THE TOWN OF GREENBURGH. 28 1 



force at Tubby Hook, to take by strategy, Fort Washington, and thus 

 induce the enemy to come out to succor that important point, when the 

 American army would rush upon the enemy, defeat him and follow Mm 

 into the city. 



See Washington's address to Major-General Lord Sterling: — 



Headquarters Dobb's Feeey, > 

 July 14, 1781. j 

 " The party at Dobb's Ferry being for the purpose of erecting a work there ; 

 they are not to withdraw for camp duty." 



Washington, with a considerable body, accompanied by the distinguished 

 French officers, about to make a most interesting recognoizance, left 

 Lord Sterling in command at Headquarters, Dobb's Ferry, to defend 

 which a work was to be erected. 



During the period of about forty days, while Dobb's Ferry was the 

 headquarters of the army, Washington addressed fifteen dispatches dat- 

 ed at that place. "Light troops and lancers had performed their duty 

 in scouring the neighborhood. The refugee pests, which had desolated 

 the country, were broken up ; most of the refugees," Washington says, 

 "had fled and hid themselves in several places." 



Irving, referring to the locations of the two armies at Dobb's Ferry, 

 says: "The French encampment made a gallant display along the 

 Greenburgh hills. Some of the officers took a pride in decorating their 

 tents, and forming little gardens in their vicinity." 



Upon the suspension of hostilities, May 3, 1783, General Washington, 

 His Excellency, Governor Clinton, and General Sir Guy Tarlton, (the 

 British commander,) and their respective suites, met here. The two for- 

 mer came down the river in barges; the latter ascended the river in a 

 frigate. Four companies of light infantry performed the duty of guards 

 on this memorable occasion. b 



Near the junction of the Albany Post, and Saw Mill river road, is sit- 

 uated the Presbyterian church, sometimes called, by way of distinction, 

 the lower Greenburgh church. This society was organized on the nth 

 of April, 1825. Present at its first meeting of the clergy, the Rev. Sam- 

 uel Robertson, Rev. Mr. Weeks, and the Rev. Mr. Wells of New Ro- 

 chelle. Of the members, Perez Jones, Peter Nodine, James Odell, 

 Elizabeth Lefurge, Van Burgh Livingston and Harriett Livingston. 



a Ditto, vol. iv, p. 304. 



b " The tour of duty having fallen to our regiment, we marched from Nelson's point, on the 

 24th, crossed the river at King's Ferry, and on the 25th, encamped near the blocfe house at this 

 place." August 5th; " flags were passing and repassing from this post to New York and 

 back, every day." Thatcher's Mil. Journal, 310. 



