In 1847 Father Kelly of Connecticut ministered to the Catholics in this section. The business was discontinued with the failure of the first bridge project in 1873. He had four sons John, Sebastian, Philip, and Mark, who settled around on the land of their father's purchase, and to each of whom he gave a farm. It became a National Bank in 1865. Channingville, that part of Wappingers Falls north of the creek, accounts for several hundred of the town's population. They have leased the old ore mine property for a term of years, and erected a large club house, where they are at liberty to come at pleasure. The village of Fishkill, which is situated some six miles from Fishkill Landing, was the scene of many important events during the Revolution. The college grew out of the Church of the Holy Innocents and its parish school. He died about 1860. Of the valley there occur Shaw, Cary, Hunt, Sabin, Salmon, Pearce and Slocum. This village has grown up around the original Five Corners and become a place of importance within the last thirty years. Its surface is generally hilly, and in the southern part mountainous. He purchased the ninth "water lot" of the Nine Partners patent, on which the village of Hyde Park is now situated. A strip of about five thousand acres was taken from it March 1, 1827, to form part of the town of Union Vale. It is one of the largest industries of this kind in the State. Near the western border is Sylvan Lake, covering over one hundred acres. Prepares genealogy tables of early settlers; 7. The first of the clan to come to America and settle in northern New York was Captain Laughlin Campbell, a soldier of great courage, who visited Washington county in 1737 in response to the invitation of the New York authorities to Scotch Highlanders to settle here. Supervises subordinate staff members; 8. The Baptist church was organized in 1777. A grist mill was conducted here during the Revolution by one Vincent. N. O. Dutchess County Genealogical Society In 1715 Beekman induced many Palatines to locate on his lands. The freshet of 1865 swept the dam away. 1865 deaths of officers and enlisted men entry content: Name, age, marital status, citizenship status, enlistment date, original regiment, original rank, regiment at death, rank at death, promotions, death date and place, manner of death, surviving associates, and burial place. The present bank building was erected in 1903. CONTENTS Page. It was rebuilt and leased by the Rotherys to Messrs. Rockwell & Son for a silk factory. The first trustees were James S. Smith, Valentine Baker, Andrew Billings, Ebenezer Badger, and Thomas Nelson. They erected a stone cotton mill in 1814. But in 1713 this path was widened to conform to the rest of the highway. It lies in the extreme northwest corner of Dutchess, bordering Columbia county. William Clark was half of the famous exploration team Lewis and Clark, who explored and mapped the unknown lands west of the Mississippi River. In 1743, the milling industries having largely increased, Madam Brett and others organized the Frankfort Store House. Wappingers Falls, the principal village in the town, is situated at the head of navigation on Wappinger creek, about two miles above its confluence with the Hudson, and the same distance from New Hamburgh, a station on the N. Y. C. & H. R. railroad, with which it is connected by stage. The Sawkill flows through the center of the town. 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. The New York Rubber Co. was organized in 1848, to manufacture articles under the Goodyear patent. The Shekemeko runs in a northerly direction through its western portion. The families of Ver Valin, De Groff, Sleight, Nelson and Cornell settled in the western part of the town previous to the Revolution. The early members have long since passed away, leaving their descendants to unite and to conform to the manners and discipline of other sects. Kip built a stone house on his land in 1700. Festal gathering of the early settlers and present inhabitants of the town of Virgil, Cortland County, N.Y., held at Virgil village, on Thursday, the 25th of August, 1853, embracing a historic sketch of the town, supplemented with a brief historical account of events from that time to 1878 DELAWARE COUNTY From 1872 to 1898 it occupied rooms in the High School building, and was then removed to the Adriance Memorial Library building. The extant records of the village begin in 1803, when Andrew Billings was president. