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In King street is also situated the residence of Major Thomas Strang 

 a soldier of the Revolution. Major Strang is the son of Capt. Henry 

 Strang who was the grandson of the worthy Huguenot, Daniel L'Es- 

 trange and Charlotte his wife. From the genealogical table in posses- 

 sion of the Strangs of Putnam, it appears that Daniel L'Estrange and 

 Charlotte his wife, (daughter of Francis Hubert) being Protestants, fled 

 from the city of Paris in the year of our Lord 1685, during the persecu- 

 tions under Louis the XIV, and came to the city of London. He ob- 

 tained a lieutenancy in the guards of James II., King of Great 

 Britain, and continued there until the year 1688, when with his wife he 

 embarked for America in company with a number of French Protestants 

 and arrived at the city of New York. From thence he went to New 

 Rochelle, and subsequently removed to Rye. f{ Daniel L'Estrange who 

 was born in the city of Paris A. D. 1656, died at Rye in this county, 

 A. D. 1706. His will bears date the same year. The late Major Joseph 

 Strang, uncle of the present proprietor, greatly distinguished himself in 

 the bateaux service during the old French war. 



In the same street resided Susan De Lancey and her mother Anne, 

 daughter of Col. Caleb Heathcote, and widow of the Hon. James De 

 Lancey, Lt. Governor of the Province of New York, who died in July 

 1760. These ladies retired here, for the sake of escaping the turmoils of 

 the Revolution. Mrs. De Lancey died here in 1779, and was buried at 

 Crompond; but her remains have since been removed to Heathcote Hill, 

 Mamaroneck. During the war their house afforded an asylum for the 

 persecuted, who found here a safe protection from their enemies. Susan 

 De Lancey afterward resided with her brother, John Peter De Lancey, 

 at Heathcote Hill, where she died in 181 5 and was interred in the De 

 Lancey family burying ground. 



Near the main road leading from Crompond to Somers is situated the 

 estate and residence of the late Robert P. Lee, Esq., for many years one 

 of the leading members of the bar in this country. Mr. Lee was the 

 youngest son of John Lee of Yorktown, whose grandfather William Lee, 

 emigrated to this country in 1675 from Nottingham, England. 



The village of Crompond and its immediate neighborhood appears to 

 have been greatly harrassed during the revolutionary troubles by frequent 

 forays of the enemy. Before the morning of the 24th of June, 1779, 

 ( says General Heath,) about 200 of the enemy's light horse came up as 

 far as Crompond, surprising two militia pickets, killed and took prisoners 



a The following tradition has been handed down in the family, that the above Charlotte 

 L'Estrange wishing to accompany her husband in his escape froni France left her infant as a 

 liostage in Paris, her enemies hoping by this artilice to insure her return, but taking ship the 

 first opportunity she crossed the channel into England. During the bitter prosecution that 

 preceded their flight the family Bible was concealed beneath the hearth stone. 



