Ten years later the "Red Meeting House" was erected. Dover was taken off and made into a separate township in 1807. . It originally extended westward to the Hudson and comprised over 66,000 acres, with a population in 1790 of 4,607. St. James Episcopal Church was built in 1904. This village was incorporated in 1886, and now includes within its limits Byrnesville, Wiccopee and Tioronda. The precinct records shed some light upon the names of the first dwellers in the original town. The church property was sold in 1893. 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.". Counties included are Oneida, Madison, Chenago, Onondage, Chemung, Brooms, Elmira, and parts of Ontario. 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. A notable fire of the village days was the burning of the court house September 25, 1806. The Bank of Pawling was organized in 1849 by Albert J. Aikin. 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. gave the house and land to her nephew, Sebring Ackerman. 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. From Vassar College to small community libraries, learning thrived in Dutchess County from the second quarter of the nineteenth century onwards. Central Hudson said 35 customers in Dutchess County and 25 customers in Orange County are without power. DeRuyter was formed from Cazenovia March 15, 1798, and was named at the suggestion of John Lincklaen from Admiral DeRuyter of the Dutch navy. It later became the property of John LeRoy, who, with his son Abraham, ran it for upwards of forty years. Colonists from New England founded communities throughout the disputed areas of eastern Dutchess in the opening decades of the eighteenth century. A grist mill was conducted here during the Revolution by one Vincent. The metal was of superior quality. Other early settlers were the Bowermans, Wilburs, Briggs, Whites, Pells, Hicks, Martins, Motts, Fultons, Stalls, Fellers, Hopemans, Philips, Teats and Frasers. 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. 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. Moses Shearman of do Labourer. From 1683 to 1715 most of the settlers in Dutchess . These barracks became the retreat for wounded and naked soldiers. Near the western border is Sylvan Lake, covering over one hundred acres. 1 Family History Library, History of Little Nine Partners of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess county, Vol. The " Red Lion," another notable inn, was located at Webatuck, and part of the original building is standing. Back to Table of Contents By 1826 the Presbyterians were permanently organized and built a church on Cannon street. We regret that are unable to do personal research for you. On November 1, 1683, the Province of New York established its first twelve counties, with Dutchess County being one of them. One of them established twelve counties, as follows: New York, Kings, Queens, Suffolk, Richmond, Westchester, Albany, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Duke's and Cornwall. It has in 1911 about 1200 inhabitants, four churchesFriends, Methodist, Catholic and Episcopal. "Each family had 10 to 14 kids, and . The eastern portion of Pine Plains was settled by the Palatines. 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. It originally included all the territory covered by the Rombout Patent, granted by James II, in 1685, confirming the deed of land made to Francis Rombout and GulianVerplanck by the Wappinger Indians in 1683. From 1683 to 1715 most of the settlers in Dutchess County were Dutch. The plant covers about 1200 acres, and gives employment to 400 persons. At a meeting of the town officers May 19, 1821, Charles A. Shaw was appointed "a discreet and proper person" to take the census. Paul Upton and Christopher Dibble were early settlers herethe former coming from Massachusetts, the latter from Long Island. ^ P A^ P E R S NEW HAVEN COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 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. 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." 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. The name Poughkeepsie is first found in an Indian deed, dated May 5, 1683, on file in Albany, granting to Pieter Lansingh and Jan Smeedes each a farm, and to the latter "also a waterfall near the bank of the river to build a, mill thereon. The Rhinebeck Savings Bank was organized in 1862. Ease of access and economic prosperity brought the first families of American from New York City to found or expand estates along the Hudson River. 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. In that year the stone house was built, now standing, on the Emigh homestead, at present in possession of a grandson of William. A freshet in 1841 swept away Given's cotton mill and the print works dam. Peter Contine and his wife, Eleanor, daughter of Jacob Heermance of Kingston, lived at Upper Red Hook previous to the Revolution. The Rothery File Works was established in 1835, by John Rothery, who came from Yorkshire, England. 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 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. The building was finished in 1723. In 1810 the town had 4,669 inhabitants and the village 2,981. It shows the plottings of a proposed village with several streets, including Liberty, Spring, Union, Market and North; also a Broadway. There are no incorporated villages in the town. Whaley Pond, Lake Norton, Green Mountain Lake and Lake Hammersley are considerable bodies of water. The village of Fishkill, which is situated some six miles from Fishkill Landing, was the scene of many important events during the Revolution. In this building the Society of the Cincinnati was instituted, May, 1783. George Clinton, was formed from the precincts of Charlotte and Rhinebeck, March 13, 1786. That they have paid $3,700. The location of the tavern on Colles map of 1789 places it about a mile and a half southeast of Sylvan Lake. His family's home is now managed by the National Park Service. Pine Plains has a public library of nearly 3,000 volumes. The Titus, Coffin, Mitchell, Pinkham, Comstock, Allen, Roger, Hull, Coleman, Haight, Haviland and Talcott families settled in the town previous to 1750. The town of Dover lies on the southeastern border of the county. It was located on the then chief highway from Hartford to Fishkill. Johannes Rowe died in 1771, and was buried in the family ground across the road from the church which bears the family name. The seeds for post-World War II prosperity in Dutchess were planted in 1942 when IBM purchased property in Poughkeepsie. 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. The Native Americans who lived in the Hudson Valley just before and at the time of European contact were agriculturalists," says Joseph Diamond, a professor of archaeology at SUNY New Paltz. 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". Samuel Thorne and Oakleigh Thorne have returned to the land of their ancestors. 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. There are two churchesBaptist and Methodist. The capital which was then $75,000 has been increased to $300,000. They had their council-fire at what is now present-day Fishkill Hook, and also held gatherings along the Danskammer. The Sawkill flows through the center of the town. The business was discontinued with the failure of the first bridge project in 1873. The name of Freedom was given to the town by Enoch Dorland, a Quaker preacher. 1776-1805 Dutchess County, New York Marriage Records. C37, JMM "10,000 Vital Records of Eastern New York, 1777-1834." Records for the time period of 1683-1713 are in Ulster county. I LDS Genealogy, History of Little Nine Partners of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess county, Vol. The organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church of La Grange was effected July 14, 1849. The Treaty of Dover of 1731stabilized the border zone. The first town meeting was held at the house of William Wolven in April, 1821. The trail would become the means by which settlers would access the frontier. Hone and Schenck built the mill now belonging to the Matteawan Mfg. Akin Hall Association, was founded by Albert John Akin in 1882, for the promotion of benevolence, charity, literature and science. The village was incorporated June 30, 1875, with N. C. Beach, President. Thomas Garner became the principal owner. The New York Rubber Co. was organized in 1848, to manufacture articles under the Goodyear patent. 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 covers an area of about 33,000 acres, being the second largest town territorially in the county, exceeded only by the town of Washington. It was a transfer on the part of three Indians, to Gerritt Artsen, Arie Rosa and Jan Elton. 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. Harvey G. Eastman, George Innis, Mark D. Wilbur and George P. Pelton were leaders in this latter improvement era. National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. FamilySearch affiliate libraries may have access to center-only databases, but do not always have all services normally provided by a FamilySearch center. 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. Red Hook is a town in Dutchess County. The pulpit is now supplied by Rev. Another large house in the village was Gilbert Budd's, a cousin of Underhill Budd, whose farm lay in the vicinity. North of this is the estate which has been in the possession of Mr. Archibald Rogers for the past twenty-two years, and is known as " Crumwold." These include the Elmendorph Inn at Red Hook and the Beekman Arms in Rhinebeck. Millerton, the largest village in the town, derived its name from Sidney G. Miller, one of the builders of the New York and Harlem Railroad. Among the early settlers are the names familiar at the present timeWinans, Smith, Harris, Reynolds, Hoffman, Pulver, Deuel, Dibblee, Husted, Stevenson, Rau (Rowe), Seldon, and others. The Green Fuel Economizer Co. is one of the important industries in the village, and was established in 1891. Rebecca's father was Joseph Bryan, and her mother died shortly after . Little Wappinger Creek flows southerly through the center of the town. The Memorial Building at Rhinecliff contains a libbrary, a reading room, and an auditorium. Through June and July 1788, the Dutchess County Courthouse at Poughkeepsie provided the scene for New Yorks Ratification Debates on the United States Constitution. A new building was erected in 