November 30th Capt. John Romer

"The three captors of André stopped at my fathers in the morning before day and took breakfast, and took with them a dinner prepared by my mother and deposited in a pewter basin. After the capture they forgot the basin and the dinner which I was sent for and found it where they had left it on the knoll east of the road and north of the brook. They soon left our house, not waiting for my return. Paulding returned from the capture in advance of the rest. My mother was a very warm whig. Paulding said to her: "Aunt Fanny, take care what you say now. I believe we've got a British officer with us, and if you take on badly it may be an injury to you". My mother was careful then, and they departed with the prisoner. Part of the dinner was eaten, and the rest I brought back tied up snug in the basin with the

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napkin, as it had been prepared by my mother.

There was a cart road through the fields leading from James Requas to Isaac Read's Tavern; though I think Andre went on by Requa's to where Peter See's store is and so on² [towards] Tarrytown.

[marg: See origl. (?) page 88] I believe Paulding was the youngest of the three captors. The others were about half a mile (or thereabouts) off to the east on the hill.

Abraham Martling who kept Tammany Hall in New York, was wounded on board one of the American galleys in the battle with the Phoenix and Rose lying off Tarrytown. These galleys were down as low nearly as Dobbs Ferry when the battle began, and then they gradually approached the British. He (Abraham Martling) was with the party that burnt General