In this neighborhood resided the noted Brom Boyce, "who at the early age of sixteen, enroll. -A himself among the minnte men of the American army. He was soon distinguished for his bravery and daring, and was recognized as the best guide to he procured in tins vicinity." "Boyce, after the Revolution, followed the business o? a carman in the city o* New York. Be was a member of the Bedford Street church about thirty-five years, and died in 1S39, aged eighty-two years. His remains were interred at Tarrytown.''-- Noah's Sunday Times.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

counter. Hopkins now turned upon Emmerick, pursuing him so closely for the distance of half a mile, that several strokes were exchanged between both parties, until Emmerick cleared a stone wall, behind which he had concealed his riflemen. The whole company instantly rose and fired simultaneously upon Hopkins, who escaped uninjured; but Isaac Odell, who rode by his side, was slightly wounded. Hopkins thus in turn taken by surprise, wheeled to the west with his party, and succeeded in overtaking his prisoners, resolving to make good his retreat by the way of the poor-house road. He had proceeded no great distance, when he beheld approaching a strong body of Baremore's horse, in the neighborhood of Avery's mill, a little north of the poor house. Finding his retreat thus intercepted, he was compelled to take the Bedford road ; but hi had scarcely arrived at See's store, when he found Emmerick again drawn up to dispute the passage. Hopkins a second time discovering his retreat terminated, decided upon a vigorous charge, and succeeded in cutting his way through the detachment with the loss of a few prisoners. A running fight now ensued for about two miles, when Hopkins again found his course blockaded by Colonel W'urmb's yagers.