Valentine's manual of old New York . new dangers in the north; A few days more, and the wondering slaves one morn-ing receive a visit from a squad of British troopers; SirWilliam Howe, they say, with the whole British Army,will be here presently, and while he is conducting thesiege of Fort Washington, intends to make the home-stead at Delanceys Mills his army headquarters; andshortly after, with clank of sabre and jingle of spurs;up rides the General with his staff, for a three weeks meadow to the south soon blossoms with tents of theHeadquarters troop, and then arrives all of the arm
Valentine's manual of old New York . new dangers in the north; A few days more, and the wondering slaves one morn-ing receive a visit from a squad of British troopers; SirWilliam Howe, they say, with the whole British Army,will be here presently, and while he is conducting thesiege of Fort Washington, intends to make the home-stead at Delanceys Mills his army headquarters; andshortly after, with clank of sabre and jingle of spurs;up rides the General with his staff, for a three weeks meadow to the south soon blossoms with tents of theHeadquarters troop, and then arrives all of the army notactively engaged in the siege, and pitch their camp, thou-sands of men, the red-coat British on the Mapes Estate,the Hessians on the Morris Park tract, and the kiltedHighlanders near Westchester Village in which they siezeSt. Peters Church for their hospital. The homestead in now gay with brightly-colored uni-forms as Howe sits at a table beneath the old pine andreceives the reports of his officers as to the progress of I 160]. OF OLD NEW YORK the siege; and of how many trees, or of how many houses,can it be said that in the short space of one month theyhave sheltered the headquarters of the Commanders oftwo hostile armies ? But in a few weeks this passes, andthe siege being over, one day General Howe, with hisstaff and headquarters troop, pass over the stone bridgeand disappear, and after them, for days pass the thirtythousand people of the camps, with their artillery andcamp-wains, and disappear towards Kingsbridge in agreat cloud of dust; and for a space, peace again settleson the homestead. But not for long, for the Spring of 1777 sees the ar-rival of the youthful James Delancey, not to bring hisfamily to again reside at the house, but to turn it into abarrack for a troop of horse to be recruited from theyoung men of the Tory families of the district; TheElite of the County was its first name, officially, but itsfriends soon knew it as Delanceys Horse and its enemiesas
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