Joseph Youngs of the historic Youngs House noted as the headquarters on the American lines for so long a period, and until its destruction on Feb. 3, 1790, after which it was known as Youngs' "Burnt House," was a Justice of the Peace, and a Member of the Committee of Public Safety, as well as a member of Captain Gabriel Requa's Company of Militia, and was a man of consequence before the Revolution, his family among the foremost on the Manor. He was captured in the raid made by Major Bearmore upon his house on the 25th of December, 17 78, and remained a prisoner until the 25th of September^

1 779* ^'^ie Youngs family had social prominence in the neighborhood.

They had come from Great Neck, R. I., after 1760.

Lieutenant Samuel Youngs, the son of Joseph Youngs, Esq., was a very interesting character. During the early part of the war he was a volunteer in various companies, did service as a guide, and in 1782 was commissioned as Rieutenant in a company attached to Sheldon's Dragoons. Being much about the headquarters at his father's house he was familiar with army movements in this locality, and in later years, was a solicitor of pensions for the Revolutionary soldiers of this vicinity, he became, to a large degree, their unconscious historian, as the fdes of old papers in the Pension Office at Washington give abundant testi-

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inonv. After the war he taught school, studied law, was a member of Assembly, served several terms as Surrogate of Westchester County and was a Master of Chancery. His later life was spent at Tarry town, where he died unmarried, Sept. 12, 1837, in his 77th. year. It is claimed by some that he was the actual "Ichabod Crane" of Irving's " Eegend of Sleepy Hollow."