Moses Shearman of do Labourer. Quaker Hill and West Mountain were probably settled long before the lands in the valley. The records of the present society state that the Presbyterian church of Pleasant Plains was organized March 28, 1837, by Rev. The company eventually gave up the business, as they could not compete in price with machine made files. Matthew Vassar died in 1868, and his nephews, Matthew, Jr., and John Guy, continued his interest in the institution. William Humphrey held this office in 1763. The College opened in 1865, with 353 students. The New York Rubber Co. was organized in 1848, to manufacture articles under the Goodyear patent. In 1882 the Millerton National Bank was organized with G. S. Frink as President, and W. M. Dales as Cashier. The Matteawan Manufacturing Co. was organized in 1864, with a capital of $150,000. There have been not less than fifty private schools at various times in Poughkeepsie, notably; Poughkeepsie Military School, Lyndon Hall, Poughkeepsie Female Academy, Cottage Hill Seminary, State and National Law School, and Putnam Hall School, formerly Brooks Seminary. The Quakers established a meeting house on Clover street in 1802. The minutes of the society contain no records of the early pastors, except for the year 1851, when Rev. Copyright 060, p. 306] Gilbert FERGUSON. The families of Ver Valin, De Groff, Sleight, Nelson and Cornell settled in the western part of the town previous to the Revolution. That summer new bridges were built over streams at Mount Ross and Hoffman's Mill. 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. Death entry content: Name, age, sex, color, marital status, month and day of death, native state or country, occupation and cause of death. The town contains no villages of commercial importance. By the creation of the towns of Hyde Park and Pleasant Valley, January 26, 1821, it was reduced to its present area of 23,487 acres. All genealogical and family history records we come across are being added to this website. Nicholas Bonesteel and Anna Margretha Kuhn, his wife, with some of their children, were among the early settlers. Extant tax lists chronicle the area's significant growth, with taxable households expanding from 47 in 1741 to 849 in 1779. In 1967, Dutchess voters passed a county charter that created the Office of the County Executive and the Dutchess County legislature to provide dedicated service for county-wide needs. The families included "Sovryn the Baker," Harmans, the patentee, Balthazar Barnse, Hendrick Ostrom, Simon Scoute and Baltus Van Kleeck. Many of these moved in from Albany and Ulster Counties. The town of Dover lies on the southeastern border of the county. 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. Daniel Sherman of do Labourer. This was the origin of river freighting. 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The establishment of ferry service at Rhinebeck in 1752, brought the inhabitants in closer connection with Rondout. The Friends house of worship here was for many years called the "Crom Elbow Meeting House," erected about the year 1774. In 1831 Elisha Sterling & Co. built a charcoal furnace at Clove Valley, with a capacity of twelve tons of iron per day. The Bank of Rhinebeck was organized in 1853, with a capital of $125,000. On the west side there once dwelt the ancestors of the families by the name of Worden, Moshier, Dentory, Dibble, Davis and Turner. The earliest settlements in the town were made in the Oblong tract of Spencers Corners. It is a large, two-story structure, in good repair, notwithstanding its age. 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. The village then had something like 1,500 inhabitants, and the population of the whole town in 1800 was 3,246. Wassaic, the next in size, has above eighty dwellings. These are soon to be let loose in the adjacent streams, to be angled for when the"law is up." 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. It depicts a winter forest-clearing scene on the land of Jacobus Stout First federal census of all Dutchess County, New York: 123: The records of Christ Church : Poughkeepsie, New York: 918: Notes On the Ancestry of Major Wm. 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. Amenia Seminary was built in 1835, and the school opened in the same year. They began operations on Staten Island, and in 1857 removed to the present location in Matteawan. His step-son Josias Crego was also one of the patentees. document.write(cy); (Source: Historical and Genealogical Record Dutchess and Putnam Counties New York, Press of the A. V. Haight Co., Poughkeepsie, New York, 1912; pp. The Shekemeko runs in a northerly direction through its western portion. Thomas Garner became the principal owner. There are no incorporated villages in the town. A Red Hook High School alum, Gomez graduated from . The combination of highways, railroads, and river access transformed western Dutchess into an industrial powerhouse, while strengthening agriculture in eastern Dutchess. Histories and genealogies are published books or collections that contain genealogical information. The Astors, Rogers, and Vanderbilts were among the families whose vast and beautiful properties dotted the landscape along the river and in the eastern highlands. A grist mill was conducted here during the Revolution by one Vincent. President James M. Taylor took charge in 1886, and the growth of the college has been continuous, until in 1905 the trustees found it necessary to limit the number of students for a term of five years to one thousand. The road network continued to grow throughout the nineteenth century, eventually being eclipsed by the railroad, which reached Poughkeepsie in the 1830s. land grant given to Col. Henry Beekman in 1697 by the English Crown and the second largest patent in present-day Dutchess County, New . Volume 11 contains over 1,000 pages and is focused on families with last names between Rood and Sly. 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. 