This individual, during the occupancy of Mile square by the American forces, supplied the army with liquor and provisions. On the approach of the enemy from New York, he chose to retire with General Washington to White Plains ; shortly after the evacuation of the premises by Gainos, his tenants left in charge were alarmed by the midnight attack of a gang of British Cow-boys, a scuffle ensued, during whicli one of the assailants was killed.

In the retreat of the robbers, they pitched the headless body of their slain comrade, into the adjoining well. This tragical event lias given rise to strange stories ; and has thrown over this spot a veil of horror, whicli is heightened by tlie loneliness of the situation. Some benighted countrj-iiianhas construed the gnaried and fantastic cedars, (which surround this spot), into the headless form of the cow-boy seated on the well; and the sweeping blast, or gurgling brook, into his doleful groans. The common people still regard this place witli superstitious dread, no one daring to approach it after dusk.

ViuentirJs hill, is a high ridge bordering the Mile square on the west; .its summit affords one of the finest views in Westchester count v. To the

a Simcoe's Milir. Jourual, p. 77.

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cast the eye ranges over an extensive country of hills, woods and vales, slretdiing towards Long Island Sound; the distant horizon skirted by light blue hills. To the north lie the Tuckahoe hills, while v/estward the view is bounded by the Yonkers ridge, surmounted with lofty woods, ■with here and there a glimpse to be obtamed of the dark palisades peeping through some opening in the trees ; below lies a beautiful vale, through which meanders Tippet's Brook. At the base of the hill ^\•inds the Croton Acqueduct.