October 31. Mrs. Hannah Hoag, aged 86: " My father, in the beginning of the war lived at Verplank's Point and afterwards at Tarrytown, and was re-peatedly plundered both by cowboys and skinners. I saw the British army when they landed at Tellers Point and marched up [in 1779, probably]. They then en-camped one night at on Colberg Hill, a short distance east of the Post road, [and] marched the ne…