Note 979 — Chapter V · (continued 2)

These papers, having been used in André's trial, were passed over to Governor Clinton to be used in the civil trial of Smith, and from Clinton's descendant Sparks procured them when he was writing his Life and Treason of Arnold. Lossing also got them from the same source, and collated them with Sparks's copies before he printed them in his Field-Book, ii. 153. They were subsequently bought by the State of New York, and are now in the State library at Albany. They have since been printed by McCoy in his edition of the Proceedings of André's examination; by Boynton in his West Point, ch. 7; by Dawson in his Papers ("Gazette series"), 51; in the Appendix of his edition of Smith's trial, and in Revolutionary Relics or Clinton Correspondence, comprising the celebrated papers found in André's boots, etc., published originally in the N. Y. Herald, N. Y., 1842 (Menzies, no. 1,687); and in Cent. Celeb. of the State of N. Y. (1879).