The British kept an outguard there in the winter of 1776-77. Xo trace of it remains, a house now occupying its site.

2 In 1778 five companies of foot and one of mounted yagers, under Lieutenant Colonel Von Wurmli. In 1779 the yagere and Lord Rawdon's <-.)rps.

Captain von Hanger's company of chasseurs, in 1778, consisted of four officers, twelve sub-offlcers, three drummers and one hundred privates selected from the Leib, Erb Prinz, Prinz Carl, Donop, Jlirhack, Trimbach, Losberg, Knyphausen, Woelwarth, Wiessenbach and Sietz Regiments.

•'Known as the "Upper Cortlaudts," in distinction from Colonel .Jacobus Van Cortlandfs house on the plain, called " Lower Cortlandts." Tlie former was also called " Coitlandt's white-house " sometimes. It was burned about 1826, and the present residence of Waldo Hutchius was erected on its site.

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During the protracted struggle the Yonkers was the scene of constant military activity. Numerous unsuccessful attempts were made bv the Americans to recapture the posts on Tippctt's and Tetard's Hills, and plans of winter attacks across the frozen Harlem and Spuyten Duyvil were often laid and foiled. The rangers of Simcoe and De Lancey, the yagers of Von Wurnib and the chasseurs of Enimerick were often met and engaged by troops of American Light Horse, under the fiery Colonel Armand and other dashing leaders, on the high-roads and by-ways of the Yonkers plantation. It was also the scene of ceaseless ravages by those irregular bands, known as "Cowboys" and "Skinners." Most of the inhabitants went into exile, and were refugees within either the American or British lines. Their homes were desolated, their buildings, fences and orchards destroyed. The Tippetts were mainly Tories. In 1776, General George Clinton arrested Gilbert Tippett for " practices and declarations inimical to American liberty." Colonel James De Lancey had married a cousin, Martha Tippett.