Odell, the General's mother, a woman of great intrepidity, boldly assaulted them, upon which these cowardly villians attacked her with the butt ends of their muskets. She managed, however, to escape with a few broken ribs. On this occasion the General was too young to take an active part in the affray, and narrowly escaped by lowering himself with a cord from the garret window. His son Jacob Odell, Esq., now owns the property. The adjoining estate, north, belongs to his son-in law, Cornelius Odell, Esq.

The roads leading east of the Saw Mill vaUey intersect with the Sprain valley road, which runs nearly north and south.

The .Sprain river, called by the Indians Arniotiperahin, rises in two springs north of Thirty Deer Ridge; the west branch in Wolf Swamp.* The other called the Grassy Sprain, on the lands of widow UnderhilL These two springs flowing south intersect a little east of Benj. Prowler's. They again divide at the northern extremity of Thirty Deer Ridge, and running through two different vales again meet nearly opposite the Cat rocks -- so called for the abundance of wild cats that once frequented the hilL These animals, Van der Donck assures us, had skins resembling that of a lioness; and not unlike them in form, with the exception of short tails like a rabbit or hare.

After uniting here, the Sprain pursues a south-east course until it discharges into the Bronx, on the lands of Nathaniel Valentine. The waters of the Sprain were pronounced by the commissioners in 1S42, to be the purest in Westchester county. a A wolf was killed here as late as ISOS,