Thenceforth the Westchester shore, and, in fact, the whole of the ancient township was the scene for many years of raids and foraging parties. The American lines extended across Westchester from Dobbs Ferry to the Sound. On one occasion an American scouting party near Williams' Bridge ^«ould have been ambuscaded by a British scouting squad had it not been for the timely warning a young girl gave them of the British approach, she having seen them j from her garret window. In the following autumn the right advanced line of the British extended from Hunt's Bridge to East Chester Creek. They kept continually shifting their position, but towards win- I ter the troops were drawn in quite close to King's I Bridge and the British built a number of huts and cantonments. De Lancey's corps of loyal refugees were (piartered at and near the Morris place, at Mors Traces of this earthwork are still to be seen.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

risania. Col. Emmerick's corps, also composed principally of Tories, [were posted near King's Bridge These troops, when they wanted building material for their winter-quarters, tore down the farmers' houses in the vicinity. The Americans, of course, retaliated, and skirmishes and hairbreadth escapes by the partisans of both sides were the order of the day. On one occasion Colonel James de Lancey, while visiting his aged mother at her home at the Mills, had tied his horse, a valuable imported thoroughbred, to the fence. Some American scouts seeing the horse, and knowing his value, immediately took him and carried him within the American lines at White Plains. There some enterprising Yankee bought him. The horse was known as "True Briton," and is said to be the progenitor of the celebrated stock, now known to horse fanciers as "Morgans."'