1. In the 1760s, Samuel Brewster built the house that served as Major General Stirling’s quarters. A nearby house, erected in 1734 by Thomas Ellison and expanded in 1754, had two rooms that served as Brig. Gen. Henry Knox’s quarters (see Nutt, Newburgh description begins John J. Nutt, comp. Newburgh: Her Institutions, Industries and Leading Citizens, Historical, Descriptive and Biographical. Newburgh, N.Y., 1891. description ends , 52–53).

Samuel Brewster (c.1719–1802) first moved to New Windsor in 1743 and was one of the proprietors of that township. He established and operated a forge and sawmill at the foot of Forge Hill. A founder of Presbyterian churches at New Windsor and Bethlehem, N.Y., Brewster served as chairman of the New Windsor committee of safety and in the Provincial Convention of 1775–76.