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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.

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

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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.

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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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