On her arrival, accompanied by lier mother, the expiring soldier had just strength enongh left to articulate a (ew words, when he sunk exhausted with the eflbrt.

As late as 1780 a thick forest extended from the village north to Mr. William Bolmer's, bounded by the Hudson and Saw-Mill rivers. The site of these u'oods on the Hudson shore is now occupied by a number of country residences, among which are those of Sampson Simpson, Esq. This gentleman's father, in

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company with Col. James had charge of the silver mines at Sing Sing previous to the Revolution. Also Pomona Hall, the residence of Philip Rhinelander Roberts, Esq. In this house the aspiring politician Colonel Burr found a safe asylum to shelter himself from the storm of indignation which followed the death of the illustrious Hamilton : and from hence he departed "a voluntary exile from his native country to implore, like an abject slave, allegiance from that power against whose rule he had so successfully fouglit.""'^'

The eastern edge of 13oar hill is still covered with beautiful woods, sloping gradually to the bank of the Saw Mill river. This lovely stream rises among the picturesque hills of Chappequa ; its source is formed from two springs, one on the land of Job Collins, the other on the property of Willett Kipps. Its descent from the springs lies nearly in a south course of sixteen miles through the rich bottoms of a valley bordered with high woodlands: and not unfreqnenily its waters become lost in some rocky deli or amongst dark foliage. At times it is seen stealing through some green meadow with a babbling sound, or occasionally becoming impetuous it rushes over rocks and stones in its headlong course, but more frequently