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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 219

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] have motioned quietly to Paulding to pass out, which he promptly did. He made his way to the North River, where he found a boat on which he crossed to the New Jersey side, and soon was safe in the Amer-ican camp. He was furnished with means by La-fayette, and returned to Westchester County. Each of the captors of Andre was awarded a silver medal and a pension of two hundred dollars yearly during life. By the State of New York each one was presented with a farm worth five hundred pounds. The farm given to Paulding was located in the town of Cortlandt and consisted of one hundred and sixty-eight acres and sixteen rods of the best land in the town. It had been the property of Peter Huggeford, M.D., a native of England, and a physician of high reputation, who practiced his profession in Rye as early as 1753, and later removed to this farm. He was J probably the first regular physician in the north-I western portion of the country. He was a Royalist and his property was confiscated. The farm is the one which was lately occupied by Jacob Strang and now belongs to his son. Baubling resided on the farm for a number of years, and then, having disposed of it, made his residence upon a farm near Lake Mohe-gan until his death, on February 18, 1818. His re-mains are interred in the cemetery surrounding St. Peter's Episcopal Church, at Cortlandtville.