532 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



E. A. Quintanl. D. D. Ives, AY. A. Muhlenburg, Washington Rodman, and .1. 

 Gflllaudet 



In testimony whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names, this 4th day 

 of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. 



Bbnj. II. Field, 

 Edward IIaigmt. 

 Franklin F. Randolph, 

 S. Camiuieling. 

 Acknowledged before Washington Rodman. 



THOS. P. OKIE, Jr., 



Notary Public. 



I hereby approve of the within certifi- 

 cate and consent that the same shall be 

 fil ed. J. W. GILBERT 



Dated New York April 6, 1S66. 



In 1872, the Jacob Lorillard estate at Fordham, was bought, and the 

 Home for Incurables removed, after the whole building had been re- 

 paired and enlarged. The last Report, of 1878. is full of encourage- 

 ment, and most of the first officers still retain their positions. The 

 Physician, Arch. M. Campbell, reports that "during the past year 89 

 patients have been under treatment." 



Few institutions have been better managed. It is beautifully situated, 

 in a very healthy locality, and easy of access. 



Andrew Corsa, who was born at Rose Hill in 1762, afterwards re- 

 moved to a farm situated nearly opposite, where he died in 1852. The 

 following obituary notice occurs in the Westchester Herald for that 



year : — 



THE LAST OF THE WESTCHESTER GUIDES. 



On the evening of Sunday the 21st of November at his resideuce in Fordham, 

 Andrew Corsa departed this life at the age of nearty ninety-one. He was born 

 on the 24th day of January, 1762, where the Roman Catholic College of St. John 

 now stands, on the farm occupied by his paternal ancestor, a native of Germany, 

 who settled on the Manor of Fordham about the year 1690. Both his father and 

 grand-father were natives of the same spot with himself. The latter was born in 

 1692, about the time of Governor Fletcher's arrival in the colony, after whom he 

 was named Benjamin Fletcher. When the revolutionary troubles commenced, 

 Captain Isaac Corsa, a the father of the subject of this notice, held a commission 

 under the crown, and like most persons similarly situated, espoused the royal 

 side throughout the great controversy. But parental authority was not sufficient 

 to keep the young Andrew, long within the limits of the ancient allegiance ; and 

 about the middle of the war, his strong inclinations in favor of American ineie- 



a Among the M^S. in t lie Secry'a Dept. are the original Muster Rolls of ttif companies 

 which served in rhi; cunpaign of I75r> against the French; among others is Capt. Isaac corsa s 

 Conip . .ak.— Doc. HiBt. of N. V. vol. li, 696. 



