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John Quincy Adams and grandson of President John Adams, should 

 have drifted ashore on the Eastchester Creek, close to the old 

 manse, following a drowning accident in 1829. In appreciation 

 of the good offices of one of the wardens of St. Paul's Church who 

 recovered the body, Mrs. John Quincy Adams, mother of the 

 youth, presented a silver loving-cup to the church, which treasures 

 it to this day as among its most precious heirlooms. 



Of late years the Halsey mansion has been the subject of in- 

 creasing patriotic interest to historians and students of Colonial 



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Old Reid's Mill, Eastchester 



times, in corresponding proportion to the steady disappearance of 

 those buildings that have Revolutionary associations. 



Another notable landmark in Eastchester was the old Guion 

 inn, a Revolutionary tavern erected in 1720 where Washington once 

 stopped and mentioned in his diary that the roads were "uncom- 

 monly rough and stony." It was here that Governor George Clin- 

 ton assembled the State Council after the evacuation of New York. 

 Among the existing relics of the past in Eastchester are the old 

 Crawford house, opposite St. Paul's Church, an ancient tavern of 

 Revolutionary days; the old Groshon residence once the home of a 

 Huguenot family, "Grosjean;" Old Point Comfort, a well-known 



