1 88 WINTER SKETCHES. 



Fanny went to take her ease in a stable that 

 had been occupied by more generations of 

 horses, than the house had held of men, now 

 dead and gone, the first of which may have 

 been a square-built galliot-shaped animal, im- 

 ported from Holland. Then, the dominie 

 having shown the yellow church records and 

 other curiosities of his library, took me upon a 

 walk, discoursing as we went on incidents of 

 history, and particularly of those concerning 

 the last days of Major Andre. 



The church in which his trial was held, was 

 built in 1694, rebuilt in 1788, and replaced by 

 the present structure in 1835 at a gain in size, 

 but as would appear from the drawings, at a 

 loss in architectural taste. The same remark 

 may apply to the quaint stone-built Dutch 

 house occupied by Washington as his head- 

 quarters, but now, although its main part is 

 left standing, disfigured by the addition of a 

 fiat-topped wooden wing after the modern 

 style of Jersey renaissance. The present occu- 

 pant unfortunately had gone away with the 

 keys in his pocket, so that we could only sur- 

 vey the exterior; but Mr. Williamson pointed 

 out the corner room where, when the proces- 

 sion passed on the way to the gallows, Wash- 



