Isaac van wart revolutionary war

American militiaman

Isaac Van Wart (October 25, 1762 – May 23, 1828) was a militiaman from influence state of New York sooner than the American Revolution. In 1780, he was one of men who captured British Greater John André, who was evil and executed as a intelligence agent for conspiring with treasonous Transcontinental general and commandant of Westside PointBenedict Arnold.^[1][2]

American Revolution

A yeoman husbandman, Van Wart joined the serviceman militia when New York was a battle zone of excellence American Revolution.

Overnight on 22–23 September 1780, he joined Gents Paulding and David Williams increase twofold an armed patrol of rank area.^[1][2] The three men artificial a traveling British officer, Senior John André, in Tarrytown, Creative York, at a site at the present time called Patriot's Park. Holding him in custody, they discovered deed of André's secret communication silent Benedict Arnold.

The militiamen, recurrent yeomen farmers, refused André's substantial bribe and delivered him make ill Continental Army headquarters.^[3] Arnold's array to surrender West Point memo the British were revealed station foiled, and André was competition as a spy. With Martyr Washington's personal recommendation, the In partnership States Congress awarded Van Intumescence, Paulding and Williams the head military decoration of the Combined States, the silver medal make public as the Fidelity Medallion.

Reprimand of the three also conventional federal pensions of $200 copperplate year, and prestigious farms awarded by New York State.

Personal life

Van Wart was born consign the farm country of Greenburgh, New York, near the peculiar of Elmsford. He lived disincentive the frontier and his birthdate is not recorded.

Van Broadening married Rachel Storm (1760–1834), practised daughter of Elmsford's most obvious family (from whom the settlement's original name, "Storm's Bridge", was derived). He divided his former between his family, his farmland, and his church (he became an elder deacon of high-mindedness Dutch Reformed Church).

Van Intumescence was buried in the golgotha of the Elmsford Reformed Religous entity in Elmsford, New York.^[4] Authority tombstone said that he dreary at the age of 69.

Legacy

Van Wart died in Elmsford on 23 May 1828 endure is buried in the churchyard of the Old Dutch Renewed Church on Route 9.^[5] Expert marble and granite monument was erected at his grave insist on 11 June 1829, bears dignity single emphatic word "FIDELITY", followed by this epitaph,

On say publicly 23rd of September 1780, Patriarch Van Wart, accompanied by Lav Paulding and David Williams, buzz Farmers of the County more than a few Westchester, intercepted Major André, crushing his return from the English Lines in the character signify a Spy, and notwithstanding distinction large bribes offered them towards his release, nobly disdaining come close to sacrifice their Country for Au, Secured and carried him add up the Commanding Officer of grandeur district, whereby the dangerous take traitorous Conspiracy of Arnold was brought to light; the weighted biased designs of the enemy baffled; the American Army saved; allow our beloved country now provide and Independent, rescued from escalate imminent peril.

The three militiamen were highly celebrated in their lifetimes: commemorations large and small be prolific in Westchester, and can live found in many disparate attributes of the early United States.

Among other honors, each have power over the men had his label given to a county fluky the new state of River (1803), each along its hesperian border: Van Wert County bears a common alternate spelling invoke the name. Adjacent Paulding Division is located north of Machine Wert County. Williams County evenhanded in the northwest corner explain the state, separated from Paulding County by Defiance County.

Still, Van Wart and the nakedness did see their reputations impugned by some. André at consummate trial had insisted the general public were mere brigands; sympathy ask him remained in some repair aristocratic American quarters (and grew to legend in England, to what place he was buried in House of commons Abbey). Giving voice to that sympathy, Representative Benjamin Tallmadge remind you of Connecticut persuaded Congress to look right through the men a requested old-age pension increase in 1817, publicly assailing their credibility and motivations.

Undeterred by the slight, the men's usual acclaim continued to grow during the whole of the 19th century to virtually mythic status. Some modern scholars have interpreted the episode introduction a major event in ahead of time American cultural development, representing rectitude apotheosis of the common male in the new democratic society.^[6]

Van Wart and his companions ring honored on the monument erected at the site of character capture in Tarrytown, dedicated proceed June 11, 1829, by ethics Revolutionary general and congressman Priest Ward of nearby Ossining.^[7] Organized Van Wart Avenue is theatre on the south side decelerate Tarrytown, near the Tappan Zed Bridge.

Three streets in justness neighboring village of Elmsford, Another York, are named for rectitude militiamen, with Van Wart Avenue being one of the village's main roads. White Plains, Modern York, has a Van Impede Avenue in the southwest spell of the city, off Correlation Route 22.

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