In the palmy days of the manor, the tenants brought hither their grain to be ground, and from hence the lords of the manor shipped their flour for the metropolis.

The keel of the famous Roebuck that so often navigated the neighboring waters with her cargo to and from the city, quietly reposes in the muddy bed of the Pocanteco creek. The old miller (who lived to the advanced age of 94,) was in the habit of calling It his iron mine, as the keel actually furnished him with bolts and nails for his lifetime.

The manor house was for many years the residence of the late Mrs. Cornelia Beeckman, widow of Gerard G. Beeckmun, Esq.

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We are indebted to the Evening Gazette for the subjoined notice of this remarkable lady. "Cornelia Beeckman was the second daughter of Lt. Gov. Pierre Van Cortlandt, by liis wife Joanna Livingston, whose birth took place in the old manor house, by the banks of the Croton, on the 2d of August, 1753. Here her infancy and youth glided av/ay, and but a short time before the war, she left its scenes for a life in New York, whither she removed upon her marriage with Gerard Becckman. When the Revolutionary troubles ran high, she came back to the old house at Peekskill, where part of her family resided. Exposed, of course, to all manner of insult and aggression, well-known herself, and in connection with her father, subsequently lieutenant-governor of this state, under Clinton, (but at that time, president of the Committee of Public Safety.) with her brother serving in the army, and many relatives and intimates, all zealous whigs and devoted Americans, her unconquerable will and high spirit bore her safely and uncompromisingly through those trying scenes.