I found these at Ancestry.com: Evening Gazette (Port Jervis, New York) > 1870 > August > 11 Peekskill has two police officers. Each of these has ( at least) one son. One day last week the sons indulged in disorderly conduct and the fathers had to arrest them, and each father was seen marching his own son through the streets to the lockup. Peekskill is ahead. Evening Gazette (Port Jervis, New York) > 1870 > November 12 Ancestry.com Two Fools John C. Paulding of Peekskill, made a bet with Daniel M. Conklin, of the same place, that Gen. Woodford would be elected Governor of the State of New York on the 8th day of November. If not elected, Mr. Paulding is to furnish a wheelbarrow and one hundred pounds of buckwheat flour, and wheel the same from the Custom House in New York to the Continental Hotel in Peekskill by way of the Albany Post Road. In case Gen. Woodford is elected, Mr. Conklin is to perform the like feat. Evening Gazette (Port Jervis, New York) > 1873 > July > 15 Another Wheelbarrow Match John Paulding, of Peekskill, has made a match with a gentleman of New York City, to push a loaded wheelbarrow from the St. Nicholas Hotel to the Morgan House in Poughkeepsie in four days. It will be remembered that Mr. Paulding some two years ago, on an election bet, wheeled a sack of 100 pound as of buckwheat flour from the Custom-house to Peekskill in three days. The match will begin on the 15th inst. provided the weather is favorable. So what is it with John Paulding and betting............. looks like John Paulding ( b. abt 1834) was a custom house officer living in Cortlandtown in 1870; in 1880 he is raising poultry. Back in 1860 he was a stove moulder. Judy Wolf