We conducted them to West Farms by the then roads, and so along the Bronx till [X] we came to Willett's ^Graham's? Neck which Classon purchased afterwards. We then returned turn- -ed to the right and entered Morrisania, moving all this while along the roads. The moment we came in sight of Haerlem river from the high grounds about Gouverneur Morris's house, a furious cannonade was directed against us from the British at Montressor's Island, Haerlem and Snake Hill, and from the ships of war in the river. We (that is, guides) sheltered ourselves for several minutes behind the old Mill, but Washington Rochambeau and their suites moved on as cool and tranquil as ever. We halted a short time at Morrisania while the officers made some ob- -servations. After this we crossed the bridge
[X] (Hunts or Barretto)
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at the Mill, and the army also, after gaining the west side of the Mill brook halted awhile. 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, and so on to the high grounds above Dennis Valen- -tine's 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 farther south than the mills, and then retired as we had done the day before in a nearly direct line through the fields of Ford- -ham 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 &c. to Graham's Neck (Willett's Neck? [X]) then west to where Gouverneur Morris's orchard now is; then south through the orchard &c.