In 1791 he kept a store at what is now Barrytown Landing. ^ P A^ P E R S NEW HAVEN COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Records of Crum Elbow precinct, Dutchess county, New York, 1738-1761. Wassaic. The first town meeting was held at the house of William Wolven in April, 1821. Mr. Arthur Rockwell continued this business until his death in 1910. In 1859 a Catholic Church was built at Sylvan Lake, and another at Clove Valley, forming a part of the Parish of St. Denis. Upon their attempt to escape, the Yankees gave them a broadside and killed several. The "Old Union Church" at Green Haven, frequently referred to in the ecclesiastical documents of the county, and which was called the "Old Union" as early as 1820, when there was not a house of worship in the present town limits of Union Vale, is described as a large building for the time, with a gallery at one end, a high pulpit with seven or eight steps leading up to it, and a sounding-board poised over the preacher's head. These early Quaker settlers or "Friends" as they preferred to be called, were mainly farmers and came from Dutchess County, NY and previously England. Website: http://www.co.dutchess.ny.us/countygov/departments/countyclerk/ccindex.htm, "Specializing in New England and New York Colonial American Ancestry", Index of Wills of Dutchess County, New York, 1742-1811, http://www.co.dutchess.ny.us/countygov/departments/countyclerk/ccindex.htm. Gomez, 23, will soon be among the first Peace Corps volunteers to return to overseas service since the agency's global evacuation in March 2020. The Rosa tracts were occupied by an Osterhout, a Van Etten and an Ostrander. This page was last edited on 26 January 2023, at 21:11. 1, History of Little Nine Partners of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess county, Vol. Among the early residents of the neighborhood was Jacob Sebring, who lived in a large white house overlooking the river, and built a dock where he kept a yacht. Water was pumped from the Fall Kill and was used only for fire extinguishing purposes, pipes being laid only on the main streets. This winter has been moderate and . New London County, Connecticut was one of four original Connecticut counties and was established on May 10, 1666, by an act of the Connecticut General Court. Henry Sleight, a native of Long Island, is credited with being the first innkeeper. The estate of Gen. Morgan Lewis is now owned by his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Ogden Mills. Be the first one to write a review. It was reduced to its present limits of about sixty square miles, when the northern part was erected into the town of Stanford, March 12, 1793. As noted in the book (see here .). We regret that are unable to do personal research for you. The Morehouse Tavern at Wingdale, torn down in 1877, was a noted hostelry during the Revolution. Many acres of land were plotted and sold in lots, two chief centers of development being around Mansion Square and the old French farm, south of the English Burying Ground, that is, south of the present location of Christ Church. Develops programs and educational projects in conjunction with area educational institutions and historical societies; 6. They came as far as Cooperstown on horseback, and thence by canoe down the Susquehanna, leaving Cooperstown May 2, 1786. It originally extended westward to the Hudson and comprised over 66,000 acres, with a population in 1790 of 4,607. The Episcopal Church at Hopewell Consider membership. Others, such as the Palatines and Quakers (almost all from New England), were early settlers and remained for several generations or more. This hamlet was on the Post road from Northeast to Rhinebeck, and was a place of some business importance. Writes press releases and does public speaking about Dutchess County history; 5. At a meeting of the town officers May 19, 1821, Charles A. Shaw was appointed "a discreet and proper person" to take the census. Until the American Revolution, much of Dutchess County was organized into large land patents owned by a few rich men, including the Rombout Patent, the Beekman Patent, and the Nine Partners Patent. Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Pawling precinct was taken from Beekman precinct in 1768, and erected into a town in 1788. Prepares genealogy tables of early settlers; 7. By the creation of the towns of Hyde Park and Pleasant Valley, January 26, 1821, it was reduced to its present area of 23,487 acres. Poughkeepsie as a county seat dates from May 27, 1717, and the county records of 1722 state that meetings are now held in the court house. Supervises subordinate staff members; 8. The town of Fishkill as constituted today is situated at the southwesterly corner of the county. The town received its name from its geographical position in the county. They erected a stone cotton mill in 1814. The county's name derives from the seventeenth-century spelling of "duchess," as preserved in the original November 1, 1683, law that established the first twelve counties of New York. In that year the stone house was built, now standing, on the Emigh homestead, at present in possession of a grandson of William. The charter was granted to Abraham Kip on the east side of the river, and to Moses Contine on the west side. Z. From 1730 until 1775 New Englanders were the main new settlers in Dutchess County. This town occupies a central position upon the west border of the county, and has an area of 22,395 acres of rolling and hilly upland. One of them established twelve counties, as follows: New York, Kings, Queens, Suffolk, Richmond, Westchester, Albany, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Duke's and Cornwall. The earliest settlers within the present town limits were the families of Van Vliet, Schultz, Sleight, Garrison, Cookingham and Traver, some of whose descendants reside upon the ancestral acres. The Clove Spring Iron Works was organized in 1873. 1717, a portion of Albany County transferred to Dutchess County. An important event was the establishment of the first central village water supply by the building of the reservoir on top of Cannon street hill in 1835, at a cost of $30,000. Simon Cole was the first merchant in the town; John Kip was a carpenter; Ananias Teel, a wheelwright; Laurence Teder, a mason; Henry Shop, a harness-maker; Jacob Van Ostrander, a linen weaver. and History, Historical and Genealogical Record Dutchess and Putnam Counties. Many of these moved in from Albany and Ulster Counties. Laughlin Campbell was a younger brother of the then Duke of Argyle. Peter Contine and his wife, Eleanor, daughter of Jacob Heermance of Kingston, lived at Upper Red Hook previous to the Revolution. Settlements of the town took place during the time it was a part of Crom Elbow precinct1737-1762. He was a Tory and at the close of the Revolution moved to Lansingburgh, N. Y., and his son Joseph took the property and continued the business until 1795. This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers, particularly David Anderson. Clinton came to Poughkeepsie and the Council of Safety soon followed. The depot at South Dover is known as Wing's Station. During the Revolutionary War, the Village of Fishkill hosted the primary supply depot for the entire Northern Department of the Continental Army, including barracks, a hospital, and workshops. Wing was one of the early settlers in New England, and his son Benjamin married Rhoda Rogers, a descendant of John Rogers the martyr, who was burned at Smithfield, England, Feb. 4, 1555. Its territory belonged to the tract known as the Great Nine Partners Patent. The county was named for Mary of Modena, Duchess of York, second wife of James, Duke of York (later James II, King of England). This town was formed from Rhinebeck June 2, 1812. The territory was included in the Little Nine Partners' Patent; together with Milan and a portion of present Northeast it was in 1788 erected into a town, the three being known as Northeast. Another early innkeeper and merchant was Abel Peters of Clinton Corners. In 1831 Elisha Sterling & Co. built a charcoal furnace at Clove Valley, with a capacity of twelve tons of iron per day. In 1855 when the city had been taken out, the town had left but 3,110 people. This town, which was named for Gov. By a payment of a small annual fee to the farmers they have secured the right to hunt and fish over miles of adjacent territory. Revolutionary Notes. It was not a success financially, and in 1883 was discontinued. It is said that there was quite an influx into the town about 1740. By Capt. Other early settlers were: Hans Hufcut and Martin Preston, who settled on what is known as Preston Mountain, and the latter is said to have been the first settler on the "Equivalent Land," or the Oblong. Shortly after the completion of this building Roger Brett was drowned from a sloop, and the care of his estate was left to his widow who became known as "Madam Brett." He built his tavern, which is still standing, about the year 1768, on the A. C. Briggs farm. It has changed hands several times, and is now successfully conducted by Morgan H. Hoyt. Kip built a stone house on his land in 1700. The building was enlarged and remodelled in 1853. The expansion of their operations in the 1950s and 1960s introduced an era of tremendous growth in the Information Technology field and further transformed the county landscape. His grandson, Gulian, came about 1730, and built the house still standing known as Mount Gulian. The population was 9,953 at the time of the 2020 census, down from 11,319 in 2010. In the winter of 1778-79 a regiment of Continentals was quartered in Poughkeepsie, and barracks were erected on the south side of the village. Dutchess County New York Family Research with free historical data transcriptions, census, biographies, obituaries, newspaper articles, military information and much more for your family tree.