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stroyed by fire on the morning of May 13th, 1912, at Demilt Avenue 

 and Two Hundred Forty-second Street, east of White Plains Road, 

 was erected over a century ago. It was formerly occupied by the 

 Pauldings, the De Milts and the Penfields. Within its old Colonial 

 walls Justices Marshall and Jay, as well as Aaron Burr, and Cap- 

 tains Ayres and Paulding of the Continental troops, were sheltered 

 under its roof, and their names were cut in the small old fashioned 

 panes of glass with which the windows were decorated. 



At Demilt Avenue once stood the Thirteen Trees planted in the 

 early days by a relative of the Paulding who helped to capture 

 Major Andre, the British spy. They have all yielded to the onward 

 march of progress; the last one, a black walnut, measuring three 

 feet eight inches at the butt, having been cut down a few years 

 ago. 



