But after a rather significant request from Gen.

Washington, he repaired the wrong.
Another of her brothers who died at the age of eighty-eight, when I was thirty years old, and at whose house I was often a visitor, spent three weeks as Washington's guest at Mount Vernon.

Old Deacon Beers of New Haven, whom I knew in his old age, was one of the guard who had Andre in custody.

During his captivity, Andre made a pen-and-ink likeness of himself, which he gave to Deacon Beers.

It is now in the possession of Yale College.
I had from my mother the story of General Washington taking Chief Justice Ellsworth's twin children, one on each knee, and reciting to them the ballad of the Derbyshire Ram.