cuts on his arm and had his head cleft open by the sabre. He was left for dead, but recovered to the astonishment of every one.

Elijah Vincent was from near East chester Village and he had a brother who was a black-smith and had his shop, in the Revolutionary War, near where Armstrong's tavern was afterwards built. Soon after the French Army came to West Chester County, a detachment of Lauzun's cavalry called at his Smithy and requested him to shoe some horses. He refused because it was Sunday. Some altercation ensued which ended in a fight and Vincent was killed. Elijah Vincent vowed revenge and watched the French patrol with a party of men

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for some time till he fell in with the scout whose Captain he killed. He took from the Frenchman's pockets an elegant gold watch and some coin.

The house of Captain Israel Honeywell near the corner of Dobbs Ferry and Saw Mill River road was burnt on account of the warm part taken by him and his family in the Revolution. (This is the burnt house laid down in the Historical Society's maps.)

In 1775 or early in 1776 Col. Philipse was taken up and sent for safety to Simsbury mines, in Connecticut, where he was soon after paroled and returned home. It was in the summer or fall of 1776, soon after the affair

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of the Phoenix and Rose that the Fort at Dobbs Ferry was built which stood adjacent to Von Livingston's house on the east side of the road, the remains of which are still visible Observed the Fort was probably intended to protect the Ferry which was then south of the present Ferry nearly opposite the Livingston house.