Reasonably enough, the two Taverns which were, then, prominent within the limits of the Village, were made the stopping-places of those rural incomers unto whom no Village householder had extended a Village welcome, Captain Hatfield, the landlord of one of those Taverns, entertaining those who were opposed to the Morrises and to the proposed election of Deputies, while those who favored that family and that proposed election, " put up in another " Public House in the Town," probably that which was kept by Isaac Oakley. 1

1 Protest of the Inhabitants and Freeholders of Westchester-covnty, New- York, "County op Westchesteb, April 13, 1775," published in Miviugton's New-York Gazetteer, No. 105, New York, Thursday, April 20, 1775; and in Gaine's Nevl-Y-irk Gatette : and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1227, New York, Monday, April 17, 1776.

We have been favored by our unwearied friends, Hon. Lewis C. Piatt and Hon. J. 0. Dykman with information, concerning these two Taverns, which our readers will find worthy of their remembrance.

Captain Hatfield's Tavern stood almost due South from the old Courthouse, and nearly half a mile distant, on the North side of the old stageroad to New York, -- the line of that road has been changed, 6ince 1775-- on property more recently owned by Samuel B. Lyon, Esq., and now by the heirs of the late Alfred Waller, Esq.

The old building has been removed from the place on which it stood, in 1775, to a place, further to the northward, not far from the site of the old Court-house ; and is now occupied as a tenement.