[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. were staying, thus another link was forged in the chain of circumstances which led Andre to his doom, as, if this separation had not taken place, the know-ledge of the country possessed by Smith, and the pass from Arnold would have almost certainly brought them safe into the British camp. Andre, however, trusting to his own judgment, took the road through Sing Sing to the river, and the famous episode of his capture occurred, in consequence, about eleven o'clock the same morning at Tarrytown, as elsewhere stated in the history of Greenburgh. "Oct. 21st, 1780. — Intelligence was received that the enemy was meditating an excursion as far as Crompond and its vicinity to sweep off the cattle. [Heath] immediately ordered Col. Hazen with a de-tachment of oOO men to move to Pine's Bridge, and Lieut. -Col. Jameson with the 2nd Light Dragoons to move from Bedford towards Col. Hazen. The detach-