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. As noted in the book (see here .). A portion of the village of Red Hook is now on the easterly part of their farm. Much of the land is still in possession of the Rowe family. In consideration of Dutchesss predominantly rural character, county government has assisted in the creation of agricultural districts preserving more than 200,000 acres of farmland. John Barkalo, Dr. Thomas De Witt, Rev. 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 I LDS Genealogy, History of Little Nine Partners of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess county, Vol. One of the early aldermen was Henry W. Shaw (Josh Billings). From 1730 until 1775 New Englanders were the main new settlers in Dutchess County. From 1715 to 1730 most of the new settlers in Dutchess county were Germans. The printed index is also available at the end of this volume, starting on page 845. 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. The Methodist Church was built in 1833 upon ground donated by John Albertson, Sr. Dover was taken off and made into a separate township in 1807. 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. The first settlers were the families of Barent Baltus Van Kleeck and Hendrick Jans van Oosterom. In this building the Society of the Cincinnati was instituted, May, 1783. In the autumn of 1796 the famous Nine Partners Boarding School was established by Isaac Thorne, Tripp Mosher and Joseph Talcott. The hamlet contains a hotel built in 1858, two stores and a few dwellings. The waterfall is called Poughkepesingh and the land Minnisingh, situate on the east side of the river.". Beekman's patent to land in this vicinity was granted in 1697. v. 2. Samuel Thorne and Oakleigh Thorne have returned to the land of their ancestors. 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. 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. The Dutch church was organized October 10, 1716, by Rev. 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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. The Titus, Coffin, Mitchell, Pinkham, Comstock, Allen, Roger, Hull, Coleman, Haight, Haviland and Talcott families settled in the town previous to 1750. A hotel was built here by William Waltmier, who, ten years later, disposed of the property to Jacob Knickerbacker. It continues to prosper. Present Meeting House Erected in 1760. 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 1715 Beekman induced many Palatines to locate on his lands. 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. 8 Aug., 1702. Dutchess County, New York genealogy and family history page is a place where you can come in and research your genealogy and family history. 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. Revolutionary Notes. 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. The name of Freedom was given to the town by Enoch Dorland, a Quaker preacher. C37, JMM "10,000 Vital Records of Eastern New York, 1777-1834." He built his tavern, which is still standing, about the year 1768, on the A. C. Briggs farm. In 1899 the control of the library was given to a board of library trustees. 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. It was in this church building that a band of Tories, in the summer of 1777, assembled. Dutchess County Clerk Thompson Pond and Upton Lake are considerable bodies of water. Tradition says they acquired 2,800 acres between them, around the shores of the beautiful sheet of water long known as Thompson's Pond. 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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. Back to Table of Contents Franklin Ellis 342. DOWNLOAD OPTIONS download 1 file . A final study for the Stoutenburgh panel of a mural for the post office in Hyde Park, New York. The Franklindale Cotton Co. was operated by the Garners from 1844 to 1885, when the plant was destroyed by fire. 1717, a portion of Albany County transferred to Dutchess County. VOL. Mr. Doherty has published a total of 13 volumes in this series, we are now adding volume 11 in accordance with our agreement to make them available as searchable database after 7 years have passed. The eastern part of the town adjoining Pleasant Valley and Clinton was settled at an early day by Quakers from New England and Long Island. On-Demand Laundry Service Dutchess County, NY Place Your First Order Today! The Bogarts from Holland were among the early settlers at Green Haven. A growing population, with accompanying expansions of suburbs, required new roads and increased engagement from county government. A range of hills, locally known as Quaker Hill, extends along the east border. It is not definitely known by whom the town was first settled, but it is supposed that the first settlements were made by the Dutch who came here from the vicinity of Hudson's River. The Episcopal Church at Hopewell The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York I am doing a series of books on the Beekman Patent settlers, all 17th and 18th century information, (plus early 19th century NYS probate for many Beekman Surnames). 6,388 Views . 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. 1 But this expansion was not without problems. It is one of the largest industries of this kind in the State. For a time Dutchess County was annexed to Ulster County and some genealogical records up to 1713 may be found in Ulster County. Milan was taken off in 1818, and Pine Plains was erected into a separate township in 1823. 4. Counties included are Oneida, Madison, Chenago, Onondage, Chemung, Brooms, Elmira, and parts of Ontario. Another range, known as the West Mountain, occupies the western part. Note: Affiliate links are used within the directory on this site and a small contribution goes to the website for some purchases made. 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. It was formed as a town March 17, 1788. The county was named for Mary of Modena, Duchess of York, second wife of James, Duke of York (later James II, King of England). Hunt, Selleck and Collins. . The Beekman Iron Mine was discovered in 1846 by William E. Haxtun. 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