ered and fixed upon it, Mr. James Carpenter who lives near by, and was present at the interment, joined us, and his recol-lection of the spot corresponded with ours exactly, so that in all probability we have ascertained the right grave. We then had a plain stone prepared and put up, such as the Quakers allow. It contains simply the name of Cornelius Oakley, the time of his death and his age and nothing more. My father frequently visited his relatives in company with the young French officers about Rochambeau whose names he and my mother used to mention (Lameth, Berthier, Dumas, etc.,). I don't know when he was taken prisoner or how long he remained a prisoner in New York. It was, I believe, in the Sugar House in Liberty Street where he was confined. In jail he went by the name of the Quaker probably because his father belonged to the Friends. He had many friends in New York who furnished him with provisions. These were always left for The Quaker. He made the jailor his friend and was furnished with citizens clothes by his city friends. Immediately on receiving them you shall be furnished with copies of my father's papers for which my brothers have sent to Washington. My father married soon after the war, but in what particular year I don't know. My mother's maiden name was Sarah Warner. She was the daughter of John Warner who owned the most southerly farm of Philipse Manor.

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CORSA OF FORDHAM, OCTOBER 7, 1848 Soon after the French and American armies came down to reconnoitre (New York) Cornelius Oakley and Isaac Webbers came for me on a Sunday morning and asked me to accom-pany them as a guide to Morrisania and I went. We found Generals Washington and Rochambeau waiting for us-- (From here on the account is substantially the same as given in Bolton's '"'History of the County of Westchester,' New York, 1881, Vol. 2, pp. 532-534 incl.)