It was afterwards owned by George Cookingham, Harris & LeRoy, Frost & Cookingham, and since 1877 by J. Prior to Anglo-Dutch settlement, what is today Dutchess County was a leading center for the native Wappinger peoples. The company has lately invested thousands of dollars in the acquisition of rights and in erecting buildings for the use of the club. The location of the tavern on Colles map of 1789 places it about a mile and a half southeast of Sylvan Lake. Charles Slevin. Old Gravestones of Dutchess County, NY collected and edited by J. Wilson Poucher, M.D. 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.". Occupied as Hospital in 1778 By Revolutionary Soldiers Many of Whom Are Buried South of This Road. The plant covers about 1200 acres, and gives employment to 400 persons. It was replaced in 1852 by a stone bridge, thirty feet wide, which in 1884 was widened to sixty feet. 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 the County Clerk's office at Poughkeepsie there is a map made in 1812, entitled "A map of Carthage, in Dutchess County, at a place called Low Point, on the Hudson, or North River." The population of the town in 1810 was 1,756. This town was formed from the town of Clinton January 26, 1821, and covers an area of 20,255 acres almost equally divided by Wappinger's creek. Basic contents of the records include: Name, sex, age, color, marital status, place of birth, month of death, occupation, and cause of death. Dover Plains is the most important village in the town. Its surface is generally hilly, and in the southern part mountainous. The town of Fishkill as constituted today is situated at the southwesterly corner of the county. Rebecca's father was Joseph Bryan, and her mother died shortly after . Vassar College, founded by Matthew Vassar, was chartered by the Legislature January 18, 1861. C37, JMM "10,000 Vital Records of Eastern New York, 1777-1834." 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 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. In this building the Society of the Cincinnati was instituted, May, 1783. USA (1,373,456) > New York (69,842) > Dutchess County (1,870) > Dutchess County County Histories and Genealogies (96), USA (1,373,456) > New York (69,842) > New York Histories and Genealogies (5,143) > Dutchess County Histories and Genealogies (96). Alonzo Welton of Poughkeepsie, with twenty-one members. This latter period of improvement included the building of the new water works, pumping from the Hudson River with sand filtration; the installation of a complete sewerage system; the Fallkill improvement by which the old mill ponds on the kill were abolished and the stream was walled in; the Poughkeepsie & Eastern Railroad; the building of the city railroad, and the beginning of the Poughkeepsie Bridge. Loren Clarke officiated. THE town of Amenia, erected in 1823, embraces some forty square miles on the extreme eastern border of the county. 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. 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. Roe Van Voorhis of Fishkill, Duchess County, New York: 255: St. Paul's Church, Red Hook, Duchess [sic] County, New York : Rose Hill : De Peyster family: 74 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. The county was named for Mary of Modena, Duchess of York, second wife of James, Duke of York (later James II, King of England). Dutchess County Government. Canaan, Columbia County, New York. The company eventually gave up the business, as they could not compete in price with machine made files. Meetings are held here at stated intervals. 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. 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. Enos came direct from New Haven. Search terms should be focused on First and Last names. The trail would become the means by which settlers would access the frontier. Other early settlers were the Bowermans, Wilburs, Briggs, Whites, Pells, Hicks, Martins, Motts, Fultons, Stalls, Fellers, Hopemans, Philips, Teats and Frasers. 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. Franklin Ellis 342. 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. A List of Heads of Quaker Families of 1760, American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) (index of individuals appearing in many family histories and other genealogical works), An historical address delivered before the Dutchess County Medical Society (history of medical profession of Dutchess County 1740-1906), An historical sketch, the charter, the by-laws, and list of officers & members of the Dutchess County Society (1897), Beekman Patent, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Volumes 1 - 4 [Dutchess Co., NY], Commemorative Biographical Record of Dutchess County, New York, 1897 (included in U.S. County and Regional Histories and Atlases collection), Commemorative biographical record of Dutchess County, New York, Early settlements in Dutchess County, New York, General History of Dutchess County, New York, 1877 (included in U.S. County and Regional Histories and Atlases collection), General history of Duchess County from 1609 to 1876 Index, General history of Duchess County from 1609 to 1876, inclusive, General history of Duchess [sic] County : from 1609 to 1876 inclusive, General history of Duchess [sic] County from 1609 - 1876, inclusive, Historical and Genealogical Record, Dutchess and Putnam Counties, New York, 1912 (included in U.S. County and Regional Histories and Atlases collection), History of