Near by are yet seen the remains of the old fort which crowned this elevated position at the mouth of the Highland Gorge.'

It appeal's from some Revolutionary papers that there were localiti("s in Westchester County which are now unknown. Washington, in his order-book, under date of October 24, 1782, directs :

"The tents being too cold for the accommodation of the sick, the regimental surgeons will send no more to the flying hospital, but have such as are hospital patients sent to the huts at New Boston."' Where was " New Boston ? "'

On the night of the 13th of May, 1781, Lieutenaut Colonel Greene, the hero of Red Bank, was killed at his quarters on the Groton River, near the site of the present dam, l)y a party of I)e Lancey's corps. Paymaster Thomas Hughes, of the American army, who was in the house at the time, contrived to escape. A letter describing the action, written a few hours afterward, he dates at Rhode Island Village. Where was " Rhode Island Village ?" -

The old-tinu' taverns of the county had their records worthy of preservation. One of the most celebrated of these was the " Blue Bell," concerning the location of which there has been much controversy. In vol. iv.. No. 6, of the Historical Magazine, June, 1880, Gharles A. Campbell thus indicates it in a quotation from an old chronicle :

"The holy Ntoraincnt wius adniiiiietercd to the Huguenots of New Ro chelle four times a year, viz., Christmas, Easter, Whitsunday and the middle of September. During tlie iiitermi^ions tliat occurred the communicants walkeil to New York for that jiurpose. Prior to their departure, on a Sunday, they always collected the young children ami left them in the care of their friends, while they set off early in the morning and walked to the city barefooted, carrying their shoes and stockings in their hands, .\bout twelve miles from New York, at a place niiice culled the Bliif J>V(i, there «as a large rock by the roadside coveriil with re^Jar ; here they stopped for a short time to rest and take some refreshments, and tlien proceeded on their .journey till they came to Kresh Water Pond, within the bounds of the city.