Its present name is from Dobbs, a Swede from the Delaware, one of the earliest settlers on Philipse's Manor. The village is seated pleasantly on the river front of the Greenburgh Hills, and is the place of summer residence for many New York families. Here active and important military operations occurred during the war for independence. There was no fighting here, hut in the movement of armies it was an important point. Upon the high hank, a little south-east from the railway station, a redoubt was built by the

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Americans at an early period of the war. From near that spot our little sketch was taken, whicli included the long pier at Pierraont, the village of Nyack, and the range of hills just below Haverstraw, off which the Vulture lay, and at the foot of which Arnold and Andre met. Several other redoubts were cast up in this vicinity ; these commanded the ferry to Paramus, afterwards Sneden's Landing, and now Rockland.

Near Dobbs's Ferry the British rendezvoued, after the battle at White Plains, in October, 177G ; and at Hastings, a mile below, a British force of six thousand men, under Lord Cornwallis, crossed the river to Paramus,

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marched to the attack at Eort Lee, and then pursued the flying Americans under "Washington across New Jersey to the Delaware river. Here, in 1777, a division of the American army, under General Lincoln, was encamped ; and here was the spot first appointed as the meeting-place of Andre and Arnold. Circumstances prevented the meeting, and it was postponed, as we have already observed. Here, in the mansion of Yan Brugh Livingston, General Greene met the chief of three commissioners from General Sir Henry Clinton, in conference concerning Major Andre.