The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . Haverstraw, off which theVulture lay, and at the foot of which Arnold and Andre met. Severalother redoubts were cast up in this vicinity; these commanded the ferryto Paramus, afterwards Snedens Landing, and now Rockland. Near Dobbss Ferry the British rendezvoued, after the battle at WhitePlains, in October, 1776; and at Hastings, a mile below, a British forceof six thousand men, under Lord Cornwallis, crossed the river to Paramus, THE HUDSON. 357 marched to the attack at Fort Lee, and then pursued the flying Americansunder Washington across jSTew Je
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . Haverstraw, off which theVulture lay, and at the foot of which Arnold and Andre met. Severalother redoubts were cast up in this vicinity; these commanded the ferryto Paramus, afterwards Snedens Landing, and now Rockland. Near Dobbss Ferry the British rendezvoued, after the battle at WhitePlains, in October, 1776; and at Hastings, a mile below, a British forceof six thousand men, under Lord Cornwallis, crossed the river to Paramus, THE HUDSON. 357 marched to the attack at Fort Lee, and then pursued the flying Americansunder Washington across jSTew Jersey to the Delaware river. Here, in1777, a division of the American army, under General Lincoln, wasencamped ; and here was the spot first appointed as the meeting-place ofAndre and Arnold. Circumstances prevented the meeting, and it waspostponed, as we have already observed. Here, in the mansion of VanBrugh Livingston, General Greene met the chief of three commissionersfrom General Sir Henry Clinton, in conference concerning Major VIKW NEAR HASrlKGS. General Robertson was the chief, and he had strong hopes, by impartinginformation from General Clinton, to save the life of his young Robinson accompanied them as a witness. They went up in theGreyhound schooner, with a flag of truce, but only General Robertson waspermitted to land. Greene met Robertson as a private gentleman, bypermission of Washington, and not as an ofiiccr. He was willing to listen,but the case of an acknowledged spy admitted of no discussion. Thesubject was freely talked over, and Greene bore from Robertson a verbalmessage to Washington, and a long explanatory and threatening letter 358 THE HUDSON. from Arnold, ^o new facts bearing npon the case were presented, andnothing was offered that changed the minds of the court or the command-ing geneial. So the conference was fruitless. The Livingston mansion, owned by Stephen Archer, a Quaker, ispreserved in its original form ; under its roof,
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