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. Put in 1817 Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge, then a representative in congress from Connecticut, saw tit to make a sensational statement before that body in a speech opposing an application by John Paulding for an increase of his pension. Tallmadge was the officer into whose charge Andre was given, as we have seen. The following is the substance of his statement, as reported at the time: The value of the service he did not deny, but, on the authority of the declarations of Major Andre (made while in the custody of Colonel Tallmadge), he gave it as his opinion that, if Major Andre could have given to these men the amount they demanded for his release, he never would have been hung for a spy, nor in captivity on that occasion. Mr. T.'s statement was minutely circumstantial, and given with expressions of his individual confidence in its correctness. Among other circumstances, he stated that when Major Andre's boots were taken off by them it was to search for plunder, and not to detect treason. These persons, indeed, he said, were of that class of people who passed between both armies, as often in one camp as the other, and whom, he said, if he had met with them, he should probably have as soon apprehended as Major Andre, as he had always made it a rule to do with these suspicious persons.