Du[t]chess County, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, History of Duchess County, New York (1882), History of Duchess [sic] County, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, History of Duchess county, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, History of Dutchess County, 1882 (included in U.S. County and Regional Histories and Atlases collection), History of Little Nine Partners of North East Precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Dutchess County (included in U.S. County and Regional Histories and Atlases collection), Index to the History of Dutchess County, New York : edited by Frank Hasbrouck 1909, Local tales and historical sketches (of Dutchess County), Old Miscellaneous Records of Dutchess County 1723-1729, Periodical Source Index (index to 3.1 million articles in historical and genealogical publications). 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. In recent years, county government has acted to preserve historical elements of the landscape through adaptive re-use, nomination of sites to the National Register of Historic Places, and the development of entire historic districts. The General Montgomery and the Governor Lewis mills were built in 1774 and 1800, respectively. Wassaic is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Amenia, Dutchess County, New York, United States. Its limits were but slightly changed by the act of 1788, which organized the county into towns. The overall factory of Sweet, Orr & Co. was founded by James Orr in 1871. A church at Washington Hollow was erected in 1747 by the Presbyterian society. The Town of Red Hook. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 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. William Seward. In the central portion is a good agricultural region. The Baptist records are complete from the organization of the society in 1807, when they erected an edifice on Mill street. It was in this church building that a band of Tories, in the summer of 1777, assembled. From 1715 to 1730 most of the new settlers in Dutchess county were Germans. 4 were here. The eastern portion of Pine Plains was settled by the Palatines. Most of the first settlers in Dutchess County were Dutch. The village then had something like 1,500 inhabitants, and the population of the whole town in 1800 was 3,246. 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. Mr. Rothery was the first to manufacture new files in America. This is one of the southern tier towns of Dutchess, its southern angle extending almost to the north line of Putnam county. Another range, known as the West Mountain, occupies the western part. Thomas Garner became the principal owner. Among the pastors who served this church were Rev. Among the descendants of Gen. Lewis still resident in Staatsburg is the family of the late Lydig M. Hoyt. The valleys are very fertile and well adapted to grain and grass culture. The Titus, Coffin, Mitchell, Pinkham, Comstock, Allen, Roger, Hull, Coleman, Haight, Haviland and Talcott families settled in the town previous to 1750. As this name caused confusion in the delivery of mail, it was changed in 1829 by the Board of Supervisors, to La Grange, after the ancestral estate in France of the Marquis d' Lafayette. The road network continued to grow throughout the nineteenth century, eventually being eclipsed by the railroad, which reached Poughkeepsie in the 1830s. Many of these moved in from Albany and Ulster Counties. 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. The "Old Union Church" at Green Haven, frequently referred to in the ecclesiastical documents of the county, and which was called the "Old Union" as early as 1820, when there was not a house of worship in the present town limits of Union Vale, is described as a large building for the time, with a gallery at one end, a high pulpit with seven or eight steps leading up to it, and a sounding-board poised over the preacher's head. Johannes Rowe died in 1771, and was buried in the family ground across the road from the church which bears the family name. Central Hudson said 35 customers in Dutchess County and 25 customers in Orange County are without power. 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. A paper mill was established previous to 1840, and in 1844 was burned down. Some were long term tenants, while others resided a short time and moved on, going farther north into New York and . 4. It has in 1911 about 1200 inhabitants, four churchesFriends, Methodist, Catholic and Episcopal. The first president was David R. Gould, who was conspicuous in its organization. In 1728, three years before the New York-Connecticut boundary line adjustment, the first settlers had arrived in "the Oblong." 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. 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." Gilbert was a Revolutionary Soldier applied for and received a pension #S6851 He was b 24 or 28 Feb 1762 at Bethlehem in Dutchess Co., NY & lived at Beekman in Dutchess Co. at enlistment. for the manufacture of fine wool hats. From 1683 to 1715 most of the settlers in Dutchess County were Dutch. This page was last edited on 26 January 2023, at 21:11. In 1812 the Presbyterians of Pleasant Valley erected a house of worship in the village, which gave way to a new edifice in 1848. These early Quaker settlers or "Friends" as they preferred to be called, were mainly farmers and came from Dutchess County, NY and previously England. 