5. Andrew Corsa of Fordham. "I am eighty seven years old, and served as an American Guide several times during the war of Independence. DeLancey and Bearmore's troops were under British pay. Bearmore was not Major under DeLancey. DeLancey did not come forward as Commander until after Bearmore's death. My father's cousin Colonel Isaac Corsa of Newtown Queens County, was taken up in the Summer of…

We conducted them along the Bronx and then along Mill Brook to Morrisania, The moment we came in sight of Haerlem Creek upon a bridge ridge at Morrisania, the Forts at Randall's Island, Snake Hill, Haerlem, and the shipping in the river opened a tremendous fire upon us. We (that is, the guides) halted, but Washington and Rochambeau went on just as before. We then guided the army to near Kingsbridg…

The Commissary's Quarters were in James Morris's Locust Orchard (or where the orchard now is) opposite Deveau's Point. -- The West Chester Church is the same building that stood there in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. C[orsa] is mistaken in saying it was of stone. There was a Stone Jail, however, in West Chester, which Hull burnt down when he set the prisoners free. (?) Fort Independence was not gar…