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. The Bank of Rhinebeck was organized in 1853, with a capital of $125,000. This series of books is an invaluable resource for researching the early settlers of Dutchess county, New York. Its growth was slow, and services were finally discontinued. In 2013, Dutchess County celebrated its 300th anniversary of democracy based upon a legislative resolution sponsored by County Legislator Michael Kelsey from Salt Point. Three brothers, Samuel, Amos and Enos Thompson, great grandsons of Anthony Thompson, original planter in the New Haven Colony, came into Dutchess county about 1750. The depot at South Dover is known as Wing's Station. The Beekman mill, built in 1710, near the river, was followed in 1715 by the Beekman-Livingston mills, below "the flatts." Others, such as the Palatines and Quakers (almost all from New England), were early settlers and remained for several generations or more. The Colonial boundaries of the precinct of Amenia included a large part of the present town of North East. A broad and fertile valley runs through the central portion. That summer new bridges were built over streams at Mount Ross and Hoffman's Mill. St. James Episcopal Church was built in 1904. On November 1, 1683, the Province of New York established its first twelve counties, with Dutchess County being one of them. Mr. Rothery was the first to manufacture new files in America. Oswego and Verbank are hamlets. 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. Daughter of Wyellem Heocken and Annatje Andries Willjards. With the granting of a patent known as Minnisinck to Robert Sanders and Myndert Harmans, October 24, 1686, the site of the city of Poughkeepsie began to acquire settlers enough to determine the location of a center or hamlet. The Association holds real estate as follows: Aikin Hall and Manse, the Library Building, Mizzen Top Hotel and cottages. The first factory in Matteawan was established in 1814 by Philip Hone (at one time Mayor of New York) and Peter A. Schenck, who had married Margaret Brett, granddaughter of Madam Brett. 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. The first town meeting in Northeast, as at present constituted, was held at Northeast Center on the first day of April, 1823. Lent of Lagrangeville. This volumn covers the segment between Geneva and Utica, New York. The Treaty of Dover of 1731 stabilized the border zone. Red Hook is a town in Dutchess County. The Ten Mile River, some eighteen miles in length, runs south through the eastern part of the town. It has in 1911 about 1200 inhabitants, four churchesFriends, Methodist, Catholic and Episcopal. Thomas Newbold. In early times there was much trouble over water privileges, and June 4, 1789, Dr. Samuel Bard deeded four small parcels of land to Richard de Cantillon and James Stoutenburgh, thereby adjusting the water privileges. 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. The mills that were built subsequent to 1725 on the Sawkill and the White Clay Kill (now Stony creek) were a prominent feature of the earlier times. 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. Wurtemburg. Early settlers of New York State : their ancestors and descendants by Foley, Janet Wethy Publication date 1934 Topics New York (State) -- Genealogy -- Periodicals Publisher Akron, N.Y. : T.J. Foley Collection findmypastpersi; americana Digitizing sponsor findmypast.com Contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Language English Volume Marriage entry content: Husband's name, wife's name, ages and previous marital status, month and day and place of marriage, and church or civil ceremony. Enos came direct from New Haven. The Quakers established a meeting house on Clover street in 1802. It was built in 1775 by John De Witt, son of Captain Petrus and Rachel (Radcliff) De Witt. Eastman College was started by Harvey G. Eastman in 1859. As noted in the book (see here .). Among the early settlers we find the names of Livingston, Potter, Abel, Morey, Reed, Uhl, Cline and Wilkinson. The village then had something like 1,500 inhabitants, and the population of the whole town in 1800 was 3,246. Alonzo Welton of Poughkeepsie, with twenty-one members. It stood until 1833 at the corner of Church and Market streets, when the old Christ Church, still well remembered, replaced it. The City of Poughkeepsie was chartered in 1854. 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. Their son Jonathan married Anna Wood, daughter of Daniel Wood, in 1774. This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers, particularly David Anderson. In this building the Society of the Cincinnati was instituted, May, 1783. A special dispensation required sparsely settled Dutchess County to maintain only a path or highway wide enough for horse and man. It was undenominational, and was named Carmel in the Nine Partners. One of them established twelve counties, as follows: New York, Kings, Queens, Suffolk, Richmond, Westchester, Albany, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Duke's and Cornwall. Vassar College, founded by Matthew Vassar, was chartered by the Legislature January 18, 1861. The villages of Red Hook and Tivoli-Madalin are the chief centers of population, and Barrytown is of some importance as a railroad depot. The Green Fuel Economizer Co. is one of the important industries in the village, and was established in 1891. Joseph Doty of the do Blacksmith. If you have some time and would like to get involved please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org. The Dutchess County Academy, founded at Fishkill, was removed to Poughkeepsie in 1792. The General Montgomery and the Governor Lewis mills were built in 1774 and 1800, respectively. On November 1, 1683, the Province of New York established its first twelve counties, with Dutchess County being one of them. The Methodist Church at Poughquag was erected in 1839, and in the same year the Baptist Society built a church at Beekmanville. This town is described as the southeast corner town in Dutchess county. 