Nowhere else was the country so devasted, nowhere greater suffering, severer trials, but to the everlasting praise of the patriots of this manor be it said, they 'yielded not;' their endurance was like the granite of these hills. "An old redoubt thrown up during the Revolution, evidently to protect the legendary and historic bridge over the Pocantico, just on the verge which overlooks the old burying ground where so many of those heroes sleep, offered the ideal site for such a memorial. "The circumstances were favorable. The men, the deeds, the spot, were all worthy of commemoration and the time had come. Only action was needed. Only the recalling of the history of those trying times, only the re-telling of the thrilling tales of those heroic days, only the reviewing of the memory of the men of the Revolution by the Sons of the Revolution, and it may also well be added, by the Daughters of the Revolution, and the flow of patriotic thought and feeling would soon crystallize in the enduring granite which should rise as a testimonial to those patriot heroes. "That work was undertaken and carried forward with such a definite object in view, the publication of the Revolutionary reminiscences having been commenced in the latter part of 1893, and so continued until the summer of 1894. The results well justified expectation; public interest was created, and in June of the latter year a Monument Committee was organized. The work of obtaining subscriptions was then undertaken, to which the response was prompt and liberal beyond all expecta-tions, warranting the making of a contract for the proposed monument, and showing that the spirit of patriotism was still alive in the hearts of the people. Only the occasion was needed to call it forth. The site had already been donated by the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Association." On this monument the name of John Odell, the Westchester Guide was inscribed among others.