The British advanced by the southern road, and divided at the junction of the Four Corners -- one party going west, the other marching directly upon the house. The party moving west intercepted or cut off Isaac van Wart and a small company under his command, who were attempting to succor their comrades. The dead, who fell in this engagement, were buried on the east side of the road, upon the rising bank of a small hollow north-east of the Van Wart residence.

" On this occasion," (says Samuel Young, in a letter written to Commodore Valentine Morris, dated Mount Pleasant, 25th January, 1814,) " my father's house with all his out-houses were burnt. After this disaster our troops never made an effort to protect that part of the country. The American lines were afterwards changed and extended from Bedford to Croton bridge, and from thence following the course of that river to the Hudson. All the intermediate country was abandoned and unprotected, being about twenty miles in the rear of the ground which Colonel Burr had maintained, when posted on the lines. Samuel Young served under the command of Colonel Burr during the Revolutionary war.

A letter from Judge Young, of Westchester County, New York.''

MorNT Pleasant, Jan. 25, 1814.

Dear Sir :

Your letter of the 30th ult., asking for some account of the campaign in which I served under the command of Col. Burr, during the Revolutionary War. was received some davs ago, and has been constantly in my mind. I will reply to it with pleasure, but the compass of a letter will not admit of much detail. I resided in the lines from the commencement of the Revolution until the winter of 1777, when my father's house was burnt by order ci the British General.