September 9th. Mrs. Randall of 116th Street Haerlem: "Randall's Island opposite us was formerly Montresor's Island. Mrs. Mary Ward, of Ward's Island is a connexion of our family. I believe she is living."

Mrs. Ryer of Fort Washington east side of the road, near Laurel Hill: "My mother was a sister of Blazé Moore. My brother Jacob Bowers sometime ago bought a farm of a Mr. Underhill, and lives in East or West Chester -- I think in East Chester. The old stone house in the field west of the road at Fort Washington was the Blue Bell Tavern of the Revolutionary war Mr. Ryer, my husband, was born and bred here, and knows a deal about the history of Fort Washington and its vicinity. He is at present in New York."

Robert Morris, Senior, of Fordham: "I am eighty seven, and was born in my father's house, which was burnt in January, 1780, by Captain Lockwood. It was a large two story stone house, and stood between here and Fort No. 8, on the east side of the road, south of No. 8, and a little north of this house

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Part of the walls are yet standing and form a long low one story building on the east side of the road. I left here in the beginning of the war of the Revolution and did not return till its termination. Colonel DeLancey's Headquarters were for a long while at my father's house before it was burnt. There was no road in the Revolutionary war that I ever heard of, leading from my house or from any place between my house and DeVoe's Point, directly to West Farms. There might have been a military road but I never knew of one. People hereabouts when going to West Farms went up this road till they came to the road from Dyckman's bridge or the Farmers Bridge to DeLancey's Mills and pursued that route. --