[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The following abstract is taken from a deed given by Samuel Dodge, Daniel Graham, and John Hotham, commissioners of for-feitures for the middle district of New York, to John Paulding, of Cortlandt Manor : For and in consideration of the services John Paulding, of Cortlandt IManor, in the County of Westchester, hath rendered his country, in appre-hending and securing the British deputy adjutant Gen. Major Andre, who was returning to New York after having in the character of a spy concerted mea-sures with the infamous Benedict Arnold, then commanding at the posts in the Highlands, for betraying the said posts into the hands of the enemy, and for his virtue in refusing a large sum of money offered by the said Major Andre as a bribe to permit him to escape; and for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings lawful money of the State of New York, and for the fur-ther sum of twenty-five pounds ten shillings like lawful money of the said stale, by the said John Paulding paid into the treasury of the said state, the said commissioners by virtue of the powers and authorities in and