1838. The present bank building was erected in 1903. Occupied as Hospital in 1778 By Revolutionary Soldiers Many of Whom Are Buried South of This Road. Matthew Vassar gave the site, some 200 acres of land, and added about $400,000. A church at Washington Hollow was erected in 1747 by the Presbyterian society. NEW HAVEN: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY. Its growth was slow, and services were finally discontinued. She set about establishing mills and invited settlers to come upon her land and develop it. The Quaker Society was also organized at an early date. As noted in the book (see here .). In the succeeding decade some forty families from the North of Ireland settled in the country west of the Hudson in what became Orange and Ulster counties. The first settlement in Afton was made in July, 1786, by Elnathan Bush, who came in from Sheffield, Mass., with his family, then consisting of his wife and four children. Mabbettsville, Oak Summit and Lithgow are hamlets. Landsman Kill, the principal stream, was an important factor in the development of the milling industry in the early days of the town. Quaker Hill and West Mountain were probably settled long before the lands in the valley. The building they had erected in 1873 was destroyed by fire in 1876. 6,388 Views . Collections of the Dutchess County . 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 Located in southeastern New York in the valley of the Ten Mile River, Wassaic is bordered to the east and west by mountain ranges. 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. The Morehouse Tavern at Wingdale, torn down in 1877, was a noted hostelry during the Revolution. Most of the first settlers in Dutchess County were Dutch. Officers, --------- V Life and Annual Members, ----.. yj Cons The first settlers were the families of Barent Baltus Van Kleeck and Hendrick Jans van Oosterom. His step-son Josias Crego was also one of the patentees. 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. 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Schryvers, Justice of the Peace, 1830-1831, 1834-1840 Family History Library, La Grange : an historical review Ancestry, History of Little Nine Partners of North East Precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Dutchess County, vol. 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. 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 fine old estates in this town overlooking the Hudson include "Rokeby," "Blithewood," the Callendar House and "Chateau Tivoli," elsewhere described in this volume. Early settlers in the Town of DeRuyter taken from 1784 History of Chenango & Madison Counties, NY by James H Smith; pub. Nicholas Bonesteel and Anna Margretha Kuhn, his wife, with some of their children, were among the early settlers. In 1891 the village was bonded for a sum not to exceed $15,000 to procure a water supply. Extensive plains originally covered by pine forests gave the town its name. First Name (optional) Locality: Accessions to the Presbytery of Dutchess County 1760-1788 (Source: Awesome Genealogy) Dutch Reformed Church Records, 1639-1989 includes Fishkill, New Hackensack, Poughkeepsie (The Flats), Red Hook, Reyn Beeck (now Red Hook), Tivoli and Upper Red Hook (Source: Explore Ancestry for free) ($) Dutchess County Church . The General Montgomery and the Governor Lewis mills were built in 1774 and 1800, respectively. 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. While the Tories were thus showing authority, they were surprised by a company of American soldiers from Sharon, Connecticut. 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. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Search Free Dutchess County New York Genealogy and Family History Records Online including census, cemetery, vital, military and other genealogical and historical records that can be used for your family history research. Adjoining Hyde Park village on the north is the country seat of Mr. F. W. Vanderbilt, who purchased the property in 1895. South Dutchess County expanded rapidly, growing from fewer than 50 families in 1740 to nearly 1,400 in 1790. The Reformed Church at Hopewell dates back to 1757. A special dispensation required sparsely settled Dutchess County to maintain only a path or highway wide enough for horse and man. 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. It has always been an industrial center. That, however, was only for the first election, all subsequent elections for many years coming in April. 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 series of books is an invaluable resource for researching the early settlers of Dutchess county, New York. 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. 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. 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. Isaac Blauvelt, Rev. Franklin D. Roosevelt lived in his family home in Hyde Park, overlooking the Hudson River. The Harlem Railroad, which traverses north and south, was built through the town of Dover in 1849. It continues to prosper. Clinton Corners, Clinton Hollow, Schultzville and Pleasant Plains are hamlets. Meetings are held here at stated intervals. 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