[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the notorious freebooter, Joshua Hueson— and was taken down Hog Lane. They were fired upon by a party of Americans, and Dr. Brewer, thinking it a good time to escape, leaped from the horse and was shot and mortally wounded by Hueson.3 He expired next morning in the arms of Dr. White,' and was buried in the yard of the Presbyterian Church at Crompond, where a stone marks his last resting-place. His age as given on it is thirty-nine years, four months and seven days. Dr. Brewer was a native of Massachusetts and was the father of seven children, one of whom was Dr. James Brewer, who died in Peekskill in 18ti7. Mrs. Coffin S. Brown, of Peekskill. is a grand-daughter. Hueson was at one time tried as a Tory by the Committee of Safety and sent to jail. He was a notorious marauder and made himself the terror of the neighbor-hood. In attempting to enter the house of Seth Whitney, by a rear window which he had smashed in with a large stone, he was stabbed with a bayonet fastened upon a stick in the hands of the owner, the only weapon left him in their frequent robbe-