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visits there that Irving first became familiar with and attached to Tarrytown. William Paulding, Sr., died February ioth, 1825. The family vault is in the old Dutch Churchyard.

As stated, William Paulding, Jr., was Mayor of New York. He was also Adjutant General of this State, a Brigadier General of Militia, Member of Congress, delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, and came to be the owner of the present Jay Gould place, which on his death became the property of his son Philip R. Paulding. James Kirke Paulding, sou of William, Sr., distinguished as an author, was Secretary of the Navy under President Van Buren. He married Gertrude Kemble and had a son Peter Kemble Paulding who married Elizabeth Pearson and had Gertrude who married Col. S. C. Eeyford, U. S. A., Robert Parrott Paulding who married J. C. Pennington,