He walked with him to the gallows, and when he first saw ths fatal gibbet he gave a sudden start, and said " he was reconciled to death, but not to the mode," and added, " it would be but a momentary pang." On arriving at the spot he mounted the cart, and in doing so, soiled his white dimities, which he quickly wiped off with his pocket handkerchief, adjusted the rope to his neck with his own hands, and in a few minutes the brave and accomplished Andre had paid the penalty of his unsuccessful espionage."

The Hon. John Jay, of Bedford, made every effort to preserve this interesting relic of the Revolutionary history ; and for this purpose purchased the old quarters of Major Andre and a piece of land surrounding it, and tendered a deed thereof to the New York Historical Society, provided they would maintain and defray all necessary repairs and expenses for the future. His praiseworthy act was not sustained, which led to the property being resold, and finally to the tearing down of the old house itself -- a piece of vandalism unworthy of our enlightened age and country. When we visited it in 1846, the ravages of time had then made but little progress upon it ; the small room in which Andre was confined, the second night after his arrest, was still perfect with its single door and solitary window looking out upon the highway. On a stone of the old house was rudely cut the initials of its former owner and date