Our heroes swam the north river, (it was the early part of October,) and ran all that night. The next day thry concealed themselves in the woods, and the following night kept on their way, avoiding all habitations of note. Not kno',nng the state of parties in the country', they skulked from one place to another until thcv reached Dutchess county, where ConckHn was known. Here, they rested themselves and obtained food. Soon after the treaty of peace, Mr. Leggett removed to New York. He died October loth, 1S43. His children were Samuel, Joseph, Willam H. and Thomas, besides several daughters.

Opposite the residence of the late Edward G. Faile, Esq., on this neck, a rural lane led south-west to Morrisania. It was called La- Fayette's Lane, to commemorate the journey of that General, who passed through it on his way to Boston.

On the west side of the Planting Neck lies the debatable territory already alluded to.

In 1740 Lewis Morris and Isabella, his wife, conveyed to James Graham, father of the latter, the following leasehold property : --

"All ihat certain tract of land being part of the manor of ^rorrisania, situate lying and being in the county of Westchester, in the Province of New York afoicsaid, beginning at the mouth of a small brook or run of water commonly called or known by the name of 'SViQiram Brook, but by some falsely called Sackicrahung : it being the first brook to the westward of an isthmus or neck of land known by the name JeafferoCs Neck, and from the mouth of the said brook, where it falls into the salt water, running as the said brook runs to the head thereof, which being measured in a straight Ime north eight degrees thirty minutes more easterly, is forty and three chains running cast, thirty-four degrees northerly to Bound Brook; thence down the said i?(/w?i(^ i?r.;)oi, as it runs to the mouth thereof, w-here it falls in a salt-water creek that runs by the house of Gabriel Leirgett ; then along the said creek as it runs into the Sound to tlic eastward of the said JeafftrcCs Neck; then along the Sound to the mouth of a salt creek that runs up to Wigwam Brook; thence along up the said salt creek as it runs to the mouth of Vi'igicam Brook, whence it first began, including the said Jearrerd's Neck, with the hammock, meadows and marshes thereunto adjoining and belonging, being bounded to the westward by the said Wigicam Brook and the salt creek before mentioned that runs up to it to the northward, prjtlyby the lands of iTorrisania and the salt creek that runs by the house of the said Leggett to the eastward, partly by the said Bound Crctk, and partly the salt creek aforesaid that runs by the house of Leggett, and to the southward by the Pound that divides Long Island, or the Island of Nassau, from Connecticut, etc. • the grantee paying therefore yearly, on the 25th of March, six e<irs of Indian corn, &c."