Macdonald, John. Interview with Morris, Robert, 1762-1851; (1848). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 704. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).

- Hufeland Index Page 668 - Robert Morris, Senior, of Fordham: "I am eighty seven, and was born in my father's house, which was burnt in January, 1780, by Captain Lockwood. It was a large two story stone house, and stood between here and Fort No. 8, on the east side of the road, south of No. 8, and a little north of this house - Hufeland Index Page 669 - Part of the walls are …

People hereabouts when going to West Farms went up this road till they came to the road from Dyckman's bridge or the Farmers Bridge to DeLancey's Mills and pursued that route. - There was no bridge on the Bronx below DeLancey's at West Farms, and the inha- -bitants of Morrisania in going to West Chester went by a road leading along the Bronx to West Farms where they crossed …

Colonel Roger Morris who lived in the house now owned by Madame Jumel, was no relation to our family. He was a British officer and returned home at the conclusion of the war. There is no stream running into the Sound or Haerlem River between Still [X] Brook and the Bronx. Lieut. Colonel Anthony Walton White was related to our family, and was a Jersey man He told me that when …

cautiously, took sentinels, and made his men pull off their coats and lay them on the planks for fear of giving an alarm, as it was his intention to make prisoners of Colonel DeLancey and other Refugee Officers who were then at a neighboring house enjoying a cock fight. Notwithstanding all his precautions, however, they escaped. Colonel White settled at the West, but finally …