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

whom

Arnold's

communication,

signifying

that he wished Andre to conic ashore, was addressed. Robinson presented to the church a glebe of two hundred acres, lying in Putnam County, just above the Westchester line. This farm is now owned by Judge Smith Lent, of Sing Sing.

HISTORY

WESTCHESTER

COUNTY

burgh; and Martinus, the father of Isaac, performed some service in the war. Isaac Van Wart was granted by the State a farm in Putnam County (then a part of Dutchess County), but desiring to live and die in the neighborhood where lie was brought up, sold it and bought the old Youngs property, where the tk Affair of Youngs's House " occurred, in what is now the Town of Mount Pleasant. He died May 23, 1828. He was an esteemed member of the old Greenburgh Church of Elmsford, this county, in whose churchyard his remains lie, marked by a marble monument elaborately inscribed, which was dedicated June 11, 1829. One of his sons, Rev. Alexander Van Wart, delivered the prayer at the dedication of the new Tarrytown monument to Andre's captors, September 23. 1880. For nearly forty years after the capture of Major Andre, no question was ever raised as to the genuine patriotic character of the action of Paulding, Williams, and Van Wart in taking him into custody, or as to their entire private disinterestedness and noble contempi for gain.