"Sworn this 28th day of January, 1817,
before Jacob Radcliff.
"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."