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. When about three miles east of Peekskill on the Crompond Road they were stopped by a military patrol under command of Captain Ebenezer Boyd. This event is best told by Captain Boyd in his testimony on the subsequent trial of Joshua Hett Smith for treason:

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Last Friday, the 22d of September, between eight and nine o'clock at night, the sentry stopped Mr. Smith, another person, and a negro. When the party hailed them they answered " Friends." The sentry ordered one to dismount. Mr. Smith readily dismounted and advanced till he came near the sentry and asked who commanded the party ; the sentry said "Captain Boyd" ; upon that I was called for ; Mr. Smith came to me upon my calling for him. I asked him who he was ; he told me his name was Joshua Smith and that he had a pass from General Arnold to pass all guards. I asked him where he lived ; he told me. I asked him what time he crossed the ferry ; he said "about dusk." I asked where he was bound for ; he told me that he intended to go that night as far as Major (Joseph) Strang's.