William Paulding

Find A Grave Memorial
DAR Ancestor # A086638
NEW YORK, PATRIOTIC SERVICE

DAR records record his death date as 2/20/1825 but his Find A Grave Memorial lists it as 2/10/1828.

"William Paulding and Catherine Ogden wedded, July 25, 1762, at New York." Removed to Philipsburgh, likely, between 1766 and 1768, as "the birth of a daughter, the latter year, makes mention of Philipsburgh," and eventually moved to present Putnam County."

REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT: "Commissary William Paulding was from the first one of the most influential men who supported the patriot cause at [Philipsburg] Manor. He was a member of the Provincial Congress," a member of the 'secret committee' and instrumental at obtaining the chain used to defend the Hudson River. "...on August 10, 1776, was appointed 'Commissary of the Militia raised or to be raised in this State northward of King's Bridge,' and so continued to render efficient service during the entire period of the Revolution, as the result of which, owing to the depreciation of the currnecy and the inability of the Government to make his promises to pay for supplies good, he was impoverished. Having been arrested for debts incurred in the public service he was confined for many months in the old log jail at White Plains. One day it burned down, and walking home to Tarrytown he was not afterward disturbed. A grand old patriot who deserved a better fate. In 1784 William Paulding was elected Supervisor of the then Manor, being the first one chosen so to serve after the Revolution. Evidently he was held in high and deserved esteem by his fellow townsmen. He continued to reside here until his death ..." " His son William Paulding, Jr. who became Mayor of the city of New York, was born there ...". REF. "SOUVENIR OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER'S MONUMENT DEDICATION AT TARRYTOWN NY" October 19, 1894, Compiled by Marcius D. Raymond, Tarrytown NY 1894.

William Paulding is also said to have been one of the captors, in 1780, of Major John Andre, the British intelligence officer exchanging information with the infamous traitor, General Benedict Arnold.