The Company was re-organized in 1825, and built the machine shop and foundry on the east side of the creek, devoted largely to the production of cotton machinery. As early as 1755 a Baptist Society was organized in the town which had an interesting career. Isaac Blauvelt, Rev. Its limits were but slightly changed by the act of 1788, which organized the county into towns. The villages of Red Hook and Tivoli-Madalin are the chief centers of population, and Barrytown is of some importance as a railroad depot. Following the division in the Society in 1828 the Hicksites built a meeting house at Moore's Mills, where meetings are regularly held. A broad and fertile valley runs through the central portion. Quaker Hill and West Mountain were probably settled long before the lands in the valley. It was in this church building that a band of Tories, in the summer of 1777, assembled. Quaker Hill, Holmes and West Pawling are hamlets. Oswego and Verbank are hamlets. Other early settlers were the Vanderburghs, Vandebogerts, Parmentors, Lewis, Pells, Titsoorts and Filkins. It was undenominational, and was named Carmel in the Nine Partners. Among the descendants of Gen. Lewis still resident in Staatsburg is the family of the late Lydig M. Hoyt. Whaley Pond, Lake Norton, Green Mountain Lake and Lake Hammersley are considerable bodies of water. Note that this database has a name only index, derived from the book index itself. There have been not less than fifty private schools at various times in Poughkeepsie, notably; Poughkeepsie Military School, Lyndon Hall, Poughkeepsie Female Academy, Cottage Hill Seminary, State and National Law School, and Putnam Hall School, formerly Brooks Seminary. Z. A strip of about five thousand acres was taken from it March 1, 1827, to form part of the town of Union Vale. The present church, dedicated May 26, 1869, is the third edifice of the Society in the town. In 1831 Elisha Sterling & Co. built a charcoal furnace at Clove Valley, with a capacity of twelve tons of iron per day. Early settlers in the Town of DeRuyter taken from 1784 History of Chenango & Madison Counties, NY by James H Smith; pub. In the autumn of 1796 the famous Nine Partners Boarding School was established by Isaac Thorne, Tripp Mosher and Joseph Talcott. This winter has been moderate and . The business was discontinued with the failure of the first bridge project in 1873. The Episcopal Church at Hopewell In 1810 the town had 4,669 inhabitants and the village 2,981. Akin Hall Association, was founded by Albert John Akin in 1882, for the promotion of benevolence, charity, literature and science. It was formed as a town March 17, 1788. Located in southeastern New York in the valley of the Ten Mile River, Wassaic is bordered to the east and west by mountain ranges. The first town meeting in Northeast, as at present constituted, was held at Northeast Center on the first day of April, 1823. It has changed hands several times, and is now successfully conducted by Morgan H. Hoyt. Dutchess County was one of the first 12 counties that were established in the Province of New York in 1683. The 1890 Census is lost. A new building was erected in 1838. The town of Dover lies on the southeastern border of the county. land grant given to Col. Henry Beekman in 1697 by the English Crown and the second largest patent in present-day Dutchess County, New . In 1859 a Catholic Church was built at Sylvan Lake, and another at Clove Valley, forming a part of the Parish of St. Denis. The Quaker Society was also organized at an early date. Joseph Wing of do Farmer. The early settlement of the eastern part of the county through the length of the Harlem Valley was made by people from the New England Colonies, aU that part of New York State being originally claimed as belonging to and embraced within the New England grants of land. The Baptist Church was organized in 1844, and the building erected in 1863, at the expense of Mrs. Mortimer Livingston, and her daughter, Mrs. Drake, who married for her second husband Mr. Kirkpatrick. The Legislature was in session at Poughkeepsie when the news of the surrender of Cornwallis was received, in October, 1781. One of them established twelve counties, as follows: New York, Kings, Queens, Suffolk, Richmond, Westchester, Albany, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Duke's and Cornwall. The Methodists organized in 1804 and built a church in Jefferson street. One half of the business section was destroyed by fire May 8, 1864. 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. A Baptist church was built here in 1777. It was replaced in 1852 by a stone bridge, thirty feet wide, which in 1884 was widened to sixty feet. 