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. 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. Following the division in the Society in 1828 the Hicksites built a meeting house at Moore's Mills, where meetings are regularly held. 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 fine old estates in this town overlooking the Hudson include "Rokeby," "Blithewood," the Callendar House and "Chateau Tivoli," elsewhere described in this volume. The hamlet contains a hotel built in 1858, two stores and a few dwellings. After the burning of Kingston in October 1777, Poughkeepsie served as the state capitol until the conclusion of hostilities. Settlers Of The Beekman Patent Dutchess County New York Mills To Page by Frank J. Doherty Back to Table of Contents In 1882 the Millerton National Bank was organized with G. S. Frink as President, and W. M. Dales as Cashier. Among the early settlers on the east side we find the names of Sherman, Merrit, Birdsall, Irish, Akin, Craft, Chase and Osborn. This was the origin of river freighting. The printed index is also available at the end of this volume, starting on page 845. These are soon to be let loose in the adjacent streams, to be angled for when the"law is up." Celebrated luminaries including Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and NY Governor George Clinton argued alongside local notables like Melancton Smith. Dover Plains is the most important village in the town. First Effective Action Against Slavery Taken Here in 1767. Its first pastors were Revs. A cotton mill had a brief existence here. Z. Dutchess William Thorne, great-great-grandfather of Samuel Thorne, the present owner of Thorndale, was one of the first settlers of Nine Partners, and was a merchant and large landholder. 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. 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Box 708, Poughkeepsie NY 12602 www.dcgs-gen.org for the Study of FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH Town Historian with more to come! The two eldest married the Kuhn sisters, daughters of Simon Kuhn. A range of hills, locally known as Quaker Hill, extends along the east border. It was established in 1797, and was the first public library in Dutchess county. They settled along the Fishkill River and in the areas that are now Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck. In 1911 it contains about 50,000 volumes. Milan was taken off in 1818, and Pine Plains was erected into a separate township in 1823. 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. 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." John Barkalo, Dr. Thomas De Witt, Rev. The Legislature was in session at Poughkeepsie when the news of the surrender of Cornwallis was received, in October, 1781. The first settlers were the families of Barent Baltus Van Kleeck and Hendrick Jans van Oosterom. The same year a free library was organized as a voluntary association. The town of Washington occupies a central position in the county. Previous to this date meetings were held occasionally in different neighborhoods by "circuit riders," and the inhabitants of the Morey vicinity attended chiefly at Potter's Hollow, where the first church edifice was built, and from which it was removed to Morey's in 1866, and called the "Trinity Church of La Grange." This is a natural fountain of the purest water, from which flows a stream equivalent to an ordinary mill-race. Later an industry for the manufacture of cement, for use in the first Poughkeepsie bridge, was started here. This was destroyed by fire January 18, 1857, and the present brick building erected shortly thereafter, and dedicated September 7, 1858. A new building was erected in 1838. For a time, was annexed to Ulster County, separated in 1713. The official headquarters of General Washington, during his sojourn with his army in Pawling in 1778, were at the house of John Kane, now the site of the Roberts' residence. Its importance as a place of river commerce was equal to that of the two landings, or docks, at Fishkill, but it could not withstand the competition with Fishkill Landing after John Peter De Wint had completed the Long Dock, about 1815, with facilities for the shipment of produce from the back country, notwithstanding Chelsea's deep water and other advantages. The FamilySearch Catalog: the Amazing Free Resource You Might Be Missing. This page has been viewed 74,075 times (4,778 via redirect). Nicholas Van Vranken, Rev. John, James, Daniel and Robert Wilson, four brothers, settled in the vicinity of Upper Red Hook before 1770, and engaged in farming. He settled on the west side of the river, opposite the forty acre island, known as Stowel's Island . Central Hudson said 35 customers in Dutchess County and 25 customers in Orange County are without power. It is a frame building 35 by 55 feet, three stories high, and cost about $8,000. As a natural consequence the Junction has become the business center of the town. 