Livingston, Robert Gilchrist, Joseph Given, Jonathan Randel, Andrew Barton, Israel Honeywell, Samuel Kelly, Robert Heaton, and William H. Morris.

During the revolutionary war. West Farms was constantly exposed to the daily forays of both armies, as they alternately held possession of the adjoining country. "On the 25th of January, 1777, (observes General Heath,) early on the morning, the enemy made a sally towards De Lancey^s Mills,'^ where they surprised and routed the guard, wounding several, but not killing or taking

» Co. Rec. Religious See. Lib. B. The first church edifice was erected in 1839. b Co. Rec. Religious Sec. Lib. B. p. 6. An incorporation of the Methodi.«t Episjpal Church occurs in 1836, and again in 1843. See Lib. B. 48, 7G. " Now known as Lydig's Mills.

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any of the.n ; and a regiment near that place quitted their qnarters."a

The Mililary Blockhouse, which occupied the site of Mr. Mapes's Temperance House, was destroyed by Colonel Burr in the winter of 1779. The event is thus related by Samuel Young, in a letter to Commodore Valentine Morris : --

" Soon after Tryon's retreat, Colonel Delancey, who commanded the British refugees, in order to secure themselves against surprise, erected a blockhouse on a rising ground below De Lancey's Bridge. This Colonel Burr resolved to destroy. I was in that expedition, and recollect the circumstances.

"He procured a number of hand-grenades ; also, rolls of port fire, and canteens filled with inflammable materials, with contrivances to attach them to the side of the blockhouse. He set out with his troops early in the evening, and arrived within a mile of the blockhouse by two o'clock in the morning. The colonel gave Captain Black the command of about forty volunteers, who were first to approach ; twenty of them were to carry the port fires, &.C.