She died Oct. 27, 1861, in her 95th year, and he. died Nov. 59, 1856, in his 93d year. Jacob also had sons Isaac, Jacob, and William. Charles Denison Belden, of New York, is a great-grandson of Lieut. Jacob Van Tassel.

The following inscription appears on his tombstone in the old Dutch Churchyard, he being there designated "Major" Jacob Van Tassel, to which honor he was entitled by reason of a commission he had held in the Militia after the Revolution:

In Memory of Major

Jacob Van Tassei., a Soldier of the Revolution, died Aug. 24, 1S40, aged 95 years, 11 months and 23 days.

This simple stone points the Honorable Grave,

Where sleeps the Patriot pure, the Soldier brave --

Reader, if to thy heart thy country's cause be dear,

His service call to mind, this grave revere.

Hester, wife of Lieut. Jacob Van Tassel, died Dee. io, 1811, aged! 77 years, S months and io days. Jacob was afterwards twice married. His latter years were spent in the family of his son-in-law, Caleb Brush, in New York. Altogether Jacob Van Tassel was a great character and well deserves posthumous fame.

Stephen Van Tassel's application for a pension, dated Dec. it, 1832, states that he entered the service as a Volunteer about the first of May, 1776, at Tarry town, for 9 mouths in the Co. of Capt. Abram Ladieu ; resided in or near Tarry town at that time ; was at the battle of White Plains in the right-wing of the American Army near Chatterton Hill. In the spring of 1777 re-enlisted in Capt. Sybert Acker's Co. , Lieut. Col. Hammond's Regt. ; was in Capt. Daniel Williams' Co. , at the Youngs' House fight; afterwards in the Co. of Capt. Gilbert Dean. In