Washington and the American Army from New York to White Plains, when he was also ordered to that place ; that he was sent with a detachment to Dobbs Ferry, the object being to fire upon and drive off "the British vessels lying in the river at that place, and having driven them away the detachment then marched north to Sing Sing, and was stationed there for some time. He then returned to his home near Dobbs Ferry ; was soon after driven from the same, and his family during the remainder of the Revolution had a temporary residence in the northern part of Westchester County.

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PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.

Being thus exiled from his home, he volunteered and served on the lines in said County. In the Fall of 1780 he was taken prisoner near Pine's Bridge and carried to the city of New York and confined in the Sugar- House Prison seven weeks, after which he was exchanged. Was born on the "Manor of Cortlandt, in the present, town of Yorktowu, the 17th day of January 1746, but was a resident of Philipse Manor at the time of the Revolution and still resides there. That John Jewell was the son of Wm, Jewell who removed from Cortlandt's Manor in 1760, to the farm just south of present Main St., Irvington, which was in the possession of his maternal grandfather, Capt. John Buckhout, W111. Jewell having married his daughter Elizabeth, date of Sept. 30, 1738. William Jewell, the father of John, died 17S9, aged 77 years. John Jewell married Elizabeth Eawrence, cousin of Capt. Lawrence, the gallant Commander of the ' ' Chesapeake, ' ' and had John Jewell, Jr., Martha, and other children. John Jewell, Sr., died Dec. 21, 1838, in his 93d year. John Jewell, Jr., married Martha Ferris, daughter of Capt.