=Lyndehurst=, Helen M. Gould’s residence.  A short distance north of “Sunnyside” is the home of Helen M. Gould, whose modest and liberal use of wealth in noble charities has endeared her to every American heart.  The place was first known as the Paulding Manor House, where William Paulding, early mayor of New York, and nephew of one of the captors of Andre had his country home.  It is a beautiful specimen of old time English architecture, with a suggestion, as some writers have noted, of Newstead Abbey.  This part of the Hudson is particularly rich in beautiful residences, rising tier upon tier from the river to the horizon.  Albert Bierstadt, the artist, had here a beautiful home, unfortunately burned many years ago.

=The Old Post Road= from New York to Albany is in many particulars the richest and greatest highway of our country.

=Tappan.=—­Almost opposite Irvington about two miles southwest of Piermont, is old Tappantown, where Major Andre was executed October 2, 1780.  The removal of his body from Tappan to Westminster was by a special British ship, and a singular incident was connected with it.  The roots of a cypress tree were found entwined about his skull and a scion from the tree was carried to England and planted in the garden adjoining Windsor Palace.  It is a still more curious fact that the tree beneath which Andre was captured was struck by lightning on the day of Benedict Arnold’s death in London.  Further reference will be made to Andre in our description of Tarrytown, and also of Haverstraw, where Arnold and Andre met at the house of Joshua Hett Smith.

=Tarrytown=, 26 miles from New York.  It was here on the Old Post Road, now called Broadway, a little north of the village, that Andre was captured and Arnold’s treachery exposed.  A monument erected on the spot by the people of Westchester County, October 7, 1853, bears the inscription: 

ON THIS SPOT, THE 23D DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1780, THE SPY,
                   MAJOR JOHN ANDRE,
  Adjutant-General of the British Army, was captured by
   JOHN PAULDING, DAVID WILLIAMS, AND ISAAC VAN WART. 
               ALL NATIVES OF THIS COUNTY. 
               History has told the rest.

The following quaint ballad-verses on the young hero give a realistic touch to one of the most providential occurrences in our history: 

He with a scouting party
Went down to Tarrytown,
Where he met a British officer,
A man of high renown,
Who says unto these gentlemen,
“You’re of the British cheer,
I trust that you can tell me
If there’s any danger near?”

  Then up stept this young hero,
    John Paulding was his name,
  “Sir, tell us where you’re going
    And also whence you came?”
  “I bear the British flag, sir;
    I’ve a pass to go this way,
  I’m on an expedition,
    And have no time to stay.”

Young Paulding, however, thought that he had plenty of time to linger until he examined his boots, wherein he found the papers, and, when offered ten guineas by Andre, if he would allow him to pursue his journey, replied:  “If it were ten thousand guineas you could not stir one step.”