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. " After the war was over, Isaac Van Wart, one of the captors of Andre, bought the property, from which fact the house afterwards built took the name of "The Van Wart House."

The Youngs House was within what was called "the American lines," by which was meant that it was within that part of Westchester County which was mainly controlled by the Americans. Its elevated position, together with the number of buildings attached rendered it a convenient stopping-place for the Continental troops that were designed to guard that portion of the county that lay between Bedford and the

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Hudson, on the east and west, and between the Croton and the lines, on the north and south. These troops were ordered to be kept in motion, partly to protect the country and partly to elude the vigilance of the enemy and prevent them from planning- an attack, so that generally thdy remained but a short time in any 011c place. At the time here referred to, however, they for some reason remained at Youngs House longer than usual.