Ab the Streets and Avenues now run, it was inside of the block bounded by the First and Second-avenues and One hundred and twenty-fourth <and One hundred and twenty-fifth-streets, near the present intersection of the First-avenue and One hundred and twenty-fourth-street, as it has been described to us by our friend, James Biker, Esq., of Waverly, New York, the distinguished historian of Harlem, etc.

The features of the old building may be seen in the View of Harlem from Morriscmia, copied from the original drawing, in the British Museum ; and reproduced in the Manual of tlie Corporation of the City of New York for 1863, opposite page 610 ; and, again, on page 218 of this work, for the illustration of this article.

1° Journal of the Convention, "Die Sabbati, 4 P.M., Augt. 10, 1776."

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

be done, as any Westchester-county farmer could have told those Deputies by whom this order was made. As we have elsewhere stated, 1 Kings-county " determined not to oppose the enemy," although the latter had not made any attempt to occupy it ; and the Convention, it will be remembered, made some rash movements toward crowding all who lived within that County into still greater acts of hostility against the Americans, instead of inspiriting them and securing their continued fealty to the State of which they were members. It provided for the removal of all which remained, of those Cannon which had been brought from the City and laid on the roadsides of the County of Westchester -- those which had been spiked and unspiked, guarded and left unguarded, at such heavy cost, some months previously 2 -- and General Clinton was requested to have carriages made for such of those guns as he should consider necessary for the defence of the works to the northward of King's Bridge. 11 At the suggestion of General Washington,* measures