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of Westchester, hath rendered his country in apprehending and securing 

 the British deputy adjutant general, Major John Andre who was return- 

 ing to New York, after having, in the character of a spy, concerted 

 measures with the infamous Benedict Arnold, then commanding at the 

 posts in the Highlands, for betraying the said posts into the hands of the 

 enemy, and for his virtue in refusing a large sum of money offered by 

 the said Major Andre as a bribe to permit him to escape, &c, and con- 

 sisted of all that certain tract or parcel of land situate in the town of 

 Eastchester, late in the possession of Edmund Ward, amounting to 252^ 

 acres. a 



David Williams subsequently removed from South Salem, or Cort- 

 landt's manor, to Livingstonville, in Schoharie county, New York, where 

 he bought a farm of General Daniel Shays, and resided upon it until 

 his death, August 2d, 183 1. He left a widow, 4 sons and 3 daughters. 

 He was the object of much regard, from the interesting historical event 

 with which his name is associated; and the year before his death he be- 

 came the guest of the city of New York. The. bones of Williams have 

 been recently removed from Livingstonville, Schoharie county, to Ren- 

 selaerville, Albany County, where it is proposed to erect a monument 

 to his memory. This is only doing justice to the good man's character; 

 for his two companions, Paulding and Van Wart, have long ago been 

 honored by a grateful public in the erection of monuments to their mem- 

 ories. 



Edmund Ward, the former owner of the Somerville estate, was the 

 only brother of the Hon. Stephen Ward. During the Revolution, Ed- 

 mund appears to have sided with the loyalists, for which he lost his 

 property under the confiscation act of 1782. His second son, John 

 Ward, was an officer in the Loyal American regiment, " and entered 

 (remarks Sabine) the military service of the Crown as early as 1776. 

 During the war he was frequently in battle. The Loyal Americans 

 went to New Brunswick, in 1783; and when in the course of that year 

 the corps was disbanded, he settled at St. John as a merchant. He 

 filled various public stations, and for many years enjoyed the appellation 

 of " the father of the city." At the time of his decease, he was not only 

 the senior magistrate of the city and county of St. John, but the oldest 

 merchant and half-pay officer in New Brunswick. Mr. Ward was a 

 gentleman of noble and venerable appearance. He died in 1846, in 

 the ninety-third year of his age. His remains were taken to Trinity 

 church, "where the impressive funeral service of the Church of Eng- 

 land was read, and were subsequently interred in the new burial ground, 



a Abstract of Sales of Confiscated Estates, 138. 



