Burr) will make all convenient dispatch, marching ten miles a day, as water and ground will admit. *

The Baron de Kalb."

During the winter of 1782, Captain Daniel Williams, of the New York levies, (stationed on the lines.) having just returned from an excursion to IMorrisania, was surprised by a party of the enemy's horse, in a barn near the ferry house. George McChain, who behaved with the utmost gallantry on this occasion, was killed ; the rest of the party effected their escape on the ice.

A beautiful lane leads from the ferry-house east to the Croton bridge, which crosses the river a short distance from Joseph Bayley's wire manufactory. Below the bridge the river is seen expanding into a wide bay, ornamented with picturesque islands, points of land, and lofty banks, covered with clusters of rich foliage. On the evening of October the 1st, 1609, Henry Hudson anchored the Half-Moon at the mouth of the Croton. The bay was once famous throughout the country as the favorite resort of vast flocks of canvass back ducks, and shoals of shad fish.

The Van Corilandt Cemetery is situated on the summit of a hill west of the mansion. Here is a marble tomb erected to the

Memory of the Honorable

Pierre van Cortlandt,

late Lieutenant-Governor of the

State of New York,

and President of the Convention that

framed itie Constitution thereof during

the Revolutionary war with Great Britain.

He departed this life on the first day of

May, in the year of our Lord 1814, in the