HISTORICAL SKETCHES.

Ail Abraham Odell, who married Christina Van Wart and lived on what was afterwards called the Underhill place, at East View (East Tarrytown), was known as handsome " Brom." His ancestry has not been clearly traced, but he was claimed as kindred by the late Capt. Jonathan Odell of Tarrytown. That he was a soldier of the Revolution is abundantly evidenced by the following from the records in the Pension Department at Washington :

Christina Van Wart Odell, widow of Abraham Odell, states in her application for a pension, date of Oct. 8, 1846, that they were married in the year 1783, .and that he died 1810. Peter Van Woermer testified that he was well acquainted with Abraham Odell, and knew that he was a soldier in the Revolution ; that he so served in Capt. Honeywell's Company. Christina Romer deposed and said that she was well acquainted with said Abraham Odell ; knew him from her earliest recollection till the time of his death; that he was a soldier of the Revolution and served in Capt. Honeywell's Company. The records show that he was so in the service from June 30, 1/79, till Nov. 11, 1782.

Abraham and Christina Van Wart Odell had the following children : John, Isaac, Jacob, Benjamin, who married Mary, the daughter of Jacob Buckhout and Jane Hammond his wife, and had Capt. Jacob B. Odell, who was at one time Postmaster of Tarrytown and has long been connected with the Albany Day Boat Line ; Hannah, twin sister of Benjamin, married Jacob Buckhout, Jr.; Rachel, another sister, married David Buckhout ; Ann, bom 1800, married the late Martin Smith, so long the proprietor of the noted Couenhoven-Smith Inn at Broadway and Main St., Tarrytown ; Rosetta, married William Dutclier, 3d, a grandson of Capt.