Waterbury and other well-known politicians were members. He adhered to the Free Soil [)arty and its successor, the Republican party, till the War of Secession, to the last-named, however, not as a " Republican," but as "a Democrat opposed to the administration." Since the close of the War he has been, as he maintains he had been before the War, a Democrat and a rigid opponent of centralized power both in State and Federal government.

Mr. Dawson was married May 28, 184'), to Catherine, daughter of Abraham D.and Esther (Whelpley) Martling, of Tarrytown, Westchester County, N. Y., one of the oldest families of the county. They have had nine children -- 1, Spencer H. C, born May 11, 1846, died July 1), 1871; 2, Henry B., Jr., born December 1<», 1847, died March 10, 1876; 3, William ^lartling, born August '11, 184!l ; 4, Stephen Van Rensselaer, born September 21, 1851 ; 5, George Cooley, born September 25, 1853, married Mary Kate Dean November 16, 1881 ; 6, Mary Dawson, born June 17, 1855, married William H. Halsey July 6, 1875; 7,

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Catheriue Martling, born April 9, 1859; 8, Esther Martling, boru July 17, 1861, died March 16, 18G5; and 9, Caroline Dutcher, born August 31, 1803, died April 22, 1880. They have also had an adopted daughter, Anna Augusta, born October 30, 1851, who died May 31, 1878.

James Kirke Paulding, the friend of Irving and his associate in the production of the Sabiiayimdi papers, was of Westchester extraction, though a native of Dutchess County. His grandfather, many years previous to the Revolution, settled in Westchester County on a farm at Tarrytown, still in possession of his descendants. The family removed to a tract of land in Dutchess County which had been granted them by King William III.