5.

Andrew Corsa of Fordham.

"I am eighty seven years old, and served as an American Guide several times during the war of Independence. DeLancey and Bearmore's troops were under British pay. Bearmore was not Major under DeLancey. DeLancey did not come forward as Commander until after Bearmore's death.

My father's cousin Colonel Isaac Corsa of Newtown Queens County, was taken up in the Summer of 1776, and sent to Connecticut along with Colonel Phil-ipse and Joseph Bull. My father's name was Isaac also. When Colonel Armand took him prisoner, I saw the Legion of horse on a ridge and told him who they were, but he said they were Emmerick's dragoons.

About a week after General Washington was at Valentines Hill and Kingsbridge on the 3rd of July, 1781, he

6. came down again with General Rocham -beau and I was then employed as a guide. One Oakley also a guide came and said I must go. We conducted them along the Bronx and then along Mill Brook to Morrisania, The moment we came in sight of Haerlem Creek upon a bridge ridge at Morrisania, the Forts at Randall's Island, Snake Hill, Haerlem, and the shipping in the river opened a tremendous fire upon us. We (that is, the guides) halted, but Washington and Rochambeau went on just as before. We then guided the army to near Kingsbridge through the fields of Fordham nearly in a direct line. Rochambeau was a small man — Lauzun a thick set, stout man, more like a Dutchman.

I knew Captain Althouse of Emmerick's. He had a son named John. — When Emmerick was a little by the head he would say to his dragoons: "Now, my

Bull-dogs, when you hear me call ‘Rouse!’ or ‘Turn Out!’ mount for your lives and follow me!”

The Commissary’s Quarters were in James Morris’s Locust Orchard (or where the orchard now is) opposite Deveau’s Point. — The West Chester Church is the same building that stood there in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. C[orsa] is mistaken in saying it was of stone. There was a Stone Jail, however, in West Chester, which Hull burnt down when he set the prisoners free. (?)

Fort Independence was not garrisoned during the latter years of the war. There was no road during the Revolutionary war leading from Fort No. 8, or from Deveau’s Point directly to West Farms, and no bridge on the Bronx below DeLancey’s.

I agree with Mr. Robert Morris in relation to the roads, bridges, sites of

the Morris houses, &c. The old Mill on Mill Bridge, I think, is a quarter of a mile below James Morris's gate or thereabouts.

I don't recollect the burning of the Refugee settlement, or where it was, or the sites of Redoubts Nos 1. 2. 3. & 4.

Williams's Bridge, is north east of Kingsbridge!

I don't remember the uniform of Emmerick's, Barnes's, or Althouse's, nor any thing about Captain Pray, Romer, Anna Fowler, commander of the Yager horse, or Colonel Armand's surprise of Wormb's out post.

The British had a fine opportunity in 1781 to fire from Haerlem up Hill Brook on Generals Washington and Rochambeau