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THE BOROUGH OF THE BRONX 



the famous tree under which it was signed, is all that remains 

 to remind us of "Treaty Oak," which was destroyed in 1906 by a 

 bolt of lightning. Here, too, on October 18, 1776, Col. Glover 

 with a brigade of 550 Marblehead fishermen engaged Sir William 

 Howe's army and held it in check long enough to enable General 

 Washington's forces to make a successful retreat to White Plains. 



Pell Treaty Oak, Pelham Bay Park 



This feat is memorialized by a tablet on the face of a great glacial 

 boulder on the City Island road, known as ''Glover's Rock." 



Extending thru this park, also, is "Split Rock" Road. This 

 derives its name from a large boulder which seems to have been 

 cleft in twain by a tree growing up thru the middle of the rock. 

 Near this boulder is the site of the house of the unfortunate Anne 

 Hutchinson who was cruelly butchered by the Indians. 