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. Records are drawn from the marriage and death columns of central New York newspapers published prior to 1850. The company has lately invested thousands of dollars in the acquisition of rights and in erecting buildings for the use of the club. A new building was erected in 1836; it was sold in 1870 to Jonathan Warner, founder of the Old Ladies' Home, and the money was used for the construction of the present High School. The first settlers were the families of Barent Baltus Van Kleeck and Hendrick Jans van Oosterom. Johannes Rowe died in 1771, and was buried in the family ground across the road from the church which bears the family name. 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. The Baptist records are complete from the organization of the society in 1807, when they erected an edifice on Mill street. Aaron Van Vlackren settled at Gayhead, where his son Tunis built a grist mill in 1768. Harvey G. Eastman, George Innis, Mark D. Wilbur and George P. Pelton were leaders in this latter improvement era. Swamp fevers were feared by the pioneers. The Matteawan Manufacturing Co. was organized in 1864, with a capital of $150,000. "Belfield" is the home of Hon. The town of Rhinebeck embraces 18,945 acres in the northwestern part of the county bordering the Hudson River. Records current events for posterity; 9. The Church of England, predecessor of the present Episcopal church, was organized in 1766, and erected a building. It later became the property of John LeRoy, who, with his son Abraham, ran it for upwards of forty years. Kip built a stone house on his land in 1700. In this building the Society of the Cincinnati was instituted, May, 1783. Matteawan. The New York Rubber Co. was organized in 1848, to manufacture articles under the Goodyear patent. Petrus Vas. Franklin Ellis 342. The building remained until 1826, and the business was conducted by descendants of the Brett and Wiltse families. Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York : an historical and genealogical study of all the 18th century settlers in the patent, by Frank J. Doherty Creator Doherty, Frank J Contributor New England Historic Genealogical Society Language eng Work Publication Pleasant Valley, N.Y., F.J. Doherty, 1990-<2010> Extent volumes <1-11> Note v. 2. Salt Point and Washington Hollow are hamlets. Rebecca's father was Joseph Bryan, and her mother died shortly after . This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers, particularly David Anderson. Rev. He resigned in 1856 to become a Justice of the Supreme Court, as his father had been before him. Most of the first settlers in Dutchess County were Dutch. On the former stream at one time stood Judge Livingston's mill at the river; General Armstrong's mill at Cedar Hill; Van Benthuysen's mill, and a woolen factory in the same place; the Chancellor's mill in the interior, and Robert G. Livingston's mill on the Rock City branch. Daniel Sherman of do Labourer. 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. The earliest concentration of settlers was in an area called the "Union", a Quaker settlement in the vicinity of the present Keese Homestead and Quaker Cemetery on what is now Union Road. 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. Many of these moved in from Albany and Ulster Counties. The depot at South Dover is known as Wing's Station. The property was purchased from Joseph Mabbett. A paper mill was established previous to 1840, and in 1844 was burned down. From 1683 to 1715 most of the settlers in Dutchess . Counties included are Oneida, Madison, Chenago, Onondage, Chemung, Brooms, Elmira, and parts of Ontario. In 1911 it contains about 50,000 volumes. Several Quaker families resided in this vicinity. Much of the land is still in possession of the Rowe family. Levi P. Morton, as a memorial to his deceased daughter. A growing population, with accompanying expansions of suburbs, required new roads and increased engagement from county government. Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York: An Historical and Genealogical Study of All the 18th Century Settlers in the Patent by Frank J. Doherty Hardcover | Frank J. Doherty | Pub. "They grew corn, beans, and various species of squash, and gathered plant foods such as hickory, nuts, butternuts, walnuts, acorns, and chestnuts, and . The early members have long since passed away, leaving their descendants to unite and to conform to the manners and discipline of other sects. Box 708, Poughkeepsie NY 12602 www.dcgs-gen.org for the Study of FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH Town Historian with more to come! In 1811 the Episcopalians decided to build a separate house of worship, and Dr. Bard gave the central part of the present St. James churchyard, and the building was erected in that year. 