DAVID WILLIAMS REVOLUTIONARY WAR MEMORIAL

HERE RESTS THE REMAINS OF DAVID WILLIAMS ONE OF THE CAPTORS OF MAJOR ANDRE. HE WITH HIS COMPATRIOTS, JOHN PAULDING AND IASSIC VAN WART ON THE 23D OF SEPTEMBER 1780, ARRESTED MAJOR JOHN ANDRE AND FOUND ON HIS PERSON TREASONABLE PAPERS IN THE HAND WRITING OF GEN. BENEDICT ARNOLD WHO SOUGHT BY TREACHERY TO SURRENDER THE MILITARY POST OF WEST POINT INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY. IN RESISTING THE GREAT BRIBES OF THEIR PRISONER FOR HIS LIBERTY THEY SHOWED THEIR INCORRUPTIBLE PATRIOTISM; THE AMERICAN ARMY WAS SAVED, AND OUR BELOVED COUNTRY BECAME FREE.