History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 190 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] After the capture of Andre, he says, he was taken a third time, in a wounded condition, and " lay in the hospital in New York, and was discharged on the arrival of the news of peace there." The farm given him by the1 State was located in the Town of THE CAPTURE OF ANDRE 485 Cortlandt, and consisted of one hundred and sixty acres and sixteen roods, being the confiscated property of Dr. Peter Huggeford, a Loyalist. He disposed of it after some years, and removed to a farm near Lake Mohegan (Yorktown), where he died on the 18th of Feb-ruary, 1818, He lies buried in the cemetery of Saint Peter's Episcopal Church1 near Peekskill, and oyer his grave is a monument with an elaborate inscription, erected " As a memorial sacred to public grati-tude " by the corporation of the City of New York on the 22d of November, 1827. One of Paulding's sons was Hiram Paulding, of the United States Navy, who was presented with a sword by congress for services in the War of 1812, and during the Civil War became a rear-admiral and was in command of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. David Williams was the son of After and Phebe Williams, and was born in Tarrytown, October 21, 1754. He was the oldest of the captors. tk I first entered the continental army in the year 1775," he says in a public statement, " and continued in the service until disabled by having my feet frozen. I was then obliged to take what