88 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY sites which were occupied by British troops in and around the City of New York. This is doubtless due to the variety of household wares which were obtainable in the burned dwellings and the stores or warehouses of the city. In the American camps in Westchester County and the Highlands there is relatively little of such materials, either in quantity or variety. Usually the debris is in the form of earthenware crocks and pie-plates or yellow lead-glazed pottery, which were found in the humble homes of the farming communities. The broken debris around old residences affords some indication of the taste, and perhaps of the means of their occupants, but in some instances their furnishings may have been abstracted by the soldiery, as was probably the case with the Dyckman family dwellings at 208th and 210th Street, near the Harlem River, which afforded small results in the way of pottery or other wares. In the Nagel dwelling at 213th Street the family remained in occupation during the war, and abundant fragments of wares, some of excellent quality, were found strewn and buried around the site, associated with many military objects. The wasteful or negligent habits of some families, or the recklessness of soldiers . quartered in their homes were illustrated in the discovery of two stone vaults near Willis Avenue, the Bronx, into which had been cast the debris of the one-time homes of Jonas Bronck and of Lewis Morris, including whole bottles, cups and other vessels, some only slightly injured, and of a variety ranging from crude earthenware to high-priced black basalt of Wedgwood's manufacture. Those two dwellings are supposed to have been occupied by the contending forces, and were destroyed about 1780, and confirmation of that occurrence is derived from the Colonial character of all the wares that had been cast into their respective cesspits. Among the military stations which have yielded the largest stock of wares was the great camp on the east side of Inwood Hill, which has been described in the Bulletins of the Society in 1918—19; the garrison barracks on Bennett Avenue, the interior of Fort Washington, and the extensive camp on Fort Hill at Richmond, Staten Island, described in the Bulletin of October, 1919. In all of these camps large numbers of men were quartered