Also a brother Abraham, who was a soldier in the Revolution and wounded in the galley fight off Tarrytown.

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HISTORICAL SKETCHES .

Ail Abraham Martling lived on Beaver Hill, near the Saw Mill River Valley. In his application for a pension, dated April 17, 181S, says he was aged 55; that he enlisted some time in October, 1779, in Captain Shaffer's Company, in Col. Armand's Regiment of horse and foot, N. Y. Bine, and so continued in the service until May, 1783, when he was discharged at Charleston, South Carolina. That lie was in the battle at Yorktown at the taking of Cornwallis. He was a pensioner from 1818, and died January 1, 1841. His widow, Fanny Romer Martling, applied for pension 24th December, 1846. He was buried at Greenburgh, Elmsford Churchyard. He is said to have been of the party that went down the river in boats and raided and burnt Gen. Oliver Delancey's house, near Bloorningdale, on the night of Tuesday, Nov. 25, 1777, in retaliation for the destruction of the Van Tassel Houses in the Saw Mill River Valley a few nights previous. Capt. John Romer gives the following account of that affair : "I don't know who commanded the party that burnt Gen. Delaucey's house on the 25th of November, 1777, but believe it was Capt. Buchanan of the Water Guards. The party came down the river from above in whale boats with muffled oars and stopped at Tarry town. After taking some volunteers on board they then went on down the river. They burnt the house and brought off considerable plunder."