Home / Macdonald, John. Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel, c.1770-c.1854; (1845-11-01). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 1169. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026. / Passage

Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel

Macdonald, John. Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel, c.1770-c.1854; (1845-11-01). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 1169. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026. 409 words

This house stood near where Miler's tavern was afterwards built - it was long and low, and a road passed two of its sides (that is, the north and west) so that it was either on the right or left hand side of the road. On this day morning a young woman, now deceased, was on a visit at the house of a friend, situate on the east or right hand side of the White Plain road when André passed by and stopping enquir =ed the road to White Plains. This house was three or four miles and from Pines Bridge, and she directed him which road to take, showing him where the Tarrytown road turn =ed off from the White Plains road. The two roads were then in sight. He was just afterwards seen (by some Friends going to meeting at Chappequa) to take the Tarrytown Road which conducted him either to the Post Road a little below Sing Sing, or to the forks by See's store on the side of the hill a little above Tarrytown. The young woman always supposed he mistook his road.

Mem. André probably took the Tarrytown road designedly. Van =Wart and Yerks both said that he came down the Post Road, and Van Wart said he saw him from the hill by Clark's Kill just after he passed the Dutch Church. -

Jackson Odell.

A few days before Greene's surprise and death my father, who had lived here (where my brother now resides) for some years, and where I was born, was so persecuted and plundered by Skinners and Cowboys that he determined to go to New- Rochelle among his relatives and friends where he was born and brought up. He accordingly went to Greene to obtain a pass and received one. Greene then deplored the same saying: "What a wretched war, &c which gave [gives] no security for life or liberty!" &c

A few days before Greene's surprise and death my father, who had lived here (where my brother now resides) for some years, and where I was born, was so persecuted and plundered by Skinners and Cowboys that he determined to go to New- Rochelle among his relatives and friends where he was born and brought up. He accordingly went to Greene to obtain a pass and received one. Greene then deplored the same saying: "What a wretched war, &c which gave [gives] no security for life or liberty!" &c