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Interview with Corsa, Andrew

Macdonald, John. Interview with Corsa, Andrew, 1762-1852; (1848). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 1433. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026. 309 words

The Commissary's Quarters were in James Morris's Locust Orchard (or where the orchard now is) opposite Deveau's Point. -- The West Chester Church is the same building that stood there in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. C[orsa] is mistaken in saying it was of stone. There was a Stone Jail, however, in West Chester, which Hull burnt down when he set the prisoners free. (?)

Fort Independence was not garrisoned during the latter years of the war. There was no road during the Revolutionary war leading from Fort No. 8, or from Deveau's Point directly to West Farms, and no bridge on the Bronx below DeLancey's.

I agree with Mr. Robert Morris in relation to the roads, bridges, sites of

the Morris houses, &c. The old Mill on Mill Bridge, I think, is a quarter of a mile below James Morris's gate or thereabouts.

I don't recollect the burning of the Refugee settlement, or where it was, or the sites of Redoubts Nos 1. 2. 3. & 4.

Williams's Bridge, is north east of Kingsbridge!

I don't remember the uniform of Emmerick's, Barnes's, or Althouse's, nor any thing about Captain Pray, Romer, Anna Fowler, commander of the Yager horse, or Colonel Armand's surprise of Wormb's out post.

The British had a fine opportunity in 1781 to fire from Haerlem up Hill Brook on Generals Washington and Rochambeau

I don't recollect the burning of the Refugee settlement, or where it was, or the sites of Redoubts Nos 1. 2. 3. & 4. Williams's Bridge, is north east of Kingsbridge! I don't remember the uniform of Emmerick's, Barnes's, or Althouse's, nor any thing about Captain Pray, Romer, Anna Fowler, commander of the Yager horse, or Colonel Armand's surprise of Wormb's out post. The British had a fine opportunity in 1781 to fire from Haerlem up Hill Brook on Generals Washington and Rochambeau