[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 10 74 HISTORY OF THE of the provisions was considerable.''^ '' September, 1777, the en-emy came out on both sides of the Hudson simultaneously in considerable force, consisting of from two to three thousand men, on which occasion the American barracks and store-houses, and the whole village of Peekskill was sacked and burnt dA^di the country pillaged."b The Weekly Mercury of Feb. 16th, 1778, (published by Hugh Gaines,) contains a letter from Commodore Hotham to Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Howe, which by his lordship was transmitted to all ships in service, <fcc., dated on board his Ma-jesty's ship the Preston, lying oiF Peekskill creek. Major Burr was stationed at Peekskill on the 21st July, 1777, when he re-ceived a lieutenant colonel's commission in the continental army, and from this place the traitor Arnold likewise received his ap-pointment to West Point, dated August the 3d, 1780. In the vilbge of Peekskill was born John Paulding, one of the American farmers who intercepted Andre the British spy, at Tar-rytown, some fifteen miles below this place. For his services on 'this occasion the state presented him with a farm situated within the town of Cortland t. The property now belongs to Jacob Strang.