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. Landscape painters Frederick Church and Thomas Cole gained fame and patronage as the Hudson River School flourished, while landscape architects including Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux selected Dutchess County as the canvass for several remarkable projects, including Springside in Poughkeepsie. It was destroyed by fire in 1910. 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. Old Gravestones of Dutchess County, NY collected and edited by J. Wilson Poucher, M.D. The Clove Spring Iron Works was organized in 1873. "To qualify for inclusion in this work a family had to have been in Beekman or Pawling by the time of the first census in 1790 [with] a few exceptions."--Intro. The territory comprising the town of La Grange was formed from portions of the towns of Fishkill and Beekman, February 9, 1821, under the name of Freedom. Co. which was organized in 1812 by Peter H. Schenck, J. J. Astor, Philip Hone, and others. Her mother was Mary Wady, daughter of John Barracks were erected on the plateau southeast of the village, and frequently large bodies of troops were stationed there. The names of the early settlers on this tract are only to be learned from mention made in various records, such as surveys of highways and minutes of town meetings.The earliest names found are in the survey of highways in 1745: Eli Nelson, Francis Nelson, David Hustis, Nathan Lane, Gilbert Cronkhyt, Joseph Jaycox, Joseph Aries, Joseph Cronkhyt, Paul Upton and Christopher Dibble were early settlers herethe former coming from Massachusetts, the latter from Long Island. A grist mill was established in 1850 by Seaman & Northrup. They came as far as Cooperstown on horseback, and thence by canoe down the Susquehanna, leaving Cooperstown May 2, 1786. Among the earliest settlers were the Swartwouts, Storms, Emans, Montforts, Stockholms, Rapeljes, Van Wycks, Baileys and Van Vlackrens. Collections of the Dutchess County . 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. Three additional patents, to 1706, laid claim to the remaining interior lands. The establishment of ferry service at Rhinebeck in 1752, brought the inhabitants in closer connection with Rondout. 060, p. 306] Gilbert FERGUSON. Along the banks of the Wappingers stood several factories. Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York: Historical records Frank J. Doherty F.J. Doherty, 1990 - History - 885 pages 2 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks. In 1843 Silas Rogers founded a wagon axle manufacturing business, which was carried on until western competition became too strong. The "house of Israel Reynolds" (Stissing House) was designated in the early records as the place where town business was transacted, and where the first town meeting for Pine Plains was held. The population was 9,953 at the time of the 2020 census, down from 11,319 in 2010. Wassaic is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Amenia, Dutchess County, New York, United States. Among the early settlers were the families of Newcomb, Filkins, Humphreys, Halls, Jacksons, Aliens, Flaglers, Formans, Marshalls, Beadles, Deans, Sellecks, Abbotts, Van Voorhees, Harris and Frost. His tavern and store were erected during the Revolution, and in 1792 he built a brick residence; the brick was manufactured on the premises, the materials being thrown together in a mass, and mixed by means of oxen treading on it. Among the pastors who served this church were Rev. CONNECTICUT Founded about 1635 by Thomas Hooker Early Connecticut Histories Early European settlements clustered along the Hudson River at modern Beacon, Fishkill, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, and Red Hook. 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. The Beekman Iron Mine was discovered in 1846 by William E. Haxtun. There is a National and a Savings Bank in the village; a daily and a weekly newspaper. 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. Staatsburg, a village in the northern part of the town, derives its name from the Staats family, who settled here about 1720. Enter your email address here to receive a notification when we publish a new database. On this Emigh homestead is the far-famed Clove Spring. The Province of New York and the Connecticut Colony negotiated an agreement on November 28, 1683, establishing their border as 20 miles (32 km) east of the Hudson River, north to Massachusetts. St. Paul's Church was built in 1843, and the Westminster Presbyterian Church at Salt Point in 1862. These early Quaker settlers or "Friends" as they preferred to be called, were mainly farmers and came from Dutchess County, NY and previously England. 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. Dover was taken off and made into a separate township in 1807. Eastern part of the first bridge project in 1873 consequence the Junction has the. 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