> . Wood, map between 56 and 57, and 203-205. The congregation numbers about forty. Dover Plains is the most important village in the town. 1880. Many people every season make a pilgrimage to this relic of bygone days. William Seward. Halcyon Hall, built in 1893, was used as a summer hotel until 1907, when the property was purchased and transformed into a school for girls by Miss M. F. Bennett. The 1890 Census is lost. It is not definitely known by whom the town was first settled, but it is supposed that the first settlements were made by the Dutch who came here from the vicinity of Hudson's River. Matteawan. The College opened in 1865, with 353 students. The seeds for post-World War II prosperity in Dutchess were planted in 1942 when IBM purchased property in Poughkeepsie. In 1715 Beekman induced many Palatines to locate on his lands. The advent of graded schools rendered the existence of such an institution unnecessary, and the buildings have been closed since 1888. Before 1870 the second great period of growth, comparable to that of the days of the old improvement party between 1830 and 1837, was in full sway. Akin Hall Association, was founded by Albert John Akin in 1882, for the promotion of benevolence, charity, literature and science. The community was set off from the Town of Poughkeepsie when it became an incorporated village in 1799. Early settlers in the Hudson Valley immigrated to escape political and religious persecution, and yet, upon their arrival here, they saw fit to participate in a culture that removed others involuntarily from their home-lands and forced them to labor for the economic development of a community in which they had no rights. In 1760, Samuel Mabbett, a Friend, came to Mechanic and opened a store and a tavern. Municipal Historians of Dutchess County. This volumn covers the segment between Geneva and Utica, New York. The families of Ver Valin, De Groff, Sleight, Nelson and Cornell settled in the western part of the town previous to the Revolution. Central Hudson said 35 customers in Dutchess County and 25 customers in Orange County are without power. The early residents included Dutch and French settlers and migrants from New England and Westchester County, New York. In 1873 this church was affiliated with the Presbyterian denomination, and a new house of worship was built in Millerton in 1905, at an expense of $7,800. It was built in 1775 by John De Witt, son of Captain Petrus and Rachel (Radcliff) De Witt. A new building was erected in 1838. The ratification of the Constitution of the United States in the Poughkeepsie court house, June 26, 1788, is the most important event in the city's history. The town of Poughkeepsie as early as 1715 was a part of the Middle Ward of Dutchess county. Note: Affiliate links are used within the directory on this site and a small contribution goes to the website for some purchases made. The road network continued to grow throughout the nineteenth century, eventually being eclipsed by the railroad, which reached Poughkeepsie in the 1830s. Settlement in the southern part of the town began as early as 1754, and the names of Shear, Clapp, Brundage, Swade, Dean, Weeks and Townsend are recorded among the pioneers. The spring itself is seventy-five feet across. The property passed through several hands, and was finally purchased by John Falconer, who operated it under the name of the Seamless Clothing Manufacturing Company, in which he was associated with Mr. William Carroll. The Dutchess County Genealogical Society was established in 1972 to help organize and direct genealogical work. Nicholas Bonesteel and Anna Margretha Kuhn, his wife, with some of their children, were among the early settlers. In 1813 a postoffice was established, and two years later the village was incorporated; it was reincorporated March 21, 1903. Dutchess County, New York Quaker Records, Wikipedia contributors, "Old Albany Post Road" in. . DOWNLOAD OPTIONS download 1 file . The records of the present society state that the Presbyterian church of Pleasant Plains was organized March 28, 1837, by Rev. Beekman's patent to land in this vicinity was granted in 1697. The name of Freedom was given to the town by Enoch Dorland, a Quaker preacher. Quaker Hill and West Mountain were probably settled long before