On one of his visits to Ills sweetheart, Miss Sarah Teed, whom lie afterwards married, he was set upon by a number of Tories among whom was Ensign 'feed of Delancey's Corps. John ran into a barn whence he fired upon his assailants. Angered.by the wounds he had so inflicted the attacking party desired to kill him, but young Teed dissuaded them. Paulding finally surrendered and was taken to the old Sugar House Prison in New York, from which he escaped shortly after and but a ,-r .

few days before he parti cipat- P ' v - Tt' ,

cd in the capture of Major f

Andre. Capt. Harry Chi- y-To ,

Chester says of his escape: ! ' ,-ri,

"John Paulding wras a prisoner in the Sugar House in "•

1780, and made his escape in the middle of the dav by

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jumping on a pile of boards from a window. I drew the attention of the sentinel whilelie did it." Gen. Pierre Van Cortlandt says that after he got out "he went to Nathan Lev in us who kept a livery stable in Chatterton Street,

where Lorillard's manufactory afterwards was. Paulding there got a Hessian's coat, green trimmed up with red, got a boat at the North River and escaped to the Jerseys. At Wehawken he was taken up and brought before Marquis de La Fayette as a spy, but Col. Cortlandt knew him and procured his release." He then crossed the river at or below Tarrytovn and returned home, making his first appearance at Reed's Tavern above and east of that place.