The approach of the British was to be announced by signals, and the American forces were to be so distributed that they could be easily captured, and at the proper moment Arnold was to surrender the works with all the troops, 3,000 in number. Andre was furnished by Arnold with plans of the works and explanatory papers, which, at Arnold's request, he placed between his stockings and his feet, promising in case of accident to destroy them. Arnold wrote the following pass for Andre, gave it to Smith, and at ten o'clock departed in his barge for the Eobinson house:

Headquarters, Robinson House, September 22, 1780. Permit Mr. John Anderson to pass the guards to White Plains or below, if he chooses, he being' on public business by my direction. B. Arnold, Maj. Gen.

Andre passed a lonely day, and as evening approached he became impatient and spoke to Smith about departure. Smith refused to take him on board the kt Vulture," much to Andre's surprise and mortification, but offered to cross the river with him to Verplanck's Point and accompany him part of the distance to New York on horseback. On Friday, September 22, at dusk, Andre, Smith, and a negro servant, with three horses belonging to Smith, crossed the King's Ferry from Stony Point in a flat-bottomed boat rowed by Cornelius Lambert, Lambert Lambert, and William Van Wart, Henry Lambert acting as coxswain. Upon landing at Verplanck's, Smith called the coxswain into Welsh's hut near the ferry landing and gave him an eight dollar continental bill, and then went to Colonel Livingston's tent. a short distance from the road, and talked with him a few minutes, but declined his invitation to take some liquor, and said that he was going to General Arnold's headquarters. They mounted their horses, rode over the obi King's Ferry Road to the New York and Albany Post Road, and from thence north to Peekskill, where they took the road leading easterly from Peekskill to Crompond Corners.