It was, in the aggrega conto the a curious armament that Westchester County contributed these militinental battalions. The State convention, in ordering out arms they tiamen, directed that if any of the men were without tened and fixed should bring -a shovel, a pickaxes or scythe, straigh them all "disarmed OI1 a poie." They were, moreover, to take with sixteen and fiftyand disaffected (Tory) male inhabitants between useful as fatigue five vears of age," who were to make themselves orders were to llien»; and persons of this description who resisted evidently did ion convent be summarily court-martialed. The- State farmer soldiery. the of cy efficien the of opinion high a cherish not ■ ' , , „i ,,r t,,i,i me he assisted in re-covering it many iThe mill stood at the soutuweste™ ^ °* V(.ars ll(.fcll,, and found under the shingles the stone bridge which now connec * gg covering it another covering, pierced in Neck will, the mainland It ^aB ^*™yf ^ plflces with bullet holes." About a third fire early in December, 1S<4. Jo tne lasi a . ^^ ^ bl.idge> ,,n tlu, promises of i„ a good state of preservation for its age, , ana Brainerd T. Harrington, grape-shot wore was still in use for grinding gram The old Mr Bu mu j_ b_ evidently wore mill," writes a venerable resident of the local- found as ^te^amissiles ■ M^ th< of some in sided "was historian, present itv to the lean artillery. and a man living here in 1S49