When Arnold arranged his first interview, relative to the betrayal of West Point, with Andre, he was to meet him at Dobbs Ferry, but as the name seems to have applied equally to the eastern and western landings, it is uncertain which side of the river was indicated. We know that the plan miscarried, and the treacherous American general was so closely pursued by a British gunboat that he narrowly escaped capture. After the condemnation of Andre, General Greene met Sir Henry Clinton at Dobbs Ferry to discuss the possibility of ameliorating his sentence. Here, in 1777, General Lincoln's division of the Continental army camped for a short time. In front of an interesting old house at Dobbs Ferry, in 1894, a monument was erected by the New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, The inscription upon it reads:

Washington's Headquarters. Here, Ji-ilv 6, 1781, the French aUies, under Rochambeau, joined the American army. Here, August 14, 1781, Washington planned the Yorktown campaign, which brought to a triumphant end the War for American independence. Here, May 6, 1783, Washington and Sir Guy Carleton arranged for the evacuation of American soil by the British. And opposite this point May 8, 1 783, a British sloop-of-war fired seventeen guns in honour of the American Commander-in-chief, the first salute by Great Britain to the United States of America.

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111 1861, Lossing wrote:

The Livingston mansion, owned l)y Stephen Archer, a Quaker, is preserved in its original form. Under its roof in past times many distinguished men have been sheltered; Washington had his headcjuarters there toward the close of the Revolution and there in November, 1783, Washington, George Clinton, . and Sir Guy Carleton . . . met to confer, etc., etc.