Governor Tryon, in his reply, said: "I have candor enough to assure yon -- as much as I abhor every principle of inhumanity or ungenerous conduct -- I should, were I in more authority, burn every committeeman's house within my reach, as I deem those agents the wicked instruments of the continued calamities of this country; and in order sooner to purge the country of them, I am willing to give twenty-five dollars for every active committeeman who shall be delivered up to the King's troops." l^sx/h &r<hS^y That popular romance, Cooper's " Spy " (the earliest of its author's novels of American life), is, as its title states, a " Tale of the Neutral Ground." Cooper's hero, who goes in the novel by the name of Harvey Birch, was a real personage, whose true name was Enoch Crosby, and who became a respected citizen of our county after the Revolution, dying at Golden's Bridge in 1835. It is widely known that Cooper was mainly indebted to Chief Justice John Jay for the facts of Crosby's career which led to the writing of the " Spy," that Jay was in error in supposing that Crosby's operabut it appears tions took him occasionally within the British lines in New York the counCity. The fact is, he devoted himself quite exclusively to historian of try districts. Mr. Joseph Barrett, the well known local Westchester our Town of Bedford, in an address delivered before the account of thorough very a County Historical Society in 1879, gave mpermanent and great The Crosby's life and patriotic services.