In consequence of this unfortunate affair, all attempt by the Americans to hold the country south of the Croton River was abandoned, and from that time until the restoration of peace our lines .lid not extend below Pine's Bridge and Bedford. In September, 1780 (eight months after the Youngs House disaster), when Major Andre was taken at Tarrytown, his captors had to travel a distance of more than ten miles to the nearest American post. Our Westchester County novelist, James Fenimore Cooper, in ki The Spy," locates at the " Four Corners " the famous hotel of Betty Flanagan, a kt house of entertainment for man and beast/' before which" hung the sign, "Elizabeth Flanagan, her hotel," written in red chalk. To Betty Flanagan Cooper accredits the immortal honor of the invention of "that beverage which is so well known at the patriots who make a winter's march between present hour to all the the commercial and political capitals of this great State, and which is distinguished by the name of ' cocktail.' " About two weeks before the melancholy occurrence at Youngs's House a party of Americans descended to Morrisania and at dead of night attacked the quarters of the British Colonel Hatfield. This party, says Heath, was made up of troops from Horseneck and Greenwich, Conn., about eighty in number, commanded by Captains Keoler and Lockwood. Several British were killed, the quarters were burned, and Hat field, three other officers, and eleven men were taken prisoners. Another raid on Morrisania, on a larger scale and much more effective, was made in May. It was led by Captain dishing, of the Massachusetts line, with one hundred infantry. More than forty of de Lancey's troopers were killed or made prisoners. The object of the expedition was to capture de Lancey himself, but he was absent.