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. The oration was delivered by General Stewart L. Woodford, and the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew and Vice-President Stevenson were among the conspicuous participants in the exercises. But since the erection of the Dobbs Ferry monument it has been established by indisputable evidence that the memorable meeting of Washington and Carleton did not occur in the Livingston house or at Dobbs Ferry, but at Tappan (Orangetown) on the opposite side of the river.2 A conclusive article on this point by Mr. Daniel Van Tassel, of Tarrytown, was published in the Tarrytown Argus for March 23, 1895. The principal testimony cited by Mr. Van Tassel is a letter from the well-known Colonel Richard Varick, dated May 18, 1783, describing the affair with much circumstantiality. It is unnecessary to go into the particulars of the matter here, and indeed we fear that even the brief allusion to it Avhich we have permitted ourselves may wound the sensibilities of some of our readers. It is proper to add that the originators of the monument at Dobbs Ferry acted in entire good faith and with very praiseworthy motives, upon grounds deemed sufficient at the time. 1 The inscription mi the Dobbs Ferry monument is as follows: