Smithfield, Amenia Union, South Amenia and Leedsville are small, pleasant villages. Clinton Corners, Clinton Hollow, Schultzville and Pleasant Plains are hamlets. It is the only public building in Rhinecliff. It became a National Bank in 1865. By 1730 it was decided to have a church in the immediate vicinity, which was erected on the site of the present "Old Dutch Church.". Among the families who responded were the Brinckerhoff, Van Wyck, Wiltse, Van Voorhis, Hasbrouck, Terbush and Dubois. The Clove Kill is a tributary of the Fishkill, flowing southwesterly through the town. Early Settlers of New York State, Vol. His step-son Josias Crego was also one of the patentees. Several Quaker families resided in this vicinity. During his service as governor and subsequently as President of the United States, Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor made Dutchess an experimental laboratory for New Deal ideas. Its capital stock is $45,000. Another "Old Union" stood on the Amos Denton farm, perhaps older than the one at Green Haven. Other early settlers were the Vanderburghs, Vandebogerts, Parmentors, Lewis, Pells, Titsoorts and Filkins. South of this is the Catholic church, its attendants forming an outlying mission of the Sylvan Lake Church. Three additional patents, to 1706, laid claim to the remaining interior lands. The Christian Church of Stanfordville was established in 1840; and the Methodists built a house of worship in 1843. Brendan Morrow, Staff Writer. Several of the above mentioned mills and adjoining buildings were burned by a detachment of British troops immediately after the destruction of Kingston in 1777. Pawling village, incorporated in 1903, has about 800 inhabitants. 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. South Dutchess County expanded rapidly, growing from fewer than 50 families in 1740 to nearly 1,400 in 1790. A range of hills, locally known as Quaker Hill, extends along the east border. CONTENTS Page. v. 2. Between 1830 and 1837 the village grew rapidly and a remarkable real estate boom was inaugurated by the Poughkeepsie Improvement Party, which included such men as Paraclete Potter, editor of the Poughkeepsie Journal, Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, United States Senator, Matthew Vassar, Walter Cunningham, George P. Oakley and Gideon P. Hewitt. Artsen, with a family of ten children, came to live upon and cultivate his land in 1702. The camps were occupied until the "contact period" in the early 1600's. The Wappingers (Wappinnee, Wapinck, Wappinge) and related Native American communities lived along the eastern banks of the Mahikannituck (Hudson River), from modern Dutchess County NY, east into central Connecticut, and south into Westchester County. The building they had erected in 1873 was destroyed by fire in 1876. 20-62; Transcribed by Terri Griffiths). Meetings are held here at stated intervals. Records current events for posterity; 9. This village has grown up around the original Five Corners and become a place of importance within the last thirty years. Canaan, Columbia County, New York. The Town of Red Hook. The freshet of 1819 destroyed many mills on the banks of the Wappinger, and carried away the Main street bridge at the Falls. Eastman College was started by Harvey G. Eastman in 1859. A notable fire of the village days was the burning of the court house September 25, 1806. The fine old estates in this town overlooking the Hudson include "Rokeby," "Blithewood," the Callendar House and "Chateau Tivoli," elsewhere described in this volume. In 1911 it contains about 50,000 volumes. In 1832 James Ingham established a plant for calico printing, subsequently known as the Dutchess Print Works. The Ten Mile River, some eighteen miles in length, runs south through the eastern part of the town. The name of the town is derived from Col. Henry Beekman, who in 1697 obtained a grant of all the land east of Rombout's patent to the Oblong. It was undenominational, and was named Carmel in the Nine Partners. Colonists from New England founded communities throughout the disputed areas of eastern Dutchess in the opening decades of the eighteenth century. Construction of the Borden Milk Companys headquarters at Wassaic in Amenia insured the long prominence of the dairy industry in that region. 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 Services were continued for some years in the school house as often as a supply could be obtained. Red Hook was taken off in 1812. At the mouth of Stony creek was the mill of Jannetje Bradt, Park's mill at Myersville (Madalin), Cook's factory, and Zachariah Hoffman's mill. The Church of England, predecessor of the present Episcopal church, was organized in 1766, and erected a building. 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. Entituled an Act for Regulating the militia fo the Colony of New York. About eighty pounds of fresh beef is ground up daily for their consumption. First Effective Action Against Slavery Taken Here in 1767. The village lies on both sides of the creek, having been made to include the village of Channingville, in the town of Poughkeepsie, by its incorporation, September 22, 1871. The Shekemeko runs in a northerly direction through its western portion. John Montross, Gideon Ver Valin, Johannes Schurrie, Adolphus Brewer, John Schuyler, Samuel Bayard and Joseph Vail were early settlers. Hone and Schenck built the mill now belonging to the Matteawan Mfg. The business proved unsuccessful, and the mill was allowed to fall to ruin. The families of Ver Valin, De Groff, Sleight, Nelson and Cornell settled in the western part of the town previous to the Revolution. This town, which was named for Gov. The village contains several stores, mechanical shops, and the Borden creamery. Get $10 off your first order with the promo code DUTCHESS How it Works We Collect After you place your order we collect it from your home, any day of the week including Sundays We Clean ClothesLyners are your partners in this. Records of Crum Elbow precinct, Dutchess county, New York, 1738-1761. Washington, Arnold, Marquis de Chastellux and La Fayette lodged at this tavern. Wurtemburg. (I) Phillippe Martin Wiltsee, of Fort Orange and Waalbogt, was born in the latter part of the sixteenth century in Holland (probably at Tirlamont), and died in Swaanendael, March, 1632. 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. It contains a National Bank with a capital of $100,000, organized in 1857; a Military School established in 1880; a Union Free School building which cost $10,000, and a Public Library with over one thousand volumes. Other early settlers were the families of Winegar, Delamater, Paine, Hopkins, Wheeler, Benton, Carpenter, Reed and Swift. The Friends house of worship here was for many years called the "Crom Elbow Meeting House," erected about the year 1774. Later arrivals were Peter Mesier, John Hughson and Rev. But the influx of Quakers and their progeny wasn't, and over the next 20 years the community outgrew it. Early settlements in Dutchess County, New York Family History Library General History of Dutchess County, New York, 1877 (included in U.S. County and Regional Histories and Atlases collection) Ancestry General history of Duchess County from 1609 to 1876 Index LDS Genealogy General history of Duchess County from 1609 to 1876 Index Internet Archive A hotel was built here by William Waltmier, who, ten years later, disposed of the property to Jacob Knickerbacker. In 1785, New York State granted the first license for the Post Road, formally establishing a series of taverns and inns along modern Route 9, some of which still stand today. Those for Dutchess county are as follows vizt. 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. CountyNew YorkGenealogy Note: Affiliate links are used within the directory on this site and a small contribution goes to the website for some purchases made. A coal and lumber yard was established in 1869 by R. C. Horton, and the following year Lawrence C. Rapelje built a hotel, which he leased to Edward Lasher. 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. Richard Sackett was the first settler in the town. From 1715 to 1730 most of the new settlers in Dutchess county were Germans. Isaac Rysdyck, 1765 to 1790. Settlers Of The Beekman Patent Dutchess County New York Mills To Page by Frank J. Doherty The principal streams are Ten Mile River, Wassaic Creek, and West Brook. Meeting Divided in 1828. Fishkill-on-Hudson. Charles B. Whitehead and Rev. This is one of the southern tier towns of Dutchess, its southern angle extending almost to the north line of Putnam county. A paper mill was established previous to 1840, and in 1844 was burned down. It had a capacity of 250,000 yards of cloth per week. The two towns comprised the greater part of Rynbeck precinct, organized December 16, 1737. The historic Oblong Meeting House, which is still standing, bears a tablet containing these words: "OBLONG MEETING HOUSE of the Society of Friends Erected in 1742 South of This Road. Present Meeting House Erected in 1760. The printed index is also available at the end of this volume, starting on page 845. The Legislature was in session at Poughkeepsie when the news of the surrender of Cornwallis was received, in October, 1781. The FamilySearch Catalog: the Amazing Free Resource You Might Be Missing. The College opened in 1865, with 353 students. 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. The First Settlement. 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. The Carmans and Arkles settled near them, about the year 1758, and to the north, Isaac Adriance, "of Nassau Island, Queens County," purchased two hundred and fifty acres of land in May, 1743, and shortly thereafter George and Abraham Adriance purchased and settled. 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. In later years it was used only for entertainments. A growing population, with accompanying expansions of suburbs, required new roads and increased engagement from county government. Many of these moved in from Albany and Ulster Counties. Daniel Sherman of do Labourer. John D. Rockefeller and Frederick F. Thompson have also been large benefactors. Among the early settlers on the east side we find the names of Sherman, Merrit, Birdsall, Irish, Akin, Craft, Chase and Osborn. A church at Washington Hollow was erected in 1747 by the Presbyterian society. 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. This embraced the present towns of Beekman, Union Vale, a portion of La Grange, and nearly all of Pawling and Dover, with the exception of a strip along their eastern border. His name appears in the official record of Supervisors in 1754, and that of Bartholomew Noxon in 1761. Thomas Garner became the principal owner. It has a Masonic and Knights of Pythias Lodge, Knights of Columbus and Millbrook Club, Junior Order American Mechanics, a Woman's Christian Temperance Union and a weekly newspaper. Supervises subordinate staff members; 8. In 1891 the village was bonded for a sum not to exceed $15,000 to procure a water supply. The Methodists organized in 1804 and built a church in Jefferson street. Samuel and Amos had been connected with the Goshen, Connecticut settlement. This hamlet was on the Post road from Northeast to Rhinebeck, and was a place of some business importance. That summer new bridges were built over streams at Mount Ross and Hoffman's Mill. The village contains several large manufacturing plants, notably the Fishkill Landing Machine Co., incorporated in 1853; The Dutchess Hat Works, organized in 1873 by Lewis Tompkins; and the Dutchess Tool Co., which has been in existence since 1886. On the west side there once dwelt the ancestors of the families by the name of Worden, Moshier, Dentory, Dibble, Davis and Turner. The location of the tavern on Colles map of 1789 places it about a mile and a half southeast of Sylvan Lake. Yards of cloth per week River, some eighteen miles in length, runs south through the town erected the. 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