ANDREW CORSA - OBITUARY 1 THE LAST OF THE WESTCHESTER GUIDES BY JOHN M. MACDONALD On the evening of Sunday the 21st of November at his residence in Fordham, Andrew Corsa2 departed this life at the age of nearly ninety-one. He was born on the 24th day of January, 1762, where the Roman Catholic College of St. John now stands, on the farm occupied by his paternal an-cestor, a native of Germany, who…

The following obituary notice occurs in the Westchester Herald for that year." In the Van Tassel papers in the Hufeland Westchesteriana is a note that the Andrew Corsa obituary was published in the Westchester Herald on January 11, 1853. 2 The Corsa genealogy had been exhaustively traced by Stanley J. Corsa of Brooklyn, N.Y. It is published in Vol. V. of French's History of West-chester County, …

Preparatory to this operation, Count Mathieu Dumas, the two brothers Berthier, and several other young officers belonging to the French staff, who had, for some days, been zealously engaged in exploring the ground and roads and in sketching maps of the country between the allied camp and Kings Bridge, were ordered by the French commander to set out before daylight, and to push their examinations t…

This reconnoisance established in favor of Kilmaine and of the elder Berthier,--the latter of whom was afterwards a Marshal of France under Napoleon, and Prince of Wagram and Neufchatel,--reputations for partisan skill and intrepidity that led to their subsequent preferment. A few days later occurred the grand reconnoisance, which was made on the 22d and 23d of July by the American and French comm…

He used to relate that when the allies, marching from the east near the Bronx and passing over the high grounds around Morrisania House came in sight of the enemy, the fire which the British artillery opened upon them from the fortifications at Randall's Island and Snake-hill--from the batteries at Harlem and from the ships of war at anchor in the river, was terrible and incessant; and obeying the…

Possessed of a memory unusually retentive, and residing constantly upon the borders of the "neutral ground," he was acquainted with all the distinguished parti-sans both from above and below, and with nearly all the military operations whether great or small that occurred along this portion of the British lines; and which, until within the last few days of his life, he continued to describe in min…

His death was preceded by none of the diseases to which humanity is heir, and he ceased to exist only because he was worn out by toil and time. The machine which had been set in motion by its divine constructor and which had gone on for more than four score years and ten, "at last stood still," and the weary occupant sought a better habitation. His memory continued unimpaired until nearly the clos…