[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Bolton o-ives a pathetic account of the unavailing appeal made by his wife to Putnam for mercy.1 He was hanged on a little hill in the northern part of Cortlandtown, a great assemblage of country people being gathered to witness the event. The place still bears the name of Gallows Hill.. Another spy was executed by Putnam during his Peekskill admin-istration—one Daniel Strang, who, when arrested, had on his person a paper drawn by Colonel Rogers, of the Queen's Rangers, and dated " Valentine's Hill, December 30, 177(5," which authorized the bearer to bring recruits for the British service. Strang also was tried by court-martial, condemned, and hanged, the sentence receiving Wash-ington's approval. He suffered on a spot now comprised within the grounds of the Peekskill Academy. His gallows was an oak tree. The locality has ever since been called Oak Hill, in memory of the occurrence. The document found on Strang is of much interest, as showing the inducements given to Tory recruiting officers and volunteers, 1 Bolton's Hist, of Westchester County, rev. ed., i., 153. EVENTS OF 1777 AND 1778 433 so many of whom were contributed by Westchester County to the