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. It was on a Saturday in the summer season that Major Bearmore burnt our cider mill and carriage shed, compelling my mother to bring out a burning brand and fire the cider mill roof with her own hand. For this insult to my mother my father never forgave Major Bearmore, who was afterwards killed in a skirmish near Twitching's Corners. My father, Caleb Paulding, was twice taken prisoner."

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I he iVi art ling Family.

Riker, in his History of Harlem, says : "Isaac Martling married Anna, at Staten Island. Abraham Martling married Rachel de Vaux, or de Voe, who was of Hackensack 1694, but removed to Tarrytown where his mother's kinsfolk, the See family had gone. Abraham Martling was a Deacon in the old Dutch Church 1718, and an Elder, 172S-30. His name appears on the old tax roll of 1732. The old record of laying out the Post Road, 1723, shows him to have been living on the west side of the road at what is now Tarrytown. After lb - death a part of his farm was laid off in lots, and so became the nucleus of the present village. From 1742 to 1749, inclusive, Abraham Martliughs, senior, as he signed himself, was Town Clerk of the Manor. He was also a Justice of the Peace and a blacksmith.