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Robert Morris, Senior, of Fordham: "I am eighty seven, and was born in my father's house, which was burnt in January, 1780, by Captain Lockwood. It was a large two story stone house, and stood between here and Fort No. 8, on the east side of the road, south of No. 8, and a little north of this house
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Part of the walls are yet standing and form a long low one story building on the east side of the road. I left here in the beginning of the war of the Revolution and did not return till its termination. Colonel DeLancey's Headquarters were for a long while at my father's house before it was burnt. There was no road in the Revolutionary war that I ever heard of, leading from my house or from any place between my house and DeVoe's Point, directly to West Farms. There might have been a military road but I never knew of one. People hereabouts when going to West Farms went up this road till they came to the road from Dyckman's bridge or the Farmers Bridge to DeLancey's Mills and pursued that route. - There was no bridge on the Bronx below DeLancey's at West Farms, and the inha- -bitants of Morrisania in going to West Chester went by a road leading along the Bronx to West Farms where they crossed DeLancey's bridge and then gained the Borough Village by the customary route.