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October 1st Frederick Post of Yonkers: "Jacob Van Courtland who took the large house and farm under the family entailment was a very good benevolent man, universally loved. - During the war, and while residing in Courtland house he became out of health and went to New York for change of air and medical treatment where he soon after died. The estate then de- -volved on Augustus who lived at that
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at Flatbush (L. I) but Frederick moved in and took possession and gave up his own house to Colonel Wormb who kept his Headquarters there when his regiment lay in that part of West Chester. After the war in 1784 or '85, Frederick moved back and Augustus took the Hall and estate. On the day the Stockbridge Indians were asbuscaded, Capt. Daniel Williams was near them in the rear with his rangers, and but for a very quick retreat would have been cut off. Old W. Bowers of Fort Washington was a German or Dutchman, but whether or not he came over the Hessian army, I don't know. He married a daughter of old Jacob Moore. We here (that is, about Yonkers and Mile Square) were under the necessity of supplying the lower party with provisions and of trading with them, or of starving.
Daniel Williams was near them in the rear with his rangers, and but for a very quick retreat would have been cut off. Old W. Bowers of Fort Washington was a German or Dutchman, but whether or not he came over the Hessian army, I don't know. He married a daughter of old Jacob Moore. We here (that is, about Yonkers and Mile Square) were under the necessity of supplying the lower party with provisions and of trading with them, or of starving.