Many of them languished in British prison pens or in pestilential holds of British prison ships; and not a few were included among the Eleven Thousand and Five Hundred patriot prisoners who, in and about New York City, miserably perished in those accursed dungeons and prison ships. Some of them died on the field in open honorable warfare, glorious deaths. One, at least, fell a victim to the Tories' murderous hate, which rendered "the neutral ground" to the southward so dark and bloody. The modest stone above that martyr's grave, now fast crumbling away, for more than a century has upheld to the world the fierce indictment of these words : "Inhumanly slain by Nathanial Underhill" -- a noted Tory; and the flight of the accused confessed the charge.

The well authenticated atrocities committed in this region by some of the Tories seem almost incredible. Even the children of patriot families were not safe from their cruel rage, as witness their notorious mutilation of three boys near Dohhs Ferry, an act so horrible and so foul, that its detailed character cannot be explained here. To the everlasting credit of the patriots of this manor, be it -said that no act of inhumanity, even by way of retaliation, stains their peerless record.

The great majority of them, happily, survived the war, enjoyed the glad time of peace, and long years afterward were tenderly and reverently laid away in this hallowed soil, the last one in November, 1851, but little more than forty years ago.