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Macdonald, John. Interview with Randell, John, 1772-1850; (1848). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 695. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.

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114 676 Mr. Randell ob. 116th Street East River opposite Randall's Island: "I am now Seventy six years old, having been born in 1772, and remember well when Washington and Rochambeau came down to Morrisania in 1781, and how the British fired upon them the mo- -ment they came in sight and while they so continued from the forts at Harlem, Snake Hill (now Mount Morris) and from the vessels of war lyi…
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It must have stood, I think, about a quarter of a mile South east of the spot where the Boston Post road crosses Mill Brook near James Morris's gate. There are no remains of forts or prisons on Randall's Island, and never heard of there having been any. [page break] 118 678 [margin: Bronx] When Colonel Jackson made his attack La Briene must have been op- -posite Ward's Island or opposite the Chan…
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