Andre, and an annual pension of ^300 to be settled on her for life, with reversion to her children or the survivor of them; and after knighthood was proffered on the 24th of March, 1781, in memory of his brother's services, the dignity of a baronetcy of Great Britain, was conferred upon Capt. William Lewis Andre, of the 26th Foot, and his heirs, male, forever.* A stately cenotaph in Westminster Abbey also preserved the remembrance of the life and death of Major Andre. To this Arnold was once observed to lead his wife, and to peruse with her the inscriptions that referred to the most important scenes in his own careeer.''

Forty years later, the pomp and ceremony with which the remains of the brave Montgomery were publicly brought from Canada to New York called the attention of the British Consul at that city to the fact, that the dust of another who too had borne the King's commission, and whose first captivity had graced Montgomery's first triumph, still filled an unhonored grave in a foreign land. He communicated with the Duke of York, Commander of the Force, and it was decided to remove Andre's corpse to England. The Rev. Mr. Demarat, who owned the ground, gave ready assent to the Consul's proposals. " His intention had become known," says an American writer, and " some human brute -- some Christian dog -- had sought to purchase or rent the field of Mr. Demarat, for the purpose of extorting money for permission to remove these relics. But the good man and true, rejected the base proposal, and offered every facility in his power." On Friday, August 10, 1821, at eleven a. m., the work was commenced -- not without fear that it would be in vain j for vague whispers went around that years before, the grave was despoiled.