Tlirou'-'h FIcld?ton eastcrlv from the river ran the southern boundary, in many

a SLnicoe's ilil. Jouvaal, p. SO.

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ylnces Still standing, of the old Phillipse manor. Against its walls, near the river, ai)\v in a forest but said to have been cultivated lands a hundred years ago, reuiain the foundations of Nanny Piper's cottage, perhaps the widow of an old retiiucr or wood guard, by whose name a never dying spring, famous for the puritv of its waters, is still known. Other springs with which the wooded hills are wonderfully well supplied, yet point to old dwellings, especially one on the high ground above the Albany turnpike, near which are the foundations of a house, of which even Tradition can give no account ; and another, hid in the woods, is known as Cork Tom.

On the south of the farm, an upland pasture, until lately covered with ancient apple trees, too old in this generation to bear fruit, was twenty years ago kno^-n as Johnson's meadow. Here Johnson, a spy, was hung during the revolution- Until increasing population and Riverdale avenue opened the woods and let in the light, Johnson's ghost haunted the spot, to the terror of young and old among the farmers of the soil. His was the only undoubted ghost of antiquity, certified to by many eye witnesses that favored with his presence the rocky ridge from Spuyten-Duyvel to Yonkers. lu 1S30 there were many traces of the revolution remaining; an old chariot covered with gilt, taken fror.i some British officer, caltrops found on the broad river slope, thrown there to impede the charge of cavcl:y ; old English muslcets and a grind-stone, marked with the regal R, which, restored to a frame has until recently been in use.