060, p. 306] Gilbert FERGUSON. The village contains a National Bank, which was organized in 1893 with a capital of $100,000, and a Savings Bank chartered in 1870. From 1715 to 1730 most of the new settlers in Dutchess county were Germans. The records of the present society state that the Presbyterian church of Pleasant Plains was organized March 28, 1837, by Rev. A Presbyterian church was organized in Poughkeepsie as early as 1749, but failed to maintain itself or erect a building. First Effective Action Against Slavery Taken Here in 1767. A Presbyterian Society was organized at Pleasant Plains in 1785. Volume 10 contains over 1,200 pages and is focused on families with last names between Paine to Rogers. By 1826 the Presbyterians were permanently organized and built a church on Cannon street. 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. Isaac Blauvelt, Rev. First Presbyterian Church at New Hamburg, Dutchess, New York. 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. Riverview Military Academy was opened in 1867 by Otis Bisbee. Meeting Divided in 1828. Other early settlers were the Hughes, Mulford and Russel families . 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. From 1730 until 1775 New Englanders were the main new settlers in Dutchess County. The organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church of La Grange was effected July 14, 1849. William Clark was half of the famous exploration team Lewis and Clark, who explored and mapped the unknown lands west of the Mississippi River. Daniel Sherman of do Labourer. The Pine Plains Bank was organized in 1839, and closed its doors in 1857, voluntarily, but maintained its good name. The Reformed Church at Hopewell dates back to 1757. The Treaty of Dover of 1731stabilized the border zone. Dutchess County, New York City, County and Rural Directories (Source: Online Historical Directories) Early Shaftsbury (VT) Settlers Many came from Dutchess County (Source: Gateway to Vermont) Names of Palatine men above 21 years old in Livingston Manor, NY - winter of 1710 and summer of 1711 Much of the land is still in possession of the Rowe family. In 1812, the southern part of Dutchess County was set off as Putnam County. Its growth was slow, and services were finally discontinued. It has always been a good agricultural and fruit growing section. Nicholas Van Vranken, Rev. 6,388 Views . II. Red Hook is a town in Dutchess County. Co. which was organized in 1812 by Peter H. Schenck, J. J. Astor, Philip Hone, and others. Joseph Wing of do Farmer. Present Meeting House Erected in 1760. I expect there will be sixteen or more volumes before this series is finished. The Matteawan Evening Journal was started in 1869 by Charles G. Coutant under the name of the Daily Herald. The Harlem Railroad, which traverses north and south, was built through the town of Dover in 1849. In 1832 James Ingham established a plant for calico printing, subsequently known as the Dutchess Print Works. Gen. Joseph Howland, who was much interested in the development and improvement of the village of Matteawan, established and perpetually endowed a library here which bears his name. It was opened in 1869 by Albert Tower, who owned and operated it for many years. A portion of the village of Red Hook is now on the easterly part of their farm. Wood, map between 330 and 331, and 363-64. The plant employs about 250 persons. They settled along the Fishkill River and in the areas that are now Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck. Tried to use year, where stated, person and where they were from. The town received its name from its geographical position in the county. That there is now in subcriptions $450.". The oldest mill in the town was built by Robert Thorne, two miles west of Lafayetteville. 1877. A freshet in 1841 swept away Given's cotton mill and the print works dam. High-tech industries and modern shopping malls have replaced brickyards and trading posts. This series is an invaluable resource for researching the early settlers of Dutchess county, New York. Dutchess County Historical Society 845-471-1630 54 Main Street Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Dutchess County Genealogical Society 845-462-4108 P.O. On November 1, 1683, the Province of New York established its first twelve counties, with Dutchess County being one of them. 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. Thomas and Alice Casey, from Rhode Island, emigrated here about 1750, and located on what is now known as Chestnut Ridge, Derrick Dutcher and Jacob VanCamp came here previous to 1731, and located near Plymouth Hill. The Dutch church was organized October 10, 1716, by Rev. 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. Annandale is the site of St. Stephen's College, chartered March 20, 1860. Eastman College was started by Harvey G. Eastman in 1859. Dutchess 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. 