October 31.

Mrs. Hannah Hoag, aged 86: " My father, in the beginning of the war lived at Verplank's Point and afterwards at Tarrytown, and was re-peatedly plundered both by cowboys and skinners.

I saw the British army when they landed at Tellers Point and marched up [in 1779, probably]. They then en-camped one night at on Colberg Hill, a short distance east of the Post road, [and] marched the next day to Verplank's Point.

I very probably told Schuyler Tompkins some years ago that the British cavalry one night or so on the hills near New-castle corner. What I then told him was correct, though I have forgotten all about it. In my opinion there is no high ground south of Croton river from which you can see Ver-plank's or Stoney Point, unless it be very near Sing Sing.

-- North Castle Church was a very large, unpainted, shingled building,

which stood by the road side where the Methodist Meeting house now is. It was situated within the inclosure now occupied as the burying ground by the Methodist Church contiguous to Kirby's Mill pond -- was occupied as a hospital during the Revolutionary war, and was pulled down about twenty years ago.x [ x A stranger at New C[astle] Corner, as well as Mrs. Hoag, told me this. ]

The story of James Totten and the French surgeon was always considered true. Totten, in the latter part of his life, was afraid to be alone in the dark, or at night.

It was situated within the inclosure now occupied as the burying ground by the Methodist Church contiguous to Kirby's Mill pond -- was occupied as a hospital during the Revolutionary war, and was pulled down about twenty years ago.x [ x A stranger at New C[astle] Corner, as well as Mrs. Hoag, told me this. ] The story of James Totten and the French surgeon was always considered true. Totten, in the latter part of his life, was afraid to be alone in the dark, or at night.