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. --

There was no bridge on the Bronx below DeLancey's at West Farms, and the inhabitants of Morrisania in going to West Chester went by a road leading along the Bronx to West Farms where they crossed DeLancey's bridge and then gained the Borough Village by the customary route.

The house of Gouverneur Morris stands on the spot where the old house owned by his father and grandfather stood on the east side of Mill Brook

which divided Gouverneur's lands from Colonel Lewis's. Colonel Lewis Morris's house stood on the west side of Mill Brook near Haerlem river. James Morris (the Sheriff's) house was built in the woods where no house had previously stood. I don't know where the Refugee Settlement burnt in 1781 by Colonel Hull stood, but it was probably near the old Mill which stood on Mill Brook, a little below James Morris's Gate on the Post road. Colonel Roger Morris who lived in the house now owned by Madame Jumel, was no relation to our family. He was a British officer and returned home at the conclusion of the war.