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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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…
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.
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[margin: Bronx]
When Colonel Jackson made his
attack La Briene must have been op-
-posite Ward's Island or opposite the
Chan…