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HISTORICAL SKETCHES.

arrived at the quarters of Col. Jameson, bringing with them a prisoner who said his name was John Anderson, together with a number of papers concealed in the boot of the prisoner at the time he was taken, and that a few days afterwards ii was discovered that the prisoner was Major Joljn Andre, Adjutant Gen'l. of the British Army, &e.

The above statement is dated June i, 1837.

Mar}', (b. 1756, d. 1S46), the wife of John Bean, was the daughter of David and Mary (Gardinier) Storm. Their children were Mary, (b. 1777), mar. Isaac Hammond ; Susan, (b. 1779), mar. John Yerks of Mt. Pleasant; Elizabeth, (b. 17S2), mar. John Archer of Tarrytown, parents of President Daniel O. Archer of Tarrytown ; Armenia, (b. 1787), mar. Benjamin Roselle of Mt. Pleasant; Sarah, (b. 1789), mar. Oliver Westcott of Sing Sing; Charlotte, (b. 1797), mar. Daniel Odell ; and Thomas, (b. 1794), mar. Harriet, only daughter of Samuel and Auley (Archer) Marline of Greenburgh.

Thomas, well known to the older residents of Tarrytown, died 1872. At the age of twenty-one he was the oVner of a Sloop plying between Albany and New York. He was a lumber dealer, merchant, a founder of the old Tarrytown Library, and the first Postmaster of Tarrytown, holding that office for twenty-one years. He was also prominent among Free Masons, as one of the first in this county to attain the 32d degree. He was also one of the founders of King Solomon's Lodge.