974.702 T17t 1757837 a!^?~Ds h'STORICAL GENEALOGY C0LL1C / Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/souvenirofrevoluOOtarr Souvenir. OF THE [Revolutionary Soldiers' floniiment Dedication AT TARRYTOWN, N. Y. October 19th, 1894* £ COMPILED BY MARC JUS D. RAYMOND, TARRYTOWN, N. Y, 1894. i K-* £S <-S , -- «r;- THE OLD DUTCH CHURCH, SLEEPY HOLLOW. I…

Receipts and Disbursements, Additional Memoranda, Illustrations. PAGE. iSr I97 2 1 1 PAGE. Presentation Address b> M. I). Raymond, .... Procession Passing Monument to Captors of. Andre, Sons of the Revolution Marching on Broadway, . . 1 1 View at the Unveiling, ....... President Tallmadge Delivering the Dedicatory Address, • • If View in Music Hall During the Oration, .... Portrait…

The Old Manor House. ....... . . 206 . .'V The publication of the proceedings -at the dedication of the monument recently erected in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in honor of the patriot soldiers of the Revolution of this vicinity, and with the story of the day, a sketch of the lives of some of those who were active participants in the great struggle for Independence, is a fitting finale, to that …

From the memorandum of receipts and disbursements, which in proper place appears herewith, it will be seen that the expense of this publication has been more than the sum which so remained, the balance being made up by the committee. It is only regretted that they were unable to further elaborate and embellish the work. With this simple statement this souvenir is issued in the hope that it ma…

i movement which culminated in the dedication of a monument at this place to the soldiers of the Revolution, had its inception in the desire to honor the memory of the sturdy patriots who by their courage and valor well sustained the cause of liberty and independence on these historic fields, -- not only those who were buried in the old Dutch churchyard, but in a larger, broader sense to hono…

It was entitled one of the military districts of Westchester County, and in it a regiment of militia was organized, with headquarters in the vicinity of Tarrytown, which was then the place of greatest interest on the Manor, the old Dutch Church being here located, and consequently a large number of the soldiers of the Revolution here found their last resting place. Hence it was pre-eminently…

Only the recalling of the history of those trying times, only the re-telling of the thrilling tales of those heroic days, only the reviewing of the memory of the men of the Revolution by the Sons of the Revolution, and it may also well be added, by the Daughters of the Revolution, and the flow of patriotic thought and feeling would soon crystallize in the enduring granite which should rise as …

Only the occasion was needed to call it forth. The site had already been donated by the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Association. And so the good work went successfully forward, the original plan was enlarged and elaborated, and the event grew in importance. As the monument approached completion, the 19th of October, it being the 113th anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis, at Yorktown, was ve…

H. H. Ely, Charles P. McClelland, Lewis Roberts, N. Holmes Odell, Daniel Armstrong. Press Committee : -- W. H. PI. Ely, M. D. Raymond, George N. Pratt. Committee on Printing and Badges : -- M. D. Raymond, W. H< H. Ely, Joseph E. See.' The following additional appointments were also soon after announced : President of the Day: -- Plon. Noah Davis. Orator: -- Hon. Isaac N. Mills. Grand Mars…

On Main Street and Orchard Street and in fact everywhere were brilliant blends of color. Stores were dressed with the red, white and blue, and homes and other buildings bore the colors of all nations. Prominent in the mass of color, however, was Old Glory ; and this was most fitting, for the 'Stars and Stripes' was made possible by the men of the Revolution who by their and valor and fidelity …

"The attention of all was soon diverted however by the arrival of the artillery from Fort Hamilton. The troops had left Fort Hamilton at io o'clock in the morning on the steamer Little Silver, and had been landed at Hastings at about i o'clock, from which place they marched to Tarrytown. The vessel had in the meanwhile proceeded up the river and landed the camp equipage, and when the main body…

Crowds lingered around and watched the artillerymen as they prepared for supper, and later still as in the moonlight t hi e final work of the night uTas done, and at the sound of " taps " the camp became quiet. " Friday morning dawned bright and beautiful, the promise of a most auspicious day, fit for such a symposium of patriotism, and the sunrise was greeted by a national salute of twenty-o…

The marines and blue jackets from the Cincinnati and Dolphin landed, -- sturdy looking fellows who look as if they preferred business and service to parade. The streets were filled with uniformed menand patriotic bands. It was nearly 11 o'clock when the Mary Patten , bearing the Sons of the Revolution and the Society of Colonial Wars reached the dock.'' The parade was formed and just before h…

i i j ! i \ i MONUMENT DEDICATION. SECOND DIVISION. Drum Corps. Ward B. Burnett Post, No. 496, G. A. R., Sylvester Gesner in command.' Kitching Post. No. 60, of Yonkers, Augustus Kipp, Commander. McKeel Post, No 120, of Katonah. E. S. Folsom, Commander. Morell Post, No. 144. of Sing Sing, Wm. W. Ryder, Commander. Farnsworth Post, No. 170, of Mount Vernon, Commander. Cromwell Post, N…

Cureau, Assistant Foreman Hope Hose No. 1, F. V. Millard, Foreman ; Geo. Vanderbilt, Assistant Foreman. FOURTH DIVISION. Carriages. LINE OF MARCH. Along- Orchard St. to Central Ave. , to Washington St. , to College Ave. , to Broadway, to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, passing the Monument; returning along Broadway, passing in review in front of residence of Benson Ferris, Esq., to Main St., to Washi…

It is interesting in this connection to notice the fact that Col. Tallmadge is a descendant of Major Tallmadge, ofSheldon's Dragoons, but for whose intelligent foresight in foreseeing the consequences of Andre being sent on to Gen. Arnold by Col. Jameson, and the persuading of him to recall the order and quickly send after the detachment which had Maj. Andre in charge on the night of Sept. 23d,…

" When the parade reached Battle Hill, halt was called, and the Sons of the Revolution, and the guests and committees assembled about the monument, which was veiled with a large American flag. At a given signal the flag was hoisted by Miss Mabel Requa, the little granddaughter of Captain Samuel Requa, and slowly raised to the mast head. The monument had been unveiled, and the national salute fro…

" Salutes were fired at daybreak by the cruiser Cincinnati , and the dispatch boat Dolphin , which were detailed by the Navy Department to participate in the ceremonies. Every public building, nearly every store, and many of the private houses had been gayly decorated with bunting of patriotic colors last night, and sunrise found the town -bestirring. The inhabitants were alive to several impor…

M, , on the steamer Mary Patten, had not arrived. They came half an hour later, 200 strong, with President Frederick Samuel Tallmadge at their head, flanked on either side by the Rev. Brockholst Morgan, and James M. Montgomery. The procession started up Main Street, and marched to Broadway, and thence to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, with the Marine Band at the head, the marines and regulars followe…

Business was at a standstill ; from every window flags were streaming, and the various stores were fairly hidden by the quantity of bunting displayed, here, there and everywhere. Grand Army men, Marines, small Cadets and larger Firemen, mounted Artillery and Infantry flashed before you in every quarter of the city, and I was proud to observe that the Fourth Separate Company of Yonkers was the …

" Taking a short cut across the old Dutch Cemetery, I pause to gaze on the moss eaten old gravestones beneath which the Revolutionary patriots lie buried -- and fell to pondering on the changes wrought in a hundred years. Passing slowly on, I saw the monument veiled, on the top of Battle Hill, just above the Copcutt Vault, and, as I climbed towards it, the Sons of the Revolution, a grand looki…

One hundred and thirteen years ago, at this precise hour of 12 o'clock, Cornwallis surrendered to the combined forces of Washington and Rochambeau ; peace was declared, and independence secured. To the achievement of these blessings which we are now enjoying, the men whose names are to-day upon our lips with silent veneration and gratitude, these men contributed, and the Sous of the Revolutio…

The scene is purely American, and whatever may be the nationality of some who listen to me, you all united in the prayers which have been made to Almighty God to continue his blessings to our people and to our laud. The love of freedom is a distinguishing trait of our people, and we are grateful to-day to meet together to renew our allegiance to our Government and to express our gratitude to …

May this monument to the memory of the officers and soldiers of the Re volution encourage the patriot and be a warning to the traitor. May it last so long as patriotism shall live in our land and until freedom and independence shall be forgotten." President Tallmadge then formally declared the monument dedicated, after which Mr. M.'D. Raymond, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, with a…

The thunder of guns salutes them to-day ; the flag which they followed waves above them ; we sing the pceans of victory in their praise ; they were our heroes, and we honor them. This Monument shall stand a silent sentinel, keeping the watch of the ages over the hallowed graves of these patriots dead-- -an object lesson in patriotism to those who shall come -after us, a memento to them of wh…

Tablets of stone will contribute their part, but the great nation itself is, and always will be, the best possible memento of those self-sacrificing Westchester County yeomen. It is an interesting circumstance, that the earthwork, which surrounds us and on which so many of you are now standing, was thrown up during the Revolution by these men themselves, so that they fabricated with their own …

Shotts acted as reviewing officers, and so to Music Hall, where the literary exercises of the day took place, Hon. Noah Davis acting as President, with the following Vice-Presidents : Isaac M. Requa, Major R. E. Hopkins, J. D. Archbold, F. W. Giteau, Hon. D. O. Bradley, Andrew C. Fields, Alfred B. Hall, Rev. Amos C. Requa, Geo. B. Newton, John I). Rockefeller, Franklin Couch, Joseph B. See, G…

JUDGE MILLS DELIVERING ORATION IN MUSIC HA' L Address by Judge Noah Da\ is. On taking- the chair, Hon. Noah Davis delivered the following introductory address : " Fellow Citizens : For this great honor, 1 give you my cordial thanks. It is a good thing in the midst of our party strifes to turn back for a while to the struggles, sufferings and triumphs of the Revolution, out of which our libe…

Contrast for a moment with our own, the status after more than a hundred years of the still remaining Provinces of the British Crown, in the estimation of the civilized world. With territory almost boundless in extent, with inexhaustible resources of natural wealth in forest, mine, and vast expanse of fertile soil ; with ocean, lakes and navigable streams illimitable; with the armed forces an…

In every quarter of the globe her influence is felt and recognized in all the impulses of liberty ; in all the progress of commerce; in every national question of finance ; in the marches of education ; the products of art ; in the inventions of genius ; in the achievements of skill and science ; in the circles of education and learning ; in the missions of Christian mercy ; in the hopefulne…

During the wholeperiod of the war, Westchester lay in the darkest shadow of the struggle. To be a Tory was dangerous, but to be a patriot was far more so. The marauders of the city plundered the country, often sparing neither friend nor foe -- oftentimes no man could lie dovm at night with assurance that he would rise in the morning, or rise with the assurance of food for the day, or of sleep fo…

Her very air is sweet with the perfume of patriot memories. Throughout our State, here and there, _ in sacred churchyard and wayside cemetery, moulder the mortal part of its Revolutionary heroes. Nowhere in all its territory are the graves of those, men to be found more frequent relatively, or better preserved and known, or locally held in more tender regard, than right here in ancient Sleepy…

In her immediate neighborhood, in Revolutionary days, brave deeds and deeds of great moment were performed. On that September morning in 1780, when the fate of the new born nation rode along yonder highway in the keeping of the British spy, the straining ear of the listener, standing upon her southern slope, might perhaps have caught the faint echo ot Paulding's bold challenge, which checked t…

On July 2d of that year, Washington and his army, on their way southward to make the movement against New York, rested at eveningtide before the portals of her church ; and the iStli of August following, upon their return, they passed along her western border on the long march to Yorktown. Knowing, as we do, the inherent reverence of that great leader's nature, we may rest assured that holy th…

Could they but be restored to life and re-endowed with memory and speech, and would they but narrate to us the events in our country's career which they personally witnessed or heard of at the time ot their happening, every chapter of American history from the Lnglish occupation of this province to the present time would be unfolded to our ears. Upon the choicest spot of the cemetery grounds…

They knew by instinct at least, that governments derive " their just powers from the "consent of the governed," and that there is no such thing as "the "divine right of kings to rule. " The Declaration of Independence, with its grand statement of the right of self-government, its awful arraignment of the tyrant king, and its solemn appeal to "The Supreme "Judge of the world" fell upon their …

Often er, however, that call came to them from no human lips, but borne on the very breeze, in the faintly heard sound of distant musketry fire, telling that the invader was up the county again. Let us recall such a scene. It is a morning in early spring, with the wind fresh, from the northeast, presage of coming storm, though still the skies are bright. The militia-man has just returned to h…

The implement of husbandry, the hoe or spade, slips unheeded from his grasp ; his form straightens and then bends slightly forward ; the good right hand, with open palm slightly inward curved, is raised behind the ear; the right foot is forward flung; the left arm falls behind ; the lines of the noble face grow tense ; and the fire of battle begins to- blaze in his eyes, as with eager glance …

He leaps from the field to the farmhouse, seizes the trusty musket, already charged, from the hooks over the mantle shelf, and the precious powder and ball from the closet near by ; and snatching a kiss from lips of loved wife and babes, whom he may never see again, he goes bounding away northward over hill and dale, to the chosen, natural place of rendezvous, -- a little cliff, which juts or…

Note, with what ardent glance they search the upper bend of the road, round which the swelling turmoil above tells that the enemy must soon come- Not long have they to wait ; for soon round that upper bend the vanguard appears, stretching from wall to. wall ; and close behind it the struggling, surging mass of frantic cattle, that early morning stolen from patriot farms above ; and then the r…

This unexpected attack is too much even for far famed English valor to endure ; it tells the foe that the patriot farmers of the old manor are rising in arms on every hand; it carries dismay and panic to their very hearts ; and those of them who have not already fallen, abandon their plunder, and seek safety in headlong flight. As they scurry down the road, many a patriot musket from behind b…

In the actual career of more than one of them, that wonderful character, "The Spy," of Cooper s famous fiction, had its substantial prototype. Some of them, by their active and efficient services to the Continental cause, made themselves so especially obnoxious to the British authorities, that the latter offered money rewards for their capture ; in one instance, at least, that is, in case of a …

Jt is well "known to several members of your honorable Houses that our landlord "in the first of these troubles, espoused our cause, but soon after sent " up a writing purporting a protest against Congresses and Committees, "which he enjoined us, the inhabitants, to sign, or we should labor "under his displeasure; but disregarding his threats, the inhabitants "had a meeting, and concluded no…

"That we have been and are still greatly exposed to the ravages "of the enemy, and that during the contest they have been up among "us as far as Tarry Town four different times with considerable armies, "and that the losses sustained and the distress occasioned thereby to "the unfortunate families where they came is not to be conceived. "That many of us have repeatedly lost all of our stock a…

Many of them languished in British prison pens or in pestilential holds of British prison ships; and not a few were included among the Eleven Thousand and Five Hundred patriot prisoners who, in and about New York City, miserably perished in those accursed dungeons and prison ships. Some of them died on the field in open honorable warfare, glorious deaths. One, at least, fell a victim to the T…

Even the children of patriot families were not safe from their cruel rage, as witness their notorious mutilation of three boys near Dohhs Ferry, an act so horrible and so foul, that its detailed character cannot be explained here. To the everlasting credit of the patriots of this manor, be it -said that no act of inhumanity, even by way of retaliation, stains their peerless record. The grea…

Across the ocean in a far-distant land is his sepulchre, well nigh forgotten ; while to-day, here in the heart of his old manor, this vast federal Government, by representatives from its army and navy, and speaking through the thunder of its war ships; and this great State represented in the person of its prominent officials ; and above and over them all the sovereign people in assembled thou…

The pages of history contain no more striking exhibitions of valor than those men gave ; for instance : when Montgomery in the gray of that early winter's morning led the forlorn hope against the citadel of Quebec ; or when, at sunset of that great day at .Saratoga, after the gallant foe Frazer had been mortally wounded and his veterans beaten back into narrowest compass, they, the Continenta…

Eauguage is inadequate to express the debt, which we as a people owe to them. iVll that we are, in the vast expanse of our domain, in our established principles of local self control and of Federal power, extending its protecting arm over all ; in all our material development and wealth ; in all our intellectual advancement, colleges, schools, free press and general diffusion of intelligence …

To no other of those honored societies is this tribute of commendation more due than to the two composed of descendants of the men of the Revolution and known as "The Sons of the Revolution" and "The Sons of the American Revolution." Upon such occasions as this, at least, it is to be deeply regretted, that those two great organizations of common origin, with, a common law of being, and with …

The honor scholar of the day, a girl of perhaps thirteen years, ascended the platform, unfurled the stars and stripes, and facing, presented them to the expectant lines. At the signal word, each childish form straightened to its fullest height ; each childish eye seemed, at least to my partial fancy, to flash back something of the spirit of 1776 ; and in harmonious grace of mutual action the …

Finally, we dedicate this monument upon this day, of all the year the fittest for such an act ; the day in 17S1, which crowned with final triumph the six long years of toil and battle, of alternate success and defeat, of patriot hope deferred making the heart sick ; the day, which made good the early promise of Lexington, Bunker Hill and White Plains, confirmed the great achievement of Sarato…

But upon this occasion of revival of patriot memory and of self-congratulation we may be pardoned, even by the descendants of those valiant allies, if we recall the historic fact, that in the generous rivalry of that night assault upon the English entrenchments, the yoemanry of America first scaled the hostile parapet, even before the tried veterans of Gaul ; and the stars and stripes of the …

Judge Mills' oration was a fitting climax to the glorious day. A highly appreciative audience listened to it with wrapt attention, and interrupted it with frequent and enthusiastic applause which was long continued at the close. Judge Mills was at his best, and by the charm of his oratory, and the felicity of his speech as well as by his graceful, manly manner and the patriotic glow of his el…

McClelland of Dobbs Ferry, Mayor Brush of Mt. Vernon, Rev. Dr. Coffey of Eastchester, Supervisor Joseph B. See, of North Castle, Supervisor Lane of Mt. Pleasant, Supervisor Underhill of Yorktown, Hon. James Irving Burns of Yonkers, Hon. Tlios. K. Fraser of Hastings, Leonard F. Requa, Esq., of New York, Rev. Amos C. Requa of Peekskill, Alfred Flail Esq., and Mr. Wm. Dutcher of New York, Dr. G. …

