142 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OK WESTCHESTKK. 



of Andre, on the third day of November, seventeen hundred and eighty; 

 the other of its reverse, both carved in bas relief. 



On the front of the pedestal is the following inscription : 



Here repose the mortal remains of 



JOHN PAULDING, 



who died on the 18th day of February, 1818, 



in the 60th year of his age. 



On the morning of the 23d of September, 1780, 



Accompanied by two young Farmers of the Co. of Westchester, 



(Whose names will one day be recorded 



On their own deserved monuments,) 



He intercepted the British spy, Andre : 



Poor Himself 



He disdained to acquire wealth by the sacrifice of 



HIS COUNTRY. 



Rejecting the temptation of great rewards 



He conveyed his prisoner to the American camp ; 



And 



By this act of noble self-denial, 



The treason of Arnold was detected, 



The designs of the enemy baffled ; 



"West Point and the American Army saved ; 



And these United States, 



Now by the grace of God. Free and Independent, 



Rescued from most imminent peril. 



The fourth side of the pedestal bears the following inscription : 



THE CORPORATION 



Of the City of New York, 



Erected this Tomb, 



As memorial Sacred to 



PUBLIC GRATITUDE. 



The whole being completed with the exception of placing the cone on 

 the pedestal, on the morning of the twenty -second of November, eight- 

 een hundred and twenty-seven, the corporation proceeded in the steam- 

 boat Sandusky, to Peekskill, where they arrived at one o'clock, and 

 were met by the Committee of Arrangements, and a large concourse of 



a Generals Pierre van Cortlandt anil Philip van Cortlandt, "Daniel W. Birdsall, St. John Con- 

 stant, Ward B. Howard, Benjamin Dyckinan, Doctor Peter Goetchius, James Mandeville, and 

 Doctor Samuel Strang. 



