Isaac Van Wart, an elder of the Greenburgh Church, died on May 25, 1828, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. On September 23, 1780, Van Wart, accompanied by John Paulding and David Williams, all farmers of Westchester County, intercepted Major André as he returned from the American lines in the character of a spy. Despite large bribes offered for André’s release, they refused to sacrifice their country for gold and secured and carried him to the commanding officer of the district. By this act, Arnold’s dangerous and traitorous conspiracy was brought to light, the enemy’s insidious designs were baffled, the American army was saved, and the country, now free and independent, was rescued from imminent peril. Van Wart was judged in the Senate Chamber by the Conscript Fathers of America to be a faithful patriot in whom love of country was invincible, and the citizens of Westchester County erected his tomb as testimony to their high regard for his virtuous and patriotic conduct and as a memorial sacred to public gratitude.

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