Ilis only son having died from exposure received in fighting for his country, he postponed the affair until the marriage of his daughter I, cah, to John Romer, son of Jacob Romcr, Sr., who with his thi'-e brother . )■/ d been active participants in the cause of Independence; and in 1793, they erected the dwelling still standing, of which a photo representation appears herewith, and < re for upward of fifty years the annual town meetings of the township of Green sburgh were held. Here I,t. Van Tassel and wife, Jacob Romer, Sr., and wife, and eii on John Romer and wife spent their remaining days. John* Romer became Captain in the war of i8r2, and took an active part in those proceedings that were productive in the advancement of the best interests f-f the community. He was not only a well known man among men, but it is said, was decided by vote at a general election to be the best looking man in the town ! He died at the age of 90, beloved by every one.

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Lieut. Cornelius Van Tassel died Mar. 6, 1820, in the S6ti year of his age, and Elizabeth Storms his wife, died Mar. 25, 1825, L. the 87th year of her age. J. C. L. Hamilton, of Elmsford, is the gran 4. son of John Roiner and great-grandson of Lieut. Cornelius Van Tassel.

Peter Van Tassel's name appears as a member of Capt. Dank-] Martling's Company as early as 1776, and as already stated he was ; member of the Committee of Public Safety for this County when taker prisoner and carried away to the Provost Goal in New York in Nov., 1777. His tombstone in the old Dutch Churchyard shows that he was born in May, 1728, and that he died in Sept., 1784, just after the close of the Revolutionary war, and probably as a result of the hardships endured during that period.