History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 187 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] In the evening he was taken To Fort Putnam, West Point, where he was confined until the morning of the 2Sth, when he was taken, still in charge of Major Tallmadge, in a barge down the river to Stony Point, and from thence on horseback to Tappan, Rockland County, X. V., where the headquarters of the American army were located. There, on September 29, he was tried before a board of fourteen general officers: Major-Generals Stirling, Lafayette, Robert Howe, Steuben, and Saint Clair, and Brigadier-Generals Parsons, James Clinton, Knox, (Hover, Patterson, Hand, Huntington, and Stark, Major-General Greene presiding, and upon his own free and voluntary confession was unanimously found guilty of being a spy, and that in their opinion he ought to suffer death. On October 1 the commander-in-chief approved the findings of the court and named a time for the execution.