are both owned by d d Rebels -- burn them!' My wife, l,cah Van

Tassel, was the only daughter of Cornelius, and she was the infant taken out of the house in a blanket by a soldier, laid carefully in the snow and the mother, distracted, was seeking her babe when be told her where the child was. The only son, Cornelius, Jr., fled for safety half naked to the roof of the house and held on by the chimney, from

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wliicli when the fire began to reach him be jumped to the ground. Ikescaped that night, but caught cold from which he never recovered." It was about this time that Gov. Tryon issued his infamous (,rdcr to "Rum Tarrytown," which provokrd swift re, re al in tin destruction of Gen. Oliver Itelancey's house on the upper end of New York island, by an expedition that went down the river in the night from this place. And o Jfieul. Corncliu: and Peter Van Tassel were cruelly and ignomiuiously carried away to New York as prisonei .

signed by I/ieut Cornelius and Peter Van Ta >cl, as Committeemen, and others, drawn up at the Provost Goal, date of F< b. 6, 1778, is on file among the Clinton papeis, in whir l) they, set forth that they are there as Committeemen, and Jemo. unable to get exchanged, and they ash the Governor to help them out of their diicjuma so that they may be returned to their families, which it appears he was not very soon able to do. Tin- official records show that their release fro in prison took place on the 17th of Oct. 1778, making just ji months of captivity. The following is copied from th< Look of ' ited Acco nts pertaining to the Revolution in the State Archives at Albany.