Fuller, of Troy, X. Y. They had surveys and plans made for a village to be called Fort Independence,' but which was changed to Spuyten Duyvil. Streets were opened and several houses erected on the hill, and a foundry was established at its base. The latter was afterwards bought and extended into a rolling-mill by Jervis Langdon, who was succeeded by the Langdon Rolling-Mill Company. The Spuyten Duyvil Rolling-Mill Company, organized in 1867, next owned this property. A malleable iron foundry was established on adjoining premises by Isaac G. .Johnson and now employs several hundred hands. There are about thirty private dwellings on the elevate<l ground, including the residences of Mrs. D. B. Cox, Thomas H. Edsall, George C. Holt, Isaac G. Johnson,* Elias Johnson, Gilbert Johnson, Henry R. Lounsbery, David M. Morrison, George H. Petrie, Albert E. Putnam, Joseph R. Sergeant, Mrs. Peter 0. Strang, Warren B. Sage, Henry M. Smith and others.

Immediately northward is a tract of three hundred and fifty-six acres, also known as Spuyten Duyvil. Frederick Yan Cortiandt purchased it in several parcels between 1768 and 1788, and built his house on a commanding spot on the easterly side, approached by a private road leading up from the post road at Mosholu. He devised this property to his brother Augustus, by whose v»ill it passed to a grandson, Augustus F. Morris, who assumed the name of Van Cort-

' Mr Gwtwiii's residence is the old Mticoinb niausion, now altered and enlarged.

'A grandson of tlie first proprietor of tlie name. His wife was Dorcas . He had sons : George, William, James and Thomas (all of whom