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. The first town meeting was held at the house of William Wolven in April, 1821. 1 But this expansion was not without problems. By the erections of precincts in the county in 1737, Poughkeepsie had a slice taken off its northern end, and was given a definite eastern boundary. Henry Sleight, a native of Long Island, is credited with being the first innkeeper. In 1760, Samuel Mabbett, a Friend, came to Mechanic and opened a store and a tavern. St. Paul's Church was built in 1843, and the Westminster Presbyterian Church at Salt Point in 1862. Pine Plains has a public library of nearly 3,000 volumes. I expect there will be sixteen or more volumes before this series is finished. On the west side there once dwelt the ancestors of the families by the name of Worden, Moshier, Dentory, Dibble, Davis and Turner. 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. A church at Washington Hollow was erected in 1747 by the Presbyterian society. Volume 11 contains over 1,000 pages and is focused on families with last names between Rood and Sly. In that year the stone house was built, now standing, on the Emigh homestead, at present in possession of a grandson of William. Adjoining Hyde Park village on the north is the country seat of Mr. F. W. Vanderbilt, who purchased the property in 1895. Education. A large portion of the land about what is now known as Tivoli was owned by the Hoffmans, who built the mills northeast of Tivoli, nearly a century and a half ago. This was destroyed by fire January 18, 1857, and the present brick building erected shortly thereafter, and dedicated September 7, 1858. The religious denominations of the town are the Methodists, with churches at Red Hook and Tivoli; St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Red Hook; and the Episcopalians with a church in each village. Later an industry for the manufacture of cement, for use in the first Poughkeepsie bridge, was started here. The families of Ver Valin, De Groff, Sleight, Nelson and Cornell settled in the western part of the town previous to the Revolution. We also do our best to provide a history of the area, to provide you with an overview of the time in which your ancestors lived. The road network continued to grow throughout the nineteenth century, eventually being eclipsed by the railroad, which reached Poughkeepsie in the 1830s. The Company failed in 1876, but resumed business under the name of William Carroll & Co. For many years it has continued successfully in the manufacture of wool and straw hats. 1880. In 1715 Beekman induced many Palatines to locate on his lands. Services were held in private houses until 1762, when the first edifice was erected. Milan was formed from the town of Northeast March 6, 1818. Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 The village of Rhinebeck was incorporated April 23, 1834, and the act amended in 1867. The FamilySearch Catalog: the Amazing Free Resource You Might Be Missing. In 1830 a direct stage route twice a week was established from Poughkeepsie to Pine Plains, by way of Pleasant Valley. The first meeting of the first general assembly was in New York in 1683, and it passed fourteen acts, which were assented to by the governor and his council. Records of Crum Elbow precinct, Dutchess county, New York, 1738-1761, together with records of Charlotte precinct, 1762-1785, records of Clinton precinct, 1786-1788, and records of the town of Clinton, 1789-1799. The towns of Northeast, Pine Plains and Milan, taken collectively, constituted, in 1746, the Northeast Precinct. Meetings are held here at stated intervals. Daughter of Wyellem Heocken and Annatje Andries Willjards. It lies on the northern border of Dutchess county and comprises the western portion of that tract of land which embraces the Nine Partners Patent. Matthew Vassar died in 1868, and his nephews, Matthew, Jr., and John Guy, continued his interest in the institution. A fulling mill east of the village was built by John Kenyon in 1808, and this is the site of the present plant of Garner & Co. Another deed of 1686 conveys land to Hendrick Kip. As noted in the book (see here .). Parties were sent to the bordering settlements to intimidate the patriots, and obtain supplies for the British army. The Patents, in the twelve years 1685-1697 lawful patents had been granted securing for their purchasers every foot of Hudson River shoreline in the original county. For Sale: 280 Jeremy Swamp Rd, Southbury, CT 06488 $124,900 