[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] On the farm lately occupied by Jacob Strang, three miles east of Peekskill, on Crompond road, lived for a number of years John Paulding, one of the captors of Major Andre. His descendants are numer-ous in the town of Cortlandt. inence. Owing to a peculiarity of the Dutch language, his name was corrupted into Paulding, though he him-self always wrote it as Pawling. Some of his descendants remained in Ulster County; one of them removed to Dutchess County, where he settled the township of Pawlings, and Joseph Pauld-ing, another of the family, in 1683, settled in New York City. His household is referred to in the census of 1703 as consisting of one male, one female, four children, one negro slave and one negress. One of the children of Joseph Paulding was Joseph, born in 1706, who became the lessee of a large tract of land abo^t four miles east of Tarrytown, in West-chester County, upon which he remained until his death, in 1786. He had four sons,— Joseph, William, Peter and John, — all of whom bore a somewhat con-spicuous part on the American side in the struggles which took place in the county during the Revolu-HOUSE NEAR PEEKSKILL WHERE CAPTAIN HOOGLAND HAVING ANDRE IN CHARGE STOPPED. The Pauldings are descendants of Henry Pawling, an English soldier, who came to America with Colonel Richard Nichols on his expedition against the New Netherlands in 1664.