He was a very brave officer and commanded
a Connecticut regiment at the storming of Stony Point. He
is honorably mentioned in Gen. Wayne's report of the action.
Washington alludes to him in one of his letters to Lafayette,
as one of his friends whom Lafayette will be glad to see if
he will visit this country once more. There is, in the State
Department, an amusing correspondence between Col. Sherman
and Gen. Wayne, in which he complains that Mad Anthony does
great injustice in his report to the soldiers from other States
than Pennsylvania. Mad Anthony was mad at the letter. 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.
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