[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] great uncertainties and dangers during the Revolu-tionary War. The site of the old farm-house, now owned by Mr. Alvah Newman, is said to have been the scene of a bloody tragedy in those perilous times. Two Continental soldiers, on their way home after Mr. Tierce was born March !>, 1816, on the Pierce homestead, just north of Pleasantville. The farm on which he was born has been in the family for more than one hundred years, and is at present occupied by the fifth generation of the name. It formed a part <>(' the Philipse Manor, and was rented early in. the last century by James Pierce, who wits born in 17(>0, havin<r been honorably discharged, stopped at the old 1 and with Elizabeth Cock, his wife, came from Long bouse, which was then used as a tavern. They had Island, settling upon and occupying it for many years, not been there long when a British trooper rode up I One of their numerous children, Janus Pierce, who MOUNT PLEASANT. 319