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,

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M. I)., William Paulding, Captain U. S. A., also daughters Beatrix Alice, and Mary Pearson who married Geo. W. Murdock, M. IJ., aw, resides at Cold Spring, N. V. James Kirke Paulding had so:. Wm. Irving, James, Nathaniel, Governeur, and daughter Mary Kemble. .James Kirke Paulding wrote the inscription which appears or. the monument to the Captors of Andre at Tarry town. He died 186 9.

Joseph Paulding, Sr., lived at present East View, about two miles east of Tarrvtown; had sous Joseph, Jr., John, and Peter, beside- William. He died Fell. 24, 1786, and was buried in the old Dutch Churchyard.

John Paulding the son of Joseph, born Jan'y 28, 1755, says in his application for a pension date of Sept. 3, 1832, that he was then 77 years old, and resided in the town of ML Pleasant. Enlisted as a private in May, 1779, in Capt. Glode Requa's Company. Was stationed at Bedford, Yorktown, and Philipsburgh. Was unmarried; died in his 92d year.