46 T H E N E W-Y ORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ancient apple trees and shrubs; while close by is a fine spring of fresh water, all of which are claimed to have been associated with the history of this remarkable woman." Several efforts have been made by interested explorers to locate the exact site of this interesting building, and one survey of the locality led Mr. W. L. Calver and the writer to the ruins of the onetime Baxter dwelling, on the north side of the Split Rock road, immediately opposite the rock, on which we discovered many interesting objects of the Colonial period, and about forty bronze coins extending in date from the reign of WiHiam and Mary to the period succeeding the war of Independence. Another search more recently made by Mr. W. R. Montgomery of Pelham Manor, disclosed another old house site further south, which on exploration was found to be of a much more recent date. In December, 1920, Mr. Hector W. Hemingway, a local police officer residing on City Island, became interested in the matter, and on enquiry of an old resident as to the most traditional site of the dwelling, he was shown a place on Cedar Grove Point, close to the bank of the river, and also near the brook that crosses the Split Rock road about four hundred feet south of the rock. The place thus agrees with the description given in an article in the-New York Sun, July seventeenth, 1904, as being "on a small stream flowing into Eastchester creek afterwards named from her, "Hutchinson River," and it was situated on sloping ground favorable for such a purpose, facing south, and within thirty-five feet of a little stone dock or wharf which evidently had been at some time connected with the course of the brook as it entered the river. The place was overgrown with brambles and huge vines of poison ivy, which have united in destroying the cedar trees that once adorned the point of land, and now stand stripped of their natural foliage, burdened with the destructive vines. With Mr. Charles Thurston of Kingsbridge, who has been a willing aide of our exploration work for many years, and Mr. W. R. Montgomery, a visit was made to the site, and the evident outline of a walled space was readily traced in a depression about fifteen feet square. Permission was sought for exploration to be made upon park property, which was most promptly and cordially given by Commissioner Joseph P. Hennessey. Vigorous shoveling and removal of loose stones soon revealed the side of a cellar wall composed of field stones neatly laid