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. and History, Historical and Genealogical Record Dutchess and Putnam Counties. Search terms should be focused on First and Last names. Large quantities of stores from Dutchess and adjacent counties were there accumulated for use of the Continental army. Alonzo Welton of Poughkeepsie, with twenty-one members. 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 combination of highways, railroads, and river access transformed western Dutchess into an industrial powerhouse, while strengthening agriculture in eastern Dutchess. The Dutch church was organized October 10, 1716, by Rev. From Vassar College to small community libraries, learning thrived in Dutchess County from the second quarter of the nineteenth century onwards. His step-son Josias Crego was also one of the patentees. In 1791 he kept a store at what is now Barrytown Landing. Oswego and Verbank are hamlets. N. O. The present church, dedicated May 26, 1869, is the third edifice of the Society in the town. They were freighters, storekeepers and millers before and after the Revolution. High-tech industries and modern shopping malls have replaced brickyards and trading posts. 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 two eldest married the Kuhn sisters, daughters of Simon Kuhn. Isaac Rysdyck, 1765 to 1790. He died about 1860. The village of Pine Plains had an official name as a postoffice a few years prior to its organization as a town. They came as far as Cooperstown on horseback, and thence by canoe down the Susquehanna, leaving Cooperstown May 2, 1786. The Quakers established a meeting house on Clover street in 1802. At one time the destruction of a very large section of the village seemed inevitable, as buildings on the north side of the street were several times on fire, but the force pump which supplied water to the reservoir had been started and water came down through the pipes at the critical time, so that the flames were controlled. North of this is "The Locusts," the estate of William B. Dinsmore, now owned by his widow and children. 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. March 27, 1799, Poughkeepsie was incorporated as a village, the charter providing for a board of five trustees to be elected on the third Tuesday in May. It was not a success financially, and in 1883 was discontinued. The early members have long since passed away, leaving their descendants to unite and to conform to the manners and discipline of other sects. Volume 10 contains over 1,200 pages and is focused on families with last names between Paine to Rogers. 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. The company has lately invested thousands of dollars in the acquisition of rights and in erecting buildings for the use of the club. 8 Aug., 1702. Parties were sent to the bordering settlements to intimidate the patriots, and obtain supplies for the British army. It is a spacious structure, and was erected in 1907 by Hon. By Capt. Records of Crum Elbow Precinct, Dutchess County, New York, 1738-1761, Together With Records of Charlotte Precinct, 1762-1785, Records of Clinton Precinct, . On the eastern and western borders are ranges of hills almost mountainous in their dimensions, while the center forms a valley, some four hundred feet above tidewater, containing thrifty farms and pleasant villages. The eastern half of the stub of land in northeast Dutchess County containing Rudd Pond and Taconic State Park is the northernmost extension of The Oblong. Students are attracted to it from all parts of the country. Petrus Vas. 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 York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Joshua Shearman of Beekmans precinct Shoemaker. At a meeting of the town officers May 19, 1821, Charles A. Shaw was appointed "a discreet and proper person" to take the census. Circuit Court Southern District, 1846-1876, U.S. District Court Eastern District, (Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties), 1865-1906, U.S. District Court Southern Court Southern District, (New York, Bronx and also Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Richmond, Rockland, Sullivan and Westchester counties), 1824-1906. The town was formed from the western section of Clinton, January 26, 1821. Death entry content: Name, age, sex, color, marital status, month and day of death, native state or country, occupation and cause of death. James Emans obtained a grant of land from Madam Brett near the present hamlet of East Fishkill. On the west side there once dwelt the ancestors of the families by the name of Worden, Moshier, Dentory, Dibble, Davis and Turner. From 1872 to 1898 it occupied rooms in the High School building, and was then removed to the Adriance Memorial Library building. Its surface is generally hilly, and in the southern part mountainous. 