A lively fancy may be I)ermitted to call up his emotions when, in September, 1776, as commander-in-chief of the American army, he made the residence of the woman who had rejected him his headquarters, or when, in July, 1790, as President of the LTnited States, he revisited it, she and her husband being attainted fugitives from the home which the new governnu^nt had confiscated. The wealthy Frenchman, Stephen .Jumel, bought it, and his wife adorned it with an exquisite taste and lavish hand. There she lived until her death, in 1865; there, in the days of her widowhood, she married Aaron Burr, and it was over this very valuable estate that her heirs wrangled until the courts disposed of it.'-

During and after the fight at Chatterton's Hill Washington had his headquarters in the Miller house

1 .Soldiers and marauders plundered indiscriminately in Westchester County, until Washington sent .\aron Burr to take command. A letter from Judge Samuel Youngs, of Mount Pleasant, printed in the " Historical Magazine" for June, 1S71, says: "No man went to bed but under the apprehension of having his house plundered or burnt, orhimself or family massacred before morning. Some, under the character of Whigs, plundered the Tories ; while others of the latter description, pluudcred the Whigs. Parties of marauders assuming either ehariicter or none, as suited their convenience, indiscriminately assailed both Whigs and Tories." Burr came to the county in the fall of 1778 and stopped all this by military rule and strict enforcement of order. - Benson J. Lossiug in AppleUm's Jvunial, vol. x., 1873.