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4 unusual facts about Isaac Van Wart


Isaac Van Wart

Van Wart died in Elmsford and is buried in the cemetery of the Old Dutch Reformed Church on Route 9.

Van Wart's body was buried in the cemetery of the Elmsford Reformed Church in Elmsford, New York.

Among other honors, each of the men had his name given to a county in the new state of Ohio (1803): Van Wert County, bearing a common alternate spelling of the name, is in the northwest corner of the state.

André at his trial had insisted the men were mere brigands; sympathy for him remained in some more aristocratic American quarters (and grew to legend in England, where he was buried in Westminster Abbey).



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