Secy of the 'N. Y. Society of the Sons of the Revolution.

SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.

New York, October 18, 1894.

Dear Sir: -- Pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Board of Managers accepting your courteous invitation to participate in the historical celebration at Tarrytown on October 19th, President Depew appointed the following committee to represent this society thereat., viz.: State Secretary John Winfield Scott, State Registrar Edward Ilagaman Hall, John C. Calhoun and Walter S. Logan, notice of the same having been telegraphed you this morning.

The Board of Managers desires to express its satisfaction that the intelligent patriotism of Tarrytown has evidenced its existence in this admirable fashion.

Very respectfully yours,

John Winfield Scott, State Secretary.

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Monument.

The Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument is of the best Quincy granite, simple and massive as is becoming a memento to those men at those times. It stands upon rock foundation and is well buttressed by a wall of native granite with heavy Quincy coping. If anything can, it will long withstand "the wears and weathers of time." The general outlines of the monument so well appear in the photo representations herewith, that they need no further description. The inscriptions on the polished panels appear on the opposite page, three of the sides containing the names of seventy-six Revolutionary soldiers, all but a few of whom were buried in the old Dutch Churchyard.

And what a roll of honor it is. Opposite how many names that there appear is written the fatal sentence "Slain on the field !" "Dead on the field of honor ! " What an immortal epitaph ! In what hallowed graves sleep such Patriot dead, " where no bugle sounds reveille." And how fit and becoming that a monument should be erected there, at the old Redoubt on the brow of Battle Hill, to their honor, while their memory yet remains.