Tilton moved to New Orleans in 1840 and worked for a time in a hardware business before he became Van Wart's agent.

Van Wart married Rachel Storm (1760-1834), a daughter of Elmsford's most prominent family (from whom the settlement's original name, "Storm's Bridge", was derived).

Despite his bucolic lifestyle, Van Wart joined the volunteer militia when New York was a battlezone of the Revolution.

Van Wart died in Elmsford and is buried in the cemetery of the Old Dutch Reformed Church on Route 9.

Still, Van Wart and the others did see their reputations impugned by some.

A few, like the Van Warts, are renovating homes in the vicinity.

The Van Warts' baby, Paige, learned to walk here, by imitating Logan Knott, who is a month older and also took his first steps in a hotel lobby.

Paulding, Van Wart and Williams were recognized and compensated for their roles in the capture.

(Van Wart, 2004) Besides setting goals for their plans, decision makers make priorities, interpret facts and act upon objective situations according to their values.

Besides balancing conflicting values within an individual, government has to weight and balance values embodied in different departments (Van Wart, 1996, 1998).