I was then obliged to take what employment 1 could meet with for my support, chopping, grubbing, and all such work -- living about twenty miles from my house and family.'' He was a volunteer in Captain Daniel Martling's Tarrytown company, served under General Montgomery in the expedition to Canada, and took an active part in the contests of the Neutral Ground. He received from the State, June 16, 1783, the confiscated farm of the Loyalist Edmund Ward, of the Town of Eastchester, a property of two hundred and fifty-two and one-half acres. Edmund Ward was the only brother of the well-known patriot, Stephen Ward. Subsequently Williams removed to Livingstonville, Schoharie County, N. Y., where he bought a farm of General Daniel Shays, and lived there until his death, August 2, 1831. He was a highly respected citizen, and left sons and daughters from whom numerous descendants have sprung. His bones lie near the Old Fort, Schoharie Village, where a handsome monument was erected over them by the State of New York in 1876. Isaac Van Wart, according to Bolton's genealogical records, was a grandson of Joachim Van Weert, a Dutchman, who became a settler of Philipsburgh Manor in 1(397. The date of Isaac's birth is uncertain, but he was christened on the 25th of October, 1758. The Van Warts were a patriotic family, residing in the present Town of Green1 It is of interest that one of the principal benefactors of Saint Peter's Church was the Tory son-in-law of the third Frederick Philipse, Beverly Robinson, who was on the " Vulture " with Andre on the night of Septeniber 21, 1780. and, indeed, was the person to