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. Lewis, Jonathan Lyon, Isaiah Sherman. In 1882 the Millerton National Bank was organized with G. S. Frink as President, and W. M. Dales as Cashier. Dutchess County, New York genealogy and family history page is a place where you can come in and research your genealogy and family history. In 1728, three years before the New York-Connecticut boundary line adjustment, the first settlers had arrived in "the Oblong." The road network continued to grow throughout the nineteenth century, eventually being eclipsed by the railroad, which reached Poughkeepsie in the 1830s. Date: 2003-01 ISBN: 0962644315 | ISBN-13: 9780962644313 More Details Similar Books Compare Prices 4 April 1786: the towns of Clermont and Germantown were transferred to Columbia County when the county was created. From 1715 to 1730 most of the new settlers in Dutchess county were Germans. Education. The Sawkill flows through the center of the town. 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. Samuel Thorne and Oakleigh Thorne have returned to the land of their ancestors. The town of Washington occupies a central position in the county. 4 were here. We regret that are unable to do personal research for you. 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On the west border of the town are several country estates of families prominent in the social and business world, including those of John A. Roosevelt, who owned Mount Hope, and Mrs. James Roosevelt, who has an estate a few miles further north. Other early settlers were the Bowermans, Wilburs, Briggs, Whites, Pells, Hicks, Martins, Motts, Fultons, Stalls, Fellers, Hopemans, Philips, Teats and Frasers. Isaac Blauvelt, Rev. They were: The Settlers of Beekman Patents, 13 volumes. The Harlem Railroad, which traverses north and south, was built through the town of Dover in 1849. Its surface is a hilly upland, intersected by a broad valley extending north and south. The College opened in 1865, with 353 students. They began operations on Staten Island, and in 1857 removed to the present location in Matteawan. The Beekman Iron Mine was discovered in 1846 by William E. Haxtun. Dutchess was among them, named after Mary of Modena, then Duchess of York and wife of the future King James II of England. It was formed as a town March 17, 1788. Many of these moved in from Albany and Ulster Counties. Amenia, the largest, has above a hundred dwellings. Territorially it is the smallest town in Dutchess county, covering 16,025 acres, but in point of population and industrial activity it is one of the most important. is now present-day Fishkill Hook, and also held gatherings along the Danskammer. Meetings are held here at stated intervals. For thisland he paid 750 pounds, on which, in 1766, he built a stone homestead. As noted in the book (see here .). Its territory belonged to the tract known as the Great Nine Partners Patent. Another large house in the village was Gilbert Budd's, a cousin of Underhill Budd, whose farm lay in the vicinity. Frank J. Doherty, Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York (Pleasant Valley, New York: Frank J. Doherty, 1990), 3:64. 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 town contains no villages of commercial importance. Philip had a son, William P. Rowe, who served as a soldier in the war of 1812. Extensive plains originally covered by pine forests gave the town its name. Officers, --------- V Life and Annual Members, ----.. yj Cons Hone and Schenck built the mill now belonging to the Matteawan Mfg. Dutchess is an archaic form of the word duchess. 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. They settled along the Fishkill River and in the areas that are now Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck. 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 The name is supposedly derived from the red foliage . It originally extended westward to the Hudson and comprised over 66,000 acres, with a population in 1790 of 4,607. 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. About 1735 Jacob Stoutenburgh, a Hollander and trader from Westchester, became interested in lands now comprised within the bounds of this town. The families included "Sovryn the Baker," Harmans, the patentee, Balthazar Barnse, Hendrick Ostrom, Simon Scoute and Baltus Van Kleeck. 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 town of Amenia, erected in 1823, embraces some forty square miles on the extreme eastern border of the county. The Methodist Church at Poughquag was erected in 1839, and in the same year the Baptist Society built a church at Beekmanville. DOWNLOAD OPTIONS download 1 file . Others, such as the Palatines and Quakers (almost all from New England), were early settlers and remained for several generations or more. The charter was granted to Abraham Kip on the east side of the river, and to Moses Contine on the west side. 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. Early settlers in the Town of DeRuyter taken from 1784 History of Chenango & Madison Counties, NY by James H Smith; pub. 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. 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