As will be seen by William Paulding's family record he must have come to this place with his family between 1766 and 176S, as the birth of a daughter the latter year makes the first mention of Philipsburgh. Gen. Paulding at first removed his family to Bedford probably iu 17 76, immediately after the battle of White Plains, and soon after removed to Great Partners, present Putnam County, where two of his children were born.

Commissary William Paulding- was from the first one of the most influential men who supported the patriot cause on the Manor. He was a member of the Provincial Congress, and on Aug. to, 1776, was appointed "Commissary of the Militia raised or to be raised in this State northward of King's Bridge," and so continued to render efficient service during the entire period of the Revolution, as the result of which, owing to the depreciation of the currency and the inability of the Government to make his promises to pay for supplies good, he was impoverished. Having been arrested for debts incurred in the public service he was confined for many months in the old log jail at White Plains. One da)- it burned down, and walking home to Tarry town he was not afterward disturbed. A grand old patriot who deserved a better fate.

In T784 William Paulding was elected Supervisor of the then Manor, being the first one chosen so to serve after the Revolution. Evidently he was held in high and deserved esteem by his fellow townsmen. He continued to reside here until his death, and his son-in-law, Adjutant and Judge Isaac Requa, in a house erected adjoining. They were quite pretentious residences in their day. His son, William Paulding, Jr., who became Mayor of the city of New York, was born