[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Just after midnight of September 20, 1780, Andre left the " Vulture " in a boat sent for him by Arnold to ar-range for the surrender of West Point. Shortly after dawn they were at the house of Joshua Hett Smith, at Haverstraw, haggling over the price to be paid for the treason. A boat put out from the " Vulture," filled with armed men, which headed towards 'feller's Point. It was seen by George Sherwood and John or "Jack " Peterson, the latter a colored man, who armed themselves and hurried to the shore, resolved that a landing should not be effected without opposi-tion. From behind the stones Peterson fired at the approaching crew, and an oar fell from the hands of one of the men, and general confusion was observed amongst them-A second shot from Sherwood con-vinced them that the shores of the Point were too in-hospitable for them, and they returned to the vessel under protection of a heavy fire directed from it to-wards the point where the two men lay concealed. The sound of this cannonading had the effect of drawing the attention of the inhabitants to the vessel. Colonel Livingston, the commander of Fort Lafay-ette, at Verplanck's Point, having received intelli-gence of its presence, despatched a party of men with a four-pound cannon (having been refused a larger one by Arnold), who opened from the point so well-directed a fire that the " Vulture" was compelled to drop farther down the river.