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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 78
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 199 interest. Here was the site of the old Indian village of Ali|>konlc, or the Place <>l' Kims, away back before 1G30, and here, one hundred and fifty years later, in 1780, was the lunette, or military redoubt, from whic h the patriotic Water Guard, according to Bolton, can-nonaded the British sloop-of-war " Vulture," which having been up the river in connection with Major Andre's interview with Arnold above Haverstraw, on her return trip to New York, got out of the channel and ran aground on the Tarrytown fiats. In the cemetery just south of the imposing Dela-