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escaped and alarmed the British outposts, who ran for the fort. 

 They were fired upon by the Americans, and one of them was taken 

 prisoner. 



Built into the walls of the Church of the Holy Nativity, located 

 at Woodlawn Road and Bainbridge Avenue, are three old tomb- 

 stones, two of the Bussing family, dating 1753, and one of the 

 Valentine family. 



Opposite the Catholic church is the site of the old John Wil- 

 liams' house, erected about 1753, the home of the family after 

 which Williamsbridge is named. The house was sold in 1903 to 

 an Italian for firewood. 



On White Plains Road near Williamsbridge Square stands 

 a little Revolutionary house painted red, shot full of holes by 

 British riflemen. 



The Hustace house, Two Hundred Twenty-first Street, one of 

 the oldest landmarks of the region, can be seen facing an old white 

 house on a disused lane. 



On the northeast corner of Two Hundred Twenty-second 

 Street and White Plains Road, stands the Haven house. Within this 

 old house are many relics of early Colonial days, which have been 

 preserved with great care. Here may be seen the high back rush- 

 bottomed chair in which General Washington sat while paying 

 off his ragged army after the battle of Chatterton Heights, at 

 White Plains in 1776. There is also a rocker belonging to George 

 Clinton, the first governor of the State of New York; also a ma- 

 hogany bedstead on which Commodore Perry died. 



Mrs. Martha Clinton Havens was the adopted daughter of 

 General James Clinton of Newburgh, the brother of Governor 

 Clinton. It is said that the piano now in Washington's headquar- 

 ters at Newburgh, belonged to Mrs. Havens. The brass cannon 

 on the lawn was taken from the British by General Harrison at 

 the battle of Tippecanoe, in 1814. 



On the corner of Two Hundred Twenty-eighth Street stood 

 the shingled house, torn down in 1885, which was used for a time 

 by Washington as headquarters. 



The Chateauneuf residence, on the south side of Two Hundred 

 Thirty-first Street, west of White Plains Road was built about 

 1853 and was the refuge of the widow and four children of the 

 Marquis de Chateauneuf, former governor of Touraine, who fled 

 from France to escape espionage. 



