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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 109
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Joshua Hunt, ^., ^ ^. • John Haight, \ Assessors, "" "^. Wellsey Dosenbery, ) --Joseph Carpenter, Highway Master for lower part, David Halstead, " -' the middle, force of horse. Seven of Mosher's party were from the farm of General Pierre van Cortlandt, Cortlandtown. » On the east side of the road leading from the Purchase to Rye, lies the grave of an old veteran by the name of John Peter Follow, who died at the advanced age of 120. He requested that the following epitaph might be inscribed on his tomb stone : — -. ~, *' Here lies as good a soldier as ever fought in Flanders." Also, in the same vicinity, Louis Burling, a colored soldier of the Revolution, who served as a private in Col. Samuel Pell's regiment.