Macdonald, John. Interview with Corsa, Andrew, 1762-1852; (1847-09-24). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 640. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).

- Hufeland Index Page 519 - Septr. 24th Andrew Corsa, of Fordham. "The Refugee settlement was mostly in Governor Morris's woods east of and near Mill Brook. The new road lately made runs through it, but part of this settlement was on the lands of General Lewis Morris, west of the brook. There were 200 or 300 huts in the whole scattered about in and near the woods which …

Delancey during the action advanced (himself personally) no further than the Negro fort. The cannon were spiked in 1776, at Cook's or the Negro fort, which stood exactly where my son's house now stands about a quarter of a mile and perhaps a little more south of the stone house built by Isaac Valentine and adjacent to the old post road. Isaac Valentine was a black- -smith and …