Steers, President of the Daughters of the Revolution of New York, J. Milton Requa, Esq., and Pierre Wildey, Esq., of New York, Jared Sandford, Ass't. State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Rufus King, Esq., of Yonkers, and Mrs. Richard Moore, of New York, a great-granddaughter of Gov. Gen. George Clinton, and daughter, Major Paulding and Commander E. B. Long of White Plains, Supervisor Gilb…

The officers in command extended every courtesy and won the admiration of all. The photo representations of these war vessels, with the list of officers of each, which appear on the opposite page, are of interest in this connection. M.- ' UNITED STATES WARSHIPS. Lieut. -Commander, J. D. J. Kelley-. I.ieut. C. A. Grove, Ensign Roger Welles, Jr. Naval Cadet S. P. Fullingwider. U. S. S. CINCI…

Dear Sir : -- In sending you the enclosed cheque for $250 towards the erection of a monument, to the memory of the Revolutionary soldiers from this place, which you brought to my attention, I wish to state how heartily I am in favor of a plan which will not only' add to the attractiveness of a place I have always considered my' home, but will at the same time add to the romantic memories of th…

Raymond : -- I take pleasure in- handing herewith my cheque for fifty dollars, towards the Monument to the Soldiers of the Revolutionary War from Philipse Manor, to be erected in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery'. Although the family whose patronymic I so unworthily bear, was one of great pruminence in the Colonial history of Massachusetts, and adoined the pulpit, the bench and the bar with its members…

But the cause is a sacred one, and the memory of the men who fought for the liberty we now enjoy, deserves to be kept alive in stone, and celebrated in monumental brass. Philipse Manor was a spot where men had to show their true colors, and, although it was part of the neutral ground there was no neutral tint in the patriotism of its freemen. Here's to them, then ! Their swords are rust. Thei…

Hon. Charles P. McClelland. FROM GOVERNOR FLOWER. State of_New York, Executive Chamber, Albany, Oct. 11, 1894. Hon. Charles P. McClelland, Chairman, Tarrytown, N. Y. DearSik: -- Governor Flower is in receipt of your letter of recent date, inviting him, on behalf of the citizens of Tarrytown, to be present at the unveiling of the Revolutionary soldiers' monument in Tarrytown, and regrets exceed…

I did not succeed ; t; times were not ripe for them. 1 have often wondered that our business men have n : been quickened to realize the cash value to a town of such historical mementoes, even they were not moved by sentiment. The historical interest of your town and its milegendary lore have added enormously to the attractiveness of your natural advantages and made it the home of more milliona…

Dear Mr. Raymond : -- Lost, one of the events of my life ! But really, in behalf of my worthy ancestors, I must at least thank you for doing so much to perpetuate the memory of those Revolutionary sires. As to my going to the Dedication , the Synod of New Jersey was in our city till Thursday afternoon, leaving me in just that condition that I did not see how I could leave. You would have exist…

Lieutenant Niblack is considered one of the most promising of the young naval officers, and Admiral Meade is devoted to him.'1 SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS, IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. New York, October 15, 1894 Mr. M. D. Raymond, Sec'y Monumental Committee. Dear Sir : -- In response to the invitation extended through Mr. Samuel Requa, the Society of Colonial Wars will send a delegation to join wi…

Secy of the 'N. Y. Society of the Sons of the Revolution. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. New York, October 18, 1894. Dear Sir: -- Pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Board of Managers accepting your courteous invitation to participate in the historical celebration at Tarrytown on October 19th, President Depew appointed the following committee to represent this …

And what a roll of honor it is. Opposite how many names that there appear is written the fatal sentence "Slain on the field !" "Dead on the field of honor ! " What an immortal epitaph ! In what hallowed graves sleep such Patriot dead, " where no bugle sounds reveille." And how fit and becoming that a monument should be erected there, at the old Redoubt on the brow of Battle Hill, to their hon…

Samuel Youngs, Lieut. Cornelius Van Tassel, Lieut. Isaac Van Wart, Lieut. John Van Wart. Lieut. Thaddeus Avery, Ensign Peter Paulding, Ensign Thomas Bovce, Ensign Barnardus SwarLwout, Commissary Win. Paulding. SOUTH SIDE. Sergt. John Dean, Sergt. Staats Hammond, Sergt. Jacob Acker, Sergt. Daniel Requa, Sergt. James See. Sergt. Jacob Van Wart, Sergt. Isaac Martling. Sergt John Hell…

The foregoing list was intended to include the names of all the soldiers of the Revolution who were buried in the old Dutch churchyard, but owing to the fact that no stones now mark the graves of some o them, and the evidence of their burial place not being ascertained until too late, some were unavoidably omitted which are well entitled to a place there with the others. Among the number are …

It has not been possible to designate with the publication of this list the times, and places, and organizations in which even the officers so named served during different enlistments,* and much less to properly place each soldier whose name appears upon this roll. It has been made upinpart from Femow's "New York intheRevolution," published by the authority of this State, with many added as …

The autographs of officers of the Militia Regiment on this Manor, which appear on the opposite page, have an added significance from the interesting fact that they were made in affirmation, "before Robert Graham, Stephen Ward, Gilbert Drake, Ebenezer Lockwood and Jonathan Griffin Tompkins, Esqrs. , Judges of the Inferior County Common Pleas in and for the County of Westchester, and Richard Hat…

Roll of Revolutionary Soldiersjof IPhtiSipse /VXarJor. ROLL OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS. ^yy^-- ^rSct V - - // 'ip- 1 ' r,s Ck\ -dv _< r l^fy^ / &t' /?: (&/?£? William Paulding, Commissar)-. Abraham .Storms, Major. Jonathan Paulding Horton, Maj. William Butcher, Captain. Glode Reoua, Captain. Gilbert Dean, Captain. Sibout Acker, Captain. Abraham Ladieu, Captain. Benjamin Vermilya, Captain…

ROLL OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS. William Champenois, Harman Chamsions, Edward Couenhoven, Tunis Cuyper, William Davids, William Davids, Jr., Isaac Dean, John Dean, Sergt., Thomas Dean, William Dean, Samuel Delameter, Isaac Delameter, ■ Cornelius DeP evere, Henry DeRevere, John DeRevere, Hendrick DeRevere, Corp., Abraham De Danoy, David Devoe, William Devoe, Joseph Dickerman, Sa…

Elbert Orser, Sergt,, Nicholas Orser, Dennis Osburn, Joseph Paine, Caleb Paulding, John H. Paulding, John Paulding, Joseph Paulding, Roger Paulding, Thomas Paulding, Thomas H. Paulding, William Paulding, Henry Philips, William Philips, Anthony Purdy, Caleb Purdy, ROLL OK REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS. Francis Purdy, Abraham Requa, Daniel Requa, Sergt. , Daniel Requa, Jr., Gabriel Req…

Jeremiah Tompkins, Hermanus Vaude water, Abram Van Tassel, Sergt., Abram Van Tassel, Jr., Cornelius Van Tassel, Jr., Isaac Van Tassel, Sergt., John Van Tassel, John Van Tassel, Johannis Van Tassel, Stephen Van Tassel, Abram Van Wart, Garret Van Wart, Hendrick Van Wart, Henry Van Wart, Isaac Van Wart, Corporal, Jacob Van Wart, Sergt., James Van Wart, Martinus Van Wart, William Van…

The singular wording of the certificate of the enrolling officers, who were the Justices of the Peace in that district and the Manor, is quaint enough, and shows that it was calculated to embrace all within certain ages from sixteen upwards, who were then residing within that district without regard to whether they wanted to be enrolled or not, and it is quite possible that some of them whose…

They were of the sturdy patriotic yeomanry from whose numbers the Continental army was continually recruited. But the old Muster Roll : It is a quaint original document, as here appears : * . ' OLD muster roll. fluster Roll. \ Jamks Hammond, Colonel. Jonathan G. Horton, Major. GABRrEL Requaw, Capt. VVm. Veal, Lieut. John Dean, Sergt. John Helleker, Sergt. Ned Bugbee, Samuel Purdy, R…

John Y erks, Sr., Lewis Angevlne, John Yerks, J r. , Josh Hatfield, James Yerks, James See, William Yerks, Peter See, Abram Sifer, John See, Jacob Brower, John Sifei, John Britt, John Fosha, William Britt, Abram See, Caleb Oakley, Sr., Miles Oakly, Caleb Oakley, J r., Othaniel Clark, Joseph Conklin. Joseph Requa, Richard Peacock, Benjamin Oakley, Elijah Leggett, William Fo…

Even the Declaration of Independence and the immortal proclamation of the rights of men would all have been in vain, but for the sword. Wielded in a righteous cause the light of justice flashes from the shining blade, and as the very impersonation of the patriotic spirit of those times the poet still sings "The Sword of Bunker Hill!" And so we present the sword hilt of our hero, a photo re…

In 1755 he was the Captain of the upper part of the Manor. In a census of the slaves of that district, which is published in the Documentary' History' of New York, and winch is signed William Hammond, Captain, he reports : "Twenty negro men and eleven negrois women." In the tax list of 1732, Captain Win. Hammond was assessed at ^18. Was a Fence Viewer in 1742, and had doubtless held other of…

Robert Bonner, and the balance, including the old homestead, a picture of which appears with this sketch, now belongs to the Kingslaud estate. He was early and actively' enlisted in the cause of the Colonies, and was duly commissioned as Rieut.-Col. of the 1st Westchester Regiment of Militia, at its organization, date of October 14, 1775, Joseph Drake being Colonel, although he seems to have…

The Regiment appears to have consisted of only five or six,companies, all belonging to this Manor. A return of the Regiment dated Philipsburgh, June 22, 1778 shows four companies, commanded respectively by Captains Daniel Martling, Geo. Combs, Jonas Orser and Gabriel Requa, with 180 officers and privates. The following is attached to the report : "N. B. -- Nine others sworn allegiance to King…

Whereas, two of the enemy's ships of war with their barges and tenders are arrived up the North River as far as Tarrytown, we suppose with a hostile design to distress us ; with the concurrence of the Congress and assistance of the Committee, and by the forwardness of a number of volunteers, a considerable number of people are collected to our assistance, most of whom are very anxious about t…

To the Chairman of the Provincial Congress. Manor of Cortlandt, Croton Ferrv, July 17, 1776. This morning mustered the regiment, and upon parade appeared forty-six men. Our men are at present very much fatigued. Capt_ain Ledue's company, in defiance of us all, waded through the terry and are gone off. The Ministerial ships are still riding in Haverstraw Bay. We have been very peaceable last ni…

"At a meeting of the Convention held Friday afternoon, Julv 19, 1776, a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Hammen, of the Militia now stationed at the banks of Hudson's River, at Cortlandt's Ferry, dated this day, Colonel Hammen informs Congress that a Member of this Convention has informed him that a complaint is exhibited against him to this Convention, charging him with deficiency of duty on …

"Ordered, That the following persons attend this Convention to-morrow afternoon, at five o'clock, as witnesses on a complaint exhibited against Lieutenant-Colonel Hammen, relative to some pork, to- wit : Martin us Van Wart, Joseph Legget, Sam'1 Purdy, Jun., Thomas Deane, and Jacob Buckhout ; and that the following persons attend, at the same time, as witnesses on a complaint exhibited against…

I confide, sir, in the justice of your Honorable House, that no sentiments prejudicial to my reputation will be entertained until I have an opportunity of vindicating myself, when I doubt not 1 shall prove to the Honorable Convention that the charges are entirely groundless. I should, sir have immediately waited upon the Convention upon receiving notice of the complaints, had l not been station…

On July 24, 1776, Colonel Hammond, or Hammen, was tried before a committee of inquiry, "in respect to his behavior as an officer on the evening of the day (July 12, 1776) on which the enemy's ships came to anchor off Tarrytown, in this Count)', and as a buyer of Pork for this State." The testimony on the trial is' a curious mixture of the serious and the amusing, in which patriotism and pork …

Hammond to warn him, and that thereupon the said Col. mounted his horse and set out directly to warn Capt. Vermilie ; That the said Col. and a brother of this Deponent had some words, as the Deponent heard from some of the men, but cannot recollect from whom, and that the said colonel arrived at Tarrytown between twelve and one o'Clock the next morning, as his said brother informed him ; and…

said were about eight in number ; That the next day, after said Hamnaan had ree'd the said four bbls. of pork from the Deponent, he told the said deponent, it having been repacked, that lie had made three bbls. of prime pork of the four bbls. aforesaid, and that he did allow the deponent but four pounds for the remaining barrel ; That the deponent heard others call the said repacker by the nam…

" The deponent further saith that he saw several prime pieces of pork taken by Joseph Legett while the said Hunt was repacking pork which he said the said Legett had sold the said Hamman, and that the deponent did not hear the said Legett or any other person desire the said packer to put in any pieces into the bbls. but vdiat he thought proper, nor did he know that any pieces were taken out o…

Yermilier, and he, the said Col., also desired the aforesaid man to warn all they came across and that they should influence others to do the same ; that the said Col. informed the deponent that he was under the necessity of ordering the people to meet at his house, as he had the amunition there ; that Capt. Requaw was sufficiently warned, being in a field from which he could see the vessels …

That scarcely an hour after the deponent with the Col. went down to the River, but the hour of the night he could not tell, as he had no watch. Peter Allair, clerk to Col. Hamman's regiment, being sworn, deposeth and saith : That Col. Hamman's son-in-law about 9 o'clock warned him to turn out on the alarm. That he went to alarm some men, then returned to the Col. and charged all the guns the…

Haminon had been warned at 10 o'clock on the evening the enemy appeared off Tarrytown, and did not go to Tarrytown till 10 o'clock the next day. But the depon't going down to the said town found by the information of credible persons that Col. Hamman had been down at about one in the morning, and further saith not as to that matter. That he was pres't when Jos. Drake asked Hamman if he could p…

"Joseph Leggett doth affirm that he was present when Requaw's pork was repacked by the aforesaid Hunt, and told the Company, of which Col. Haminan and the repacker were two, that the pork was ven much moulded, and that he saw the said repacker put several pieces to his nose and throw them aside, but did not see or learn that Col. Hamman gave the repacker any orders or instructions about the sa…

Haminan, upon a door which he had laid down, took and laid the prime pieces of said five bbls. ; that four bbls. were filled by there packer, Hunt, and that a bbl. was filled with part of the prime pork and marked by the repacker, the remainder of the said prime pieces of Pork the deponent took back ; and also that he, the deponent, heard the repacker commend the whole of the said pork as he…

Hammond came off with flying colors, and like many another had occasion to thank his envious enemies for filling the sails of fortune which bore him successfully forward. But for this trial comparatively little would have been known of his zeal and activity and good fighting qualities. No wonder the British vessels had sailed away up the river before he hardly had time to bring his guns to bear…

As will be seen there are different accounts and dates named of that affair. His son William, known as Gen. Wm. Hammond, states in an account of the Westchester Guides, that after the appointment of his father as Lieut. -Col. , their house was resorted to repeatedly by all who took an active part in the common cause, and that in the summer of THE COE. HAMMOND HOUSE. 17S1, his father was tak…

This was followed by loud rapping at the door, and demands to open. The Colonel dressed as quickly as possible ; and, as he opened the door, several English soldiers demanded his surrender and all within. The Colonel replied, "I do surrender, and all with me." They then demanded: "Where is General Washington ?" The Colonel replied, "He left yesterday evening." Upon looking out of the door, h…

The Colonel asked, "What do you want me to say?" "Tell him I ain't no hog. I ain't no hog!" "What do you mean by that?" "Why, they give us nothing but corn to eat -- I ain't no hog, I tell you !" However, we must take the Colonel's own account, rendered to the vState, as to when he was captured, as correct, fortified as it is by the following letter, written while he was a prisoner, and whic…

These have been indulged with a parole to return to New York, while a number of our prisoners are detained here, and not one indulged with a parole to return home. Altho' many have applied, particularly Lieut. Jacob Van Tassel, whose house has been burned, and whose wife and children to mv knowledge, reduced to beggary and himself in poor state of health for a long time. There is said Lieut. Va…

He unquestionably must have been a man of resources as well as of courage, tactful as well as masterful, of the people and yet a leader of them; strongly supporting the Congresses and Conventions and Coinmanders-in-Chief, responding to every call to duty, and yet shrewdly looking out for the personal welfare and safety of the people of this Manor and of the men under his command, and everywhe…

Others might hesitate or be discouraged, but he never faltered, and the neigh of his fiery charger, and the clanking of his scabbard were enough to put courage into the timid and make each man feel himself a hero until the next hour of danger. His thoughtfulness of others is strikingly apparent in the letter of his written when a prisoner at Flatlands, in which he more urgently asked for the …

Prior to the war he had been for a time an Inn-Keeper. He left quite an estate. The home farm comprised 242 acres, bounded east by Joseph Youngs, north by Thaddeus x-Yvery, south by highway, and west by Joseph Paulding. He had also conjointly with his brother-in-law, Capt. Geo. Combs, purchased the farm which had belonged to their father-in-law, Thos. Wildey, who is said to have been killed…

At the dedication of the Monument to Isaac Van Wart, at present Klmsford, in June, 1829, Gen. Wm. Hammond and suite occupied a conspicuous post of honor. Gen. Hammond died January i, 1832, and his remains rest in the old churchyard of the Greenburgh Church, of which, as his tombstone states, he was a member. Joseph, the other son of Col. James Hammond, married Jenny Brewer and lived at the o…

Joseph Hawes, eldest son of Captain Solomon, born Dec. 5, 1783, married Elizabeth Travis, of Peekskill, by whom he had three children : Cornelia Ann, Susan Eliza, William. Cornelia Ann married Philip J. Bonesteel, but left no issue. Susan Eliza never married. William married Sarah Felter, of New York, by whom he had six children: James Bonesteel HaWes, Edward West Hawes, Katherine Elizabeth,…

Vail also had a daughter Tamer, who married Wm. Jones, and lived in New York, and afterward lived in Sleepy Hollow on what was formerly known as the Mead-Requa farm. They had Lovina who married Benjamin Lovett, the father of Mr. Isaac B. Lovett, who is so a greatgreat-grandson of Col. Hammond. A daughter of David Hammond and Esther his wife, and sister of Mahala, married David Coxe, of Unionv…

They had only one child, Susan Louisa, the wife of Mr. Thomas Rawcliffe, of Tarrytown. Staats Hammond, whose parentage does not appear, was a Sergt. in Capt. Requa's Company ; was shot through the left leg, near Sing Sing, June 17, 1779 ; a .State Pensioner by the act of April 22, 17S6. From the Commissioners of Forfeiture he took title to no acres, north by Jacob Van Wart and Moses Miller, a…

