[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] * Xnmher of Itofugees from forthmdt Manor in 1782, 804. property nor life were safe. Some found it mee^ary to keep a horse always saddled, that they might have ready a means of escape. Against the cowboys the neighbors would gather for mutual protection with the most convenient weapon, whether it were a pitch-fork or a gun. During the winter of 1770-1777 six hundred Con-necticut troops were engaged, with Zephaniah Piatt, in disarming the Tories of Cortlandt Manor." At the parsonage of the Presbyterian Church the Committee of Safety (probably a local body) met for the trial of disaffected persons.10 January, 1 777, Heath passed through here on his way to the South for the purpose of harassing the British outposts, and penetrated as far south as Spuy-. ten Duyval Creek. In August, 1777, a party of militia three in number, headed by Captain Henry Strang, among them Elijah Lee, afterwards Judge Lee, captured Edmund Palmer, a Lieutenant in the Tory Legion of De Lancey, while he was on a visit to his wife who lived in this section, and handed him over to General Putnam, who tried him as a spy. He was found guilty and executed on Gallows Hill, north of Peekskill, August 7, 1777. During the Revolution, the parsonage of the Pres-; byterian Church, Crompond, was used as a place of meeting for the Committee of Safety, and as a place of trial for disaffected persons.