where Lorillard's manufactory afterwards was. Paulding there got a Hessian's coat, green trimmed up with red, got a boat at the North River and escaped to the Jerseys. At Wehawken he was taken up and brought before Marquis de La Fayette as a spy, but Col. Cortlandt knew him and procured his release." He then crossed the river at or below Tarrytovn and returned home, making his first appearance at Reed's Tavern above and east of that place.

Of how important a part that Hessian coat played in the Andre drama the whole world knows. Paulding had previously been a prisoner, and had wonderfully escaped as related by Samuel G. Clark, a

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kinsman of Azariali Clark who lost his life in the attempt which tin and others had planned, by a tunnel extending from the prison aero - the street, as was published in the "Journal of Commerce" in 1E52. Paulding it appears was the only one who got away. The story of his being taken prisoner the third time, is told in another connection ar. . need not be related here.

THE CAPTURE OF ANDRE.

Oil May 6, 1817, a statement was made and sworn to by John Paulding, one of the captors, of which the following is a copy : John Paulding, of the County of Westchester, one of the persons who took Major Andre, being duly sworn, saith, that he was three times during the revolutionary war a prisoner, with the enemy : -- the first time he was taken at the White Plains, when under the command of Captain Requa, and carried to New York, and confined in the Sugar House : the second time he was taken near Tarry town, when under the command of Lieutenant Peacock, and confined in the North Dutch Church in New York ; that both these times he escaped ; and the last of them only four days before the capture of Andre ; that the last time he was taken, he was wounded, and lay in the hospital in New York, and, was discharged on the arrival of the news of peace there ; that he and his companions, Van Wart and Williams, among other articles which they took from Major Andre, were his watch, horse, saddle and bridle, and which they retained as prize ; that they delivered over Andre, with the papers found on him, to Colonel Jameson, wlio commanded on the lines ; that shortly thereafter they were summoned to appear as witnesses at the headquarters of General Washington, at Tappau ; that they were at Tappau some days, and examined as witnesses before the court martial on the trial of Smith, who brought Andre ashore from on board the sloop of war ; that while there, Colonel William S.