The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . ? ^ ^^iip^^^^iW^^- VIEW OX THE PO-CAX-TZ-CO FEOM IRVIXG PAEK. Andre, Adjutant-general of the British army, was captured by JohnPaulding, ])avid Williams, and Isaac Yan Wart, all natives of this has told the rest. The people of Westchester County have erected this Monument, aswell to commemorate a great event as to testify their high estimation ofthat intogiity and patriotism which, rejecting every temptation, rescued THE HUDSON. 331 the United States from most imminent peril, by baffling the arts of a Spyand the plots of a Traitor. De
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . ? ^ ^^iip^^^^iW^^- VIEW OX THE PO-CAX-TZ-CO FEOM IRVIXG PAEK. Andre, Adjutant-general of the British army, was captured by JohnPaulding, ])avid Williams, and Isaac Yan Wart, all natives of this has told the rest. The people of Westchester County have erected this Monument, aswell to commemorate a great event as to testify their high estimation ofthat intogiity and patriotism which, rejecting every temptation, rescued THE HUDSON. 331 the United States from most imminent peril, by baffling the arts of a Spyand the plots of a Traitor. Dedicated October 7, 1853. The laud on which this monument stands was given for the purpose, byWilliam Taylor, a coloured man, who lives in a neat cottage close by,surrounded by ornamented grounds, through which flows Andres Henry J. Eaymond, editor of the New York Daily Times, addressed. MONUMKNT AT TARRYTOWN. the multitude on the occasion of the dedication. Monuments of whitemarble have been erected to the memory of two of the captors of Andrt,over their respective remains. That to Paulding is in the burial-groundof St. Peters Church, near Peeks Kill. It was erected by the corporationof the city of New York, as a memorial sacred to public Paulding, then mayor of iS^ew York, addressed the assembled 332 THE HUDSON. citizens on the occasion of its dedication, November 22, 1827. Themonument to the memory of Yan Wart is over his remains in theGreenburgh Presbyterian Church, near the lovely Neperan river, a fewmiles from Tarrytown. It^vas dedicated on the 11th of June, 1829, Tvhcnthe assembled citizens were addressed by General Aaron W^ard, of SingSing. The monument was erected by the citizens of Westchester remains of \Yiniams are at Livingstonvillc, Sclioharie County; nomonument has yet been erected over them. History has told the rest, says
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