[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] ()u the 17th Arnold and his aide-de-camp, Colonel Richard Varick, came to Peekskill, went to Stony Point, there met Washington, Mar-quis de Lafayette, and Alexander Hamilton, conducted them in Ar-nold's barge across the river to Verplanck's Point, and accompanied them on horseback as far as Peekskill, where they passed the night at the Birdsall house, and the next morning parted never to meet again. Washington and his suite proceeded up the Crompond Road, en route to Hartford by way of Crompond, Salem, Ridgebury, and Dan-bury. Arnold and his aide returned to his headquarters at the Robin son house. On the 20th Andre left New York, went by land to Dobbs Ferry, and in the evening at seven o'clock' went on board the British ship of war " Vulture," which had lain some days a little above Teller's (Croton) Point in Haverstraw Ray. Early on the1 morning of September 20, two residents of Cortland-town, Moses Sherwood and John Peterson (a colored man, and a sol-dier of Van Cortlandt's regiment of Westchester militia), who were engaged in making cider at Barrett's farm (now of the John W. Frost estate!, Croton, saw a barge tilled with men from the "Vulture" approaching the shore. They seized their gnus, which they had taken with them to their work, ran to the river, concealed themselves be-hind some rocks, and as the barge approached Peterson tired, and great confusion ensued.