[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] About a mile and a half south of Yorktown Station, on a lane leading from the Pine's Bridge road, is a house occupied at the time of the Revolution by Richardson Davenport as a sort of public house. At this place, on the 14th of May, 1781, occurred a bloody fight which resulted in the death of Colonel Greene, who had repulsed the Hessians at Fort Mercer, Red Bank, on the Delaware, 1777, Major Flaggand others. The story of the event is as follows.1 Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Greene, an officer of a Rhode Island regiment, and a brave and intrepid soldier, was stationed to guard the ford of the Croton River, lying some distance west of the present Pine's Bridge, in order to prevent marauding excursions by the British. He was in the habit of guarding his post very carefully during the night, but took off the guards in the morning, never anticipating that a passage would be attempted by the enemy in daylight. The headquarters of himself and Major Flagg were at Davenport's house, and the troops were distributed among the different farm-houses in order the better to procure subsistence. A person by the name of Gilbert Totten, w ho bad