[36] Who lately died at the age of ninety-eight.
[37] “The Hudson from the Wilderness to the Sea,” p. 388.
[38] It has been suggested that these trustees, being relatives, held the property in trust during the minority of Gulian C. Verplanck, who in later life became the noted Shakespearian scholar.
[39] Miss McEvers married Sir Edward Cunard.
[40] “The Battle of Harlem Heights,” by Thomas Addis Emmet, M.D., Magazine of American History, September, 1906.
[41] During the War of 1812, defenses were erected in this section as a protection against anticipated attacks by the British. Mrs. Lamb says (“History of the City of New York,” vol. II, p. 661): “On the bank of the Hudson, near the residence of Viscount Courtenay, afterwards Earl of Devon, was a strong stone tower connected by a line of intrenchments with Fort Laight.” Fort Laight was at the north on an eminence overlooking Manhattanville.
[42] Mrs. Hamilton was the daughter of General Philip Schuyler.
[43] Some time before this his eldest son had lost his life in a duel.
[44] This is one of the best examples of a Colonial manor house now standing with wainscoted walls, ornamental ceilings, carved staircase, mantels, etc. The establishment was a large one for the time, maintaining thirty white and twenty colored servants.—“Bolton’s History of Westchester County.”
[45] “Bolton’s History of Westchester County,” vol. II.