedicatory address by Hon. F. S. Tallmadge, President of the Sons of the Revolution."

Another account, as follows :

" O.n Battle Hill, in beautiful Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, not 100 yards from the grave of Washington Irving, there was dedicated to-day, amid the booming of cannons from the war ships on Tappan Zee, and before thousands of patriotic Americans, a shaft of granite to the memory of the Revolutionary Soldiers of Philipse Manor. Tarrytown did itself proud ; so did the visitors, and so, too, did even the Weather Bureau, for a fairer Autumn day could not have been turned out to order.

" Salutes were fired at daybreak by the cruiser Cincinnati , and the dispatch boat Dolphin , which were detailed by the Navy Department to participate in the ceremonies. Every public building, nearly every store, and many of the private houses had been gayly decorated with bunting of patriotic colors last night, and sunrise found the town -bestirring. The inhabitants were alive to several important facts -- the monument was to be dedicated ; it was the one hundred and thirteenth anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, and a big crowd of strangers was due.