John Strang, one of the attorneys of the Supreme Court was admitted to practice in the Court of Common Pleas of Westchester County in May, 1779, and remained in practice until in the year 1797. During this ])eriod he was one of the three leading lawyers of the county. Mr. Strang was the son of ]Major Joseph Strang, a Revolutionary character of note in Yt)rktown, and was born near Crompond- He studied law in the ollicc of John Jay, afterwards chief justice of the United States. His place of residence, at least during a portion of the period of his activity as an attorney, was in Redlbrd, and there Peter Jay Munro was a student in his office for a few months.

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Probably at the termination of his career of active iiactice he removed to Peekskill. At least he lived ; liere for many years towards the close of his life at :he house of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Underbill Strang. .Mr. Strang died about the year 1830, being then nearly eighty years of age. He never married. A few old-time residents of Peekskill remember him as he appeared late in life, and how he used to pace up and down the sidewalk in front of his residence, holding in front of him a long cane, which he grasped a little above the middle, and wearing a shirt with a ruffled bosom and a tightlj'-fitting dress coat. In stature he was small. He is said to have been a man (if reserved manners and of strong likes and dislikes. He is said to have been buried at Cronipond- A tradition among the descendants of Underbill Strang is, that John Strang was an assistant judge ad»-ocate in the Revolutionary War, and, but for the fact that he was away on a furlough, would have acted as judge at the trial of Major Andre.