Macdonald, John. Interview with Randell, John, 1772-1850; (1848). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 695. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).

- Hufeland Index Page 676 - Mr. Randall of 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 Haerlem, Snake Hill (now …

There was a British vessel of war frozen up (1779-'80?) opposite my brother's above (121st Str. Opposite north end of the Island). I remember Morris's Old Mill on the Mill Brook very well. 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 …