[987] These orders are in Dawson's Papers, p. 63. Colonel Lamb had command of the immediate works at West Point at the time; but being absent, Col. Nathaniel Wade had temporary charge (Ipswich Antiq. Papers, ii. no. 19). Lamb's orderly-book, July-Dec., 1780, is owned by the Cayuga County Hist. Society.
St. Clair succeeded Arnold in command of the post, and his instructions from Washington are in the St. Clair Papers, i. 528.
[988] There are views of the De Wint house at Tappan, occupied by Washington as headquarters, in the Mag. of Amer. Hist. (v. 105; cf. p. 21), with a paper by J. A. Stevens. Cf. also Irving's Washington, 4o ed., vol. iv.; Lossing's Field-Book, ii. 196, etc., his Hudson, p. 336, and his Two Spies, 100; Ruttenber's Orange County (1875), p. 215.
The house in which André was confined, known as the "Seventy-six Stone House", is described, with a plan of its rooms and the village, and a view of the building, in the Mag. of Amer. Hist., (Dec., 1879), iii. p. 743, etc. Cf. Lossing's Two Spies, 97. The earliest description was written in 1818, and is cited in the Mag. of Amer. Hist., v. 57.
[989] It is only within a few years, and since the publication of Clinton's record of the secret service of headquarters, that it has been known that Gen. S. H. Parsons, of Connecticut, was at this time acting as a spy for the British general. André, who saw him in the court, may have known this.
[990] Proceedings of a board of General Officers, by order of General Washington, ... respecting Major John André, ... Sept. 29, 1780; to which are appended the several letters which passed to and from New York on the occasion. Published by order of Congress (Philad., 1780). There is a copy in Harvard College library, and others are noted in Menzies (no. 63, $63); Morrell (no. 20, $26); Brinley (ii. no. 3,937); John A. Rice (no. 45, $67.50). There were editions the same year at Hartford (Brinley, ii. 3939) and at Providence (no date; Cooke, iii. 91, now in Harvard College library). Cf. also N. Y. Gazette, Nov. 6, 1780, and Political Mag., i. 749. It was reprinted in London, 1799, in conjunction with Dunlap's Tragedy of André. Later reprints are:—
Proceedings, etc., A Reprint with additional matters (Philad., 1865; 50 copies in quarto, 100 in octavo). Andreana: containing the trial, execution, and various matters connected with the history of Maj. John André (Philad., 1865), with an introduction by Horace W. Smith (Brinley, ii. 3943; Cooke, iii. 94). Minutes of a Court of Inquiry upon the case of Maj. John André, with accompanying documents and an Appendix (Albany, 1865; privately printed, 100 copies, for John F. McCoy; Brinley, ii. 3941; Cooke, iii. 92).
Sargent, in printing it in his André, collated the original MS., which is preserved at Washington. It is also to be found in Boynton's West Point, 127; in Dawson's Papers (Gazette series). The Cooke Catalogue (iii. 92) gives an edition, New York, 1867.
The original edition (1780) contains: Washington's letter, Sept. 26th, to the president of Congress; André's letter to Washington, Sept. 24th; Arnold's letter to Washington, Sept. 25th; B. Robinson's to Washington, Sept. 25th; Clinton to Washington, Sept. 26th; Arnold to Clinton, Sept. 26th; and the award of the court. The appendix has André's letter to Clinton, Sept. 29th; Washington to Clinton, Sept. 30th; Arnold's commission left at West Point; Arnold to Washington, Oct. 1st; André to Washington, Oct. 1st.
André's statement is not given in full, but only in substance, in this volume, but it is included as written by him in Sargent, p. 349; Boynton's West Point; Dawson's Papers. (Cf. Amer. Bibliopolist, 1870, p. 15.)