[marg: 1848]

September 9th. Mrs. Randall of 116th Street Haerlem: “Randall’s Island opposite us was formerly Montresor’s Island. Mrs. Mary Ward, of Ward’s Island is a connexion of our family. I believe she is living.”

Mrs. Ryer of Fort Washington east side of the road, near Laurel Hill: “My mother was a sister of Blazé Moore. My brother Jacob Bowers sometime ago bought a farm of a Mr. Underhill, and lives in East or West Chester — I think in East Chester. The old stone house in the field west of the road at Fort Washington was the Blue Bell Tavern of the Revolutionary war Mr. Ryer, my husband, was born and bred here, and knows a deal about the history of Fort Washington and its vicinity. He is at present in New York.”

Robert Morris, Senior, of Fordham: “I am eighty seven, and was born in my father’s house, which was burnt in January, 1780, by Captain Lockwood. It was a large two story stone house, and stood between here and Fort No. 8, on the east side of the road, south of No. 8, and a little north of this house

[marg: 1848] 2.

Part of the walls are yet standing and form a long low one story building on the east side of the road. I left here in the beginning of the war of the Revolution and did not return till its termination. Colonel DeLancey's Headquarters were for a long while at my father's house before it was burnt. There was no road in the Revolutionary war that I ever heard of, leading from my house or from any place between my house and DeVoe's Point, directly to West Farms. There might have been a military road but I never knew of one. People hereabouts when going to West Farms went up this road till they came to the road from Dyckman's bridge or the Farmers Bridge to DeLancey's Mills and pursued that route. —

There was no bridge on the Bronx below DeLancey's at West Farms, and the inhabitants of Morrisania in going to West Chester went by a road leading along the Bronx to West Farms where they crossed DeLancey's bridge and then gained the Borough Village by the customary route.

The house of Gouverneur Morris stands on the spot where the old house owned by his father and grandfather stood on the east side of Mill Brook

which divided Gouverneur's lands from Colonel Lewis's. Colonel Lewis Morris's house stood on the west side of Mill Brook near Haerlem river. James Morris (the Sheriff's) house was built in the woods where no house had previously stood. I don't know where the Refugee Settlement burnt in 1781 by Colonel Hull stood, but it was probably near the old Mill which stood on Mill Brook, a little below James Morris's Gate on the Post road. Colonel Roger Morris who lived in the house now owned by Madame Jumel, was no relation to our family. He was a British officer and returned home at the conclusion of the war.

There is no stream running into [marg: wrong] the Sound or Haerlem River between [marg: Mill] Mill Brook and the Bronx.

Lieut. Colonel Anthony Walton White was related to our family, and was a Jerseyman He told me that when he attacked the Refugees he approached DeLancey's bridge

cautiously, took sentinels, and made his men pull off their coats and lay them on the planks for fear of giving an alarm, as it was his intention to make prisoners of Colonel DeLancey & other Refugee Officers who were then at a neighboring house enjoying a cock fight.

— Notwithstanding all his precautions however, they escaped. Colonel White settled at the West, but finally returned, and died, I think, at New Brunswick, New Jersey.

[marg: wrong] I lived some years at Tarrytown [inter: and] know exactly where Major André was taken. His captors were lying in ambush on the east side of the road.