MLS# 170551724 1 Acre Lot, Approved Building Lot, Approved for and Will Accommodate a 4 - 5 Bdrm Home , Lot is Mostly Clear and Jus. Trinity Church, erected about 1760, was used as a hospital by the army of General Washington until disbanded in 1783. Among the families who responded were the Brinckerhoff, Van Wyck, Wiltse, Van Voorhis, Hasbrouck, Terbush and Dubois. By Capt. It was incorporated December 31, 1895. Nearby was a grist mill operated by one Schut. A new court house was erected in 1809, and replaced by the present building in 1903. His family's home is now managed by the National Park Service. They are II. Near the western border is Sylvan Lake, covering over one hundred acres. Another early innkeeper and merchant was Abel Peters of Clinton Corners. This was the origin of river freighting. The Rutsen mills, on the turnpike east of "the flatts," were built in 1742, and the Traphagen mill in 1750. FDR was the only President to win a fourth term in the White House: when Thomas E. Dewey from Pawling ran against him in 1944, it was the only time in American history when two men from the same county vied for the Presidency. This town is included in the Great Nine Partners tract granted in 1697 to Caleb Heathcote and others, and was formed from the town of Washington March 12, 1793. It stood close to the water at what was known as the Lower Landing, north of Dennings Point. The Millerton Telegraph, a weekly publication, was started in 1876 by Cooley James, and subsequently became the property of Colvin Card. An electric railway connects the village with the city of Poughkeepsie. He was the secretary of Sir Edward Hyde, Governor of New York at the beginning of the 18th century, and named this patent Hyde Park. The village contains four churches : Baptist, organized 1794, present edifice erected in 1833; Methodist Episcopal organized in 1852, church built in 1853 at a cost of $5,000; St. Charles Borromeo (Catholic) erected in 1859, during the pastorate of Rev. Wood, map between 56 and 57, and 203-205. Dover was formed as a town from Pawling, February 20, 1807. The settlement grew quickly, and the Reformed Church of Poughkeepsie was established by 1720. In 1743, the milling industries having largely increased, Madam Brett and others organized the Frankfort Store House. Its boundaries at that time included the present Putnam County, and a small portion of the present Columbia County (the towns of Clermont and Germantown). It became a National Bank in 1865. In 1865 it was changed to a National Bank, Pawling Savings Bank was incorporated in 1870. The City of Poughkeepsie was chartered in 1854. The Town of Red Hook. St. James Episcopal Church was built in 1904. The town of Wappinger, originally a part of the town of Fishkill, was erected May 20, 1875, and lies wholly within the limits of the Rombout patent granted in 1685. From 1730 until 1775 New Englanders were the main new settlers in Dutchess County. North of Spencers Corners stands the old-fashioned house of the Dakins, built by Orville Dakin, when the country was a wilderness. Frank J. Doherty, Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York (Pleasant Valley, New York: Frank J. Doherty, 1990), 3:64. While the Tories were thus showing authority, they were surprised by a company of American soldiers from Sharon, Connecticut. The Clove Spring Trout Company, an association of New York gentlemen, have utilized the waters of this spring in the construction of ten ponds, each fourteen by sixty feet, in which are twenty-two thousand trout, assorted into five sizes; the last pond containing two thousand two-pound trout. Their son Jonathan married Anna Wood, daughter of Daniel Wood, in 1774. 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. 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. Thomas Newbold. He enjoyed the friendship of Washington, who, in his diary, mentions stopping with him to take dinner, when on a hasty visit to Hartford . In consideration of Dutchesss predominantly rural character, county government has assisted in the creation of agricultural districts preserving more than 200,000 acres of farmland. A second edifice was built in 1760, and in 1822 a third church was erected on the site of the present church building. The first edifice of the Church of the Nativity was erected in 1852. The principal streams are Ten Mile River, Wassaic Creek, and West Brook. Charles B. Whitehead and Rev. The Beekman Iron Mine was discovered in 1846 by William E. Haxtun. The Memorial Building at Rhinecliff contains a libbrary, a reading room, and an auditorium. The Treaty of Dover of 1731 stabilized the border zone. The estate of Gen. Morgan Lewis is now owned by his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Ogden Mills. The Dutchess County Academy, founded at Fishkill, was removed to Poughkeepsie in 1792. In 1843 Silas Rogers founded a wagon axle manufacturing business, which was carried on until western competition became too strong. 