The animal he bestrode was a beautiful bay, bitted with a handsome double snaffle bridle ; the mane, particularly about the head, being thickly matted with burs. The stranger immediately asked for a drink of water. It deserves to be noticed, in connection with this incident, that Mr. Hammond's father --who was lying at the time badly wounded on the floor-- caught a glimpse of the stranger, who…

Staats Hammond was married to Elizabeth Martling Nov. 8, 1768, and had David, Januettie, James, Thomas, and Abraham. Janette or Jane, married Jacob Buckhout, who was a Revolutionary soldier, and had Isaac who married Mary Elizabeth Tompkins, daughter of Gabriel, who was a grandson of Hon. Jonathan G. Tompkins, and had Edward Buckhout of Tarrytown. John Hammond, Sr., died 1788, aged 76, and J…

■ l i . ' - Sergeant John Dean and the Dean Family. Sergt. John Dean, -- the subject of the accompanyingsketeh, was born in Philipsburg, 1755. His grandfather* Isaac, (b. 1698, d. 1784,) of the family of the Deans of Stoniug'ton, Conn., had come to Philipsburg about 1740. He was one ohthe large lease-holders of the Planer, was Justice of the Peace, and appears to have been under Sheriff …

By his first wife, Mary Yerks, he had three sons, William, Stephen and John. Wiliam died in Canada in the Cafnpaign of 1775. He was buried on the Plains of Abraham in a deep drift of snow. His watch, fob, and quaintly cut silver sleeve-buttons, were brought home by bis brother John, -- sad mementoes which are still preserved in the family. John had accompanied William on this most disastrous …

Samuel Dean's ear mark is recorded in the old Manor book date of Dec. 10, 1758, the record of Isaac Dean's mark being Dec. 25, 1761. The following document, with the autograph of Frederick Philips attached, is preserved among the Dean papers : Received, this 26th, day of December, 1769, from Isaac Dean, Esq., one of the tenants on the Manor of Philipsburg, the sum of six pounds four and sixpen…

About 18x0, he became somewhat infirm; -- an articular lameless, which had been caused by his horse falling with him during a skirmish near Kingsbridge, on July 3d, 1781, an account of which appears herewith, gave him great discomfort during his last years, and led to his final illness. The following interesting sketch of Sergt. John Dean, who so well acted a Patriot's part during the stormy …

John Dean, a Revolutionary soldier of the town of Mount Pleasant, and conceiving the recital of them would be beneficial to our ' HISTORICAL SKETCHES. readers, as portraying- the vigor and devoted heroism of an humble citizen of Westchester County in the days that tried men's souls they are herewith published. We are enabled, however, to open the narrative with but an imperfect outline of th…

Suffice it to say, Thomas Dean was at the battle of Stony Brook, and in other perilous conflicts in that school of arms which taught the infant America afterward to assert and maintain her rights against the exactions and unequal taxation of the people whose battles they had fought, and whose fame they had helped to elevate. Mr. Thomas Dean returned after the peace which transferred the Canada…

And then how his New Fingland thought and earl)- education stands out in its concise expression, and in his reference to the Town Laws to be enacted. No reference to the Manor whatever, but the autonomy and independence of the New England town was in his thought as he penned those lines. Several pages of the old book appear in his hand writing, and although unfortunately the directly succeedin…

John Dean, whose name has been rescued from forgetfulness by a respectful notice in that excellent work, " Tossing's Field Kook of the Revolution," was reared, laboring with his father, and imbibing those principles of American virtue and heroism which afterwards characterized his life. It will be unnecessary for us to promise that John Dean was a man of stout, vigorous frame, an iron will, i…

His elder brother William also enlisted with him, with like zeal, and proceeded with that company to Canada, but the fatigue and hardships of the journey proved too much for their health, and both were taken sick, as is well known many others w^ere in that service. William diedand was buried on the far-famed plains of Abraham ; John, however, continued with his company to St. John's D. C. , wh…

While sick from these exposures he was unfit for service, but went from St. John's to other stations, as a hospital subject -- was sue- ■ ' HISTORICAL SKETCHES. cessively at Crown Point, Ticonderoga, and Fort George, where he was at length discharged honorably, as unable to endure the rigors of the campaign. We have the unique document before us as preserved bv him, and it reads as follows…

Abram Martliugs of Tarrytown, who had penetrated as far as that place with his periauger, and with him returned to Tarrytown, and to his home in Mount Pleasant, a few miles east of that point, wdiere lie was received with the warmest affection and expression of joy at his return. With care, and the cheerful companionship of his parents and friends, his health was happily restored. Here agai…

" I hereby certify that John Dean has taken the Oath of AUegience prescrib'd by a Resolve of the Convention of the State of New York. Dec'r 27, 1776. Gilbert Dean, Capt." Thus it will be perceived he was foremost among the patriots of Westcli ester. Within a mouth after the battle of Cbatterton Hill, or White Plains, as it is usually entitled, he enlisted in Capt. Dean's Company, of which the…

I11 this service he continued for two years, acting as a volunteer guide in many enterprises undertaken to surprise the enemy, who were securely established at Morrisania, and from whence the Refugees under their protection were making continual inroads and depredations upon whig families, whose fathers and sons were engaged in the defence of the country. Sergt. Dean used to relate an account …

As a mark of the trustworthiness and reliable character of Mr. Dean, we give the following order, from Col. Graham, also found in his "revolutionary pocket-book," written in a beautiful style of penmanship, committed to him while a member of Captain Dean's Company of Rangers- -- Wnm. Plains, June 22d, 177S Sir -- Please 10 deliver the bearer, Mr. John Dean, the two remaining boxes of Cartridge…

His captors at once the him, and he was forthwith conveyed to Delancey's quarters at Morrisania, where he was for awhile exposed to the most taunting ar opprobious insults which his fellow citizens, but tories, could heap upon him. But at length he was able, by the promise of the release of refugee whom he knew, to obtain a parole by which he again passed the lines into the Neutral Ground, an…

By the annexed discharge it will be seen that he was very prompt in securing his release from the tory Colonel's grasp, and in fulfilling his word of honor : This is to certify that John Dean is discharged from his parole, he being exchanged for John Foster. T. Huggeford, Maj. West Farms, 2d January, 1781. Mr. Dean returned to his anxious family and friends, in a few weeks, and resumed his …

Captain Warding at Tarrytown, was alarmed and rallied in haste with what part of his company he could collect, proceeded by the road to the bridge over the river, near the church, and joined the party already harassing the enemy ; and the force by this time was so formidable that thev were obliged to leave their drove and try to save themselves; but the militia men, in hot pursuit, took some p…

Samuel Young. Mr. Dean again details another hair-breadth escape, saying : Went out one morning with a small party of men, east of the upper cross-roads in the south part of Mount Pleasant, to see what we could find ; after going a short distance, we saw some men ahead of us with guns ; we started pretty rapidly after them, and when coming close to them, they started to make their escape, an…

When he came to, he revived, and said he, "I'm a dying man, but do not blame you for what you have done." I said, " You are ..worth a dozen dead men -- rouse up and get on my horse." I got him upon the horse and took him to the nearest house, where 1 borrowed some old linen and scraped lint and dressed his wounds as well as I was able and left him. A few years after the war, he came to see m…

Says he, " I am a cripple for life, but T do not blame you; for it was my intention to shoot you rather than surrender ; but you got the advantage of me." It was impressed on me, when he came to see ■me, that he came to revenge himself upon me ; but he did not blame me. One of his arms was stiff where the end of the elbow was cut off. I gave him his dinner and he left me, sincerely thanking me…

After leaving the house and travelling some distance, we went on talking aloud, thinking of no danger, when first I knew I was clinched by the prisoner by upside, and thrown to the ground, and then with his knee on my breast he stabbed me in the side with what I afterwards found to be a large jack knife, nine or ten inches long. It happened not to take effect as he had intended ; it was a sla…

Those prisoners had their hands securely tied behind them when we left the house, and it was my supposition the knife was given to them at tire house where we stopped, to cut themselves loose unperceived by us, the night being very dark." The following probably has reference to the foregoing: Phiilipsburgh, July 7 1 h , 1777- Rec'd of Mr. John Dean the sum of three pounds ten shillings in fu…

I took hold of the Doctor, and told him he was my prisoner, and "he must go with me." His wife was present, and begged of me "to treat her husband well." I gave her my word I would, and I always invariably did so. We brought off all the men that were in the house. This Doctor I took upon my horse before me. While riding along, the Doctor slipped into my pocket five guineas. After arriving at h…

He told him he did, very well. The Doctor then related the story about his taking him prisoner and then telling Mr. Underhill where he lived, directed him to say to Mr. Dean he must come and see him, and he never shall want for five nor ten dollars, and " 1 will give his wife as handsome a present as she ever saw, for his treating me so kindly." So much for treating a prisoner well. CAPTURE…

I found there were twenty-eight in the company, and after they had left, I went to the neighbors and collected as many together as I could, and we followed on with our guns, firing upon them and alarming the inhabitants, saying, "Come on my boys ! -- there are but twenty-eight of them ; we will have them," etc. We followed them down the Saw mill river road, until we had collected a large comp…

We had information that they sent a boat ashore every morning to get butter and eggs from a small grocery near the river. Acker and myself thought we would put a stop to that ; so we with our guns in hand, one morning secreted ourselves in the bushes, on the bank of the Hudson River. It was not long before a barge put off from the vessel, with an officer in the stern, rowing for shore ; when …

In performing this service, which he did wisely and promptly, it appears Mr. Dean was instrumental ly connected with the capture of Andre, by assigning as he did, to those incorruptible men, Paulding, Williams and Van Wart, the post to guard on the road leading through the then sparsely settled village of Tarrytown; -- while he with John Yerks, James Romer, Isaac See and Abraham Williams too…

Dean to shield him from these annoying questions, saying, "all will be explained when we reach the Colonel's quarters." He did restrain the men from any further unwelcome questions ; and soon after arrived at the aforesaid head quarters in Northcastle. What took place there, and how the Spy was taken from there to another post in Salem, 12 or 15 miles further north, in this county, to prevent…

John Dean, although intimately connected with a patriotic transaction which had shed so imperishable a halo of glory upon the memory of the actors in it, was not included by name with those whom the Nation has ever since delighted to honor, because of its important bearing upon the liberties of our country, further reference is made to .Sergt. Dean's connection with the capture of Andre in Li…

had the command on the morning of the 3d inst., near House, where said part) was attacked by a superior number of the enemy, and that said Dean lost his horse, saddle and bridle, they being taken by the enemy and not by reason of any neglect of the said Dean. Joseph A. VVkight, Capt. in the 2d Conn. Regt. Head Quarters I certify that Capt. Wright was in command of the advanced Piequet toward…

and proper here to add, that though not rich, he had always been industrious and frugal, -- living by his labor upon his paternal home as an agriculturist, and departed this life at an advanced age, lamented, loved and honored of all who ever knew him. Dossing says in his Field Book of the Revolution : While strolling among the ancient graves in Sleepy Hollow churchyard I was joined by an el…

His war reminiscences, it is curious to note, were rarely related except to his immediate family circle. STATEMENT BY LIEUT. SAMUEL YOUNGS. The following statement made by Samuel Youngs, Esq., endorsing the application of Mary Dean, widow of Sergt. John Dean, for a Pension, is herewith given entire, as covering in nearly full detail the various periods of general enlistment and mustering int…

to the East River, the inhabitants residing on these lines were left exposed to the plundering parties of the British Refugees, who with some British troops held possession of the southern part of the count}'. The Committee of Public Safety ordered out the Militia of that part of the county who belonged to Col. Hammond's Regiment, who were accordingly stationed, some of them at the house of sa…

That in the month of August, 1777, a Regiment of levies was raised in the Counties of Dutchess and Westchester, consisting of about 500 men, and placed under the command of Col. Dudiugton and Dieut. Col. Hammond, for the term of four months ; that Col. Dudiugton' s headquarters were at the house of Joseph Youngs, and that Capt. Gilbert Dean's Company was also continued in the service, but was …

Rmerick, who commanded about 300 men composed of British and Refugees, sent out Dieut. Althouse with 32 men, to take and bring in the cattle of Joseph Youngs, and of other Whig inhabitants of that neighborhood. It was the practice of the Militia, after keeping guard during the night, to return to their homes and attend to the necessary business of their farms. Col. - HISTORICAL SKETCHES. Kin…

That deponent then soon got to the south of Althouse's party of marauders, knowing where he should fall in with about twenty of the Militia ; during which time John Dean, Jacob Acker and Hendrick Romer had attacked the enemy and commenced firing upon them. This alarmed the Militia so that when the deponent arrived at the house where they were stationed he found about 25 men ready for the con…

We then sprang over the wall to attack them with the bayonet. Althouse gave us his fire as we were on the wall, by which John Bucannan was shot through the shoulder and Nicholas Banker through the thigh. Altliouse immediately abandoned his plunder, and retreated. We were there joined by John Dean and his companions, and after a runningfight of about four miles, we succeeded in killing or taking …

Graham's Regiment was again left in charge of the Lines, and that Sergt. John Dean continued to act as Quarter Master until Christmas Eve of the year 1778, when the house was attacked by a superior force of British Refugees under command of Major Bearmore, and taken by storm. Two men were killed, and Capt. Williams and some of his men and Joseph Youngs were made prisoners, after which the rem…

Hammond's Regt. immediately formed themselves under some of the officers of said Regt. and for a time kept the plundering parties of Refugees in check, until almost all the stock was driven back into the country for safety, when the Militia also had to retire over the Croton River. That Sergt. John Dean was then in service. That the deponent was a sergeant in Baker's Company of Hammond's Regt.…

i * J Archer. HISTORICAL SKETCHES. arrived at the quarters of Col. Jameson, bringing with them a prisoner who said his name was John Anderson, together with a number of papers concealed in the boot of the prisoner at the time he was taken, and that a few days afterwards ii was discovered that the prisoner was Major Joljn Andre, Adjutant Gen'l. of the British Army, &e. The above statement …

Thomas, well known to the older residents of Tarrytown, died 1872. At the age of twenty-one he was the oVner of a Sloop plying between Albany and New York. He was a lumber dealer, merchant, a founder of the old Tarrytown Library, and the first Postmaster of Tarrytown, holding that office for twenty-one years. He was also prominent among Free Masons, as one of the first in this county to atta…

Commission of Fisheries, where he acquitted himself with honor. Professor Bashford Dean was recently married to Miss Dyckmau, the daughter of Isaac M. Dyckmau, Esq. , of the old Kingsbridge Dyckman family. Wm. Dean also has a son Thomas and a daughter Llarriet M. This much to show that Sergt. John Dean of the Revolution has posterity as well as ancestry. That there was cause for his being the …

A daughter and only child, Mary Ann Delanoy, married Isaac Nelson of Somers and Sing Sing, and so became the mother of Hon. Henry C. Nelson of that place and of David D. Nelson formerly of Sing Sing and now of New York, who has four sons and two daughters by a marriage with Sarah C. News of Cortlandt. Two of the sons are graduates of the College of the City of New York, one of whom, Dean Nelso…

Another added to the long list of Revolutionary war-starred Patriots whose remains were laid to rest there. The Dutch Church records show that Thos. Dean, Sr., was married to Maritje Jurcks, Sept. 15, 1750, and Couzen's map of the old Philipsburg Manor shows that his farm was on the Bedford Road near New Castle, where he had a farm of 134 acres, while his son John Dean lived just east of Butt…

Probably came to New England with the Rev. Peter Bulkley, who was rector of the parish of Odell, in Bedfordshire, England, 1620. The Odell family had been settled in Bedfordshire for many generations, and it is probable that Mr. Wm. Odell was a resident of that part of England. He died at Fairfield, Conn. , in June, 1676, leaving sons John and William. Wm. Odell, Jr. , was of Fairfield, and af…

Dutch Church Prison, New York, in the autumn of 1776, and soon afu: the battle of White Plains, as related by his son, Col. John Odell, in histatement published herewith. In the later days, after the Revolution, it said by those who remember him, that he presented a picturesque appearance as he drove up the road in his gig to attend the Sabbathday 'services at the old Dutch Church, where he wor…

It is said that 011 occasion when the Hessians made a raid on the Odell premises they hung up a faithful slave Ccesar three several times so as to make him tell where the pork was secreted, but he would not, and at last they left him hanging until some one cut him down as soon as they were gone. Ol the capture of Jonathan Odell, his grandson, Jackson Odell says: "My grandfather was made pris…

For the latter it is said he was afterwards fully paid. Col. John Odell, s o called from having commanded a regiment of militia after the Revolution, born in 1756, was the eldest son of Jonathan. He was a stalwart patriot, and did valiant service in the cause of his country, winning distinction as one of the famous Westchester Guides. In a memorial to the legislature of this State date of Feb…

And your memorialist further shows, that in the autumn of the year 1776, whilst your memorialist was doing duty on the lines, his father vras made a prisoner by the enemy and confined in the Dutch Church, in the City of New York, and that whilst the father of your memorialist was thus confined, the enemy encamped on his farm, and destroyed and carried off property to a great amount, leaving h…

And your memorialist further shows, that in the Spring of the year 1780, your memorialist left the service as a Hofse Guide, having been appointed a Lieutenant in a Regiment raised under the authority of the government, of this State, and commanded by Morris Graham, "'!> T' , r ■ " i i ' HISTORICAL SKETCHES. Esq., now deceased ; that your memoralist continued to do duty in th • Regt. for s…

And your memorialist further shows, that his commission as Lieutenant, and also tire certificates showing his having entered the service as a Horse Guard, and stating the nature of such service, havebeen lost or destroyed; and your memorialist therefore respectfidh refers to the accompanying document, which he trusts will satisfactorily show that the statements made by him in relation to the pe…

David Merritt of Cortlandtown, Oct. 12II1, 1845, says: "When the Refugees surprised Williams' post, at Orser's, a part of them went north and cut off ye retreat, driving Col. John Post, the guide and others upon ye ice, when Odell (Col. John Odell of the Westchester Guides) fought with two and escaped." It is said that he severely wounded one of his pursuers on the right by a heavy back strok…

