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 fac-simile of the face of the medal, voted by the Congress of the United States to each of the captors of Andre, on the third day of November, seventeen hundred and eighty ; the other of its reverse, both carved in basrelief.
a Board of common council. ■-
COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 87
Oil 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, . '