First elders of the church, Archibald Reid, George Combs and Staats Hammond. First deacons, William Brown and Isaac iSee.

CHURCH MEMORANDA.

A. D. 1836, Communicants, 97 ; Baptisms, 2. A. D. 1847, ditto, 65.

In the cemetery of the Presbyterian Church rest the remains of Isaac Van Wart, one of the three captors of Major John Andre. A marble monument consisting of a base and pyramid is inscribed on its four sides, with the following epitaph :

(North side.)

Here reposes the mortal remains

of

Isaac Van Wart,

an elder in the Greenburgh Church,'

who died

on the 23d of Ma}^ 1828,

in the

69th year of his age.

Having lived the life, he died the death, of the

Christian. ^' ' . '

(South side.)

The Citizens

of the

County of Westchester

erected this tomb

in testimony of the high sense

they entertained for the virtuous and patriotic conduct

a Isaac van Wart was for many years an efficient church officer, and acted as chorister up to the time of his death.

236 HISTORY OF THE

of their fellow citizen,

as a memorial sacred lo

public gratitude.

(Upon the east side.)

Vincit Amor Patriae.

Nearly half a century

before this monument was built,

the conscript fathers of America

had in the senate chamber voted that

Isaac Van Wart,

was a faithful patriot, one in whom

the love of country was invincible,

and this tomb bears testimony

that the record is true.

(West side.)

Fidelity. -- On the 23d of September, 1780, Isaac van Wart, accompanied by John Paulding and- David Williams, all farmers of the County of Westchester, intercepted Major Andre, on his return from the American lines, in the character of a spy, and, notwithstanding the large bribes offered them for his release, nobly disdained to sacrifice their country for gold, secured and carried him to the commanding officer of the district, whereby the dangerous and 'traitorous conspiracy of Arnold was brought to light, the insidious designs of the enemy baffled, the American army saved, and our beloved country free," &c.