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. They must leave the against England for abandoning them, and country or be hanged. Such was the general against their own kindred and country for the belief, for those who had shown no mercy inexorable harshness of their doom. They did counted on none in return. The conscientious not pause in their wretchedness to consider and the unprincipled were alike involved in what would have been the fate of those who pecuniary ruin. Seeing that they must aban- had expended or lost fortunes in the cause of don large estates, many appealed to Carleton liberty if triumph had been with themselves." for power to collect debts due upon bonds,

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Greenburgh in Scharfs History of Westchester County. Local tradition also identified the Livingston house as the place where Washington and Rochambeau met upon the junction of the allied armies in July, 1781, and where they planned the Yorktown campaign upon receiving the news from de Grasse's fleet in August of the same year. Reposing confidence in the accuracy of the published statements and prevailing beliefs regarding the venerable house, some members of the Sons of the Revolution started a subscription in 1893 to erect a monument commemorative of such immortal associations. Ample contributions were forthcoming promptly, and the monument was dedicated on the 11th of June, 1894.1 It was a gala day for the village.