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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 83 (part 2)

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Smith went with Andre to within a mile or two of Pine's Bridge across the Croton River. There he stopped to retrace his steps, and to lei Andre goon alone. Before parting they breakfasted together at the house of Isaac Underbill at Yorktown. who gave them hasty pudding and milk, all his good wife had, as his house had been plundered the night before by a gang of marauding Tories. Smith went bark to Peekskill, and so on up to Arnold's headquarters, where he reported to the traitor Andre's progress. On parting at Pine's Bridge it was understood t lint Andre was To go on to While Plains; but a short dis-tance below the bridge he turned oil' to the right, towards the Hudson River, and took what was called the Tarry town road. Captain Boyd had told him and Smith the night before that the Lower, or British, party were thick on that road; but that was tbe very thing which Andre wanted. It was the con-sideration no doubt whieh induced him to change his course, thinking thereby to fall in with his own