They passed the advanced posts undis-covered and crept along a wall by Redoubt No. 8, close to the sentinels and reached the house in question without being seen or heard. The revellers were completely sur-prised being engaged in dancing while they surrounded the house and up to the moment they entered. The men were seized before they could get their arms and threatened with death if they resisted. The women shrieked and a scene en-sued when their partners were captured, but they brought off most if not all the prisoners. The garrison of No. 8 was alarmed and pursued; but Oakley's party retreated success-fully having taken among the prisoners the very man who predicted Oakley's capture.

INTERVIEW WITH SARAH OAKLEY, DEC. I9, 1845 When the French army left Westchester (in 1781 probably) Rochambeau and the officers of Rochambeau's staff proposed to give my father a certificate to show their sense of the skill and fidelity with which he had served them in the capacity of guide. My father at first declined the offer, but they persuaded him to accept, saying "If it does you no good, it can do you no harm and you had best take it." After my father's escape from imprisonment at New York, General Washington invited him to dinner where he met a large board of officers, convened, as he soon after discovered for the purpose of persuading him to become a spy. The proposition was made as soon as the cloth was removed and rejected instantly with indignation. Washington and his officers then tried to appease him and to accomplish their