We then led the army along the west bank of Mill brook about two miles, when turning to the west we retired through the fields of Fordham &c. passing by Robert Morris's (present) house - a little to the east of it, & so on to the high grounds above Dennis Bolentine's hill at Sun Hill where (I believe) the combined army encamped for the night. The next day (Monday July 23d 1781) we piloted the army again to Morrisania, but this time we advanced no further south than the mills, and then retired as we had done the day before in a nearly direct line through the fields of Fordham towards Valentine's Hill, where, as I understood the army lay that night.

In the Revolutionary war the road from West Farms to Morrisania ran pretty nearly as it now does, that is, first along the Bronx [margin: Classon pt] to Graham's Neck (Willett's Neck?) then west to where Gouverneur Morris's orchard now is; then south through the orchard &c.

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266 918 9. to the old Mill, and so on across Mill brook to the old Harlem Ferry. There was a bridge then crossed the Mill dam. The old Jail and Court House (one building) in the Revolutionary war, stood on the same side of the road as, and between, the Schule and the Quaker Meeting House. The jail was in the lower story which was stone, and the Court House in the upper story which was wood. It was, I think, upwards of four miles (probably four and a half) from Fab Nº 8 to Gouverneur Morris's at Morrisania. My brother, Isaac Corsa, the youngest of our family lives in East Chester, or in West Chester on the borders of East Chester. He must remember a good deal, and I advise you to see him.