As one reads them the enthusiasm of the student and interviewer is commingled with the pride of the witness in having personally been a part of the tale related. No one can read the inter-views without due recognition of some unusual circumstances in their collection. A guide who had served under Washington and Rochambeau was talking with them; a legally trained mind was asking questions in turn. Having aroused interest and enthusiasm could any more effective means of collecting and preserving the stories be conceived? And then in 1852 Andrew Corsa died. The obituary was written from the heart. The manuscript shows that its preparation was labored. It is lined and interlined. A student of John Macdonald's papers easily selects "The Westchester Guides" as his masterpiece. As the American Army needed guides through the uncharted by-ways of Westchester County so the author needed a guide through the difficult and painful course of his life. He knew what it was to be dependent upon the knowledge and skill of others; he manfully persisted in spite of his handicap and victory was finally his just as surely as it came to the Patriots after years of painful suffering. The trials of the Neutral Ground were indelibly stamped upon the very soul of John Macdonald as his own life was a counterpart in suffering, in defeat, in unyielding struggles and finally in victory over all obstacles. He died in Flushing, Nov. 8, 1863. As he said "Andrew Corsa deserves to be held in honorable remembrance" let us here record in similar phrase that John MacLean Macdonald also deserves to be held in honorable remembrance. Of the personality of the man there is scant record. His nephew (born 1844) describes him as a tall, spare man barely able to get about his room with the aid of a cane.