He was once during the war upon Kaak-out, or David's Hill, with a party of militia, when the Refugee's horse appeared on some rising ground half a mile or a mile to the south. Paulding proposed to attack them there, but the militia refused, considering it too hazardous. He then went alone, and getting under cover advanced and fired at them several times. Annoyed they at length rushed upon him, and lie escaped, but with difficulty, by getting into the bushes and swamp. "

After the Revolution, John Paulding settled upon the farm given him by the .State which had been the property of a Tory, Dr. Huggeford, on the road from Peekskill to Crompoud. Afterwards sold the place and lived near Rake Mohegan, where he died in 1S18, and a monument was erected to his memory by the city of New York in the cemetery at Cortlandville. He was three times married and had nineteen children, one of whom was surviving as late as 1S94. Plis most distinguished descendant was his son, the late Admiral Hiram Paulding", of the U. S. Navy, who died in 187S. John Paulding was considered the leader among the captors of Andre, and the bronze statue which surmounts the monument erected in their memory is moulded after his

stalwart form.

Mrs. Margaret Fisher, a daughter of Caleb Paulding, says in an interview of the date, of 1S45 : "My father, Caleb, and my uncle, Major Jonathan H. Paulding, were both strong and resolute, not to say violent Whigs. My father and uncle, in consecpience of their decided principles were repeatedly plundered by Refugees and Cow Boys. Our house was robbed so often that to the last moment of her life my mother was terrified when she heard the barking of a watch dog at night.