ten o'clock
They reached Tarrytown early on the day André did . Four of them agreed to watch the road from a hill above , while Paulding , Van Wart , and David Williams were to conceal themselves in the bushes beside the stream and near the post road . `` Eleven days after that , at the trial of Smith , Paulding and Williams told the story of their capture of André . Paulding testified that he , Isaac Van Wart , and David Williams were lying by the side of the road about half a mile above Tarrytown and fifteen miles above Kingsbridge , between nine and ten o'clock on Saturday morning , the 23d of September . That they had lain there about an hour and a half , as nearly as he could recollect , and had seen several persons with whom they were acquainted and whom they let pass . Presently one of the young men with him said , ` There comes a gentlemanlike-looking man who appears to be well dressed and has boots on . You 'd better step out and stop him , if you do n't know him . '