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Historical Sites related to the Life and Career of Benedict Arnold


  1. Andre's Route and Capture

Andre Waters His Horse

80 Hardscrabble Road, Pleasantville, NY

On Sept. 23, 1780, as Major Andre continued his journey toward his eventual capture, he stopped at this roadside spring on Hardscrabble Road. He spoke briefly with unsuspecting Sgt. Sylvanus Brundage, the resident of the house diagonally across the street (100 Hardscrabble Rd.) The spring and house are not far from the intersection with Pleasantville Rd.
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  • Plaque set into a boulder at the spring by the DAR. The spring is just to the left as you face 80 Hardscrabble Road.
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  • View of the plaque and spring.
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  • The Sylvanus Brundage House, 100 Hardscrabble Road. As Andre stopped to water his horse at the spring diagonally across the street, he chatted with Brundage. (Note that 80 and 100, both even numbers, are on opposite sides of the street.)
  • Other than the added wings, the house looks much the same as it did in Bennett's 1897 photograph, as seen in Abbat's book "Crisis of the Revolution," and reproduced in Decker's "Ten Days of Infamy." The stones in the front wall would confirm the site even if the house was gone or radically altered.
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