bec to Albany, together with the name and rank
of the wearer. It was obtained from an Indian after the battle of
Saratoga.
Metal button, ploughed up on Quaker hill, Dutchess county, where a
division of the American array encamped in the Revolution. It has the
letters "U. S. A." raised on the surface. A number of other articles
belonging to the camp have been found in the neighborhood. A long line
of the stone fireplaces of the soldiers still remain.
Spontoon of Lieutenant Alfred Van Wyck, of Fishkill, Dutchess county,
used in hunting the cowboys in Fishkill mountain, in the Revolution.
By his son, Theodorus Van Wyck, Esq., of Fishkill Hook, who remembers
to have been shown, within the last forty years, by an individual then
living, the bones of a "skinner," or cowboy, still lying unburied in a
defile of the mountains.
See also, a large collection of other curiosities.
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