Jackson Odell says, "My father (Lieut. John Odell,) assisted in capturing Capt. Ogden twice. He was with the party that took him at Vermilyea's, at Kings Bridge, and with Cushing's party." John Odell was also with Arman d when he took Bearmore and Frederic Underhill, and is referred to by Gen. Timothy Pickering as the principal Guide in the advance of the Continental army through the Saw Mil…

Odell arose to dress, his breeches could nt 1 be found, and there were no others at hand to supply their loss. He heard that his commanding officer, Col. Sheldon, was approaching, and lie must go to meet him. The good woman of the house offered as her best substitute, one of her petticoats, which he immediately donned, mounted his horse, and so rode forth to meet Col. Sheldon ; and from that …

Abraham D\C man was to have been married to a sister of Cornelius Oakley, anoii:- of the Westchester Guides, but for his tragic death. . Dyckman Odell also relates an amusing adventure of his gran ' father in which he came near being captured while on a visit to hi. sweetheart, Hannah McChain, in the fall of 1782, she being a sister G his associate guide, John McChain, and the daughter of Ja…

John Jay, dated March 15, 1797, naming him as Dieut.-Col. Commandant of a Regiment of Westchester County | t ; j ' * HISTORICAL, SKETCHES. Militia, having previously, in 1786, been commissioned as Captain by Gov. George Clinton. He was over six feet in stature and every way a stalwart man, of splendid physique. He was twice married. By his first wife, Hannah McChain, he had a daughter w…

He lived at the Tompkins- Odell farm, distinguished for having been the headquarters of Rochambeau during the summer of 1781, and which was purchased of the Commissioners of Forfeiture in 1785, he having previously purchased the interest of the widow Bates in the improvements on the property. Her husband, Gilbert Bates, was taken prisoner by two British scouts who came along and took him from …

He also, for some time, acted as Adjutant and Secretary to Governor-General George Clinton. Was a Lieutenant in 1781. After the war he was Member of Assembly for seven terms, and for nearly twenty years Supervisor of the town of Greenburgh. lie married Anne Mandeville of Peekskill. Died 1S20, and was buried in the old Dutch Churchyard, Tarrytown. Pliebe Odell, a daughter of Abraham, married …

Barker of Oneida Co., also Isaac, Abralian; William, Jr., Altien, Johanna who married Garret Dyckman, and Win. Dyckmam Odell. Jacob, son of Jonathan Odell, born 1752, married Hannah Stymus and had Jonathan, Jasper, and Jacob, Jr., born soon after his death, Sept. 28, 179S. Jacob, Jr., married a Miss Smith and lived an : died at Peekskill. Jasper »S. married Sarah Wildey, and lived at Tarrytow…

Odell's business life comprised being merchant and Postmaster at the old Mott store on the corner ot Broadway and Main St., afterwards engaged in the freighting business from the old Requa Dock, then removed to Point Dock ; was a farmer for a time in the Saw Mill river valley, then engaged in steamboating', and in the grocery business. Was Town Clerk, Supervisor in 1827. and in 1828 was one …

HISTORICAL SKETCHES. Ail Abraham Odell, who married Christina Van Wart and lived on what was afterwards called the Underhill place, at East View (East Tarrytown), was known as handsome " Brom." His ancestry has not been clearly traced, but he was claimed as kindred by the late Capt. Jonathan Odell of Tarrytown. That he was a soldier of the Revolution is abundantly evidenced by the following f…

Abraham and Christina Van Wart Odell had the following children : John, Isaac, Jacob, Benjamin, who married Mary, the daughter of Jacob Buckhout and Jane Hammond his wife, and had Capt. Jacob B. Odell, who was at one time Postmaster of Tarrytown and has long been connected with the Albany Day Boat Line ; Hannah, twin sister of Benjamin, married Jacob Buckhout, Jr.; Rachel, another sister, marr…

The Isaac Odell who is said to have been one of the Westchester Guides, was a son of Isaac, Sr., one of the brothers of Jonathan Odell, Sr., of Philipse Manor. He married his cousin Hannah Odell, daughter of Abraham Odell. General Jacob Odell of Yonkers, born 1756, was the son of Abraham, brother of Jonathan, Sr. An interesting fact in regard to this Patriot officer of the Revolution, is the f…

A Moses Odell who lived near Kensico, had sister Elizabeth wh married Elnathan Taylor, who suffered death at the hands of the British by being taken from his bed and thrown into a snow drift when sick with the small-pox; they were the great-grandparents of Supervisor Moses W. Taylor of Mt. Pleasant, and C. K. Buchanan of Tarrytown. Lieut. Gilbert Taylor of the Revolution was brother of Elnatha…

An old tax roll for 1732, shows him to have been assessed at £31, which was a larger amount than the most of his neighbors. His name there appears as follows : Barent Duijser. In the description of the laying out of the old Post Road, present Broadway, in 1723, his name appears as Barrent Duytchers, so various seems to have been the orthography of the name as interpreted by those who had occ…

apparently first, is recorded in the old Dutch Church as of 1701. In regard to where he may have come from is the unexplainable statement made opposite his name in connection with his second marriage, thathewas " of Stuy vesant, and residing at Philipsburgh. " No such place appears in all the New Netherlands, and the old records of Long- Island do not disclose it. But it evidently means someth…

His second marriage was with Derktje Smith, widow7 of Hendrick Lammerse, date of Dec. 29, 1717, his first wife having died something less than a year previous. By this marriage was Jannike, born 1718, Isaac, bapt. 1720, and Jacob bapt. Aug. 28th, 1722. He lived on what was long known as the old Dutcher farm near present Irvington, and which, at his death, camcinto the possession of his eldest …

Meyno Buys Duytser, died on the 17th of August, 1770, and the next year Johannis married again, his second wife being "Rachel Van Wart, widow of Jacom." Johannis Dutcher died Sept. 16, 1776, in his 73d year. His second wife, Rachel Van Wart, outlived both her husband and his son Capt. William, and dying jn 1795 left a will in favor of his widow, Catrina Concklie Dutcher. Johannis was an Elde…

Dutcher, copied from the original in the State Archives at Albany gives a good reason for their not so appearing : -- for they stood upon high vantage ground as Patriots, serving their country without pay and at their own charges, the only suggestion made being that lead and powder would be welcome ! What a high example that was and what an inspiring one to look upon. But here is the letter, …

have heretofore done a great deal of County duty when other Companies have been left at home, and have never had any satisfaction for it, and which also we never intended to make any demand of. However, we have notwithstanding, been very ill used, for all the other Companies have had powder and ball delivered to them when we are left without any. So gentlemen, if you should be in want of us, yo…

Dutcher' s lettei was read at a session of the Convention held July 31, 1776. The following is copied from the original proceedings date, of Aug. 5, 1776 : " A letter from Wm. Dutcher, Captain, Daniel Marling, First Lieutenant, and ■George Munson, 2d Lieutenant, dated the 30th day of July last, and rec'd on the 31st, was read and filed. They therein set forth their willingness to rai-e a Compa…

Washington, dated at Tarry town, July 15, 1776, giving him account of the presence of the enemies' war ships on the Tappan Zee, and asking for aid to repel them, says : "As to further particulars must beg leave to refer your Excellency to the bearer, Capt. William Dutcher." So Capt. Butcher was sent on an important errand to see Gen. Washington and to com. municate to him personally the situ…

Our people had become proportionably disheartened, and a gloom had settled over the whole country. Even the courage of Washington seemed to be giving away before the tardiness of Congress, the small number of ablebodied men upon whom he could rely, and his severe reverses in the field. The army, very much reduced in number, and dejected in spirits, had gone into winter quarters,-- but a small…

The sky, however, being cloudless, the moon at its full, and the ground covered with snow, it was sufficiently light to see objects at a great distance. We were about rising from the table, when our attention was suddenly attracted by one of the children who was standing at the window, as she said, ' Oh father, yonder are some soldiers coming this way.' A single glance in the direction in whi…

I followed him with eager eyes and beating heart, till he disappeared over the hill ; but my anxiety was so great that it seemed he would never reach it. I expected every instant to hear the report of their heavy pistols. It could not have been more than a moment after I had seen him disappear, when the door shook beneath the heavy blows of sabres, accompanied by the coarse voices of brutal so…

I had hardly removed the last bar, when the door was thrown violently open, and six rough, powerful, and evil-looking men stood before me. 'Where is your rebel husband?' demanded the leader in a voice of thunder. , HISTORICAL SKETCHES. - ■ Striving to be calm, I answered, 'He is not in the hou 'He is in the house,' was the gruff reply, 'one of my men sav. him enter more than two hours ago …

Tliev seemed the most pleased when they could do the greatest injury. .Seeing his men returning alone, the leader became furious, and laying his brawny hand upon my shoulder, roared rather than asked -- 'Where is the cursed rebel ? ' 1 1 cannot tell you. ' * 'If he is gone, which way did he go?' To this question I made no answer-- I. had become so frightened I could not. 'If you do not tel…

The road around the dwelling described almost a semi-circle ; and, though in places partially hidden from view, there was one spot entirely exposed. Could he pass that place without detection he might escape. He was passing over that part, when a neigh from the ton 's horse caused the rider to look up, and follow the direction of the animal's gaze. At once he recognized the fugitive. At the s…

I knew that grandfather's horse was a hardy, swift animal, and was therefore perplexed and troubled to see the others gain so rapidly on him. The cause was soon apparent. The pursuers in their eagerness to take him dead or alive, had discharged their pieces at random ; and before giving them time to reload, he slackened his horse's speed, and drawing his pistols from their holsters, took deli…

But still, a chance shot might disable the horse, or wound him, and if he fell into their hands no mercy would be shown him. But what a night that was to me ! I was alone with my children, without any protection save that which the house afforded, and that I knew to be but little, when these brutal men were around. They would stop at nothing to accomplish their purposes. If lock and bars off…

Some mouths after, when I saw him, he told me that once or twice lie was on the point of stopping his horse and surrendering, feeling that escape was impossible. Then the thought of life, of home, and of country, again urged him forward. They pressed him so hard that his - , ■ HISTORICAL SKETCHES. horse began to show great signs of weariness. And when at length R rode into camp, worn out h…

The slaves were left in charge of the premises, and on one occasion they were taken out for a distance in the river and then thrown overboard by the Piritish and Tory marauders at such depth as they might be able to just keep their heads above water, and so get ashore ! Capt. Win. Dutcher is mentioned as connected with Col. Thomas Thomas' Regt., date of October 4, 1776, as recorded in Force'…

I could not answer him in positive terms or give him any advice decidedly in the affair, but have referred him to your Excellency for information. If your Excellency has got any commissions on hand and can consistently indulge him with a commission for the purpose aforesaid. I would esteem it a favor. His sufferings entitle him to notice. lie is a warm friend to his country, and is able to giv…

The significance of some of these names is very apparent, i instance, Maritje, after the great-grandmother ; Meynotie, for Ik grandmother; William, Jr., for the father ; Salem, from the fact the. for a period about the time of the birth of that son the family, drive:! away from their home here, sought safety in the town of Salem; and Deliverance, as a recognition that at last the Revolutionar…

Louis, and daughters Anna, Caroline and Elizabeth. Wm. Dutcher, 2d, also had son Abram who married Caroline Martling and had William, Thomas, Esther, Caroline E. , who is the widow of De Witt Clinton Graham and resides in New York; Mary E. ; Arabella; Geo. W. , who married Annie, daughter of Isaac See, and lived at Arlington, N. J. ; Samuel, who went to South America, and Susie, wife of A. B…

Y., Coxsackie, then at the old Market St. Church, New' York City, Bound Brook, N. J., and then a year at Somers, Conn. In 1882 he w'as appointed Consul at Port Hope, Canada, by President Arthur, where he remained until 1887, when he removed to Springfield, Mass., where he died Nov. 27, 1888. Dr. Dutcher's first marriage was with Margaret ta Ayres, by whom were four children : William, who r…

Benson Ferris, President of the Westchester Savings Bank at Tarrytown. Deliverance Dutcher, son of Capt. William, lived on the east end of the old Dutcher farm on the road to Greeuburgh. He married and had a large family of children. Deliverance Dutcher died Nov. 7, 1823, hi his 41st year. Cathriua Bancker his widow, born Jan 14, 1785, died July 10, 1875. Mrs. Andrew C. Field of Dobbs Ferry …

William, married Abigail Ferris, daughter of Oliver and Abigail Lockwood Ferris, and lived at Hall's Corners, (Elmsford). Had a large family. A son, Oliver Ferris Dutcher, lived at Providence, R. 1. ; was a prominent merchant there, an Alderman ot the city and Member of the State Legislature. He married Mary P. Warner, who after his death became the wife of Mr. Benson Ferris and resided in Ta…

There was an Abram Dutcher who was a soldier in Capt. Martling's Company, probably Abraham, 2d. Parent Dutcher of Philipse Manor, probably Parent, Jr., made a will which was admitted to probate Dee. 31st, 1772. Gave to Iris daughter Rachel £10. Otherwise his estate was equally divided between his son Isaac, daughter Mary Monson, daughter Catharine Barnes and his before mentioned daughter Rach…

D, as was their near neighbor and kinsman, Capt. Jan Hannse, and they were probably brothers. The following record of their marriage is copied from the old Dutch Church of New York City, with which Jan appears to have united on profession of faith March 4, 1680: MARRIED. Mar. 21 Dec., 1692, Wolfert Ecker 1. m. Van MidAVout en Maritje Sibouts, Van dc Armen Bouwcrye, beyde op Frederick Philip…

Sybout, and Abraham, living, and "dafter Maritie." Peter Buckbout and Jacob Dyktnan were the witnesses to the will. In this connection it is of interest to notice that his deceased grandson had made a will date of July 3, 1746, in which he gave his gold ring and all of his estate to his grandfather, Wolfert Ecker, Sr., although as appears by the will above quoted he must have left children of …

Pie was evidently a man of property and character, and good business qualifications, for not only was he an Elder in the Old Dutch Church, but he was one of the first Assessors appointed for the Phillipsburgh Manor by the General Court as early as 1714. As will further appear, he was doubtless the ancestor of all of the name of Acker or Ecker who afterwards resided in this vicinage. Wolfert…

Isaac he gives " my Dutch Bible, to him and his heirs forever." He also mentions eldest son Wolfert, and " dafter" Ally Requaw, wife of fulm Requaw, and grandsons John Dutcherand Abraham l\eker. He also had daughters Rea and Maritie. This Wolfert Acker is probably the Wolfert who married Susanna Requa, the sister of John, Daniel, James and Glode Requa, and removed to Newburg, Orange Co., prio…

He died July 9, 1811, and Ids wife Catharine died April 11, 1S06. Abraham Acker, third, appears to have principally inherited his father's estate. This Abraham married Jemima Dutcher, daughter of'Capt. William Dutcher, and resided at the old homestead, on lower Broadway. • He was a man of property and importance in the communits and his residence, known far and wide as the Acker Inn, was qui…

By his will, made Dec. 20, 1821, gave to his wife Jemima, to his son James, and grandson Abraham son of James; to his son Wm. D. Acker and to his daughters Catharine, Maria, Margaret and Lettie. He was evidently a man of consequence and substance, as a receipt of internal revenue date of 1815, giving him the right of use for a " two wheeled carriage called a chair, owned by him and the harnes…

Maria, the sister of James and daughter of Abraham Acker, 3d, married the late Benson Ferris, Sr., and was a woman much esteemed i- ' ■ HISTORICAL SKETCHES. io5 in this community. Her son, Benson Ferris, Esq., is President of the Westchester County Savings Bank of this place. The oldest memorial stone of the Acker family recognizable in t lie old Dutch Churchyard, bears the following ins…

Sibout Acker, son of Wolfert, baptized prior to 1699, had Wolfert, Magdalen, William, Abraham and Rachel, Tea, Maritie and Jan Acker. Mr. Jacob Acker, a great-grandson of William Acker, son of Sybout and grandson of Wolfert, lived near the summit of the hill west of the Saw Mill River, and 011 the road leading to East Irvington, on what was formerly a part of the Win. Acker farm. He was born …

He remembered how his father was taken prisoner during one of the forays of the enemy to the northward. He had stoutly resisted but was finally overpowered by a blow from a saber which made an ugly and nearly fatal cut in his head. He was then taken to New - ' io6 IIISTORICA I, SKETCHES. York and confined in the Old .Sugar House Prison (as stated in If application fora pension), where he …

Israel Honeywell, as a scout in a reconuo.itering party to examine the lines of the British troops then at Morrisiauia, and that on their return, he and others under the command of Ensign Thos. Boyce, on the 3d of March, in the town of Newcastle, were attacked by a part\ of British Dragoons, and that during the attack he received a severe wound from the sword of a British soldier, on the head, …

The conflict was brought on by the firing of 'Jake Acker. ' He was famous in his days as a sharpshooter with musket or rifle, and being out probably hunting on the brushy and brambly elevation known as 'the Island,' between Saw Mill River and the road east of it, in company with John Dean, he saw a squad of twenty-eight British soldiers marching carelessly down the road toward the site of the …

But while they were thus occupied with him, and taking counsel together what to do, 'Jake' who had reloaded his musket, crept stealthily through the bushes down to the eastern edge of the island, and, taking deliberate aim, sent another ball through the temples of a British soldier, who fell dead upon the spot. They were both afterwards buried on the island. 1 saw, said Mr. Van Wart, the gra…

He was thrice wounded while on a scout to Morisauia on the 14th of Dec. 1779. Stephen son of Wolfert, was a pensioner by reason of being wounded once on his chin, once iii his gullet, and the third in his right shoulder; and on the 1st day of May, 1780, being again ordered out by Col. Hammond on a scout to Sing Sing, he received another wound on his left shoulder, by a broadsword in the hands…

In a list of officers chosen for a Tarrytown Company date of Oct. 23, 1775, Sybout Acker's name appears as Ensign. He was afterwards Captain of a Company, and was much of the time in active service on the Lines in this neighborhood, as is evidenced by the statements of many applicants for pension, including Samuel Youngs. His marriage does not appear on the records, but Sybout (probably Capt.…

In a statea.r made by him in 1847, sa>'s •' "1 saw service during the Revoluti ary war, and in the latter part of it was employed as a Perryman King's Ferry. 1 ferried Smith (Joshua Hett) and Andre aero, s'' river Sept. 22, 1780, and was a witness at Smith's trial, in 17. . when the French arm)' lay at White Plains, I was employed as a wv.- • man at Dobbs Ferry. Once, in the month of October…

