[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] 462 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY and wounded was between thirty and fort}', about half the total number being killed on the spot or dying of their wounds. The enemy acknowledged losses of five killed and eighteen wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomson and six other officers, with eighty-nine privates, were taken prisoners. The killed of both sides were buried together. " 1 have ploughed many a furrow over their graves," said the Rev. Alexander Van Wart. In consequence of this unfortunate affair, all attempt by the Americans to hold the country south of the Croton River was aban-doned, and from that time until the restoration of peace our lines.lid not extend below Pine's Bridge and Bedford. In September, 1780 (eight months after the Youngs House disaster), when Major Andre was taken at Tarrytown, his captors had to travel a distance of more than ten miles to the nearest American post. Our Westchester County novelist, James Fenimore Cooper, in ki The Spy," locates at the " Four Corners " the famous hotel of Betty Flanagan, a kt house of entertainment for man and beast/' before which" hung the sign, "Elizabeth Flanagan, her hotel," written in red chalk. To Betty Flanagan Cooper accredits the immortal honor of the invention of "that beverage which is so well known at the