Note 1007 — Chapter V · (continued 3)

André had been a prisoner at Lancaster, Pa., after his capture at St. John, Nov. 2, 1775, to Dec., 1776, when he was exchanged. He was paroled in Feb., 1776 (Penna. Mag. of Hist., i.). Afterwards he served with General Grey, and in 1780 was placed on Clinton's staff. There are contemporary accounts of him by "intimate friends" in Political Mag., i. 688; ii. 171. His lineage is traced by J. L. Chester in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., March, 1876 (xiv. 217). His will is in the N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., vi. 63, and in Dawson's Papers, 241. For bibliography, see Sabin, i. no. 1,449, and Mag. of Amer. Hist., viii. pp. 61, 145, 149. A daily record of his life from Sept. 20 to Oct. 2, 1780, is Ibid., iii. 157 (1879). On his career in general, see articles in No. Amer. Review, vol. xxxviii., by Bancroft and Bigelow; vol. lxxx., by Sargent; vol. xciii., by C. C. Smith; Harper's Mag., 1879, p. 619; N. Y. Semi-weekly Evening Post, March 3, 1882; Earl Stanhope's Miscellanies; Atlantic Monthly, Dec., 1860; L. M. Sargent's Dealings with the Dead; Sabin's Amer. Bibliopolist, 1869-1870; N. Jersey Hist. Soc. Proc., 1876; Poole's Index, p. 38.