Peter Huggeford, a Loyalist. He disposed of it after some years, and removed to a farm near Lake Mohegan (Yorktown), where he died on the 18th of February, 1818, He lies buried in the cemetery of Saint Peter's Episcopal Church1 near Peekskill, and oyer his grave is a monument with an elaborate inscription, erected " As a memorial sacred to public gratitude " by the corporation of the City of New York on the 22d of November, 1827. One of Paulding's sons was Hiram Paulding, of the United States Navy, who was presented with a sword by congress for services in the War of 1812, and during the Civil War became a rear-admiral and was in command of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. David Williams was the son of After and Phebe Williams, and was born in Tarrytown, October 21, 1754. He was the oldest of the captors. tk I first entered the continental army in the year 1775," he says in a public statement, " and continued in the service until disabled by having my feet frozen. I was then obliged to take what employment 1 could meet with for my support, chopping, grubbing, and all such work -- living about twenty miles from my house and family.'' He was a volunteer in Captain Daniel Martling's Tarrytown company, served under General Montgomery in the expedition to Canada, and took an active part in the contests of the Neutral Ground. He received from the State, June 16, 1783, the confiscated farm of the Loyalist Edmund Ward, of the Town of Eastchester, a property of two hundred and fifty-two and one-half acres. Edmund Ward was the only brother of the well-known patriot, Stephen Ward. Subsequently Williams removed to Livingstonville, Schoharie County, N. Y., where he bought a farm of General Daniel Shays, and lived there until his death, August 2, 1831.