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Van Wert Ohio Honors Its Namesake Heroes
The Van Wert Ohio story centers on civic pride built around Isaac Van Wert John Paulding and David Williams, the New York militiamen who captured Major Andre. It traces the local drive to memorialize them with a unique civic service medal and a sesquicentennial reenactment, funded by local businessman C A Purmort. The piece recounts Washington’s praise and Congress rewards, and details each man’s later life and memorials in New York and Ohio.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Ohio
van Wert
Paulding
Willams
Isaacc van Wert
John Paulding
David Williams
New York
Maj
John Andre
Benedict Arnold
West Point
C. A. L. Purmort
America
Arnold
Andre
van Wert County
Parmort
Continental Congress
Congress
Williams
New York Historical Society
New York City
G. M. Saltzgaber
Isaac van Wert
Purmort
John Henry Isaac Browere
Tarrytown
N. Y
Andre Capture
Library of Congress
Washington
George Washington
David Wiliams
United States
Isaae van Wert
Ohio City
van Wart
Abraham van Wart
Henry
Washington Irving
Greenburgh
Westchester County
Nepera
Montgomery
State Militia
Hudson River
Catskill Mountains
Daniel Shays
Hudson
Livingstonville
Schoharie
Staatsburg
St. Peter's Churchyard
Peekskill
City of
William Paulding