The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)
Miss B., soothed her friend, and both fell asleep, when Miss Andre once more started up, exclaiming, ' They are trying him as a spy;' and she described the nature of the court, the proceedings of the judge and prisoner, with the greatest minuteness. Once more the poor sister's terrors were calmed by her friend's tender representations, but a third time she awoke screaming that they were hanging him as a spy on a tree and his regimentals, with many other circumstances ! There was no more sleep for the friend ; they got up, and entered each in her own pocket-book the particulars stated by the terror-stricken sister, with the dates ; both agreed to keep the soruce of their own presentiment and fear from the poor mother, fondly hoping they were built on the fabric of a vision. But, alas ! as soon as news, in those days, could cross the Atlantic, the fatal tidings came ; and to the deep awe, as well as sad grief of the young ladies, every circumstance was exactly imparted to them as had been shadowed forth in the fond sister's sleeping fancy, and had happened on the very day preceding the night of her dream. The writer thinks this anecdote has not been related by Miss Seward, Dr. Darwin, or the Edgeworths, father and daughter, who have all given to the public many intreesting events in the brilliant but brief career of Majoy AndreV'
It is creditable to the British Government that in consideration of the magnitude of Andre's attempted service, and the disastrous fate with which his efforts were crowned, nothing was wanting to testify either its care for his fame or its respect for his wishes. On the 13th November, Captain St. George, Clinton's aide, delivered that General's despatches of the 1 2th October, to Lord George Germain: