At Kingsbridge they were divided, by the order of congress, into three parcels, one portion being left there, another sent to Williams's Bridge, and a third to Valentine's Hill, near Kingsbridge.1 "Before the close of the year 1775," says Dawson, whose facts may generally be accepted without question, " between three and four hundred cannon, of all calibers, grades, and conditions, some of them good and serviceable, others less valuable and less useful, the greater number honeycombed and worthless, unless for old iron, and all of them unmounted and without carriages, were accumulated in three large gatherings, one of about fifty guns being at ' John Williams's,' the Williams's Bridge of the present day, one ' at or near Kingsbridge," and the third or larger parcel within two hundred and fifty yards of Isaac Valentine's house, the Valentine's Hill of that period as well as this." For a number of months they received no further attention, and were even left unguarded. Their unprotected condition presented an irresistible temptation to some mischievous Tory spirits who one night in January, 177(5. plugged them with large stones, effectually spiking them. This incident threw the county into great excitement, and was the occasion of numerous arrests of suspected citizens of the Towns of Westchester, Eastchester, Mamaroneck, and Yonkers. Soon afterward all the guns were accumulated at Valentine's, unspiked, and placed under guard. Subsequently, during the military administration of the noted and notorious General Charles Lee in Xew York City, most of the heavy cannon in Fort George and upon the Battery were, in anticipation of the capture of the place by the British, removed to Kingsbridge. These were about two hundred altogether, mostly excellent pieces of artillery. The reply of General Lee to the persons charged with transporting them to Kingsbridge, who complained to him that they could not ixot sufficient horses for the work, is somewhat celebrated.