their soldiers. The revolters have agreed to receive the arrears of pay with the depreciation, and their arrears of cloathing, which has been promised them.

"Congress leave out all the officers, who are prisoners, in the new regi ments. Mr. Adams has orders not to exchange any militia for British prisoners."

3. Maps. A "Collection of twenty plans and maps illustrating the Province of New Jersey" (in illustration of Clinton's campaign in New Jersey), dated 1778-82. Nearly all these drawings are executed by J. Hills, the well known assistant engineer officer serving under Clinton, one of them being dedicated to him. Plan of Perth Amboy, Bonham Town, Brunswick, Raritan Landing, Haddonfield, roads from Pennyhill to the Black Horse, roads from Black Horse to Crosswick, Allen Town, roads from Freehold to Middletown, showing the skirmish between the rear of the British army, under Clinton and the advanced corps of the American army, June 28, 1778. Middle Town, a survey of part of the province of New Jersey, survey of Somerset County, of Middle County, of Monmouth County, northern part of New Jersey, chart of Delaware Bay and River to Philadelphia, being part of the provinces of New Jersey and Pennsylvania; road from Paulus Hook [Jersey City] and Hoboken to New Bridge, Paulus Hook, with road to Bergen and parts adjacent, and plan of Paulus Hook with the works raised for its defence, 1781-82.

It is clear enough there will be something new to say about the war of the Revolution when this material, and much more like it, becomes available. The whole of it should be obtained and deposited in our public collections.

II.-MISS JANE MCCREA.

J.

In the grounds of the Union Cemetery, on the road leading from Sandy Hill to Fort Edward, N. Y., is the grave of Miss McCrea. Her remains lie on the left-hand side of the entrance path near the gate, beneath a stone bearing the inscription:

To Commemorate

One of the Most Thrilling Incidents
In the Annals of the American Revolution
To do Justice to the fame of the Gallant
British Officer to whom she was affianced,

And as a Simple tribute to the
Memory of the Departed,
This stone is Erected

By her Niece

SARAH HANNA PAYN
A.D. 1852"

The edges of the stone, which is a plain white marble one, are chipped and defaced by the relic seekers.

The inscription, it will be observed, gives her age as 17 years, but Drake's American Biography says that she was born at Leamington, N. J., in 1754, which would have made her twenty-three years old at the time of her death.

The scene of her murder is on the west side of the road near the northern part of the village of Fort Edward. Going through the gate of a private house, and crossing a fence to the left, I found myself on a declivity, partially covered with trees, overlooking the railroad track. Here, among thick bushes, is a spring, covered over with a wooden covering in two places. Within a few feet is the remnant of the stump of the famous pinetree. At the foot of this tree, by the spring, the remains of Miss McCrea, it is said, were found. There are three accounts of the affair which should be compared, viz., "Sparks' Arnold," pp. 100-107; "Irving's Washington," vol. iii., p. 162; and "Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution," vol. i., p. 97. A writer, signing himself "A. S.," in the New York Mirror for August 15, 1835, throws doubts on the question as to the exact locality. He says: "Miss McCrea was found near a spring on the east side of the present road. She had been dragged from near the block-house adjacent to which the road then ran; for the blood was on the sand next morning. The informant of Mr. Gilliman, who gave a particular account of this affair some years ago, must have been mistaken; the spring on the west side of the road, near a tall stump of a tree, is not the spot where she was found. On the twenty-eighth her body and that of Lieut. Van Vechten were carried down to Moses Kill and buried. Mrs. Campbell's negro woman, who had escaped the Indians by hiding in the cellar, says she went in the boat with. the corpse of Jenny down to the American army. In 1822, the remains of Miss McCrea were removed to the graveyard at Fort Edward."

CHARLES A. CAMPBELL.

