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Westchester County New York, Neutral Ground in the American Revolution Suffered Their Own Horrific War

Skinners raided homes

At the start of the American Revolution, the county of Westchester was the richest and most populous of the rural counties of New York. By war’s end, most of the county, especially a twenty-mile-wide region labeled the neutral ground, would be totally devastated. Farms were abandoned and entire communities became ghost towns. Roads were vacant …