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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 82

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the vessel should not move from where she lay. As the tide was favorable, Amlre determined to push on from Dobbs Ferry to the ship, and that evening at seven o'clock he hoarded the" Vulture " just aboye Teller's Point. On Thursday morning, September :21st, Andre notified Arnold that he was then on hoard of the "Vulture." Thai evening at Beven o'clock two boat-men started by Arnold's direction to bring Andre hack with them in disguise to the shore. They landed him at the Long Clove, under the mountain south of llaverstraw, about six miles below Stony Point. Here Joshua Hett Smith brought Andre and Arnold together among the bushes, in the thick darkness, to plot against the nation's life. They were so long at it that, by Arnold's advice, Andre was taken bo Smith's house, three or lour miles from the Clove, where he arrived just as the day dawned on Friday, September 22d. lie hail scarcely arrived when a cannonade was heard down the river, which proved to be directed from the Americans on the eastern shore against the