Emme- -rick was a very talkative, agreeable man - often visited my father - and was fond of being with the women to whom he made himself agreeable. He was more social than Simcoe who also visited my father often. Courtland's house is One and a half miles from my house - Courtland's woods extend to the road which connects the Deveau houses. Hunt's Bridge east of Yonkers. There are three places called Valentine's Hill, vizt: 1st, Dennis Valentines; 2d. a hill on the west side of the Bronx where . . . . Valentine lives; and 3d. the real Valentine's Hill on the east [X] of the Bronx. [? Seems to have been that one from which General Washington advanced in 1781.] - Daniel Deveau's Recollections.
[X] Sampson V?
Courtland's house is One and a half miles from my house - Courtland's woods extend to the road which connects the Deveau houses. Hunt's Bridge east of Yonkers. There are three places called Valentine's Hill, vizt: 1st, Dennis Valentines; 2d. a hill on the west side of the Bronx where . . . . Valentine lives; and 3d. the real Valentine's Hill on the east [X] of the Bronx. [? Seems to have been that one from which General Washington advanced in 1781.] - Daniel Deveau's Recollections. [X] Sampson V?