Tixese ladies retired here, for the sake of escaping the turmoils of tlie Revolution. Mrs. De Lancey died here in 1779, ^"'-^ '^^'^s buried at Crompond;buther remains have since been removed to Heathcote Hill, Mamaroneck. During the war their house afforded an asylum for the persecuted, who found here a safe protection from their enemies. Susan De Lancey afterward resided with her brother, John Peter De Lancey, at Heathcote Hill, where she died in 1815 and was interred in the De Lancey family burning ground.

Near the main road leading from Crompond to Somers is situated the estate and residence of the late Robert P. Lee, Esq., for many years one of the leading memlxrs of the bar in this country. Mr. Lee was the youngest son of John Lee of Yorktown, whose grandfather WiUiam Lee, emigrated to this country in 1675 from Nottingham, England.

The village of Crompond and its immediate neighborhood appears to have been greatly harrassed during the revolutionary troubles by frequent forays of the enemy. Before the morning of the 24th of June, 1779, ( says General Heath.) about 200 of the enemy's light horse came up as far as Crompond, surprising two militia pickets, killed" and took prisoners

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