New York was then the only place in the United States still occupied by a British force. In April Sir Guy Carleton commenced to arrange the preliminaries necessary to be observed before withdrawing his command. The chief thing to be provided for was the conveyance of the Tory refugees out of the United States to the British dominion.1 As the refugees were many thousands in number, and all of them claimed considerate treatment at the hands of the British authorities, this was not a task capable of being performed with expedition. Several months would indispensably be required for its completion. Meanwhile, however, Sir Guy Carleton deemed it appropriate to have a personal meeting with Washington and come to an understanding with him on the general subject of the prospective evacuation. The meeting between the two commanders, attended by their staffs, occurred with much eclat on the 6th of May, ceremonials being prolonged through the 7th and terminating on the 8th. A belief has always obtained among the citizens of Dobbs Ferry that this historic event transpired in their village, at the old Van Brugh Livingston house. Tossing, in his Field Book of the Revolution, located it there, and the statement has been repeated by numerous other writers, including the author of the article on the Town of 1 " Sadness and despair," says Mrs. Lamb, mortgages, and contracts before the evacua" overwhelmed the Loyalists. New York City tion of the city should take place, for they presented a scene of distress not easily de- were penniless. The complications were insurscribed. Men who had joined the British army mountable, and nothing was accomplished in and had exhibited the utmost valor in battle that direction. Angry lamentations filled the quailed before the inexorable necessity of exile very air. The victims of civil war inveighed from their native land.