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. The population of the town in 1810 was 1,756. That they have paid $3,700. A grist mill was conducted here during the Revolution by one Vincent. These barracks became the retreat for wounded and naked soldiers. Washington, Arnold, Marquis de Chastellux and La Fayette lodged at this tavern. From 1683 to 1715 most of the settlers in Dutchess County were Dutch. The location of the tavern on Colles map of 1789 places it about a mile and a half southeast of Sylvan Lake. The Settlers of the Beekman Patent series, by Frank J. Doherty, contains data on over thirteen hundred families who settled in the Beekman Patent, an original land grant given to Col. Henry Beekman in 1697 by the English Crown and the second largest patent in present-day Dutchess County, New York. See the FamilySearch Library line in the above State Census Chart. Conrad Ham was another early settler, and the old home he built six generations ago still stands on a lot adjoining the present home of the family. October 14, 1832, a number of Catholics residing in Poughkeepsie formed the Catholic Association, to raise a fund for the erection of a church, with the result that St. Peter's Church was built and dedicated November 26, 1837. A freshet in 1841 swept away Given's cotton mill and the print works dam. The Reformed Church at Hopewell dates back to 1757. 060, p. 306] Gilbert FERGUSON. Many emigrants from New England lived in and passed through the Beekman Patent on their way west. Mabbettsville, Oak Summit and Lithgow are hamlets. This territory was a portion of the Beekman patent, and settlement is supposed to have begun about the year 1716. 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. Tradition says they acquired 2,800 acres between them, around the shores of the beautiful sheet of water long known as Thompson's Pond. Brendan Morrow, Staff Writer. Smithfield, Amenia Union, South Amenia and Leedsville are small, pleasant villages. Charles F. Dietrich, whose estate is the most extensive and with its many beautiful features is worth a long journey to see; the late H. J. Davison, who built Altamont; and the late and much lamented Col. Daniel S. Lamont, so widely known in public affairs, both in this State and in the Nation; Roswell P. Miller, of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, who has built a fine "Colonial" mansion; H. R. McLane, a Brooklyn gentlemen of literary and artistic taste; Harry Harkness Flagler, whose interest and co-operation in local affairs has been constant, and who is a member of the Board of Education, an active trustee of the Library Association, president and chief promoter of the Millbrook Choral Society, and a supporter of everything that pertains to the general good of the community; the late Captain R. S. Hayes, in whose memory the library was erected; Miss Mary Lenox Kennedy, whose mother was a member of that fine old family so identified with the religious, literary, educational, philanthropic and civic life of New York City; Charles Clinton Marshall, whose ancestors have been in Dutchess county since Revolutionary days; G. Howard Davison, whose stock farm is famous for its horses, cattle and sheep:these are some of the "Millbrook Colony" to whom the town has proved attractive on account of its healthy climate and scenic beauty. The city of Poughkeepsie was incorporated by the act of the Legislature, March 28, 1854, and the first city election was held the following April, when James Emott, Jr., became the first Mayor. It has in 1911 about 1200 inhabitants, four churchesFriends, Methodist, Catholic and Episcopal. A Catholic Church at Bangall is a Mission of the Millbrook church. Before these townships were divided the seat of government was at the present village of Pine Plains; here the town records were kept; hither the voters from Spencer's Corners and Northeast Center had to come over the " West Mountain, which is a high ridge of fertile country, well inhabited, stretching from north to south, steep in ascent and descent, and is about three miles over;" in short, the people of the vicinity of Millerton had to traverse about fifteen miles to reach the place of their annual town meetings. The name is supposedly derived from the red foliage . Other early settlers were the Hughes, Mulford and Russel families . 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