After 200 years as a family heirloom, a military decoration awarded to Isaac Van Wart, who helped capture a British spy and save West Point, has been given to New York State.
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On the evening of Nov. 24, 1854, a road-weary Peter Horr of Stone Mills paused in his labors to write to his parents in Watertown, informing them that he had