the lands in the valley. William Humphrey held this office in 1763. Swamp fevers were feared by the pioneers. The Titus, Coffin, Mitchell, Pinkham, Comstock, Allen, Roger, Hull, Coleman, Haight, Haviland and Talcott families settled in the town previous to 1750. The Poughkeepsie Public Library was formed under the school library law in 1835. By 1826 the Presbyterians were permanently organized and built a church on Cannon street. William Traphagen was one of the largest taxpayers in 1718. Mr. Card's introduction to this transcription reads: "These marriages are taken from some minister's personal record, entered in a small ( 5 x 8 ) memorandum book. Counties included are Oneida, Madison, Chenago, Onondage, Chemung, Brooms, Elmira, and parts of Ontario. Smith, the one-time sheriff of Dutchess County, is credited with throwing the vote in favor of ratification by introducing the idea for what would become the Bill of Rights. A Catholic Church at Bangall is a Mission of the Millbrook church. II. Genealogy Trails Records are drawn from the marriage and death columns of central New York newspapers published prior to 1850. He settled on the west side of the river, opposite the forty acre island, known as Stowel's Island . In exchange, Rye was granted to New York, along with a 1.81-mile (2.91 km) wide strip of land running north from Ridgefield to Massachusetts alongside the New York counties of Westchester, Putnam then Dutchess, known as "The Oblong". Smithfield, Amenia Union, South Amenia and Leedsville are small, pleasant villages. The records of the Presbyterian church of Freedom Plains state that "On the 26th of July, 1827, sundry persons of Freedom did meet at the house of Mary Nelson and chose the following trustees: Benjamin H. Conklin, Baltus Overacker, Eleazer Taylor, Baltus Velie, Rickertson Collins, John D. Brown, Abram S. Storm, Isaac B. Clapp and John Clapp.". The freshet of 1819 destroyed many mills on the banks of the Wappinger, and carried away the Main street bridge at the Falls. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Amenia Seminary was built in 1835, and the school opened in the same year. Joseph Doty of the do Blacksmith. They settled along the Fishkill River and in the areas that are now Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck. They numbered about four hundred, and came principally from the southern part of the county. In 1743, the milling industries having largely increased, Madam Brett and others organized the Frankfort Store House. During the Civil War the name of the post office was changed to Fishkill-on-Hudson. This land he gave to his son Luke in 1758. They settled along the Fishkill River and in the areas that are now Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck. Amenia, the largest, has above a hundred dwellings. The Franklindale Cotton Co. was operated by the Garners from 1844 to 1885, when the plant was destroyed by fire. In 1899 the control of the library was given to a board of library trustees. That there is now in subcriptions $450.". The Dutch church was organized October 10, 1716, by Rev. These marriage records were transcribed by Lester Card and compiled in 1949. The town of Pine Plains is one of the northern tier of towns in Dutchess, bordering the county of Columbia. After the destruction of Kingston by the British, October 16, 1777, Gov. This village was incorporated in 1886, and now includes within its limits Byrnesville, Wiccopee and Tioronda. You may select a specific volume to restrict your search results. Located in southeastern New York in the valley of the Ten Mile River, Wassaic is bordered to the east and west by mountain ranges. Dutchess County Historical Society 845-471-1630 54 Main Street Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Dutchess County Genealogical Society 845-462-4108 P.O. John D. Rockefeller and Frederick F. Thompson have also been large benefactors. Among the pastors who served this church were Rev. A separation in the society occurred in 1828, owing to the dissension of Elias Hicks, and the Orthodox Quakers built a church in 1829 nearby the original stone meeting house. It is a spacious structure, and was erected in 1907 by Hon. 1870 also has parents' birthplace. Red Hook was taken off in 1812. 1878 It is no easy matter, in view of the conflicting testimony, to fix the exact date of the first settlement.. This valley is known far and wide as "The Clove," its limits extending beyond the town borders, and was an important landmark in the early history of the region. He built a house about 1712, near the place known as the Steel Works, where he lived and died. Please keep checking back. Philip had a son, William P. 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