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Van Wart used to come to my mill where he told me all.
November 29th. David Hammond aged 80. "Major Andre called at my father's house on the 23d of September 1780, asked for a drink of water. My sister brought water from the spring, and he asked me to hold his horse whilst he drank, which I did. He then asked how far it was to White Plains. My mother told him eight miles. "My God!" said he, holding up his hands "am I so far off yet." Instead of turning off ^going to White Plains however, at Russell's corner, he turned off on the Tarrytown road. Isaac Van Wart told me the route Andre pursued after leaving Pines- -bridge, which was as follows (and which Andre told him, as we had to answer on being question- -ed): He went from Pinesbridge on the road to White Plains about six miles as far as Russell's corner when he took the Tarrytown road on which he went about two miles and a half to where
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James Requa lived. Here he took a path which led through the fields about three quarters of a mile and which came out into the White Plains and Tarrytown road at Isaac Reads Tavern which was about one mile and a half from where Andre was taken, and about two miles to Tarry- -town [X]. I cannot be mistaken in this. Van Wart said Andre gave this account to satisfy their enquiries which were numerous before and after they arrived at Colonel Jamieson's quarters. Paulding, at the time of the capture, was not more than 17 or 18, being younger than Van Wart or Williams. Van Wart said he would have let him go because he knew he would be executed.