[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Babcock having stationed herself in one of the dormant windows of the Parsonage, aided their escape whenever they ap-peared, by the waving of a white handkerchief. During the winter of 1780 a gang of six or eight "cow boys" broke open the Parsonage and robbed the defenceless ladies of everything valuable. To escape detection they had blackened their faces and disguised their persons. Upon the departure of this gang their leader, after making a profound bow, thus ad-dressed Mrs. Babcock :... -^,..' " Fare you well and fare you better, ^ And when 1 die, Fll send you a letter." Fortunately, Mrs. Babcock, through the intervention of Col. James van Cortlandt, obtained restitution of every thing. With-in a few years trees have been cut down near the site of Gist's camp and found to contain balls buried six inches in the wood. » Simcoe's Mil. Journal, p. 86. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 489 North of the Parsonage, on the Saw Mill river road, is situated the residence and property of the late Mr. Robert Reed. This patriotic individual having obtained certain information from Kingsbridge, that the enemy were fitting out an expedition against