[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Excess from him received..; £2d 10 0 John Paulding died on the 18th of February, 1.8 IS. A few-minutes before the patriot expired, he called Dr. Fountain, (his medical attendant,) to the bed side, and thus addressed him : " Doctor, please tell all those who ask after me, that I die a true republican." Paulding's remains repose beneath a handsome monument in the Episcopal grave-yard, two miles north of the village. Upon the north side of Gallows Hill, by the road side leading from Peekskill to Albany, is situated the *' Soldier's Spring," which derived its name from the foHowing tragical incident : " The British, who were in possession of Stony Point, and whose shipping lay in the bay of Haverstraw, resolved upon landing a portion of their men on Yerplanck's Point, and from thence make a descent upon Peekskill. Their object in this expedition was to procure fresh provisions and to wake the en-ergies of the Americans who were encamped in the village and in various places among the hills in its vicinity. In accordance with this resolve they effected a landing and proceeded without opposition to Drum Hill, an eminence which overlooks the village near its southern boundary. Here they com-menced cannonading with two small field pieces which they had brought ■with them, while their light troops entered the village by another road higher up the river.