[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 382 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. Private.Joseph Conklin, killed in action. Private John Boice, killed in action. Private James Cuniniings, died in service. Anthony's Nose. — Located in the extreme north-western corner of the town is the promontory known as Anthony's Nose, which is over one thousand feet j high, and is the most elevated point in Westchester County. Its name was given to it before the Revo-lution, doubtless from its fancied resemblance to a human nose, and in honor of St. Anthony. In Revo-lutionary times a boom and chain was extended across the Hudson River from the Nose to Fort Montgomery, by the Americans, with the design of preventing the passage of British ships up the river. The manufacture and placing in position of this chain cost seventy thousand pounds sterling, and are said to have exhausted the Continental treasury. Absolutely no benefit was derived from it. Twice it