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Dennis Valentine:
A chain of British forts to protect the lines several of which ran along the Ridge north of Dennis Valentines. Fort Independence about a mile north of Delancey's and Valentines. Tetards Hill three quarters of a mile north. This was one of the British forts. Then came No.5 between Valentines and Fort Independence, being about a quarter of a mile north of Valentine's. No 6. about 300 yards south of Dennis Valentine's on the Ridge - No 7 on Nicholas Berman's father's land about half a mile south of D. Valentine's. A British fort near Valentine's house in a south westerly direction called the King's battery - the site surrounded by cedars. Below (East) of No. 8. the Refugees in the woods - protected the British lines. Negro fort about a mile and a half from Dennis Valentine's (No. ?) on John Corsa's land (that is, a son of Andrew
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Corsa) so called from a detachment of Negroes in the British pay, being quartered there, commanded by Captain Cook. General Mont- -gomery owned the farm where Fort Independence stood and once lived there. The Stockbridge Indians were cut off in Court- -land's Locust orchard, a little west of the Mile Square road about half a mile south east of Courtland's house. - Emmerick's quarters were on Tetards Hill for a long time. Whenever refugees were out of money they went in pursuit of plunder. The Skinners would drive cattle down to a spot where cowboys would meet and take all by pre-concert and afterwards divide the spoil. The old Dutch Church at Fordham stood near No.6 on the road leading to the landing on Spuyten Duyvil creek - Of stone - Used by the British troops as a bake house for the army - Went to decay - It stood about