THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO. 



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Also monuments erected in 



Memory of 

 CAPT. JOSEPH WEBSTER 

 who died 

 Jan .,16, 1838 

 JE. 81 years and 12 days. 



Here lyes buried ye body 



of MARY, wife of Nathan 



Noethettp who departed this 



life Sept. 28, 1761 in ye 25th 



year of her age. 



Here lyes buried 

 ye body MR. NATHAN 

 NORTHRUP, who departed this 

 life May 22, 1751, 

 in ye 53 year of his age. 



MRS. MART ISAACS, 



died Nov. 26, 1301, 

 in the 81st year of her 

 asre. 



JOSIAH GILBERT 

 died 

 Oct. 25, 1858, 

 in the 72 year 

 of his age 

 For forty-five years he was a 

 member and thirty-six years 

 an elder of the Presbyterian 

 Church. 



In memory 



of 



MR. NATHAN GILBERT, 



who departed this life 

 Sept. 1st, 1798, 

 aged 71 years 

 Hark from the tombs 

 a doleful sound my 

 ears attend the cry. 

 Ye living one come 

 view the ground 

 where you must 

 shortly lie. 



A short distance north of the Presbyterian church, on land now 

 owned by the heirs of Linus Hoyt, formerly stood a small wooden struc- 

 ture celebrated as the temporary prison of Major John Andre, adjutant- 

 general of the British army. From this place he penned the letter to 

 General Washington, disclosing his true character. 



" After the capture of Andre by the three farmers of Westchester, 

 (says Sparks,) the latter resolved to convey their prisoner to the nearest 

 military post, which was then stationed at North Castle, under the com- 

 mand of Lieutenant-Colonel Jameson. From North Castle the prisoner 

 was foolishly forwarded by that officer, under the charge of Lieutenant 

 Allen and a guard, to General Arnold. Upon the return of Major Tall- 

 madge (who it seems had been out on duty,) to North Castle, and having 

 inspected the papers, he earnestly requested, that the prisoner might be 

 brought back, to which Jameson at last consented. In the latter's order of 

 countermand to Lieutenant Allen, he says, "From some circumstances 

 which I have just discovered, I have reason to fear, that a party of the 

 enemy is above ; and as I would not have Anderson re-taken, or get 



