The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)
A withered tree, a heap of stones, mark the spot where the plough never enters, and whence Andre's remains were removed. The sarcophagus came safely across the sea ; and forty-one years and more, after they had been laid by the Hudson, its contents were re-interred in a very private manner, hard by the monument in Westminster Abbey. The Dean of Westminster superintended the religious offices, while Major-General Sir Herbert Taylor appeared for the Duke of York, and Mr. Locker, Secretary to Greenwich Hospital, for the sisters of the deceased.
In the south aisle of the Abbey, wherein sleeps so much of the greatness and the glory of England, stands Andre's monument. It is of statuary marble, carved by Van Gelder. It presents a sarcophagus on a moulded panelled base and plinth; the panel of which is thus inscribed:
a So repeats Mrs. Childs, (letters from New York,) who broujrlit to the scene a solemn conviction that Uulro's death was a '• cool, deliberate murder," and whose account of what she $aw and beard, is tinctured with this feeliug.
THE TOWN OF GREENBURGH.
" Sacred to the memory of Major Andre, who, raised by his merit, at an early period of life, to the rank of Adjutant-General of the British forces in America, and, employed in an important bat hazardous enterprise, fell a sacrifice to his zeal for his King and Country, on the 2d of October, 1780, aged twenty-nine, universally beloved and esteemed by the army in which he served, and lamented even by his foes. His gracious Sovereign, King George EEL, has caused this monument to be erected."