Romer was seventeen years of age at the time of her marriage with Hendrick Romer. Her husband enlisted in the Continental army, leaving her with only a young brother and slave in charge of the farm. I shall never forget her manner when stating at the age of 100 years her baking operations for the enemy. (She did the baking unwillingly and under compulsion.) On one of these occasions she had concealed several Americans not far from the house, and while feeding the enemy remembered her friends. She rose up suffused with tears, and yet in laughter, as she said, ' While the hungry" dogs were eating I would now and then catch up a loaf under my short gown and run round and throw it in to my men under the rocks.' Mrs. Romer' s health was good almost to the last. She was

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very companionable with any who could speak the Dutch language. Her Dutch Bible was ever near her, and she seemed to know its great truths as familiarly as she did her alphabet. Her funeral services were in the Church at Greenburgh, and her remains borne to the old burialground at the old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow."

The following letter from Capt. Lsraed Honeywell, Jr., to the N. Y. Convention, dated at Philipse Manor, Westchester Co., March 28th, 1777, is copied from the original in the State Archives:

"The situation of affairs in our country is truly deplorable. We have daily accounts of cattle being stole and drove downwards to support our cruel, merciless and inveterate enemies, by our more than savage Tories, who have of late become so insulting as to hiss at men passing, and several have been fired at in the road. Isaac Oakley, at the Plains, was robbed of 36 head of cattle the night before last.