The only surviving brother of the Governor is George Washington Tompkins, Esq., of White Plains.

The neighboring property on the south formerly belonged to the Hon. Richard Morris for many years chief justice of the province of New York, from whom it passed to his son-in-law, tlie late Brigade Major William Popham. The mansion erected in 1790, is a spacious wooden structure, and occupies a very secluded position in a picturesque hollow, surrounded by groves of locust trees. The Bronx enlivens the estate upon the west. Here is situated a valuable mill seat, once occupied by an extensive beaver dam. The calm solitude of this beautiful spot is increased by the overhanging woods and the low murmuring of the river over its stony bed. The graceful hemlock, fitly entitled by Coleridge " the lady of the woods," appears to luxuriant in this vicinity.

Directly opposite to the former residence of the Hon. Richard Morris, a tragical event took place during the Revolution. The circumstances are thus narrated. An officer belonging to Col. Armand's cavalry, went to the village of Eastchester on the Sunday, to have his horse shod. Vincent, the blacksmith, as a matter of conscience, refused to shoe the horse ; whereupon the ofr

a In the cemetery of this parish, around the church, (says Dr. Antfaoa in his Historical Notices of St. Mark's Church in the Bowery,) the governors of three different dynasties, Dutch, EngUsh and American, repose almost side by side. In the Stuyvesant vault, next to Governor Stuyvesant are the remains of the English governor, Colonel Henry Sloughter, who died in 1691. In the vault of Mr. Miathorne, not far distant, the body of Daniel D. Tompkins, a former governor ,Qf th* state of New York, was interred. Parish Annals by Henry Anthon, D. D,