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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 88 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Wil-liams and Van Wart, by Congress, " were presented to them by General Washington, when the army was encamped at Verplanck's Point, and that they on the occasion dined at his table." In this connection it is interesting to read the per-sonal reminiscence of Grant Thorburn, of New York, relating to his conversation with Isaac Van Wart at a funeral at Tarrytown, in 1800, and to his curious "desire to handle the skull" of Andre in 1821, after it had been exhumed, and was on board the British ship-of-war in the North River, awaiting the wind to sail for England. extract of a letter from grant thorburn to the editor of the