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About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http://books.google.com/ 1 Columbia (Hntoertfitp mUjeCitpoflrtogotk LIBRARY <%/y/ xsU^c Y7V t&jf<*»&*~^-^ CsVW<y-. / Souvenir Revolutionary Soldiers' flonument Dedication AT TARRYTOWN, N. Y. ' October 19th, 1894. COMPILED BY MARCIUS D. RAYMOND, % 1 * TARRYTOWN, N. Y. 1894. -" Contents. Monument Dedication, 7 Address by Hon. F. S. Tallmadge, 17 Address by Hon. Noah Davis. i7 Oration by Hon. Isaac N. Mills. tg Correspondence, 32 Inscriptions on Monument, 37 Roll cf Revolutionary Soldiers, 39 Old Muster Roll, . 44 Hammond Family, -I? Dean Family, fio Odell Family. 79 Dutcher Family, 89 Acker Family, . Van Tassel Family, Van Wart Family. 125 Requa Family. 133 Paulding Family, '5? Martling Family, 162 / Storm Family, . 160 Yerks Family, 168 See Family, '7i Davids Family, 172 Youngs Family, 174 Wildey Family, '7' Romer Family, 170 Capt. Israel Honeywell, i;> Capt. Oliver Ferris. • 79 38%2' 1 PAGE, Personal Reminiscences, ......... 181 The Surprise at Orser's. ........ 192 Capt. Hopkins' Fight with Emerick, ....... 195 The Youngs House Affair, ........ 197 Other Incidents, .......... 203 The Old Manor House, ........ 206 Receipts and Disbursements, ........ 209 Additional Memoranda, . « . 211 Illustrations. PAGE. Presentation Address by M. D. Raymond. ...... 7 Procession Passing Monument to Captors of Andre, . 9 Sons of the Revolution Marching on Broadway, . 11 View at the Unveiling, ......... 13 President Tallmadge Delivering the Dedicatory Address, ... 15 View in Music Hall During the Oration, . .17 Portrait of Judge Mills, .,.,.... 19 The Old Dutch Church, ......... 20 View After the Unveiling, ........ 29 U. S. War Ships Dolphin and Cincinnati, . 31 U. S. Artillery on Main Street, ....... 43 The Col. Flammond House, . -53 Sergt. John Dean. ......... 61 Dean Rock, ........... 72 Daniel Odell Archer, ...... "7 The Odel! Inn, ......... 80 Rochambeau Headquarters, ........ 84 Capt. Jonathan S. Odell, ........ S6 Rev. Dr. Jacob Conkling Dutcher, . .98 Woolfert Roost, ......... 103 The Cornelius Van Tassel House. .111 The Van Tassel-Mott House. 122 Isaac Van Wart's Monument at Old Greenburgh Church . 131 Isaac L. Requa, .......... 139 Leonard F. Requa. ......... 146 Rev. Amos C. Requa, ......... 153 The Paulding and Requa Houses, ....... 157 John Paulding, . "59 Isaac Martling"s Memor'ul Stone, ....... i(>4 The Davids-Stephens House, ....... i73 The Monument. ......... i91 The Old Manor House. ......... 206 Preface. The publication of the proceedings at the dedication of the mon ument recently erected in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in honor of the patriot soldiers of the Revolution of this vicinity, and with the story of the day, a sketch of the lives of some of those who were active partici pants in the great struggle for Independence, is a fitting finale to that notable occasion. This was made possible by the liberality of the sub scribers to the Monument Fund, a surplus remaining in the hands of the committee after all the other expenses had been provided for which, it was thought, could not be better expended than in the way of issuing this souvenir volume, thus preserving in suitable and attractive form the record of that highly interesting event. From the memorandum of receipts and disbursements, which in proper place appears herewith, it will be seen that the expense of this publication has been more than the sum which so remained, the balance being made up by the committee. It is only regretted that they were unable to further elaborate and embel lish the work. With this simple statement this souvenir is issued in the hope that it may be of interest to all who shall receive it, and that the appre ciation which it may elicit will be a sufficient justification for its publi cation. Monument Committee. Tarrytown, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1894. 'In their ragged regimentals Stood the old Continentals Yielding not." The Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument. 'HE movement which culminated in the dedication of a monument at this place to the soldiers of the Revolu tion, had its inception in the desire to honor the mem ory of the sturdy patriots who by their courage and valor well sustained the cause of liberty and independence on these historic fields, — not only those who were buried in the old Dutch churchyard, but in a larger, broader sense to honor all those brave men who stood for the patriot cause on this then Philipse Manor, which com prised the present townships of Greenburgh, Mount Pleasant, Ossining, and the City of Yonkers, containing eighty square miles of territory, fronting over twenty miles on the Hudson and extending eastwardly to the Bronx. It was entitled one of the military districts of Westchester County, and in it a regiment of militia was organized, with headquarters in the vicinity of Tarrytown, which was then the place of greatest interest on the Manor, the old Dutch Church being here located, and consequently a large number of the soldiers of the Revolution here found their last resting place. Hence it was pre-eminently fitting that a monument to their memory should be here erected. The appellation of "Neutral Ground," as commonly applied to all this region, is a strange misnomer, for from the beginning to the end of the Revolution partisan warfare so waged here that it may well be said that every field was embattled, every rock a fortress, and every highway and by way' was a line of assault or retreat. 8 MONUMENT DEDICATION. Nowhere else was the country so devastated, nowhere greater suffering, severer trials, but to the everlasting praise of the patriots of this manor be it said, they ' ' yielded not ' ' ; their endurance was like the granite of these hills. An old redoubt thrown up during the Revolution, evidently to protect the legendary and historic bridge over the Pocantico, just on the verge which overlooks the old burying ground where so many of those heroes sleep, offered the ideal site for such a memorial. The circumstances were favorable. The men, the deeds, the spot, were all worthy of commemoration, and the time had come. Only action was needed. Only the recalling of the history of those try ing times, only the re-telling of the thrilling tales of those heroic days, only the reviewing of the memory of the men of the Revolution by the Sons of the Revolution, and it may also well be added, by the Daughters of the Revolution, and the flow of patriotic thought and feeling would soon crystallize in the enduring granite which should rise as a testimonial to those patriot heroes. That work was undertaken and carried forward with such a definite object in view, the publication of the Revolu tionary reminiscences having been commenced in the latter part of 1893, and so continued until the summer of 1894. The result well justified expectation : public interest was created, and in June of the latter year a Monument Committee was organized with Samuel Requa as Chair man, Benson Ferris, Treasurer, and M.
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