History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 135
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] property, from which fact the house afterwards built took the name of" The Van Wart House." The Young house of the Revolution was within what was called "the American lines," by which was meant that it was within that part of Westchester County which was mainly controlled by the Ameri-cans. Its elevated position, together with the num-ber of buildings attached and around it, rendered it a convenient stopping-place for the Continental troops that were designed to guard that portion of the county that lay between Bedford and the Hudson, on the east and west, and between the Croton and the lines, on the north and south. These troops were ordered to be kept in motion, partly to protect the country and partly to elude the vigilance of the enemy and prevent them from planning an attack, MOUNT PLEASANT. 313