III. "WILLIAM GRAHAM.”

Shortly prior to the appearance of the "Note" (vi., 218) here referred to, the present writer, in conversation with Henry Hill, Esq., a venerable former Boston merchant, but whose first clerkship was in this city, received from him some account of Graham's remarkable career and its tragic termination. In a late letter, also, he has suggested that a correct record of this his early friend and school-mate "might be of service to young men similarly exposed," sending us with it a brief biographical sketch from his own skilful pen, printed on a broad sheet, and headed: "William Grenville Graham. By an Octogenarian." It is an interesting narrative, and gives several beautiful extracts from Graham's letters to himself when the former was in England. We here learn that he was born in Catskill, N. Y., early in 1793, "was a noble, beautiful boy, naturally graceful, affectionate, generous, talented, but impulsive, venturesome, daring." Of their boyhood-life together out of school, we quote an incident illustrative: "On a sailing excursion once, on a raw and gusty day," says the narrator, we got into an ill-constructed craft, which was soon partially capsized, and, being heavily ballasted, sunk like lead. Graham, in his Spring suit, swam for the opposite shore, and as Judge Cantine, a very tall man, rushed into the water and was about to reach him, he cried out: Never mind me; go for Harry!'" His father, Joseph Graham, failing in business in Catskill, removed to New York, where he kept a popular boarding-house at 88 Pearl Street, became a religious man and a member of the old Cedar Street Presbyterian Church. In a letter written by Graham from England to his friend Hill, in 1816, he thus refers to their different family training: "You were more rigidly brought up at home, and taught self-management betimes." Perhaps here was the fons mali of his after years. He studied in Union College, also subsequently at New Haven, whence he entered the law office of Barent Gardenier of this city, of the firm of "Gardenier and Anthon," in Wall Street, as early as 1807-8. Gardenier was a member of Congress, and represented the 7th Congressional District, Kingston, N. Y., in the Xth Congress, and again the 5th District in the XIth, in both terms representing Greene and Ulster counties. He fought a duel when in Congress; a sad legal example to his student who afterward fell a victim to that false code of honor. In London Graham, a stranger, needy, and impelled by illness, was befriended by a philanthropic gentleman of fortune by the name of Burdon, who sent him to Trinity College, Cambridge. There his old Catskill mate spent a pleasant day with him. Graham subsequently wrote him from Hartford House, Northumberland, Mr. Burdon's country-seat. The two did not meet again until 1826, when they dined together at Niblo's.

He was then assisting Major Noah in editing the Enquirer, and wrote a number of articles that were read with much interest, particularly some on "Good Society," not yet forgotten by old New Yorkers. A few weeks after, when playing cards with young Barton, of Philadelphia, a hasty word was followed by a blow, then a challenge, a duel, and a fatal shot. He died in a boat from Hoboken on returning to New York. As he fell he exclaimed, "Barton, I forgive you.' WILLIAM HALL

IV. THE YORKTOWN-WASHINGTON MULBERRY TREE.

In his Yorktown Centennial Oration, Mr. Winthrop indulges in a glowing reference to the tree under which Washington is said to have slept on the first night of the investment of the town, September 28, 1781. “You will all agree with me, my friends," to quote the orator, "that if that tree, which overshadowed Washington sleeping in the open air on his way to Yorktown, were standing to-day-if it had escaped the necessities and casualties of the siege, and were not cut down for the abattis of a redoubt, or for camp-fires and cooking-fires, long ago-if it could anyhow be found. and identified in yonder Beech Wood, or Locust Grove, or Carter's Grove— no Wellington Beech or Napoleon Willow, no Milton or even Shakespeare Mulberry, no Oak of William the Conqueror at Windsor, or of Henri IV. at Fontainebleau, nor even those historic trees which gave refuge to the fugitive, Charles II., or furnished a hiding-place for the Charter which he granted to Connecticut on his Restoration, would be so precious and so hallowed in all American eyes and hearts to the latest generation."

The tree is there-what remains of it; so at least say those who have long dwelt under the shadow of its offspring, which has grown out of the parent stump. During a visit to Yorktown before the celebration, the writer was curious to fix the spot of Washington's Headquarters, which, with the plans of the siege and the aid of an officer of the United States Engineer Corps, it was not difficult to do. The site has always been known as the "Washington Lodge," where a house stands, whose occupant, Mr. Jones, assured us that a fine old Mulberry tree adjoining the premises was the lineal continuation of the one under which Washington slept, as stated. This tradition in his family comes straight down from his grandfather, who was a Virginia militiaman at the siege. The original house which Washington soon made his quarters, and in front of which he also pitched his marquee, was burned down during the late war, only the kitchen chimneys. of the historic building remaining. Irving had heard and states that the tree was a Mulberry. It stands two and one-half miles back of Yorktown, undisturbed, unvisited, unphotographed. J.