The following from the granddaughter of Mrs. Rachel AM'.' Stillwaggou, the venerable old lady who died a few years since in ' * 106th year, is worthy of a place here : "Grandmother does not reim ber her grandfather's first name. He fought in both the French 2: Revolutionary wars. Williams and Van Wart were both cousin - her. Grandmother's father, Abram Acker, was in the Revolutio: war, and w…

Wolfert Acker was an Assessor of the Manor in 1714, and in 1723, filled the office of Collector, the following receipt being copied from the old records : " New York, May 21, 1723, " Rec'd from Stephen Ecker in behalf of his father, Woofcrt Ecker, Collector of the Manor of Phillipsburgh, the sum of six Pounds four Shillings and five pence which with his salary at nine pence in the pound amou…

The old Dutch Church records state that in the absence ol a minister Jan Ecker was appointed to conduct the funeral service "in a Christian manner, and that he walk before the procession to the grave." Jan Acker was one of the Deacons chosen at the organization of the old Dutch Church, 1697, and served as Elder 1702-4. The old survey of the Post Road, date 1723, indicates that the residence of…

Jan Cornelius Van Tassel was the first of that name, known to have come to New Netherland. Among the first settlers to locate upon Philipse Manor, were John, Jacob and Cornelius Van Tassel, sons ol the first mentioned. They were the 38th, 53d and 73d persons whose names appear upon the roll of members of the old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. Dirck, the son of Cornelius, was the 25th person b…

Captain elected for the company that was known as the Tarrytown Company, this Sept. 2, 1775, being the first and earliest mention of the name Tarrytown yet discovered. Lieut. Cornelius Van Tassel, was elected an officer of one of the four companies organized in the upper Manor ot Philipsburg. The Provincial Congress in session in New York city, gave them their commissions during the month of …

They were mounted, and the Governor, to stimulate enlistments j: that branch of the service, gave them a reward of twenty-five dollar: for the capture of every committeeman, aval five dollars each for ever-, deserter.' This command soon grew to be a very effective regimen. They were given the name of Cow Boys, as their thorough kuowledg of the roads and country was a great help to them in that…

Throwing a blanket over his head he came down stairs and sprang over tin* lower half of the hall door and ran rapidly to the Saw Mill River, pursued by the enemy, who gave up the chase when they found that he had broken his way through the ice, in order to escape to the Karen Ilott, the picket station on Beaver Mountain. Cornelius, Jr., died Jan. 3, 1780, as the result of his exposure at the…

are both owned by d d Rebels -- burn them!' My wife, l,cah Van Tassel, was the only daughter of Cornelius, and she was the infant taken out of the house in a blanket by a soldier, laid carefully in the snow and the mother, distracted, was seeking her babe when be told her where the child was. The only son, Cornelius, Jr., fled for safety half naked to the roof of the house and held on by the …

signed by I/ieut Cornelius and Peter Van Ta >cl, as Committeemen, and others, drawn up at the Provost Goal, date of F< b. 6, 1778, is on file among the Clinton papeis, in whir l) they, set forth that they are there as Committeemen, and Jemo. unable to get exchanged, and they ash the Governor to help them out of their diicjuma so that they may be returned to their families, which it appears he …

Ilis only son having died from exposure received in fighting for his country, he postponed the affair until the marriage of his daughter I, cah, to John Romer, son of Jacob Romcr, Sr., who with his thi'-e brother . )■/ d been active participants in the cause of Independence; and in 1793, they erected the dwelling still standing, of which a photo representation appears herewith, and < re for …

Dank-] Martling's Company as early as 1776, and as already stated he was ; member of the Committee of Public Safety for this County when taker prisoner and carried away to the Provost Goal in New York in Nov., 1777. His tombstone in the old Dutch Churchyard shows that he was born in May, 1728, and that he died in Sept., 1784, just after the close of the Revolutionary war, and probably as a r…

So Peter was the sou of Johannis who had married Trintje, and the brother of famous Major Jacob Van Tassel of Wolfert's Roost, also brother of Catrina who married Abraham Acker or Ecker, 2d, the great-grandfather of Mr. Benson Ferris. As Peter died in 1784, his widow, Catrina or Catharine, and her sons Peter, 2d, and John, took title to his farm of 150 acres in the Saw Mill River Valley just …

"The situation of the Roost is in the very heart of what was the debateable ground between the American and British lines, during the war. The British held possession of the city of New York, and the island of Manhattan, on which it stands. The Americans drew up towards the highlands, holding their headquarters at Peekskill. The intervening country, from Croton River to Spiting Devil Creek, w…

In a little while this debateable laud was overrun by predatory bands from either side ; sacking hen-roosts, plundering farmhouses, and driving off cattle. Hence arose those two great orders of border chivalry, the Skinners and the Cow Boys, famous in the heroic annals of Westchester County. The former fought, or rather, marauded under the American, the latter under the British banner ; but bo…

Mediterranean ploughed by hostile prows; and. would occasional]; throw up a mud breast-work on a point or promontory, mount an old iron field-piece, and fire away at the enemy, though the greatest harm was apt to happen to themselves, from the bursting of their ordnance, nay, there was scarce a Dutchman along the river that would hesitate to fire with his long duck gun at any British cruiser …

As the Roost, from its lonely situation on the water's edge, might be liable to attack, he took measures for defence. On a row of hooks, above bis fire-place, reposed his great piece of ordnance, ready charged and primed for action. This was a duck, or, rather, goose-gun of unparalleled longitude -- with which it was said he could kill a wild goose, though half way across the Tappan Sea. Indee…

"He was, as I have already hinted, of pugnacious propensities; and, not content with being a patriot at home, and fighting for the security of his own fireside, he extended his thoughts abroad, and entered into a confederacy with certain of the bold, hard-riding- lads of - ' <T> Tarry town, Petticoat Lane and Sleepy Hollow -- who formed a kind of holy brotherhood, scouring the country to cle…

Did he ever chance to espy, from his look-out place, a hostile ship or galley anchored or becalmed near shore, he would take down his long goose-gun from the hooks over the fire-place, sally out alone, and lurk along shore, dodging behind rocks and trees, and watching for hours together, like a veteran mouser intent on a rat hole. So sure as a boat put off for shore, and came within shot, bang…

These mosquito cruisers generally kept aloof by day, so that their harboring places might not be discovered, but would pull quietly along, under shadow of the shore, at night, to take up their quarters at the Roost. Hither, at such time, would also repair the hard-riding lads of the hills, to hold secret councils of war with the "ocean chivalry ; " and in these nocturnal meetings, were concert…

"This doughty Dutchman (continues thesage Diedrich Knickerbocker) was not content with taking a share in all the magnanimow enterprises concocted at the Roost, but still continued his petty warfaic along shore. A series of exploits at length raised his confidence in his prowess to such a height, that he began to think himself and his goosegun a match for anything. Unluckily, in the course of on…

"It was not long after this, during the absence of Jacob YanTu.- sel on one of his forays, and when no one was in garrison but his stouthearted spouse, his redoubtable sister, Nochie Van Wurmer, and a strapping negro wench called Dinah, that an armed vessel came to anchor off the Roost and a boat full of men pulled to shore. The garrison flew to arms -- that is to say, to mops, broomsticks, sho…

The struggle continued down to the very water's edge, when a voice from the armed vessel at anchor ordered the spoilers to let go their hold. They relinquished the prize, jumped into their boats, and pulled off, and the heroine of the Roost escaped with a mere rumpling of the feathers. Shortly after the catastrophe of the Roost, Jacob VanTassel, in the course of one of his forays, fell into th…

Hammond he received directions to take as many men from his company as seemed advisable, and go as far.down the Hudson as he could with safety, and gather all the information he could relative to the movements and designs of the enemy, and that he selected six privates and went down, and on their return put up for the night at a private dwelling in the vicinity of Croton River ; that in the m…

which was executed at the old Sugar House in Liberty St., was tin-:, sent to Platbush where lie remained until he was exchanged in the fa; of 1781, and on his arrival home he first heard of the surrender of Cornwall is. , Relates being one of the Company that made a raid to Morrisania when the guide Dyckman was killed. Upon one occasion he recollected to have shot a deserter from our troops who…

Reton, his relatives, and Isaac Delameter, were the persons who were taken prisoners with him. That at Flatbush where he was on parole, were many American officers, including Col. Hammond, the latter part of the time, he having been taken out of his bed when he was taken prisoner. That when they were exchanged Hammond accompanied them up through New Jersey to Greenburg ; that they were advised…

The old record at Albany shows the following in the book o! ^ o Audited Accounts : ■ , . HISTORICAL, SKETCHES. I 2 1 To Lieut. Jacob Van Tassel, Isaac Van Tassel and four privates of Col Hammond's Regt.. Westchester Co. Militia, for pay from the time they entered service and during the time they were taken prisoners to the day they returned from their captivity. To Isaac Van Tassel, Ser…

She died Oct. 27, 1861, in her 95th year, and he. died Nov. 59, 1856, in his 93d year. Jacob also had sons Isaac, Jacob, and William. Charles Denison Belden, of New York, is a great-grandson of Lieut. Jacob Van Tassel. The following inscription appears on his tombstone in the old Dutch Churchyard, he being there designated "Major" Jacob Van Tassel, to which honor he was entitled by reason o…

Stephen Van Tassel's application for a pension, dated Dec. it, 1832, states that he entered the service as a Volunteer about the first of May, 1776, at Tarry town, for 9 mouths in the Co. of Capt. Abram Ladieu ; resided in or near Tarry town at that time ; was at the battle of White Plains in the right-wing of the American Army near Chatterton Hill. In the spring of 1777 re-enlisted in Capt. S…

lived at "Haventje," known as the Fremont place. This Johannis Van Tassel was the great-grandfather of Mr. Daniel Van Tassel of Tarrytown. A John Van Tassel, born 1737, and who died 1807, was one of the John Van Tassels who served in the French war; was also a soldier of the Revolution. He kept the Van Tassel Inn, present Jacob Mott house, which was a rallying place in the early part of the R…

John Romer says of the affair, "John Van Tassel was posted as sentinel near the house, and challenged the enemy who charged. He fired, defended himself with his bayonet, but was surrounded and cut to pieces by the dragoons. The men then jumped out of the windows and escaped." The State afterwards gave a pension to "Catharine Ann and John Van Tassel, orphan children of John Van Tassel, late p…

Among the early if not original members of the old Dutch Church were Jacob Van Texel and Aletje his wife, Jan Van Texel and Cathriua his wife, and Cornelius Van Texel and Antje his wife. Among the officers of that Church appear the names of Cornelius Van Texel, Deacon, 1709; Jan Van Texel, Deacon, 1716; Cornelius, Elder, 1717; Jan, Elder, 1727; Jan, Elder, 1736; Hendrick, Deacon, 1 7 3 S ; Di…

Van Tassel; 1756, Dec. 29, earmark of Johannis Van Tassel ; ] 757, March 20, ear mark of Johannis Van Tassel, son of Hendrick. 1760, Mar. 4, licensed Inn Keeper, Peter Van Tassel; x 7 7S, John Van Tassel, a Pound Master ; 1779. John Van Tassel Assessor. ■ ■ . HISTORICAL SKETCH ICS. The following', copied from the original on file in the St. Archives at Albany, well deserves a place here as…

Notwithstanding theenemy has not left us one single head of our cattle, furniture &c.. but has plundered us of all, we beseech that you will look with an eye of pity or, , and have some consideration for our past services, and that a year's imprisonment ,v. : five years' exile, the ruin of our fortunes, and the submission with which we have b these punishments and the zeal which we are still r…

The Van Warts are found in the old Dutch Church records as early as 1700, Gerret Van Wart having been a Deacon there 1705-7, and 1710-12 ; an Elder 1719, and a Gerret Van Wart, perhaps Gerret, Jr., an Elder 1731-2, Joegliem Van Wart was a Deacon 1734, and perhaps another Joegliem Deacon in 1751. A Jacob Van Wart was Deacon 1 739, and a Jacob, Elder 1766 and 1771, and Deacon in 1776. Martinas w…

In the old records of the officers of this Manor Garret Van Wart appears as Constable date of 1715; was Collector 1723. Jacob Van Wart was Collector 17x8. A Gerret Van Wart was Constable 1742, and Joegliem was Collector same year. In 1744 Joegliem Van Wart was Constable and Collector, and again Collector in 1745. The following is copied from the ancient records verbatim : "Ye first Tuesday in …

In the Tax hist of 1732, for this Manor, the following Van Wartappear: Abraham, Gerret, Sr. , Gerret, J r. , Jan, Joeghem, Jacob, and William Van Wart. William Van Wart, by will, proved Aug. 4, 1772, gave to his wife Cathrina, and sons Wm. , Jacobus, Jacob, and daughters, Belitie, wife of David Davids, Susanna, w ife of Wolfert Cropper, and Cathrina, wife of Jacobus Davids, Johannis Van Wert,…

C* The petition of Isaac Van Wart, late a Lieutenant in Philip Van- Cortlandt's Regt. , respectfully slioweth : That in the year 1775 he was appointed alLieutenaut in Capt. Ambrose Horton's Company in a Regt. commanded by Col. Jas. Holmes; that he served tnat Campaign in the siege of St. Johns, and in the winter he marched with the army to the siege of Quebec, and continued with the army the…

That he has a large family of children to support, and asks for the allotment of lands given to officers. To enumerate some of the important actions in which he was engaged: Was an officer of the Line, 1776. Had command on board the Galleys in their attack on the Phenix and Rose at Tarry town, in July of that year. Was in the Battle at White Plains and at T renton ; in 1777 was present at th…

That he was in the sendee again that year, and in the beginning of the year 1777 he kept his home at the house of the father of this deponent, and in a short time enlisted more than 30 men, and this deponent well remembered to have seen the said Isaac Van Wart, and a number of the soldiers that enlisted under him doing duty in the Regiment of Continental troops commanded by Col. Philip Van C…

He drew a pension of $320 per annum. IP- died July 13, 1840. David Henry, of Lansinburgb, makes affidavit in support the claim of Isaac Van Wart's widow ; says he then resided at Lausinburgh, aged 86, and a pensioner ; he well knew Isaac Van Wart to be a Lieutenant in the army of the Revolution. In May, 1775, lie was enlisted in the service by him at White Plains. Ambrose Horton was the Capt…

Abraham Van Wart, father of Lieut. Isaac Van Wart, was the son of Abraham, Sr., and Antie Mey his wife, (she the daughter of Martinas Mey and born in Germany) and bapt. Sept. 19, 1730, his brother Martinas Van Wart, the father of Isaac the Captor, havingbeen bapt. June 26, 1733. Abraham Van Wart, Sr., was the son of Gerridt Van Werdt and Catalyntie his wife, and bapt. at the old Dutch Church.…

Martinus Van Wart and some of his Patriot neighbors, hearing the firing came up, and did some skirmishing on the flanks of the red coats, and as soon as the enem)^ had finished the work of destruction and had retired, they came upon the scene to minister to the wounded and bury the dead. They found Capt. Roberts lying where he had fallen on the snow, inhumanly robbed of whatever he had of val…

While at the encampment at North Castle, John Paulding came one afternoon, to me, saying, 'Isaac, have you any objection to going with me on a scout, below?' 'No,' says I. We then started between three and four in the afternoon, with our English rifles on our shoulders? and proceeded southward. After walking a mile or so, we fell in with David Williams, and persuaded him to accompany us on ou…

out discovering- us -- Paulding and Williams keeping a perfect silt i and I laying down within the bushes, close to the fence. Shortlv p twenty or thirty minutes from the time of our arrival) 1 saw a liorsem ride slowly along on a black horse, the rising ground, directly oppeto where the Tarrytown academy now stands. I said to Paulding a-. Williams, 'Here's a horseman coming; we must stop him.'…

"He started, changed color, and fetching a deep sigh, said, 'G bless my soul! a body must do anf tiling to get along now-a-day.- . 1 Thereupon he showed us General Arnold's passport, and said : 'I have been in the country on particular business and hope you won't deta . me a minute.' After we had read the passport we ordered him to dh mount and follow' us. We then took down the fence and led …

Replacing *B fence, we allowed him to remount his horse and go in advance You never saw such an alteration in any man's face. Only a K" minutes before, he was uncommonly gay in his looks ; but after w' had made him prisoner, you could read in his face that he thought it was all over with him. We felt for him ; but that was all v. ■ could do, so long as we meant to be honest to our country. A…

He suffered much in mind, as was apparent from his great dejection ; but he acted like a gentleman, candidly and politely. He never once attempted to escape." Isaac Van Wart was baptised Oct. 25, 1758, and died May 23, 182S. He married Rachel, daughter of Nicholas Storms, and had two sons, Abram and Rev. Alexander Van Wart. Was buried at the old Greenburgh Church, Blmsford, of which lie had …

"Ames Van Wart, Esq., of New York city, born there Jan. 20, 1841, married Apr. 13, 1869, Carolina Marshall Roberts, daughter of Marshall of New York, son of Irving Van Wart, of New York city, born there Mar. 7, 1808, who married 1839, Sarah Craig Am,es, son of Henry, born at Tarry town, 1783, died at Kdgbaston, Birmingham, Eng., in Mar. 1873 ; was in business with the Irvings and chosen as th…

William Van Wart was pensioned by the State for worn: ' received in the service. Date of July 3, 1786, he made affidavit beibn- James Requa, Esq., that he served as a private in Col. Hammond'. Regiment, and that while in such service he was disabled by tv. wounds ; one in his left shoulder, and one above his left eye. V.. placed on the Invalid Pension roll from May 25, 17S0, which would indic…

In fact, there was so much of commingling of these families that it is difficult to tell where the one begins and the other ends ; whether one of the descendants is more of a Van Wart than he is an Acker, or more of an Acker than he is a Van Tassel, or more of a Van Tassel than he is a Dutcher, or more of a Dutcher than he is a Davids, or a Davids than he is a Storm, or a Storm than he is a …

The story of the Requa Family as related to Philipse Manor during the Revolutionary struggle, and subsequent to that period, is one of not a little interest. Although the migration of the Requas here was confined to a single family of that name, and that at a period not earlier at least than 1730, and after the settlement here under Frederick Philipse had existed for fifty years ; from 1775 to…

