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André's captors had also removed from Tarrytown. At Cross River I became well acquainted with Williams. Andrew Mead was a very brave man but selfish and avaricious, seldom engaging in enterprises except such as promised plunder.

November 16th Elijah Guion of White Plains: "Anidora Haines who lived at Rye Neck was a descendant of Godfrey Haines. She was a woman of strong prejudices, tall and masculine, was never married, was a bigoted Episcopalian, and was the original from which Cooper drew Katy Haines of the Spy. She lived here during the Revolutionary war, was very

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conversant with its incidents, and Cooper while writing that work drew much from her. When asked if she was Katy Haines, she laughed but made no answer. She has a son living at Rye. The Bloomer house near which Mary Griffen was killed, and into which she was then taken, was a long, low, old fashioned house situated two or three hundred yards west of the Marseli's house, near the road from White Plains to Rye Neck, and not far from the lane leading to Deak's mills. Boys superstitiously believed that after every rain they could see where Mary's blood had been shed.