The work of obtaining subscriptions was then undertaken, to which the response was prompt and liberal beyond all expecta-tions, warranting the making of a contract for the proposed monument, and showing that the spirit of patriotism was still alive in the hearts of the people. Only the occasion was needed to call it forth. The site had already been donated by the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Association." On this monument the name of John Odell, the Westchester Guide was inscribed among others. M. D. Raymond was editor and publisher of "The Tarrytown Argus." The "Inter- 94 THE McDONALD PAPERS

views" of John M. Macdonald were freely published and used to arouse interest in this monument. When the "Interviews" came into Mr. Hufeland's possession the printer's marks and notations were still on many of them. The erection of the Tarrytown monument was followed, in 1900, by the State of New York placing in the yard of the Yorktown Heights Church the memorial of classical design on which the name of Abraham Dyckman, among others, was chiselled. In 1926 the bronze memorial to Cornelius Oakley was dedicated by this Society. As we turn to p. 96 of Part I of these papers the question there asked: "Where shall I find the monuments, &c., &c." can now be answered affirmatively; and the one who there asked the question was largely instrumental alike in preserving the stories and in establishing the memorials. In the "Souvenir of the Tarrytown Monument," already referred to, Raymond has published a considerable number of the Macdonald reminiscences; but so far as research has revealed up to this time, the source from which they were obtained was not disclosed, either in the quotations in the "Tarrytown Argus" or in the "Souvenir." Raymond also published in the ''Souvenir'' a number of reminiscences of Revolutionary events obtained from the Pension Papers of participants in this struggle.