The base of the monument covers a square of seven feet, surrounded by an iron railing, four feet in height, and two feet seven inches distant, inserted in a marble coping fourteen inches broad, comprehending a square of twelve feet two inches.

One side of the monument exhibits a facsimile of the face of the medal, voted by the Congress of the United States to each of the captors

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

of Andre, on the third day of November, seventeen hundred and eighty; the other of its reverse, both carved in bas relief.

On the front of the pedestal is the following inscription :

Here repose the mortal remains of JOHN PAULDING, who died on the 18th day of February, 1818, in the 60th year of his age.

On the morning of the 23d of September, 1780, Accompanied by two young Farmers of the Co. of Westchester, (Whose names will one day be recorded

On their own deserved monuments,) He intercepted the British spy, Andre : Poor Himself He disdained to acquire wealth by the sacrifice of

HIS COUNTRY.

Rejecting the temptation of great rewards He conveyed his prisoner to the American camp ; And

By this act of noble self-denial. The treason of Arnold was detected, The designs of the enemy baffled ; West Point and the American Armj* saved; And these United States, Now by the grace of God. Free and Independent, Rescued from most imminent peril.

The fourth side of the pedestal bears the following inscription :