They then could elevate, depress, or move it sideways at pleasure and take a certain aim. It carried large balls to a great distance. Some times it was filled with buck shot or small balls." "The old 29 mile stone, during the Revolutionary 26th milestone was [page break] 1063 235 war, stood about a mile south of Tarrytown. I knew Mrs Day well. Her house stood near Peter Myers at the head of Harlem Lane. Peter Van Tassel was a cousin of my father in law Cornelius Van Tassel. Peter's house stood on the hill southwest of my father in law's house, being the first dwelling below it as the old road then ran. The picket-guard in '77. was kept at Peter's, and the main guard and Head quarters were kept at Cornelius's house. Both these houses were burnt on the night of the 17th and 18th of November 1777, together with the farmhouse of Israel Honeywell (where Isaac Odell afterwards lived) in consequence of Honeywell being an active whig. [Apprehensive of an attack if the guard was withdrawn from the Van Tassel houses a day or two before the 17th - see Bl. Docht. N. B. 2/4.] Peter Van Tassel was a lieutenant.

The picket-guard in '77. was kept at Peter's, and the main guard and Head quarters were kept at Cornelius's house. Both these houses were burnt on the night of the 17th and 18th of November 1777, together with the farmhouse of Israel Honeywell (where Isaac Odell afterwards lived) in consequence of Honeywell being an active whig. [Apprehensive of an attack if the guard was withdrawn from the Van Tassel houses a day or two before the 17th - see Bl. Docht. N. B. 2/4.] Peter Van Tassel was a lieutenant.