John Paulding was an American militiaman from the state of New York during the American Revolution.
10 Facts About John Paulding
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In 1780, while visiting his future wife, Sarah Tidd, John Paulding was detained by a group of Loyalists led by his future brother-in-law.
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John Paulding was imprisoned in the sugar house prisons in New York City, but escaped by jumping from a window.
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John Paulding went to the livery stable of a friend and acquired a coat of a Hessian soldier, which he wore to evade notice.
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John Paulding was held in particularly high regard by early American historians, as the standard 19th-century accounts credited him with the decision-making and initiative at the scene.
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John Paulding assailed the credibility and motivations of the three captors.
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John Paulding was a self-sufficient yeoman farmer and was described as a strong, sturdy man, standing more than six feet tall, unusual for the era.
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John Paulding married three times in his life, and lost two wives to death.
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John Paulding died in 1818 at Staatsburg, Dutchess County, New York of natural causes.
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John Paulding's grave is marked by a large marble monument with the epitaph:.