Requa, a grandson of Abraham and great-grandson of Daniel Requa. who spent much of time in making researches concerning the family and who gathered a large amount of statistics in the shape of family trees and other interesting data, left the following memorandum in regard to the original emigration and emigrants of that name : They came from La Rochelle, France, about 1690. They were H ugucn…

My Gram:'... ther (Abraham) informed me that Gabriel had a brother on board the same ship, as he : . been told by the oldest in the family and when Gabriel and James' parents were dead, ; - having an equal share with his brother's money he took charge ol it and James' aa arrived in New York, and purchased what necessaries they were in want of, clothing, ,y< procuring and paid board for them, …

The family was rich in houses, lands and stocks ; but. the persecution was so bitter that they fled in the night to save their lives, leaving behind the greater part of their property which they coukJ,not convert into money. There were eleven other families which fled at the same time and from the same cause; they were strictly forbidden to read the Bible, or to hold religious meetings of any …

But contention was in vain ; their persecutors were rich and powerful anil in consequence of the refusal of the Huguenots to submit, they were all condemned to be massacred on a certain night. From certain indications they gathered that evil w.m intended toward them ; their houses were pointed out by passers by. Providentially, through the good offices of a friendly Romanist, they were warned …

The son Glode afterward married Jane and lived on Muddy P>rook now called Harlem River. Afterward they moved to New Rochelle where a part of the family lived until the war with Great Britain. Some of the family moved previous to the war to what is now called Tarry town, on the North River, about 30 miles from New York, where manv of the family no"' live, although they have spread over the cou…

When Glode Requa, Sr., came to this Manor does not clearly appear, but probably soon after 1730, though the old Tax List of 1732 does not contain his name, and yet in the marriage record of his children, Jannitie, James, John and Daniel, in the old Dutch Church, the birth-place of all of them is given as Philipsburgh, the first named, married April 10, 1751, being the first public record of t…

John Dean of the Revolution, and had a family of six sous and three daughters. He was early appointed to the command of a Company of Militia on this Manor, and of the services so performed by him frequent mention is made in the applications for pension of those who served under him. The following accounts copied from the books of the State Treasurer show various sums paid to him and his comma…

The old Manor records show that Glode Requa was chosen oikof the Assessors the 1st Thursday of April, 1753, and that the ear mark of his stock was recorded April 1, 1767. It is said of Glode, Sr., that he was very Prencliy in his talk, and difficult to understand on account of his foreign speech. That he occupied the farm which afterwards descended to his eldest son, Glode, Jr., is unquestione…

That she was a daughter of William Paulding, and was born Oct. 8, 1766. Peter Van Woermer, aged 87, said he was well acquainted with Isaac Requa and lived in the same township with him during the Revolution, one or two miles from him. That his father and the father of the said Isaac removed for a time to Collaberg, 10 or 12 miles above Tarrytown, during the Revolution, and that the two famili…

ancestor of all the Requas heretofore or now living in Westchester Co., and so far as this deponent hath knowledge or belief, of all the Requas heretofore or now living in these United States; that he has often heai d from his said father, and it is a matter of family history, that the said Glo'de, the grandfather of this deponent, emigrated from Rochelle in France, to the then Colony of New …

Pleasant, about i mile from Sing Sing, and seven or eight miles from Tarrytown ; that James and Daniel resided in the town of Mt. Pleasant, about one or two miles east of Tarrytown, the latter upon a farm adjoining and east of the said James. That John died without issue. Male issue of the other brothers was as follows : Glode, Jr., had 6 sons, viz.: Isaac, the husband of Henrietta, Gabriel, …

The foregoing includes all the Requas in the male line who were living in the County of Westchester during the period of the Revolution, and there were during the Revolution, as herewith shown, but two of the name of Isaac, (one of whom was the eldest son of Glode) and the other the son of James -- the ninth son, and the younger brother of the deponent; that Isaac the son of Glode was an Adjut…

Was Supervisor of the town of Greenburgh for svx successive terms, from 1787 to 1792, inclusive; was Justice of the Peace for nearly twenty years, and from 1810 to 1820 was an Associate Justice, or side Judge, sitting at County Courts, and was commonly known as Judge Requa. He was successfully engaged in business at his residence adjoining the residence of Gen. Paulding near the Requa Dock. …

Cole ; a son James Requa who lived at Piermont and had Glode Requa who lives at Mousey, Rockland Co. James Requa had married Margaret Blauvelt, and died at Piermont April 15, 1858. Gabriel and Elizabeth Martling his wife also had Julia who married Isaac Davids, and Gabriel who seems to have been unmarried. Mary M. Requa, daughter of Glode, married John Van Wart who was a Lieut, in Capt. Mart…

Willsea, and removed to Kendall, Orleans County. Isaac L. Rjeoua. HISTORICAL SKETCHES. J39 Capt. Jacob Requa, a son of Samuel, married Eliza Lawrence daughter of Isaac, and had Maria, who married Isaac F. Van Wart, a grandson of Isaac Van Wart the Captor, and had a son Jacob and two daughters ; John Requa, who went to California 1850, and died at San Francisco about thirty years ago and le…

Albert Lewis, until he sold his interest in 1892. Capt. Samuel has retired from business, but at the village election in 1894 was unanimously chosen as one of the Board of Water Commissioners of Tarrytowu, and has since been elected Treasurer of the Board. He is also a Trustee and Treasurer of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Association, a Trustee and Treasurer of the Andre Capture Monument Associ…

Jacob Requa married second the widow Theall of Haverstraw, and had a son Nathaniel, who lives in New York. Isaac, twin brother of Capt. Jacob, and son of Capt. Samuel, had Maria, who married Alonzo Leonard ; Isaac, unmarried ; Anna, James M., who married Myra R. Lee of Potsdam, St Lawrence County, Juliet, who married David Kent of Putnam Co., and Grace Requa who married Frank Y. Millard. Isaac…

Requa, Esq., who lived for a time after the war in Florida, and while there came within one vote of being elected United States Senator by the Legislature of that vState. Afterwards resided for a time at Tarrytown Heights and while there lost his only son. Pie removed to Santa Barbara, California, and died there in March, 1SS8. This Gabriel also had sons James Dixon, who was a Methodist Mini…

It occurred while crossing the Hudson, either to or from Piermont, one account says by the upsetting of the boat in a severe storm ; another story is that they were struck by lightning -- probably on the river opposite the old homestead. An old double tombstone, now fast crumbling to decay perpetuated the fact of the death of James and Glode Requa, both on the 12th of August, 1789, the age of…

It seemed at first, when the family tree showed that the above James Requa had descendants, that there must be a mistake somewhere, but an examination of the records of the old Dutch Church showed a James Requa married to Betsey Helliker, as the tree indicated, on the 28th of June, prior to the 12th of August on which he was drowned, lie was then in his 20th year. And then more than six month…

James Requa, the second son of Glode, Sr., born 1729-30, u:.v ried Maritie Acker, daughter of Wolfert Acker, Sr., Dec. 20, 173.; , probably was married at the Tappan Church, as the marriage is records there, as well as in the old Dutch Church records. When she died • not known, nor how many children she left, but it must have been prim to Nov. 1766, as the following, copied from the records i…

Certainly the grave of Iris first wife is not to be found in the old Dutch Churchyard, neither does bis second marriage appear in the old Dutch Church records. This above is also of interest as being the first transfer of property by or to a Requa that appears in the old records, so far as has been discovered. And so James Requa was a blacksmith as well as a justice of the Peace, Supervisor, …

At the Town Meeting held on Philipse Manor, the 7th. day of April, 1778, -- for notwithstanding the turmoil of the Revolution, the Annual Town Meeting was held by these sturdy Patriots, as the records tersely state, "as usual ! '' -- James Requa (Requaw as it appears on the record written by his son Joseph, and it was the way he himself always wrote it) was chosen one of the Overseers of the …

In this connection it is well to note the fact that at the same Town Meeting held in 1779, not only was James Requa, Esq., chosen Supervisor, but his son Lieutenant Joseph was elected Town Clerk, (as he had been the previous year), another son, Captain Gabriel Requa, was an Assessor, his brothers, John and Daniel Requa were appointed Overseers of Highway, and his brother, Captain Glode Requa,…

He gave to bis sons Joseph, Elijah, William and Isaac $125 each; to his grandsons Gabriel, George, James Austin, and Joseph and granddaughter Minerva, children of his son Glode, $500, to be placed at interest until they became of age; to his grandson John R. Requa, son of Gilbert, $500 to be put at interest for his benefit until of age ; to daughter Jane Martine, $125; to daughter Sarah Cbatt…

The Prisoner on his Arraignment pleads not Guilty, l i e: Gabriel Requaw being sworn, says that he lives two .Wile back of Tarry Town, that a! a Week ago, as he was working by his House, fie saw two Men crossing the Lots ; ;i suspect them, he went into the House, took his Gun and followed them into the Wo< w on haling them one Ran away, the Prisoner Slop'd, when he came up with him he aski. h…

" The Court having considered the Evidence & Defence of Prisoner, are of Opinion that he is Guilty of the charge and Do therefore Sentence him to be hanged by the Neck till he is Dead. " Ben Walker, Judge Advocate. Philip Cortlandt, President." t In a return of the Militia on this Manor date of June 22, 177S, Capt. Gabriel Reqtia reports 8 commissioned and non-commissioned officers in bis …

He continued on the lines until 1780, in the course of which time he commanded a Company, having been commissioned as Lieutenant by Governor Clinton. In the year 1780 he was wounded in three places and taken prisoner. Whilst a prisoner Colonel Delancey offered a Captain's Commission in the British army to he handed him in 24 hours if he would accept. The declarant replied! that he was a pris…

" He then remarked that this declarant was "an active enemy of the British," and asked him if he would not like a parole? to which Lieutenant Requa replied, " Well !" " \\ hereupon he gave me my parole," and soon after Governor Clinton secured his exchange and called him into active service, by ordering him to muster the northern troops at Albany, and afterwards he was ordered to take comman…

This declarant had the command of the American Light Horse when the British headquarters were surprised and their Commander, Major Bearmore, taken prisoner with 19 of his men ; he was the first that entered the house and ordered them to surrender. This declarant had one brother, Daniel, killed, three brothers wounded and taken prisoners, and five brothers of them were in action together at on…

It was customary for his neighbors on the Fourth of July to come at sunrise in front of his house and salute him. This was done for man v successive vears. ' ■ ■ ' ■ . HISTORICAL SKETCHES. M6 He died in 1841, and was buried in the family burial ground, which is situated on a beautiful rise of ground overlooking the Hudson. Ansel, son of William and grandson of Joseph, has oceupi. : pub…

Although but 19 years of age he had already become noted as an Electrician. Henry M. Requa's daughter, Catherine, has been Principal of the 1 2th Street School, New York City, for many years. James Requa, son of Joseph, had a daughter Mary Eliza, who married Henry Sanger, of Howard, Sanger & Co., and was so the ancestor of Col. Wm. Cary Sanger, of Saugerneld, N. Y. Col. Sanger was elected M…

H. , resides at Middleburgh, N. Y. Has four children : William A., Alice May, Albert F... and Jennie L. Chas. W. Requa, another son of Thos. PL, resides in Chicago, and has for 18 years been a member of the Board of Trade 0! of that city. He married Catharine Bruyn, of Ulster Co., and has two sons, Wm. Bruyn and Chas. Howard Requa in the Commission business, Chicago, under the firm name of Req…

In 1828-9 was one of the Superintendents of the County Aims House, and in 1815 lie had been Supervisor of Alt. Pleasant. Pie was a prominent Methodist, and aided in the organization of Asbury M.E. Church, Tarrytown. Gave the site for the original edifice. Daniel Requa, son of James, gave his life for his country, having been, as stated by his brother Elijah, "slain on the field," at 19 years …

Janies Requa, Jr., son of James, Sr., married Maty Teller. Was a soldier of the Revolution. Plad Frederick W. , who married Juliet Field, and had Wm. C., unmarried, lived for a time at New Orleans and died at Peekskiil ; Jas. F. , his brother, the same; Adaline F. Requa, and Louise. Frederick W. Requa lived at Yorktown and Peekskiil ; was the first President of that village. James Requa died a…

Comb Requa, uuuried Susan Archer, became Judge in Nevada, Warren Co., Missoni;, and died in 1893, in his 90th year, leaving 8 sons and 1 daughter. Elijah Requa also had daughters Ann, Jane, Clarissa and Sarah. Jane married Abram Remseu and had a daughter who married William H. Lester, who now resides at Dobbs Ferry. Clara married John Buckhout, and Elizabeth married David Coles. Elijah Requak…

Then resided in Philipsburgh. Doubtless the son of James. Isaac Requa, youngest sou of James, born Jan'y 31, 1779, married Elizabeth Clements, and lived at Tarrytown. A Benjamin Requa, grandson of James Requa, Esq., resides at El Paso, Texas. The old house still standing on a part of the Jas. Requa farm, at present Pocantico Hills, and now owned by the Rev. Geo. Rockwell, is not the origina…

" A gentleman volunteer, by name Requaw, (Daniel) received a dangerous wound and was carried into the British lines ; I was requested by his brother to visit him, under the sanction of a flag of truce, in company with Dr. White, who resides in this vicinity. This invitation I cheerfully accepted : and Mr. Requaw (probably James Requaw,) having obtained a flag from the proper authority and procur…

In the morning breakfasted with a friendly Quaker family, in whose house was one of our men who had been wounded when four others were killed ; we dressed his wounds, which were numerous and dangerous. In another house we saw four dead bodies, mangled in a most inhuman man-ner by the refugees, and among them, one groaning under five wounds on his head, two of them quite through the skull bone …

Whether the said Daniel Recjua to whom he refers was Daniel the son of James, who was killed during the Revolution, or Daniel the brother of James, it cannot be positively stated but probably the latter, as he speaks of him as a gentleman, while the former was only a youth of 19, when he was stain. The following shows that Daniel, was a prisoner, and probably taken as above stated: "Daniel …

Thomas Thomas' Regiment ; that lie e- y tinned there with that Company until the British had taken New Y< : ■ and Tort Independence was evacuated, and then retreated from them to White Plains, where they were stationed a little to the north of th. ■ place and on the west side of Morton's Mill Pond, and continued them until after the battle of White Plains ; that the Regiment was then ordered…

That the said Abraham Requa was one of the Company of volunteers who made an attack on the Refugees at Morrisauia in March, 1782, when they captured .1 Lieutenant and some thirty prisoners; that they were pursued in thenretreat about twenty-eight miles, and lost eight or ten men in killed and wounded; that Abraham Dyekman, one of the most brave and uselu! men among the Westchester Guides was …

Amos C. Requa, of Peekskill : " While Abraham Requa was never taken in battle, his heart was captured in a march through a part of Dutchess County, now Put- ' ■ . H I STORICA L SKETCHES . uain. Bethia Hopkins, daughter of Capt. Solomon Hopkins, of Fredericksburg, now Carmel, was the fair maiden who made the capture. ' Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war. ' They were married…

In order to make his ride more comfortable, his large arm-chair was set in the wagon and he was placed in it. Unfortunately- the chair was not tied ; the sudden starting of the horses tilted the chair, and he fell to the ground. His neck was broken.. An old man full of days and honors. He sleeps in the old burying ground of the Yorktown Presbyterian Church at Crompond, near the remains of his …

Had six children: Frank Leslie Requa, Sr., and Frank Leslie, Jr., of New York are of his descendants. James Requa, son of Daniel, married Kllen Devo, and lived in New York City. Had eight children. Mary Requa, daughter of Daniel and Mary Martling his wife, married Walter Carpenter, and lived at Shrub -Oak. Margaret, daughter of Daniel, married Thomas Hyndman, ' ■ HISTORICAL SKETCHES. and r…

Seely now makes her home with Rev. and Mrs. Amos C. Recpia, at Peekskill. Dewis B. Requa, son of Daniel and Phebe, born Nov. 9, 18,15, married Harriet Randall, and removed to Rock Island, 111. Had Edward Kaskel, who married Sarah J. Powers, lives in Norfork, Nebraska, and has six children. Bethiah, daughter of Daniel and Phebe Dee Requa born 1818, married Amos Fuller of Peekskill, since decea…

Daniel Dee, sou of Elijah, married Kirkie Hungerford and resides at Dos Angeles, California. ' Mary Augusta, the eldest daughter of Elijah, is a physician and resides with her widowed mother in New York City. Emma Requa is prominent as a teacher in New York City. Ella L/ee Requa is unmarried and resides with her mother in. New York City. Douis Frederick married Mary Emily Park, and resides in N…

Vredenburgh, Dee. 14, 1817, and had five children, as follows: Sarah A., who died young; Edwin, b. 1821 who married Susan James, and had John James Requa, b. 1847, who married Sarah L. Barnes. He resides in Brooklyn, and is President of the Requa Manufacturing Company, Druggists' specialties, New York. Edwin Requa resides in Yorktown, on a part of the homestead of his grandfather, Abraham Requa…

Edmund Lewis, and died at Hudson, N. Y., 1892, leaving two sons, George A., and James H. Amos C. Requa, son of Edmund and Mary Conkling his wife, was born at Yorktown, Oct. 10, 1839, and married Mary E. Dayton of Peekskill, who was born near Kenosha, AYis. Resided on a part of the old homestead for several years, and now at Peekskill. Is a lay preacher of the Methodist Church. Is much interest…

John Recjua, the third son of Glode Requa, Sr., and Janette h: wife, married Aeltie Acker, daughter of Abraham and granddaught-, - of Wolfert Acker, she being therefore a niece of her sister-in-lav. . Maritie, wife of James Reqna, Esq., Alay 15, 1758, according to t'm old Dutch Church records, it being stated in connection therewith th.;7 both were born in Philipsburgh. Tie had evidently live…

Jannitie Requa, daughter of Glode, Sr., and Janette his wife, married Jacob Stymets, Apr. 10, 1:751, as appears on the old Dutch Church records. Maritie, daughter of Glode, Sr. , married a Mr. McFarlin, or Farden. The Gabriel and James McFarden whose names appear on the muster roll of Capt. Gabriel Requa's Company, were probably their sons. Margaret, daughter of Glode, Sr., married Samuel H…

