[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] commission for the purpose of marrying the accomplished Eli-zabeth Fowler of Haarlem; when pasjing with a company of light dragoons he was suddenly fired upon by three Americans of the, water guard of Captain Pray's company, who had am-buscaded themselves in the cedars near the site of the present residence of Mr. Bangalore. Their shot took deadly effect, for the Captain fell from his horse mortally wounded. The yagers instantly made prisoners of the undisciplined water guards, and a messenger was immediately dispatched to Mrs. Babcock, then living below in the parsonage, for a vehicle to remove the wounded officer. The use of her gig and horse was soon ob-tained, and a neighbour. Anthony Archer, pressed to drive. In this they conveyed the dying man to Col. Van Cortlandt's. They appear to have taken the route of Tippett's valley, as the party stopped at Mr. Frederick Post's lo obtain a drink of water. In the mean lime an express had been forwarded to Miss Fowler, his affianced bride, to hasten without delay to the side of her dying lover. On her arrival, accompanied by lier mother, the expiring soldier had just strength enongh left to articulate a (ew words, when he sunk exhausted with the eflbrt. As late as 1780 a thick forest extended from the village north to Mr. William Bolmer's, bounded by the Hudson and Saw-Mill rivers. The site of these u'oods on the Hudson shore is now oc-cupied by a number of country residences, among which are