Macdonald, John. Interview with Quinby, Josiah, 1763-1852; (1848-10-25). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 723. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.
can aid your enterprise, I will not
fail to communicate it to you.
October 25th Josiah Quinby,
of New Castle, aged 85: "I was
born in this house in 1763. Once
towards the latter part of the war,
thirty or forty Refugees horse came up
and staid all night at Dark Hollow or
Valley, near here, at the head of the
Bronx and of the Kisco, where they
fed their horses with the meadow grass
and went on nex…