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

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there, and one of his daughters was there married to William, a brother of Washington Irving. The Paulding homestead was on the riverside, near the Martling-Requa dock. The houses were removed only a few years since, the picture of that which here appears, having been taken but a short time previous. Washington Irving when a young man was intimate with the familv, and it was in that house that some of the famous Salmagundi papers were written. It was from his frequent

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