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tains some good paintings, particularly a view of the Arno, by Cole, and 

 a portrait of Martin Wilkins, Esq., by Rogers, &c. ; also a beautiful 

 white marble bust of Washington, by Garacehi, and an Apollo, by Tan- 

 tenoin. 



The old Wilkins mansion, which stands on the south side of the neck 

 is now converted into a farm house. Here in 1776, three of the clergy, 

 viz : Doctors Cooper, Chandler and Seaburv, managed to secrete them- 

 selves for some time, notwithstanding the most minute and presevering 

 search was made for them, so ingeniously contrived was the place of 

 their' concealment in and about the old-fashioned chimney. Food was 

 conveyed to them through a trap-door in the floor. The front of the 

 old house is shaded by some magnificent elms. 



Cornell's Neck, which is pleasantly situated in the south-west corner of 

 the town, contains about five hundred and fifty acres, having the Bronx 

 River on the west and Pugsley's Creek on the east. We have seen that 

 Thomas Cornell, from whom it was originally named, became possessed 

 of the neck through the Dutch, who purchased of the Indians. From the 

 Cornells, it passed to the Willetts and Grahams. The executors of Lewis 

 Graham conveyed the western half to Dominick Lynch from whose 

 executors the Ludlows purchased it. " Black Rock," (so named after 

 the "great rock" mentioned in the patent of 1667, lying near the mouth 

 of the Bronx) the estate of Robert H. Ludlow, Esq., is situated on the 

 west side of the neck, not far from the Westchester Turnpike. The 

 house is of stone, and commands beautiful views of the East River with 

 adjacent shores and islands. The interior contains some valuable family 

 paintings, viz : Gabriel Verplank Ludlow, (son of Col. Gabriel Ludlow, 

 of Hempstead, Long Island.) aged fourteen, painted when at Oxford, by 

 the celebrated Opie ; Mrs. Samuel G. Verplanck, daughter of Charles 

 Crommelin and Anne St. Clair, a with her grandson, Gulian McEvcrs, by 

 Copley ; Goldsborow Banyar, Deputy Secretary of the Province of New 

 York, under Governor Monckton, and Alderman of the city of Albany, 

 by Colonel Trumbull, one of his best portraits ; also a family portrait of 

 Robert H. Ludlow, Esq., Mrs. Ludlow and daughter, by Stewart Watson. 

 The Hon. Robert H. Ludlow, of Black Rock, (member of the Legis- 

 lature from New York city, 1845 and 1846, who married in 1831, Cor- 

 nelia, daughter of Jacob Le Roy, of New York,) is the second son of the 

 late Gabriel Ludlow, Esq., by Elizabeth Hunter. His grandfather was 



a Anne St Clair was the daughter of Robert St Clair, or Sinclair, who emigrated to New York 

 In 1677, by his wife. Mary Duykinek. L663. Robert was the son of James Sinclair, a lineal de- 

 scendant of the Sinclair*, Earls of Orkney and Caithness. A silver tankard of tile St (lairs, 

 in the possession of EL H. Ludlow, Esq , bears the following coal of anus : QarttTly, 1st azure 

 a ship at anchor sails furled, oars erect in saltier, or, witiun a doable treasure counter- 

 flowered of the last for Orkney : 2d. a cross engrailed ; 3d, azure, ship under sail, or for Caith- 

 ness. 4th, or, a lion rampant gu. for spar. 



