[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] A regiment was sent to secure the pass over the hills between Drake's and Peekskill. Heath was ordered by Washington to move into the High-lands; the night was passed on Bald Hill. 4 On the 19th Parson's brigade was at Robinson's, Huntington's and Patterson's at Nelson's; and Nixon's at the gorge. The British moved back to Dobbs Ferry on the 20th. The presence of the enemy at Verplanck's made lively times for the Manor of Cortlandt. The Tories doubtless were jubilant and active; frequent incursions were made. In June the parsonage of the Presbyterian Church at Crompond was burned, and ten days later Tarleton and Simcoe burned the church and took thirty prisoners to the Sugar-house at New York.5 Heath was kept busy looking after the enemy. Major-General Howe, with his division of the American army, was six weeks in th vicinity of Clinton, finding that Washington could not be en-ticed from the Highlands, and unwilling to attack him there, evacuated Verplanck's and Stony Points October 21st, and on the 24th, Heath, by Washington's orders, encamped at Peekskill. 6 Enoch Crosby, the original of the hero of Cooper's best novel, " The Spy," the scene of which is laid in Westchester County, performed a characteristic trick in the vicinity of Teller's Point.