[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of Morgan. a Irvine's Life of Washington, vol ii.. pp. 284 and 285. I Mi HISTORY OF WESTCHESTEB COUNTY. North Castle witli the recommendation that he fall haek on Pine's Bridge, or at least by way of precau-tion remove his stores thither.1 After repeated re-commendations and positive orders, he managed to get his troops by the same route through this town to Peekskill.2 From this time forth, until 1782, this section answers to the description given of it by Claude Blanchard, commissary-general of the French army, in his Journal, under date of June 2">, 1781 : " Crompond and its environs are not considered a very safe country; it is peopled by Tories and, be-sides, is at no great distance from New York, where the English have their principal forces at present."3 So dangerous for the reasons just given that AYash-ington, April, 1777, a few months after his retreat, sent orders to Heath to send troops to Pecks-kill, by way of Kinderhook; and in the year 1780, under date of September 26th, just after