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Governor Clinton summoned the members of the state council to convene at Eastchester on the twenty-first of November, to prepare for the re-establishment of civil government in New York city and its vicinity, and a detachment of troops came down from West Point to be ready to take possession of the posts about to be evacuated by the British.
And then, when we get let out, you could have another party for me. Don't you see, it will be a sort of celebration of my release from captivity." "I tell you I won't stand it! I'll have the confounded party to- night, because I'll HAVE to, but to-morrow I'm coming straight, bang, up to Eastchester!" "Come if you like, but you won't be admitted to this house.
Colonel Burr then endeavoured to interrupt him in Eastchester, according to his first plan, and actually got within cannon-shot of him; but Tryon ran too fast, and in his haste left most or all of his cattle and plunder behind him, and many stragglers, who were picked up. I will mention another enterprise, which proved more successful, though equally hazardous.
Before crossing the Harlem the road followed in a general way the Broadway trail. Beyond the river it zigzagged in a northeasterly direction through Eastchester. Not until the crossing of the Byram River transferred the road from New York to New England did it take on any resemblance to the trail of today, and even beyond, the town of Greenwich seems to have been neglected entirely.
"A boon so great that I fear to ask it! Won't you promise it in advance?" "What I promise in advance, I never fulfil." "Don't do it, then! I'll ask you first. You see, it's this way. My angelic and altogether delightful sister Lora lives in Eastchester with her stalwart husband and a blossom-bud of a kiddy.
He leaned a little forward and hid his own face with the palm of his hand. When at last she looked up her face had cleared and her tone was less bitter. It would have gone very hard with the Earl of Eastchester, however, if he had called to see his niece just then.
And am I included in these good times?" "Yes, indeed. It will take the four of us; and Mrs. Perry, whenever we can get her, to have the good times I'm planning." All through dinner time Patty was her own gay, merry self. Babette was not mentioned, nor the fact that they were staying in Eastchester, under compulsion, and it might have been just a happy party invited there for pleasure. Mr.
In his way he was quite as much one of the old school as the Earl of Eastchester, and the idea of a lady a Wendermott, too calling herself a journalist and proud of making a few hundreds a year was amazing enough to him. He scarcely knew how to answer her. "Yes, yes," he said, "you have some of your father's spirit, some of his pluck too. And that reminds me we wrote to you to call." "Yes." "Mr.
Colonel Burr then endeavoured to interrupt him in Eastchester, according to his first plan, and actually got within cannon-shot of him; but Tryon ran too fast, and in his haste left most or all of his cattle and plunder behind him, and many stragglers, who were picked up. I will mention another enterprise, which proved more successful, though equally hazardous.
Ernestine found a letter on her plate a few mornings afterwards which rather puzzled her. It was from a firm of solicitors in Lincoln's Inn the Eastchester family solicitors requesting her to call that morning to see them on important business. There was not a hint as to the nature of it, merely a formal line or two and a signature.
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