The poor old man, however, perished at the battle of White Plains while fighting gallantly in the Colonial army.®

But our tales are finished, and the "Neutral Ground " is neutral no longer. The great city has stretched out its long arms and encircled it in its grasp. The days of the Cowboy and the Skinner are over. The British soldier and his Hessian ally are seen no more. Clinton, Howe, Washington, and Lee, all sleep with their fathers, and the drum and the bugle of the Revolution are silent.

Soldier rest, thy warfare o'er,

Sleep the sleep that knows no breaking; Dream of battle-fields no more,

Days of danger, nights of waking."

Tibc **1Heutral (Brount)"

NOTES AND REFERENCES.

1 . The name is taken from Jonas Broncks, one of the

early proprietors of the district.

2. The original owner of the property was Throgmorton.

Throg's Neck is a corruption of Throgmorton's Neck.

3. Thomas Pell was the first proprietor.

4. The shot was tired by Lieutenant Paddock.

5. We do not mean to assert that there was a thermometer

as we understand it.

6. Some tiiirty years ago this tree was cut down by the

proprietor. Some of the wood has come into the possession of the writer, through a relative to whom it was given. It now forms a couple of book-cases.

7. Some writers state that a Hessian officer committed

this deed, but we think the Cowboy version is correct.

8. The last two anecdotes were told to the writer by Mr.