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.
[X] Clason Pt.
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to the old Mill, and so on across Mill brook to the old Haerlem Ferry. The road and 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 Church 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 Fort 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. At the commencement of the revolu- -tionary war, Bearmore, I think, must have been nearly 25 years old. I have heard that the Refugee Captain Knapp was for some offence sent to the New