[2][3] The Old Stone House is situated within the J. J. Byrne Playground, at Washington Park, on Third Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues.

Washington realized that he had been completely fooled by a deceptive feint by the British on Long Island and he ordered more troops to Brooklyn from Manhattan.

[11][12] Stirling pulled back but British troops were, at this point, coming at him in his rear south down the Gowanus Road.

The only escape route left was across a Brouwer' Millpond on the Gowanus Creek which was 80 yards wide, on the other side of which was Brooklyn Heights.

256 Maryland troops were killed in the assaults in front of the Old Stone House and fewer than a dozen made it back to the American lines.

[13] Washington, watching from a redoubt on nearby Cobble Hill, at the intersection of today's Court Street and Atlantic Avenue, was reported to have said, "Good God, what brave fellows I must this day lose!".

[10][12][14] The 256 dead troops of the Maryland 400 were buried by the British in a mass grave on a hillock on farmer Adrian Van Brunt's land on the outskirts of the marsh.

Some four hundred soldiers of the Maryland Brigade under Colonel William Smallwood regained the house twice that day, but were finally repulsed by the British, with very heavy casualties.

[15] Nicholas Vechte, grandson of Claes, lived in the Old Stone House during the American Revolutionary War under the British occupation.

Litchfield was the major landowner of the farmland in the area at that time and sold much of his land to the city for the creation of Prospect Park.

After the Litchfield purchase The Old Stone House remained standing another forty years and was occupied by a caretaker during that period.