They returned the fire as they passed, but without effect. On board the Savage, ship of- war, a box of powder took fire, and such was their consternation, that twenty people jumped into the river, among whom was a prisoner on board, who informs us that he was the only man who got on sfiore, all the rest being drowned. He reports also, that the Savage was several times hulled by our shot, and was very near sinking.''^-

The remains of a second redoubt are still visible on the property of Frederick W. Paulding, Esq. The village of Dobb's Ferry, one mile north of Hastings, is prettily seated on the rising hills of Greenburgh, opposite the northern termination of ihe Palisades and the village of Tappan. This place derives its present name from the ancient family of the Dobbs, who have been long settled here, and also from the fact that they were the early ferrymen. In the year 1698, there was living in this vicinity Jan Dobs en zyn buys vrou (and his wife,) Abigail, both members of

» Thatcher's Military Journal, 259. See Heath's Mem. 76, 294.

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the Dutch Church, Sleepy Hollow^ Thomas, their son, was born on the manor, A. D. 1712.

20th September, 1729, occurs a record in the church books at Sleepy Hollow, of a marriage between William Dobs, born in Philadelphia, and Lea van Waert, a native of the same place. They were perhaps Swedes, originally from the Delaware. Jeremiah Dobs, fora.er proprietor of the ferry, left issue by Jane le Vines, besides two daughters, two sons, Jeremiah and Peter. Several sons of the latter are still living in Greenburgh.