Show HIS grandfathers S CLOCK it ticket ticked through rough the revolutionary war var and Is SHU Tle ticking klog in an old fashioned low dutch otone bonc houte house on the bonks banks of tho the hud BOD at nyack is ia the home of the sar vents a family whose choso descendants have occupied it for over two cen centuries jhb i house is filled with relies relics of ye ancient tyme especially in rusty maty oli old abord flint locks muskets cannon balls grape and canni cannis sUir Wr abot ani and links of the iron chain which was submerged submerge a across thai Tap panzee during the revolution to prevent the passage of the british fleet to west point there are many other relics but the most highly prized of all la is an ancient eight day clock which rings out the hours as regularly and keeps as an splendid time as it did when it was first placed in the old house by philip in 17 5 when he bought it from whitlock in new york and conveyed it by sloop to his home the clock has a history iss it fit inter the revolution twenty caara afterward when the old bo bouc ua e ym waa N shelled by the british fleet and tho redcoats ed were pillaging pill ain I 1 C the homes of tha dutch settlers and patriots the clock was conveyed back in the country to clarkstown Clarks town and there buried andr a barn where it remained for over seven years garrett a grand aarand old patriarch of eighty years a grandson of philip now resides in the old house he was waa for many years ni assessor sessor and may maiorand mayor orand and w widely dely known and highly respected throughout 0 bout rockland county as a sterling old jacksonian democrat in an interview recently he declared that his love and veneration for his grandfathers clock and the historical associations connected with it was so strong that no amount of money even if it was waa thousands would temp him or hi his s children to part with the relic it has kept such fine time for one hundred and thirty seven years and is possibly equal to the for another century |