[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] John (who died in 1747) is dressed in a long blue coat, knee breeches, scarlet stockings and high-heeled shoes; Abraham, in a russet brown coat and red stockings; and Pierre himself, in a scarlet coat and white stockings, with a greyhound by his side, and his right hand resting on a stag. The horns of this animal, one of those that once' ran wild in West-chester County, hang beside the picture. The grounds surrounding are handsomely laid out In a field to the northeast of the house stands a large, finely-formed oak tree, which is said to have been used as a military whipping-post during Revolutionary times. A few rods above the Van Cortlandt mansion the road splits into two branches, that to the left going over Gallows Hill and the one to the right passing tlie old church. At the junction of these roads stands the Hallman house, a very old wooden building, once oc-cupied as a tavern, the period of whose erection must long antedate the Revolution. Some little interest is \ attached to this house. At midnight on the 2§th of September, 1780, a wild storm of wind and rain sweeping down through the Highland passes, Major Andre was brought from his place of confinement at South Sa-lem, and, galloping fast through the night, the party having him in charge arrived here early in the morn-