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

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1780 enlisted in the Continental line under Col. Hughes; was taken prisoner in April, 17S0, and taken to New York and confined in the old Sugar House Prison n months and 5 days. Was born in the year 1758. Endorsed by John Israel, who says that he was himself taken prisqner in Dee., 1779, and confined in the old Sugar House Prison, and saw Stephen Van Tassel there. This Stephen was a son of Johannis Van Tassel, who was a soldier in the French war as well as in the Revolution, and grandson of Jan Van Tassel and Annatie Acker his wife. He married Mary, the daughter of Stephen Bertine, and

lived at "Haventje," known as the Fremont place. This Johannis Van Tassel was the great-grandfather of Mr. Daniel Van Tassel of Tarrytown.

A John Van Tassel, born 1737, and who died 1807, was one of the John Van Tassels who served in the French war; was also a soldier of the Revolution. He kept the Van Tassel Inn, present Jacob Mott house, which was a rallying place in the early part of the Revolution, a photo representation of which is herewith produced.