For this reason he was for a time assigned to a command in the Loyalist Rangers. In one of the severe skirmishes which took place in Westchester county in 1781, Capt. Kip, while charging a body of American troops, had his horse killed under him, and received a severe bayonet wound. He survived, however, several years after the war, though, like his friend De Lancey, a heavy pecuniary sufferer from the cause he had espoused.

a For many of the above particulars we are indebted to Mr. Cooper's correspondence in the Home Journal of 1848.

b Rec. of Trustees, pp. 88, 89.

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the past. " The following appropriate lines were written by a gentleman, after a visit paid to tliis beantifnl spot, the former residence of the De Lancey family.

De Lancey Mills, Westchester, the headquarters of Lt. Col. Jaineh de Lancey. From the original picture in the possession of Dr. Bayard of West Farms.

^ . ■ De Lancey's Ancient Pine.

,,. Where gentle Bronx clear winding flows,

, . ;. The shadowy banks between,

. ■ .- Where blossomed bell or wilding rose

. ■ Adorns the brightest green : ... ' - "■• : ^

"' ' ■*- Memorial of the fallen great, ' , ■ - .

.' ■■ '. The rich and honoured line, - • "' - ■ . -

" •'. . ". Stands high in solitary state, •■ : -' v> .■ "•;' ..,•' - De Lancey's ancient pine.