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tish sloop-of-war Vulture, and meets General Arnold on the night of......Sept. 21, 1780 Attempting to return to New York, he is captured by John Paulding, David Williams, and Isaac Van Wart, near Tarrytown......Sept. 23, 1780 Arnold, hearing of the capture of Andre, escapes to the Vulture......Sept. 24, 1780 [Arnold received from the British government £ 10,000 and commission of brigadier-general.] A military board, Gen. Nathanael Greene president, convict Andre as a spy......Sept. 29, 1780 General Washington approves the finding of the board......Sept. 30, 1780 Major Andre hanged at Tappan at twelve o'clock, noon, and buried there......Oct. 2, 1780 Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, coming from England, settles with a body of that sect near Albany, 1774, and establishes a community of them at New Lebanon......1780 William Alexander (Lord Stirling), major-general in the American army, dies at Albany, aged fifty-seven......Jan. 15, 1783 Order of the Cincinnati