The following appears in records of the old Dutch Church : "Joost Palding expressed a desire to remove to New York with liis family and was asked to submit his account to the Consistory," date of August, 1710. Had probably been its Treasurer. It does not appear that he ever returned. The names of Joseph and Abram Palding appear in the census of New York city in 1737; probably sons of Joost. …

Wili.iam Paulding and Catharine Ogden wedded, July 25, 1762, at New York. Catharine, the daughter of born Friday, June 1, 1764, at New York. Henrietta, the daughter of born Thursday, Oct. g, 1766, at New York. Julia, the daughter of born Wednesday, Aug. 10, 1768, at Philipsburgh. William, son of born Saturday, March 7, 1 770, at Philipsburgh. Joseph, son of born Frida}-, Feb. 2q, 1772, a: Phi…

As will be seen by William Paulding's family record he must have come to this place with his family between 1766 and 176S, as the birth of a daughter the latter year makes the first mention of Philipsburgh. Gen. Paulding at first removed his family to Bedford probably iu 17 76, immediately after the battle of White Plains, and soon after removed to Great Partners, present Putnam County, where …

In T784 William Paulding was elected Supervisor of the then Manor, being the first one chosen so to serve after the Revolution. Evidently he was held in high and deserved esteem by his fellow townsmen. He continued to reside here until his death, and his son-in-law, Adjutant and Judge Isaac Requa, in a house erected adjoining. They were quite pretentious residences in their day. His son, Willia…

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He was also Adjutant General of this State, a Brigadier General of Militia, Member of Congress, delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, and came to be the owner of the present Jay Gould place, which on his death became the property of his son Philip R. Paulding. James Kirke Paulding, sou of William, Sr., distinguished as an author, was Secretary of the Navy under President Van Buren. …

He died Fell. 24, 1786, and was buried in the old Dutch Churchyard. John Paulding the son of Joseph, born Jan'y 28, 1755, says in his application for a pension date of Sept. 3, 1832, that he was then 77 years old, and resided in the town of ML Pleasant. Enlisted as a private in May, 1779, in Capt. Glode Requa's Company. Was stationed at Bedford, Yorktown, and Philipsburgh. Was unmarried; died…

He died March 3, 1842, aged 93 years, and was buried in the old Dutch churchyard. He had married Jane Fowler, Aug. 19, 17S7, Rev. vSilas Constant of Yorktown officiating. They had sons, Joseph and John and daughter Susan. John and Harriet Paulding h is wife had Wm. Carlton, Geo. Washington, Eliza M., Wm. Henry, Catharine, Charles Webster and Susannah Paulding. Major Hiram Paulding, Postmaste…

On one of his visits to Ills sweetheart, Miss Sarah Teed, whom lie afterwards married, he was set upon by a number of Tories among whom was Ensign 'feed of Delancey's Corps. John ran into a barn whence he fired upon his assailants. Angered.by the wounds he had so inflicted the attacking party desired to kill him, but young Teed dissuaded them. Paulding finally surrendered and was taken to the…

where Lorillard's manufactory afterwards was. Paulding there got a Hessian's coat, green trimmed up with red, got a boat at the North River and escaped to the Jerseys. At Wehawken he was taken up and brought before Marquis de La Fayette as a spy, but Col. Cortlandt knew him and procured his release." He then crossed the river at or below Tarrytovn and returned home, making his first appearance…

Oil May 6, 1817, a statement was made and sworn to by John Paulding, one of the captors, of which the following is a copy : John Paulding, of the County of Westchester, one of the persons who took Major Andre, being duly sworn, saith, that he was three times during the revolutionary war a prisoner, with the enemy : -- the first time he was taken at the White Plains, when under the command of …

Smith redeemed the watch from them for thirty guineas; which, and the money received for the horse, saddle and bridle, they divided equally among themselves and four other persons, who belonged to their party, but when Andre was taken, were about half a mile off, keeping a lookout on a hill ; that Andre had no gold or silver money with him, but only some continental bills, to the amount of a…

He was once during the war upon Kaak-out, or David's Hill, with a party of militia, when the Refugee's horse appeared on some rising ground half a mile or a mile to the south. Paulding proposed to attack them there, but the militia refused, considering it too hazardous. He then went alone, and getting under cover advanced and fired at them several times. Annoyed they at length rushed upon him,…

Margaret Fisher, a daughter of Caleb Paulding, says in an interview of the date, of 1S45 : "My father, Caleb, and my uncle, Major Jonathan H. Paulding, were both strong and resolute, not to say violent Whigs. My father and uncle, in consecpience of their decided principles were repeatedly plundered by Refugees and Cow Boys. Our house was robbed so often that to the last moment of her life my m…

The old record of laying out the Post Road, 1723, shows him to have been living on the west side of the road at what is now Tarrytown. After lb - death a part of his farm was laid off in lots, and so became the nucleus of the present village. From 1742 to 1749, inclusive, Abraham Martliughs, senior, as he signed himself, was Town Clerk of the Manor. He was also a Justice of the Peace and a bla…

Also a brother Abraham, who was a soldier in the Revolution and wounded in the galley fight off Tarrytown. * ' ■ HISTORICAL SKETCHES . Ail Abraham Martling lived on Beaver Hill, near the Saw Mill River Valley. In his application for a pension, dated April 17, 181S, says he was aged 55; that he enlisted some time in October, 1779, in Captain Shaffer's Company, in Col. Armand's Regiment of …

John Romer gives the following account of that affair : "I don't know who commanded the party that burnt Gen. Delaucey's house on the 25th of November, 1777, but believe it was Capt. Buchanan of the Water Guards. The party came down the river from above in whale boats with muffled oars and stopped at Tarry town. After taking some volunteers on board they then went on down the river. They burn…

George Lawrence, now 76 years of age, and residing at Hartsdale, Westchester County, whose maiden name was Adaline Requa, granddaughter of Gabriel Requa, a soldier of the Revolution, and Elizabeth Martling his wife, who was the daughter of Sergeant Isaac Martling: Her greatgrandfather was killed in front of the old Martling house, at Tarrytown. He had been to the nearby spring, still in common…

This is doubtless the true story of his death. The Nathaniel Underhill who so slew this one-armed patriot of two wars was a notorious Tory who lived on the southern' part of the Manor in the vicinity of Yonkers. It is said that Sergeant Mart ling had once caused his arrest, hence personal animosity sharpened his cruel hate. After Independence was achieved he found it ' convenient to retire to …

They then pushed for the house of James Requa, where a guard was kept during most of the war, which they surprised, but the whole party made their escape except one, who was killed, and whose name was John Van Tassel." It will be noticed that this is a very different account of the affair from that given in Bolton's History, and then he locates it at Capt. Glode Requa's, while Capt. John Rom…

The Yager fired without orders, and Emerick made apology, being much mortified at the occurrence. The house where this occurred was near to and a little above the Saw Mill River Church." Anne Martling applied to the State for a pension on account of "the death of my late husband, Sergt. Isaac Martling, who was slain May 26, 1779," and it was duly granted. The name Martling, formerly so promin…

Was made Clerk of the Sessions for Orange Co., 1691, and in 1697 he and his family were living on Philips.e Manor, where his descendants became numerous and noted." In 1699 David Storm was chosen as one of the Deacons in the old Dutch Church, and afterwards served several terms as Elder. In 1730 Thomas Storm was Collector of the Manor. In fact, the Storm family was v-ery prominent in the early…

Abraham his son was for a short time Captain of the Tarrytown Company, was Major of the first Regt. of Minute Men, and Member of the Committee of Public Safety 1776-7. Rived on his father's place at Elmsford, at that time called e ' ■ ■ HISTORICAL SKETCHES. Storm's Bridge. By his will, dated April 4, 1792, he gave to his wife Rachel, (widow of Jacob Boice) to son of his brother Nicholas …

In January, 1778 again enlisted in Captain Butcher's Company, and that the whole of said Captain Butcher's Company was at that time in the service. In May, 1779, served under Captain Daniel Martling. Was born on Philipse Manor, present town of Greenburgh, November 20, 1756. Widow's application in February 18, 1837, says she was married 19th of December, 1778, at Bedford, N. Y. He died May 28,…

An old colored woman used to tell how he powdered his hair. ■ . ' The Yerks Family. The first of that name (it was then written Jurkse) appearing here were Herman Yerks and Maritie Storm his wife. She was from Gowanus, E. L, and united with the old Dutch Church in 1714, which was the year of their marriage. Johannis Yerks and Rachel his wife, had a child baptised there in 1724, and Jacob…

John Yerks, Jr., makes the following statement in his endorsement of the application of Mary Dean, widow of Sergt. John Dean, for a pension, date of April 24, 1837: "John Yerks, of the town of Mt. Pleasant, County of Westchester, being duly sworn saith that he was 77 years of age on the nth day of November last. That he lived with his father at the beginning of the Revolutionary war, about one…

The said John Dean, James Romer, Abraham Williams and Isaac See, and the deponent, undertook to watch the private road about one-quarter of a mile east of the said Post Road, and Isaac Van Wart, John Paulding and David Williams were to remain on or near the old Post Road. That a short time after the said party had so separated, Isaac Van Wart, John Paulding and David Williams joined the othe…

Sybert Acker's C'o., was quartered at Peter and Cornelius Van Tassel's till June. In Feb., 1779, enlisted in Capt. Gilbert Dean's Co. of Rangers, and was stationed at Young's House, the Dutcher house, and the Acker house, on or near the lines. In July he was in an expedition to the southern part of the County, and in a skirmish with the enemy at Tucky-ho, in which he was wounded in the thigh…

John Yerks made another statement date of Nov. 12, 1845, from which the following is copied: "I am now 87 years old. Six of us started from North Salem, being at that time either volunteers in the service, or eight months' men. At Cross River we were joined by David Williams. We then passed RundelPs Mills on Cross River and so through Bedford to where Union Village now stands and stopping at…

It was about ten or eleven when Maj. Andre was taken, and his captors soon joined us at our station when we all proceeded with the prisoner to Jacob Romer's where we partook of some refreshments, Andre refusing to eat or drink anything ; seemed unwilling to talk and desirous of being alone. Before starting on the expedition, we had applied to Capt. Baker and our other commanding officers, an…

The wife of Isaac, Jr., was also named Marie. The Sees obtained two farms, 194 acres, 011 Karles Neck, Staten Island, by patent of Sept. 29, 1677, but after living therefor some years, the)' removed to Philipse Manor, the father and son appearing ns church members at Sleepy Hollow (the old Dutch Church), in 1697 . Isaac and Marie had son Peter born in Europe who married Pizouella, Jacobus b. 1…

It is only known of their service that one of them, Isaac, was of the party on the hill to the eastward at the time of the capture of Andre, and that Sergt. Isaac, possibly the same man, or it may have been that the former was Isaac, Jr., and the latter, Isaac, Sr., was at one time a prisoner in New York. David, James, Isaac, Peter and John See took title to various lands from the Commissione…

Be it known, that on the 19th of July, 1779, William Davids was left on the ground near Croton River wounded in a most shocking manner in both body and limbs, with both haul (sic) and bayonet, to the number of eighteen or nineteen wounds, having lost a considerable part of the bone of his left arm, also having a tendon wounded in his left thigh, has left him with lameness of left leg, and bein…

bavonets, both in the body and limbs, in such manner as to be left for dead on the field ; which wounds have so disabled him as to prevent his gaining a livelihood bv labor, and I am of the opinion that an exception should be made in his favor, and an exemption granted him from doing guard or garrison duty, he having a family and being otherwise peculiarly circumstanced. Given under my hand an…

James Hawes, she being a lineal descendant of William Davids, Sr., who was born Nov. 6, 170 7, and died Sept, n, 17S7. Pie had married Nov. 10, & mm Mmm i/4 HISTORICAL SKETCHES. 1733, Nellie Storms, who died 1794. Their son William, of the Revolution, was baptised 1735. \ The old Davids-Stephens house, a picture of which herewith appears, has additional interest from the fact that Washin…

Joseph Youngs of the historic Youngs House noted as the headquarters on the American lines for so long a period, and until its destruction on Feb. 3, 1790, after which it was known as Youngs' "Burnt House," was a Justice of the Peace, and a Member of the Committee of Public Safety, as well as a member of Captain Gabriel Requa's Company of Militia, and was a man of consequence before the Revo…

Being much about the headquarters at his father's house he was familiar with army movements in this locality, and in later years, was a solicitor of pensions for the Revolutionary soldiers of this vicinity, he became, to a large degree, their unconscious historian, as the fdes of old papers in the Pension Office at Washington give abundant testi- . . HISTORICAL SKETCHES. i/5 inonv. After …

He made his will, date of Oct. 7, 1 776, and it showed him to be possessed of a considerable estate. The farm, consisting of 262 acres, comprising the present Benedict- Cobb estate and other lands adjoining, after the Revolution came into the possession of his sous-in law Col. Hammond and Capt. Geo. Comb, who were his executors. He left sons, Griffin, Joseph, Jacob, Caleb, Thomas and John, and…

Charity Tompkins, in an interview, date of Aug. 31, 1847, gives the following sketch of the Romer family, early of this vicinity : " Old Mr. (Jacob) and Mrs. Romer, parents of John Romer, came from the same parish, or village, in Switzerland, and had become attached to each other in early infancy ; she the daughter of a farmer, and lie the son of a tailor, and a tailor himself. When grown up …

The latter, born 1755, afterwards removed to Cortlandt town, where he died 1808, leaving descendants by two marriages. John married Rea, the only daughter of Cornelius Van Tassel, as already stated in the story of that family. James Romer was one of those who made up the party at the time of capture of Andre, but the following account is given by John, who was afterwards known as Capt. John R…

Paulding said to her, 'Aunt Fanny, take care what you say now; I believe we've got a British officer with us.' There was a cart road leading from James Requa's to Isaac Read's tavern, though 1 think Andre went on by Requa's to where Peter See's store is, and so towards Tarrytown. My father's house was about a quarter of a mile from the White Plains and Tarrytown road, and a mile from the Post…

Romer was seventeen years of age at the time of her marriage with Hendrick Romer. Her husband enlisted in the Continental army, leaving her with only a young brother and slave in charge of the farm. I shall never forget her manner when stating at the age of 100 years her baking operations for the enemy. (She did the baking unwillingly and under compulsion.) On one of these occasions she had c…

Convention, dated at Philipse Manor, Westchester Co., March 28th, 1777, is copied from the original in the State Archives: "The situation of affairs in our country is truly deplorable. We have daily accounts of cattle being stole and drove downwards to support our cruel, merciless and inveterate enemies, by our more than savage Tories, who have of late become so insulting as to hiss at men pa…

S. -- The Tories are daily going down in droves, 31 went at one time." A letter from Gen. Sam'l Parsons' to Gen. Heath, dated Camp at the Highlands, Jan. 25, 1781, giving account of an expedition Jan. 22, 1781, to destroy "the Hutts in Morrisiana which covered the thieves assembled there under the direction of Col. DeLancey," says that "Capt. (Israel) Honeywell, who on this occasion had coll…

Oliver Ferris was born in Greenwich, Conn., Nov. 22, 1753, the son ofjosiah, and through John, Jr. , and John, was descended from Jeffrey Ferris, the ancestor of that family in this country. Oliver Ferris was married to Abigail, daughter of Enos Lockwood on the 10th of Feb., 1776, by the Rev. Blackleach Burritt, who, on the 17th of the following June was taken prisoner and carried away to be …

Montgomery; was in Col. John Mead's Regt. from Aug. 14, to Sept. 25, 1776 ; in Col. Wooster's Regt 177 7 ; in 1778 - i8o HISTORICAL SKETCHES Quartermaster in Col. John Mead's Regt. ; March 9, 1779, appoint'. Commander of the war vessel " Wakcman " ; July 4, 1781, coinmU- sioned Brigade Quartermaster of the 4th Brigade of Militia of the State of Connecticut. Widow applied for pension Feb. i'…

Jonas Orser's application dated Aug., 1832, states that he was then a resident of ML Pleasant, and aged 88 years. In the years 1776-7 and up to the first part of 1778, when he rec'd his commission as Captain, he was a Lieut, in the Co. commanded by Capt. Abraham Ladieu ; in the month of July, 1776, at Tarrytown; was called out at various times, in the years 1776, '77 and '78. Commissioned by …

When the Revolutionary war broke out my great-grandfather and his family fled from their home on a farm and saw the British burn tire buildings and wheat-stacks for which he had worked so hard. He was an intimate friend of one Acker, a noted Rifleman. This Acker was so expert that for the sport of it, would shoot the caps from a British officer's head, or a button from his coat: He became a te…

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES. capturing Acker caused them to promise him quarter if he would conn down and surrender. He was imprisoned in New York City, but only for three weeks ; was then exchanged." Mrs. M. K. Couzens, of Yonkers, is the granddaughter of a Stephen Sherwood who was a soldier of the Revolution on this Manor, though not the Ensign Stephen Sherwood of whom a sketch appears above. …

Was in the skirmish at King's Bridge, also in the battle of Dong Island, where he was taken prisoner, kj.it escaped. Was in the storming of Stoney Point where he was severely wounded. Was one of the Guards when Major Andre was executed, and was well acquainted with his Captors. Was in several other skirmishes with the British. In 1761 removed to Harpersheld, N. Y., and in 1765 to Colchester,…

Was Census Enumerator in 1801. Lived on the White Plains Road beyond Glenville. A letter from Gen. Pleath dated at Crompond, Feb. 16, 1781, states that " the enemy came up to Bedford last night, and this morning took S prisoners, including Lieut. Peacock, and burnt several houses." That was Lieut. Richard Peacock, of Tarry town. But it appears that the valiant Lieutenant did not stay "taken,…

Samuel Drake, of Tarrytowu, was allowed seven years' half pay on account of the death of her husband who was "slain on the field," as the record states, Dec. 17, 1779. Cornelius Jones, who was a member of Capt. Gabriel Requa's Company, was an ancestor of Dr. R. B Coutant of Tarrytowu. Hendrick Banker, a soldier of the Revolution in Capt. Requa's Company, died in October, 1804, aged 7S years,…

Peter Van Woermer, in his application for a pension says that In entered the service as a private in the Company commanded by Capt. GlodeRequa, in Aug., 1777 ; was stationed at Tarrytown at the time the British ships were there ; in Aug. , 1777, was in Capt. Sybert Acker's Company ; in October of that year enlisted in Capt. Benjamin Dyckman's Company, Col. Sam'l Drake's Regiment; in May, 1779, …

