History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 328 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 22d — We left Hun's tavern to march to King's Ferry. Nine miles from Hun's tavern is Peskill (Peekskill), a village of about twenty houses, quite close to each other." * A deed bearing date of February 15, 1802, given by "Solomon Hunt, of the City and State of New York, gentleman, and Mary, his wife, to Henry Strang, of Yorktown, in the county of Westchester," conveys to the latter forty acres, more or less, " all of which be-came forfeited to the people of this State by the COM notion of Caleb Frost." This property is now in the possession of Benjamin Flewellen. The tavern was most probably at the junction of the roads from Pine's Bridge and Katonah to Peekskill, where tradition has 1 Ancnloti-s OOfleCleil t>y Alvnn 1'unly. MuK>t7.in<> of Aim-ricnn llislory," May, IKNO, |>. :«>«. YORKTOWN. 451