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. In 1813 a postoffice was established, and two years later the village was incorporated; it was reincorporated March 21, 1903. The First Settlement. A second edifice was built in 1760, and in 1822 a third church was erected on the site of the present church building. Daughter of Wyellem Heocken and Annatje Andries Willjards. Dover was formed as a town from Pawling, February 20, 1807. Pawling village, incorporated in 1903, has about 800 inhabitants. A hotel was built here by William Waltmier, who, ten years later, disposed of the property to Jacob Knickerbacker. The Poughkeepsie Public Library was formed under the school library law in 1835. There is a general claim that the southern part of the town was settled in 1750, but we cannot learn anything about the parties that will warrant any such conclusions. In 1810 the town had 4,669 inhabitants and the village 2,981. The first settlers were the families of Barent Baltus Van Kleeck and Hendrick Jans van Oosterom. ^ P A^ P E R S NEW HAVEN COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. North of Spencers Corners stands the old-fashioned house of the Dakins, built by Orville Dakin, when the country was a wilderness. Land was added from time to time; a $10,000 endowment fund was secured, and the school prospered until 1828, when the unfortunate separation in the Friends' Society occurred. Also on microfilm. Its territory belonged to the tract known as the Great Nine Partners Patent. 1880 lists how long a resident of the county. It hopes to restore power in Orange County by 4:30 p.m. and Dutchess County by 5 p.m. Note that this database has a name only index, derived from the book index itself. He settled on the west side of the river, opposite the forty acre island, known as Stowel's Island . 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. 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. Officers, --------- V Life and Annual Members, ----.. yj Cons The Bank of Rhinebeck was organized in 1853, with a capital of $125,000. Dutchess County New York Family Research with free historical data transcriptions, census, biographies, obituaries, newspaper articles, military information and much more for your family tree.> . It has two school buildings, a bank, a public library housed in a beautiful building, forty business places, including grocers, plumbers, barbers, butchers, hardware, jewelers, druggists, dry goods, etc., etc. 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. 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 City of Poughkeepsie was chartered in 1854. When the railroad extending from Dutchess Junction to Pine Plains was completed in 1869, a hamlet sprang up near Hopewell station, and when the New England road was built, intersecting the Dutchess and Connecticut at this point, the hamlet was called Hopewell Junction. 1 Family History Library, History of Little Nine Partners of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess county, Vol. In 1843 Silas Rogers founded a wagon axle manufacturing business, which was carried on until western competition became too strong. DeRuyter was formed from Cazenovia March 15, 1798, and was named at the suggestion of John Lincklaen from Admiral DeRuyter of the Dutch navy. The earliest settlements in the town were made in the Oblong tract of Spencers Corners. The two eldest married the Kuhn sisters, daughters of Simon Kuhn. 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. The spring itself is seventy-five feet across. The Christian Church of Stanfordville was established in 1840; and the Methodists built a house of worship in 1843. The Treaty of Dover of 1731 stabilized the border zone. In later years it was used only for entertainments. The same year a free library was organized as a voluntary association. Peter Montfort bought 370 acres of land in the vicinity of Fishkill Plains in 1735. His family's home is now managed by the National Park Service. Services were held in private houses until 1762, when the first edifice was erected. On the west side there once dwelt the ancestors of the families by the name of Worden, Moshier, Dentory, Dibble, Davis and Turner. Box 708, Poughkeepsie NY 12602 www.dcgs-gen.org for the Study of FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH Town Historian with more to come! The village contains several stores, mechanical shops, and the Borden creamery. They had their council-fire at what is now present-day Fishkill Hook, and also held gatherings along the Danskammer. South Dutchess County expanded rapidly, growing from fewer than 50 families in 1740 to nearly 1,400 in 1790. 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. The Clove Kill is a tributary of the Fishkill, flowing southwesterly through the town. This hamlet was on the Post road from Northeast to Rhinebeck, and was a place of some business importance. George Clinton, was formed from the precincts of Charlotte and Rhinebeck, March 13, 1786. It is said that the first namedthe Ousterhoutsand the Wilcoxes, Dutchers and Bensons were the first settlers, and that they located under the East Mountain; but there are no dates accessible to define the time of their incoming. Putnam County, New York, formed from Dutchess in 1812, ostensibly encompasses the patent granted in 1697 to Adolph Philipse. The Bogarts from Holland were among the early settlers at Green Haven. Following the division in the Society in 1828 the Hicksites built a meeting house at Moore's Mills, where meetings are regularly held. 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. There is also a Catholic and a Pentacostal church in this village. The Rosa tracts were occupied by an Osterhout, a Van Etten and an Ostrander. "By 1760 it was overpopulated," says James Mandracchia, the librarian at Akin Free Library and Oblong Meeting House. Copyright The Matteawan Manufacturing Co. was organized in 1864, with a capital of $150,000. The boundaries of the village as then fixed remain the limits of the city of Poughkeepsie today. 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