Pleasant, states that he enlisted Aug. 31, 1 776, in Capt. Ladieu's Co. In 1778 enlisted under Capt. How, 1 year, and attached to the command of Col. Hugh and was at Verplanck's Point; detailed as a Ferryman; in 1779 enlisted under Capt. Jonas Orser and served until April, 1780, when he was wounded and taken prisoner while stationed at Philipse Manor ; was confined in the old Sugar House until…

They pursued a party of British and Refugees who had been on a scout near the American lines, and that when near Yonkers, and they had not been able to overtake them, the}'- were there met by Col. Delancey with a party of Refugees of about 100 horse and 200 foot, who immediately made an attack on Capt. Fay ; that during the action his brother John was killed, and his father wounded, and he an…

Johannis, Sr., was an Assessor on Philipse Planer and was an Elder of the old Dutch Church. Edward Couenhoven was a private in. Captain Daniel Plartling's company; was taken prisoner .Sept. 27, 1 7 7 S, and held until Feb. 14, 1779. He was spoken of by his captors as being "a gentleman of influence." The records show that Edward Couenhoven was the son of Samuel and Sara Drink water Couenhove…

In the uncertain days of the Revolution it is said to have been used for the purpose of obtaining information of military movements from persons who stopped at the tavern, and in the talk around the hearth chanced to drop some unguarded word, ft was at the Couenhoven Inn, afterwards owned and occupied by the late Martin Smith, that General Washington and Governor George Clinton and their sta…

Washington and the American Army from New York to White Plains, when he was also ordered to that place ; that he was sent with a detachment to Dobbs Ferry, the object being to fire upon and drive off "the British vessels lying in the river at that place, and having driven them away the detachment then marched north to Sing Sing, and was stationed there for some time. He then returned to his h…

That John Jewell was the son of Wm, Jewell who removed from Cortlandt's Manor in 1760, to the farm just south of present Main St., Irvington, which was in the possession of his maternal grandfather, Capt. John Buckhout, W111. Jewell having married his daughter Elizabeth, date of Sept. 30, 1738. William Jewell, the father of John, died 17S9, aged 77 years. John Jewell married Elizabeth Eawrence…

Jacob Storm of this place. Isaac Delameter states in his application, dated Dec. 5, 1832, that hewasin theExpeditiou to St. Johns and Canada, in Capt. AYalker's Co. ; returned with the troops so sent ; reached Newburgh where he was discharged. That some time in May, 1777, he re-enlisted in the Company commanded by Capt. William Dutcher. In the winter, 1777-8, served for three months in Capt. …

That he entered the service again in June, 1777, in Capt. Wm. Butcher's Company. Again -entered service in May, 1779, in Capt. Orser's Company. That in July, 17S0, while he was in an expedition as a volunteer with some Continental troops from Peekskili to the southern part- of the County he was taken prisoner and carried to New York, and there confined in the old Sugar House Prison until the fi…

I11 May, 1780, enlisted for one year in the Continental army under Col. Hughes. Cornelius and William Lambert are said to have been two of the Ferrymen who all unwittingly brought over Major Andre and his Tory Confederate, Joshua Hett Smith, on Sept 22d, the day before his capture. Henry Lambert was a Lieutenant in Capt. Orser's Company, Abram Lambert was also in same company ; a private ; and…

Delancey's quarters at Morrisania and took Capt. Totten and 14 Refugees prisoners. Born in the town of Westchester, Mar. 13, 1755. The Oakley family were active Patriots during the Revolution. Stephen Oakley was a Captain, John a Lieutenant, James a Guide as well as Lieutenant, Isaac a Guide, and Cornelius, who was at one time a prisoner. James, John, Isaac, Joseph, Gilbert and Thomas, all too…

Was a volunteer in Capt. Daniel Martling's Company. In September, 1780, he was in the employ of Joseph Benedict in the town of South Salem. When not in military service he made the house of his employer his home. It happened that he was that day, Sept. 22d, enjoying a pleasant chat with Nancy Benedict, the daughter 'of his host, whom he afterwards married, when she pointed out to him a small…

"In 1778, when in Capt. Acker's Co., I asked his permission to take a walk with William Van Wart, a boy of sixteen or seventeen. We proceeded to the Cross Road on Tompkins' Ridge ; stood looking a few minutes ; saw five men coming; they had arms. We jumped over a stone fence and concealed ourselves in a corner of it. They came so near that we recognized two of them, viz : William Underhill a…

Was stationed for a time at the Youngs house, and was captured there on the night of Dec. 25th, 1778, having raided Morrisauia with his forces the night previous. In fact, he was taken prisoner several times. Once the enemy refused to exchange him, considering him a dangerous man. After a while his friend "Brom" Dyckmau and his brothers planned the capture of a British officer, which they succes…

Perhaps this was the father of the Abraham Williams who was of the party of four on the hill at the time of the capture of Andre, an Abraham, Sr. , as well as an Abraham, Jr., being in the patriot ranks on this Manor. 1 he ' Surprise at Qrser James Mancleville, date of Sept. 23d, 1845, then of Peekskill, gives the following graphic account of an attempt to capture Col. Delancey: "On Friday m…

We however took two prisoners, fifteen horses and a variety of plunder, and then retreated with as much expedition as was possible with our jaded horses. We feared pursuit, and before we reached Yonkers a party overtook 11s. It being night, however, and their number at first probably small, we kept them at bay until we came nearly to Dobbs Ferry, when daylight appeared and they seemed preparin…

It was now about 9 o'clock A. m. Our horses were put in the barn, stable, and barnyard, and fed, and we proceeded to sell pur spoils at auction. While these events were going on, the enemy probably reinforced at Dobbs Ferry, renewed pursuit, but not overtaking us had pulled up between Tarrytown and Sing Sing, when they were overtaken by a man named Curry who had passed us when we halted near…

The horses, alarmed and wounded, kicked and plunged, and broke from their fastenings in great confusion, and running north for home were, many of them, captured by the party which had advanced to the northward to cut off our retreat. We lost here about twenty horses of our own, and likewise ihe fifteen we had taken at West Farms, and the two prisoners. When the alarm was first given we were e…

THE SURPRISE AT ORSER'S. ters of a mile, and overtaken on the ice. They both cut at Odell, and Totten striking with a dull sword at last hit his cocked hat and then the bridge of his nose, part of the hat being between and intercepting the edge of the sword. The bony part of the nose being broken, Odell carried the mark of this wound with him through life. He saved himself by pulling up his h…

They secured him by tying his legs under the horse he rode. He tried to prevail upon several of the other prisoners during the march to untie the ropes, saying he could escape almost anywhere by jumping from his horse and taking to the woods. There were fifteen of us taken prisoners. We were taken first to Morrisania and then to the island opposite Randall's, and then to New York, where we w…

He was lying in ambuscade for Bearmore, who was not out there, but Col. Emerick had marched from below with a strong party, and was endeavoring to draw this detachment of Moylan's within his reach. Emerick's party was nearly 500 strong, and was moving to waylay all the roads. Hopkins, ignorant of all this, had gone down a by-road leading past Avery's (Rieut. Thaddcus') house and mill and whic…

CAPT. HOPKINS' FIGHT WITH KM ERICK. of taking him prisoner. Hopkins finding there were several bodies of hostile troops about him found it was time to retreat. He was then almost surrounded, the enemy being in the possession of Youngs' House and the adjacent roads. This he first attempted by the Saw Mill River road, which leads west of the County House to Twitehing's Corner, but after going …

When Hopkins crossed the fields to the eastward near Beckman's bridge, Emerick dashed up the Post Road in pursuit, intending to cut off his retreat, but when lie approached the Yager infantry at the bridge they mistook him for the enemy and fired upon his troop. The confusion caused by this mistake much facilitated Hopkins' escape ; but Emerick afterwards continued the then ineffectual pursu…

It is an elevated region,' nearly midway between the Hudson River and the Bronx, and from the intersection here of the two roads it received long ago the name of "The Four Corners." The east and west road is the dividing line between the two townships of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant, so that that part of the Unionville road north of it is in Mount Pleasant, while the part south of it is in G…

Hudson, on the east and west, and between the Croton and the lines, on the north and south. These troops were ordered to be kept in motion, partly to protect the country and partly to elude the vigilance of the enemy and prevent them from planning- an attack, so that generally thdy remained but a short time in any 011c place. At the time here referred to, however, they for some reason remained…

Nelson of the Guards. The weather was cold and a deep snow on the ground. Sleighs had been secretly provided to convey tire infantry, and an attempt was made to use them for that purpose, but the troops had not gone far before they were compelled to give it up and send back the sleighs, together with two light field-pieces, as the snow was found altogether too deep to admit of that mode of con…

It was a march of about twenty miles by the shortest route, and they did not reach the vicinity of Young's house until nearly nine o'clock on Thursday morning, Feb. 3d. Gen. William Heath, in his memoirs, gives substantially all the facts in regard to it. The following is his account : " On the morning of the 3d, about 9 o'clock, the enemy made an attack on Lieut. -Col. Thomson, who commanded…

THE YOUNGS HOUSE AFFAIR. Hudson's River and Bedford ; never to remain Ion" at any one place, that the enemy might not be able to learn their manner of doing duty, or form a plan for striking them in any particular situation. The Colonel had for some days taken post himself at Young's, not far from the White Plains. Capt. Watson, with his company, was with the Lieut. Colonel ; Capt. Roberts and…

The enemy first attacked a small advance-guard, consisting of a Sergeant and eight men, who behaved well, and meant to reach the main body in season; but were prevented by the horse, and all taken prisoners. The enemy's horse soon appeared in sight of the Americans, discharged their rifles at longshot and waited the coming up of the infantry, when a warm action commenced ; the enemy scattered,…

■ ' THE YOUNGS HOUSE AFFAIR. of Wesson's, Lieut. Burley of Tapper's, Lieut. Maynard ofGreaton's, Ensign Fowler of Nixon's, Ensign Bradley of Bigelow s, witli 89 others, were taken, prisoners. The enemy left three men dead on the field, and a Captain of grenadiers was wounded in the hip and a Lieutenant of infantry in the thigh. The British in their account of the action, acknowledged that the…

Two of the enemy's horse turned into his track after him and gaining fast upon him he asked them if they would give him quarter, they replied, 'Yes, you dog, we will quarter you. ' This was twice repeated, when Mayliew, finding them inflexible, determined to give them one shot before he was quartered ; and, turning round, discharged his piece at the first horseman^ who cried out, 'The rascal h…

The enemy's horse first advanced and commenced skirmishing till their infantry7 approached, when a sharp conflict ensued, which continued about fifteen minutes; some of our troops manifested symptoms of cowardice and gave way. The enemy secured the advantage and rushed on with a general shout which soon decided the contest. The Americans lost thirteen men killed and Captain Roberts, being mo…

The return of killed and wounded of the King's troops in the attack upon the Youngs House is as follows: Cavalry of Yagers, 11 Refugees, Grenadier Guards, Light Infantry, Killed. Wounded. Horses. i o o i 3 15 3 Officers : Capt. Boscawen of the Guards. *' Wilcox of Refugees, mortally wounded. The following is the British report of Rebel (Patriot) losses : Killed. -- 1 Capt., 40 Non-C…

Thompson had 80 or 100 snow shoes, and was urged either to put them on his men and move against the enemy, or to fall hack upon the relief guard, or draw his forces within the house ; but he declined to adopt any of these suggestions and drew up his troops in front and on the right of the house towards Hammond's. Capt. Roberts being mortally wounded at the first .fire, and the Americans yield…

, There was a spring of water nearly opposite Youngs', on the east side of and in the road, where many of the wounded crawled for water and died. The late Rev. Alexander Van Wart, son of Isaac, one of the captors, who afterwards owned the Youngs place, described the somewhat elevated sandy field just north of the Corners, on the east side of the Unionville road, as the place where some thirte…

" A moment after some of the inmates opened one of the front windows to see what was the matter, when, in an instant, several shots were fired in from without, one of which killed Champenois dead. At the time he was struggling with the sentinel who guarded him, when the fatal shot pierced his heart and he dropped dead into the fire. After the capture of the place, which was taken by surprise…

OTHER INCIDENTS. Jacob Mott place, 1781 : "Maj. David Hunt having received intelligence of the advance of the party at once determined upon their surprise, particularly as the late murderers of his brother were known to be among the number. In company therefore with John Archer and a few volunteers Maj. Hunt proceeded from Westchester to Tarrytown, so arranging the march as to arrive in the vic…

The Yager fired without orders and Emeriek made apology, being much mortified at the occurrence. The house where she was killed was near to and a little above the Saw Mill River (Elmsford) Church. Col. John Odell endorsed this statement as correct. So she was not killed at the time of the attack on the Capt, Glode Requa house, May 26, 1779, as stated by Bolton, but it was in the Saw Mill Riv…

In January, 1777, Gens. Heath and Parsons made a movement through here with considerable armies in the direction of New York. In October of the same "year Sir Henry Clinton landed at Tarry town with about 5,000 men, moving against Cols. Luddington and Hammond and in the direction of Peekskill. On July 19th and 20th, 1779, the enemy were here in force with their right resting on Davids' Hill, …

It was during this tentative period of waiting that the so-called "Action at Tarry town" took place, on the 15th of July, in whidh Capt. Hulbert of Sheldon's Dragoons distinguished himself, receiving a wound which afterwards caused his death, while resisting the attack of the enemy's vessels upon transports engaged in bringing supplies to the troops. A Sergeant of Soissonnais' also took part …

THE OLD MANOR HOUSE. first Lord of the Manor had his home there, and made it the seat of his temporal sovereignty. Rev. J. Selden Spencer, in his Centennial address delivered at Tarry town, July 4th, 1876, said of it: "Upon the THE OLD MANOR HOUSE. banks of the picturesque Pocautico, shortly after 1680, Frederick Pliilipse built his Manor-house or Castle Philipse, as it was called, for it was…

JBeekman, who married Cornelia Van Cortlandt, a connection of the Philipses. She was the daughter of Pierre Van Cortlandt, born in 1753, and manifested an indomitable and patriotic spirit all through the Revolutionary war. She died, with her fine faculties unt . i ho patriots of the hi arior. Three important papas m the shape of inentorfah to the State -. •' men, of t ! £ the Revo! • . . - …

delay :ho the or of the h"h or. tl.d : .'sr.tr onto ;/:th. tone a. ti ty are able tt retort, to th n art take ooete:.:f on. r for tr.orgh the Pe"oi : :v. was virtually ended elsewhere, it is a significant lace that y warfare =o:T. cor tinned here, a.vt :;.r r.tt or. til the :. .v.er a. ' roll o' ' .." Pat . : . ' . . : . . . . r V ' ' ' non. tat the '.ole t . . . . - bad heer. o o- oooref I…

1 loo to. v. lteoe potri tti'ot stood the ' ..preme test, hone stead tan zeal oof 1. ere: o deeds 1 . -.11. - ' f • thin'/ to tit- halo of . -try of that treat hertit st: vyl : 'Inti' .ho 1 fo-rever enshrined in the hearts of o.eo orf ootk ro . -f noon the payee of history ft oil too tried and ft hot a. -.light crone rl.r. of one .aloe o ' to eir servl os . . . ev€ . y the ga and of pra . ai…

Receipts and Disbursements Receipts Edwin Gould, . $;so James Wood, $2S John i J. Rockefeller, E. T. Lovati, . 2 S Isaac L. Requa, 20 > Alfred R. Hall, . Benson Ferris, . IOO Henry Dale. . Samuel Reoua, . Robert G. Mead, Leonard r . Requa, . IOO Rufus King, . J. D Archbold. C. F. Kin si nd. Miss Helen M. Gould, . ICO Wm. Cary ianjer, C. B. liacklev. . C- -Denison Beiden, …

F. M inner] v. Robert Sewell, . Y*m. H. Robertson, Noah Davis, . Lewis Roberts. . James D. Sarvcn, Robert Bonner. C. vV. kcqua, 1 imes Bird, Isaac Requa, on Isaac B. Lovett, James M. Requa. . • 25 John J. Odell, Wm. II. Morse, . Mr. Perkins. . F. R. Pierson, \ an Or den cl Knapp, N. Holmes Odell, *'5 Hon. Geo. W. Robertson D. O. Archer. B. i. Er.gc-lke. Geo. C. Andrews, Mr…

2 5 S. B. Scheirlelin, . 5 Mr Aimit-Sienbenslir Mrs. Wm. H. Lester, . Received from Co: Uributors. M. K. Couzens, P. J. Connell. John f . Schall, . John B. Ketchum, Alfred Lawrence, William Perry, Alexander Requa, . Benj. F. Requa, . Fred Bock, Mrs. Geo. A. Jones, Jos. W. Tompkins, . A. Doien Jacob B. Odell, . A. F. Gross Sons, F. E. Conover, . Frank C. Requa, . S. J. Sackett…

Pai l S. J. Sackett & Co., for M nuraent, per contract, . for Transportation of Troops, " *' Music, ....... " " Carriages and Cartage. Traveling and other Expenses of Committee, . " " Entertainment of Guests, Stationery. Printing and Engraving. " " Carpenter Work. Lumber and 'A'w»d, " " Badges. Decorations and Photographing. " " ioo Copies of Souvenir of Monument Dedication, Deficit made…

He is described by one who knew him as "a broad shouldered, thick-set, athletic man." He was mortally wounded in an expedition to Morrisania, March 4, 17S2, but was brought off the field on his horse, his brother Michael, who was also a' Patriot Guide, supporting him. He died on the 9th of March, and was buried at Crumpond with military honors. At the time of his death he is said to have been e…

And this deponent says that he was present when the north part, of the Battalion met at Tarrytown ; that he was present in a room where Col. (Joseph) Drake and the rest of the officers of that part of the Regt. were met ; liiat the resolutions of the Convention for raising levies and Gen. Morris' order for the pmrpose were read ; and Col. Drake asked the men whether any of them chose to turn ou…

And so the Declaration of Independence was formally proclaimed. at Tarrytown, officially read to the JJatriot soldiers of this Manor here assembled on the 2d of August 1 776, a significant fact which has hitherto been unnoticed by historians. It was a good time after that to go down to the river side and make ready for battle. The following significant letter from Lieut. -Col. Jameson, who had c…