During one period of the Revolution it was the site of the American encampment. Its summit commands fine views of the surrounding country and the noble Hudson, stretching in one long reach to Jersey City.

Somewhere near this spot there formerly stood a peculiar shaped tree, as if adapted by nature to receive the body of a man. In this rustic couch the illustrious Washington, wearied with his toils, slept for two hours; his trusty guide Martin Post watching^

» Upon land the gift of Mr. Frederick Siionnard.

tj This hill is laid down in General Washington's surveyed map of the county Boar hill.

- Po.st was at this liine attae'ied to Cul. Scliammel's regiment.

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by his side. Augustus Gregier, a nephew of the guide now hving in the town, relates the incideut.

In the summer of 1780, the famous spy Huddlestone was discovered concealed in the woods upon this hill, and was afterwards hung at Poughkeepsie. For a long time it was frequented by the American water guards, whose business it was to intercept all traders passing to the British lines.

On the south side of this hill fell the brave Captain Rowe of Pruschank's yagers. This individual appears to have been in the habit of making a daily tour from Kingsbridge, round by Mile Square, for the purpose of reconnoitering. On the morning of the melancholy accident which terminated his career, he was on his last tour of military duty, having already resigned his commission for the purpose of marrying the accomplished Elizabeth Fowler of Haarlem ; when pasjing with a company of light dragoons he was suddenly fired upon by three Americans of the, water guard of Captain Pray's company, who had ambuscaded themselves in the cedars near the site of the present residence of Mr.