When Hopkins crossed the fields to the eastward near Beckman's bridge, Emerick dashed up the Post Road in pursuit, intending to cut off his retreat, but when lie approached the Yager infantry at the bridge they mistook him for the enemy and fired upon his troop. The confusion caused by this mistake much facilitated Hopkins' escape ; but Emerick afterwards continued the then ineffectual pursuit. It was an exciting contest and a very narrow escape for Capt. Hopkins and his men-.

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About four miles east of Tarry town, and nearly the same distance northwest of White Plains, a little to the north of what used to be called "the upper road" to White Plains, but is now most frequently mentioned as "the County House Road," is the scene of what the chroniclers of the Revolution have designated as "The Affair at

Youngs' House." At that point the upper road from Tarry town, running from west to east, is crossed at right angles by the road from Unionville, running' from north to south. It is an elevated region,' nearly midway between the Hudson River and the Bronx, and from the intersection here of the two roads it received long ago the name of "The Four Corners." The east and west road is the dividing line between the two townships of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant, so that that part of the Unionville road north of it is in Mount Pleasant, while the part south of it is in Greenburgh. The site of the famous house of Joseph Youngs, where the fight tool: place on February 3, 1780, is yet discoverable. The house which then stood there was burnt down by the British, Hessians and Tories and the place was long known as "the Burnt House.