A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 90 (part 2)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The follow-ing extract occurs in the journal of Lewis Morris, Judge of the Admiralty : June 4th, 1746, returned home, dined at Westchester, when the detachments from Q,ueens county and Westchester marched to Colonel Philipse's, in order to embark for Albany, on board of Captain Conradts Derrike's sloop, who lay there for that purpose.''^ This was on occasion of the war with France, when the Colony of New York was making formidable preparations for the reduction of Canada. Directly opposite the dock on the Jersey shore, is situated Closter landing, from which a road gradually ascends to the sum-mit of the Palisades, a height of 517 feet above the river. Here Lord Grey, after coming up the Hudson in barges, disembarked his troops for the purpose of cutting off Baylor's light dragoons then stationed at Tappaan.^