Paulding is to most Americans a scarcely remembered name, recalled only because of his association with Washington Irving in some youthful literary

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ventures. His pleasant home at Hyde Park was reehristened b_\' a subseciuent owner, as though to emphasise the vanity of popular reputation. An in(|uiry about the last scene of his earthly sojourn elicits from one whose leisure, if not elegant, is at least obvious, such a re])ly :

Paulding's house? What Paulding? Th' feller that used to be barkeeper at the hotel? Well, then, I don't know who you mean: I guess he ain't lived round here none fer quite a spell.

Chapter XXIX The Catskill Region

THE greater portion of that part of Greene County bordering upon the ri\'er was. in early times, held by a few proprietors. In accordance with the instructions of the Company, the lands were jjurchased from the Indian owners, being afterwards in nearly all instances confirmed by royal grants. The same method of procedure was followed along the shores of the lower part of the river. A little to the south of Catskill, a dozen or more yoemen settled with their families --numbering, slaves and all, seventy or more souls -- upon land which was then, and has ever since been called the imhogt. This was included in the Loverage patent. Beekman's, already alluded to, was in Kiskatom, adjoining Greene s. The land where the village of Catskill stands was included in Lindsay's patent. Silvester Salsbury and Martin G. Bergen, in 1677, purchased a large tract of land from the Indians. Salsbury was a British captain, who had charge of the fort at Albany in the time of Governor Nicoll. A patent for this land was not obtained till 1688, when Salsbury