The following from the granddaughter of Mrs. Rachel AM'.' Stillwaggou, the venerable old lady who died a few years since in ' * 106th year, is worthy of a place here : "Grandmother does not reim ber her grandfather's first name. He fought in both the French 2: Revolutionary wars. Williams and Van Wart were both cousin - her. Grandmother's father, Abram Acker, was in the Revolutio: war, and was taken prisoner and on one of the prison ships in York. He died at Tarrytown, and his wife died in New York. Th lived on a farm which is now known as the ' Burnt House. ' It always been known b> th t name, as it was burnt during the tionary war, over their heads, so they had to throw out feather L and sit out on them till the next morning, it being in the middle winter and the snow was very deep."

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"Sunnyside" was unquestionably the home of Elder Wolfert Acker, and of his descendants for several generations, and a part of the original house, or "Roost," as Irving facetiously entitles it, is still preserved in it. Wolfert Acker was an Assessor of the Manor in 1714, and in 1723, filled the office of Collector, the following receipt being copied from the old records :

" New York, May 21, 1723,

" Rec'd from Stephen Ecker in behalf of his father, Woofcrt Ecker, Collector of the Manor of Phillipsburgh, the sum of six Pounds four Shillings and five pence which with his salary at nine pence in the pound amounts to six pounds nine shillings being in full of ye quota of ye within mentioned warrant. A. D. Peystek.