A re-incorporation of the same occurs on the 4th of Mr.rch. i8o6.<^'

The P)-esbyterian Church is handsomely located on the highest ground of the \-iHagc, commanding a fine view of the surrounding country ; it was built in 1799, on the site of an older edifice erected cir. 173S. and destroyed by fire in June or July, 1799. The late Thomas Strong testified "that when the British, under Abercrombie, came to Crompoud and burnt Strong's house, it was in the afternoon. But when their ligr.t horse anived under Tarieton, it was early in the morning of the 24t.'i of June. Tarieton came up by a circuitous route, following the Croton

« Te?t;rn.ony of :\lr?. -- ny.-irr. of Sornprs. In reply to an enquirv on this snhjecr. t!ie !:• t. nVfi-si^'iv,;V\ l''''*''''l^'J'-'^''"'^''''- "^'- J-^n'*^s's llL'ctorv, bou!FiS:.r,teo,.Tau. IStii i'.'-.-

do not niii.-ral,, r h\ nhdiu it w:i> piv,-ii, m h-iw laii.-h w.i,-; •rivea. My itiirtre^sio'T Is tin.: i' i rniiik ■nas aiioot tlit- [i.tioiI of tlie HLVoltitioii.'.ry war "

h Coiiuty r.oc. RMi^bius Soc. I.ii.. .\, .■5.'!.

c Ki:ir::y f irr.i^ho 1 !.y \\i Kor. W. ^. rummings.

d <^>}. lire. HijjioiH Soc. Lib. A, pp. TT, 79, SI, 8:1, 147.

THE TOWN OF YORKTOWN'. 667

ibove Pine's Bridge one mile and a half or more, crossing the Croton it Vails ford, advanced upon Crompond from the east by a road which iiiuihIs like a semi-circle, coming into the Crompond road a little south of where Delavan lived. It was at Delavan's house, where they found John Shaw, whom they killed -- mistaking him for Copt. Delavan. This h.ippened in the morning of June 24th, on the road from Crompond to Pine's Bridge, about three-quarters of a mile from Crompond. The British burnt the Meeting House and parsonage and retired upon Pine's Pridge.