340 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



that the memory of General Washington was insulted by any respect 

 shown to the remains of Andre ; but the offer of a treat lured them to 

 the tavern, where they soon became too drunk to guard the character of 

 Washington. It was a beautiful day, and these disturbing spirits being 

 removed, the impressive ceremony proceeded in solemn silence."* 



If this anecdote is true, these ruffling swaggerers were all who did not 

 cheerfully encourage the proceedings. Ladies sent garlands to decorate 

 the bier; even the old woman who kept the turnpike-gate, threw it open 

 free to all that went and came on this errand; and six young women of 

 New York, united in a poetical address that accompanied the myrtle 

 tree they sent with the body to England. 



The bones were carefully uplifted, and placed in a costly sarcophagus 

 of mahogany, richly decorated with gold, and hung with black and crim- 

 son velvet; and so borne to New York, to be placed on board the 

 Phaeton frigate which — by a happy significancy, so far as her name was 

 concerned — had been selected for their transportation to England. Two 

 cedars that grew hard by, and a peach tree — bestowed by some kind 

 woman's hand, to mark the grave, (the roots of which had pierced the 

 coffin and twined themselves in a fibrous network about the dead man's 

 skull,) were also taken up. The latter was replanted in the King's gar- 

 dens, behind Carlton House. 



In gratitude for what was done, the Duke of York caused a gold 

 mounted snuff-box of the wood of one of the cedars that grew at the 

 grave, to be sent to Mr. Demarat; to whom the Misses Andre also pre- 

 sented a silver goblet, and to Mr. Buchanan a silver standish. 



A withered tree, a heap of stones, mark the spot where the plough 

 never enters, and whence Andre's remains were removed. The sarco- 

 phagus came safely across the' sea; and forty-one years and more, after 

 they had been laid by the Hudson, its contents were re-interred in a 

 very private manner, hard by the monument in Westminster Abbey. 

 The Dean of Westminster superintended the religious offices, while 

 Major-General Sir Herbert Taylor appeared for the Duke of York, and 

 Mr. Locker, Secretary to Greenwich Hospital, for the sisters of the de- 

 ceased. 



In the south aisle of the Abbey, wherein sleeps so much of the great- 

 ness and the glory of England, stands Andre's monument. It is of stat- 

 uary marble, carved by Van Gelder. It presents a sarcophagus on a 

 moulded panelled base and plinth; the panel of which is thus inscribed: 



a S<> repeats Mrs. Childs, (letters from New York,) who brought to the scene a solemn con- 

 viction that Andre's death was a '■ cool, deliberate murder," and whose account of what she 

 saw and heard, Is tinctured with this feeling. 



