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Honorable Gouverneur Morris. His father-in-law was Gouverneur 

 Morris Wilkins, son of the Reverend Isaac Wilkins, who married 

 Isabella Morris, the sister of the statesman and half-sister of 

 Lewis Morris, the Signer. 



The old Wilkins farmhouse famed as the building in a secret 

 chamber of which three loyalist clergymen, Rev. Myles Cooper, 

 president of King's College, Rev. Chandler of New Jersey and Rev. 

 Samuel Seabury, rector of Saint Peter's Church in Westchester, 



Ferris Mansion, Zerega's Point 



concealed themselves during the early days of the Revolution, is 

 still standing. Food and drink were lowered to these men thru 

 a hidden trap door. They finally escaped on the 1st of September, 

 1776, under cover of darkness to Long Island. 



The ground in this vicinity was once occupied by the Siwanoy 

 Indians who had erected a fortified castle here, whence the name 

 "Castle Hill Neck." Adrien Block, in his voyage of discovery in 

 1614, spoke of seeing big Indian wigwams there. Castle Hill 

 Neck is an elevated tract of land, sixty feet above the sea level, 

 and is situated east of Cornell's Neck, between Wilkin's, or Pugsley, 

 and Westchester Creeks. It was for some time the property of the 



