HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

returned and buried the dead at Ward's house. On the succeeding day we retreated as far as North Castle, and about a week after were ordered to White Plains where we remained until discharged.* The dead who fell on this occasion were interred in a beautiful locust grove west of the house and directly in the rear of the barn on the opposite side of the post-road leading to White Plains. John Williams of the County House, aged 93, Oct. 17th, 1844, says: "I remember when Colonel Simcoe was up with a party and burnt Ward's house. They took off all the siding of the building, together with the doors, windows and shutters, &c, and transported the same to King's bridge to build barracks for the troops, after which they set fire to the house and burnt it down."6

The Hon. Stephen Ward, who occupied this property prior to the Revolution, (his dwelling house standing directly on the site of the present Marble Hall, and closely resembling it in all its proportions), was the son of Edmund Ward, of Eastchester, for many years a member of the Colonial Assembly, and grandson of Edmund Ward, of Fairfield, Connecticut, who removed to Eastchester about the latter period of the 17th century. In 1700 the inhabitants of this town granted to Edmund Ward fifty acres of land, in consideration that he pay the Indians for the same. These lands were situated on the Long Reach, for the name of Edward Ward occurs in the Long Reach patent granted to William Peartree and others, A. D., 1708.