History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 218
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] in more thau moderate circumstances. He was the first supervisor of the town of Greenburgh, elected under the State laws in 1788. William acquired wealth at a seafaring life, and a short time prior to the Revolution erected and occu-pied a mansion in Tarrytown. He was one of the Hist members of the Provincial Congress, and during the war occupied the position of commissary-general of the New York levies. Peter and John, the remaining brothers, resided on the homestead with their father. After the war, and upon the confiscation of the Philipse Manor, the two brothers purchased the fee of the farm. John died a bachelor, and Peter's descend-ants became owners of the farm. John Paulding, the subject of this sketch, to whose lot it fell to render such an important service to his 374 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.