"We the subscribers, inhabitants of the county of Westchester, do certify that during the revolutionary war we were well acquainted with Isaac Van Wart, David Williams, and John Paulding, who arrested Major André; and that at no time during the revolutionary war was any suspicion ever entertained by their neighbours or acquaintances, that they, or either of them, held any undue intercourse with the enemy. On the contrary, they were universally esteemed, and taken to be ardent and faithful in the cause of the country. We further certify that the said Paulding and Williams are not now resident among us, but that Isaac Van Wart is a respectable freeholder of the town of Mount Pleasant, that we are all well acquainted with him, and we do not hesitate to declare our belief that there is not an individual in the county of Westchester, acquainted with Isaac Van Wart, who would hesitate to describe him as a man of a sober, moral, industrious, and religious life, as a man whose integrity is as unimpeachable as his veracity is undoubted. In {522} these respects no man in the county of Westchester is his superior. Jonathan G. Tompkins, aged 81 years. Jacob Purdy, 77. John Odell, 60. John Boyce, 72. J. Requa, 59. William Paulding, 81. John Requa, 54. Archer Read, 64. George Comb, 72. Gilbert Dean, 70. Jonathan Odell, 87. Cornelius Van Tassel, 71. Thomas Boyce, 71. Tunis Lint, 71. Jacobus Dyckman, 68. William Hammond. John Romer." F. D. The following works furnish much that is interesting concerning Major André:-- _An Authentic Narrative of the Causes which led to the Death of Major André_, by Joshua Hett Smith, London, 1808. Printed for Matthews and Leigh, 18. Strand. _The Plot of Arnold and Sir Henry Clinton against the United States, and against General Washington_, Paris, 1816. Printed by Didot the Elder. Niles' _Weekly Register for 1817_, vol. ii. p. 386. Printed at Baltimore. ANON. * * * * * THE TERMINATIONS "-BY" AND "-NESS."