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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 219 (part 2)

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The cere-monies in connection with the erection of a monu-ment over his grave by the corporation of New York have been noticed in the description elsewhere given ' of the cemetery. CORTLANDT. 375 In politics, in which he took an active interest, Paulding was opposed to the Federalist party. Short-ly before his death he said to his physician, Dr. Fountain: "Doctor, please tell all those who seek after me that I die a true Republican." Although he never held any military office, he was familiarly known as major.