Notes - Visits and Home Locations of Interviewees
John M. McDonald interview — 1844
John Macdonald identifies the location of a number of places that are mentioned in his interviews. It appears that he may have been viewing maps as he made these notes. The sites that he mentions include Prince Charles’s Redoubt (Fort Prince Charles) on Marble Hill in Manhattan; the homes of James Requa and Daniel Requa on Sleepy Hollow Road in Sleepy Hollow; a fort on Chatterton Hill in White Plains; Clapp’s Tavern on King Street in North Castle; the homes of John Appleby, John Odell (now the Odell House Rochambeau Headquarters), and David Pugsley in present-day Hartsdale; Young’s House and the homes of Gilbert Taylor, Caleb Hueslet (or Husted) and James Hammond on Grasslands Road in present-day Valhalla; the homes of Jacob Purdy and John Horton in White Plains; the Quaker Meeting House in Mamaroneck; the homes of Abraham Storms, Peter Storms and Matthew Van Tassel in Greenburgh; the headquarters of American General Horatio Gates at the Miller House in North White Plains; and a meeting house between Tarrytown and Sing Sing (the forerunner of the First Presbyterian Church of Ossining that was located in Sparta Cemetery).
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192 94 93. [margin: PARTS] Prince Charles' Redoubt stood on the hill contiguous to the road and to Hyatt's Tavern and King's bridge. James Requa's and Daniel Requa's Houses are on the Sleepy Hollow road about three quarters of a mile from where it branches off the main road - James Requa's the first on the west side - Daniel's near, or east side. A Fort on the crest of Chatterton Hill north of and adjacent to the road, (?) and on [margin: WP] the extreme north side of the Hill.
Clapp's T. appears about half a mile north of where the ^West^ Plains road comes into King Street and near to, and a little south of where the road to Bedford turns off.
Appleby's (John) appears to have been Colonel Odell's and Pugsley (David) on the north of the road near Phil. Honeywell's A burnt house where Isaac Odell lived. The first house east of Young's Tavern was Gilbert 93.
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195 95 94. [margin: PARTS] Taylor's - the second on a cr. road near D. Davis) Caleb Hueslet. The first house west of Young's not named - and the second was Colonel Hammond's.
Head Quarters at the Purdy House. - General [margin: White Plains] Morris's quarters at the house where John Horton lives "at Farquaners".
Quakers Meeting in Mamaroneck stood in the Revolutionary war where it does now?
A. Storms's at Saw mill river near which the upper and lower roads from West White Plains unite; Peter Storms's on the same road, further on towards Tarrytown and a little West of Matthew Van Tassel's.
Maps of Erskine - Geog. Genl. of Congress. Genl. Gates's Head quarters at the Miller House A Meeting House on the road between Tarrytown and Sing Sing, about 4 miles from Tarrytown. 94
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196 96 95. [margin: PARTS] From the ^made^ map by Erskine for Genl. Washington On the White Plains and Tarrytown roads appear 1st, the house of A. Storms (Anthony ?) at the Saw Mill River bridge); 2d the house of M. ^Matthew^ Van Tassell about 3/4ths of a mile west of said bridge; 3rd, the house of Peter Storm about a mile west of the said bridge. 95