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Revd Alexander Van Wart: "My strong impression and believe is that I always heard my father say that at the time Major André was taken, he and his two comrades were lying concealed on the west side of the Post road and on the south side of the brook. I think I cannot be
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mistaken in this. Messrs. Nathaniel Baylies, Pierre Wildey (Supr.) and Martin Smith, all of Tarrytown, well know, &c. When the American army lay at White Plains, General Schuyler's Headquarters were at my grandfather's (Nicholas Storms) now owned by Jona- -than Baylies, and situated in the fields about one mile from my house. A lane running in a westerly direction leads to it from the Saw Mill river road. An old black woman, owned by Mr Storms, used to tell me of the style in which General Schuyler dressed and powedered his hair, &c. Storm's Wood, adjoining the road where Hopkins was ambushed in July 30th 1774, was part of Mr. Storms' farm.
When the American army lay at White Plains, General Schuyler's Headquarters were at my grandfather's (Nicholas Storms) now owned by Jona- -than Baylies, and situated in the fields about one mile from my house. A lane running in a westerly direction leads to it from the Saw Mill river road. An old black woman, owned by Mr Storms, used to tell me of the style in which General Schuyler dressed and powedered his hair, &c. Storm's Wood, adjoining the road where Hopkins was ambushed in July 30th 1774, was part of Mr. Storms' farm.