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. Dover was taken off and made into a separate township in 1807. Anti-critical race theory parents in Tennessee are reportedly objecting to an English language arts curriculum that includes a book by civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, decrying it for not having enough "redemption." The Tennessean reported last month that parents in Williamson County have been criticizing the . 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. Supervises subordinate staff members; 8. The Dutchess County Genealogical Society was established in 1972 to help organize and direct genealogical work. The property passed through several hands, and was finally purchased by John Falconer, who operated it under the name of the Seamless Clothing Manufacturing Company, in which he was associated with Mr. William Carroll. Services were continued for some years in the school house as often as a supply could be obtained. The building remained until 1826, and the business was conducted by descendants of the Brett and Wiltse families. Ten years later the "Red Meeting House" was erected. One of them established twelve counties, as follows: New York, Kings, Queens, Suffolk, Richmond, Westchester, Albany, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Duke's and Cornwall. Isaac Rysdyck, 1765 to 1790. in Rhinebeck, NY STARR LIBRARY Local History Room The congregation numbers about forty. The town of Poughkeepsie as early as 1715 was a part of the Middle Ward of Dutchess county. The business proved unsuccessful, and the mill was allowed to fall to ruin. The records of the present society state that the Presbyterian church of Pleasant Plains was organized March 28, 1837, by Rev. 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. There are two churchesBaptist and Methodist. It is the only public building in Rhinecliff. 1865 deaths of officers and enlisted men entry content: Name, age, marital status, citizenship status, enlistment date, original regiment, original rank, regiment at death, rank at death, promotions, death date and place, manner of death, surviving associates, and burial place. Wassaic. The town contains no villages of commercial importance. 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. 4. 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 In 1683, the colonial assembly established the twelve original counties of New York. Philip had a son, William P. Rowe, who served as a soldier in the war of 1812. Municipal Historians of Dutchess County. Poughquag, Green Haven, Clove Valley and Beekmanville are hamlets. From the date of the erection of the church edifice to the present time, upwards of seventy years, the society has enjoyed unbroken services. Arthursburg and Morey's Corners, now La Grangeville, were early neighborhoods. Extensive deposits of hematite ore are found in the north part of the town, and have been mined considerably. 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. A range of hills, locally known as Quaker Hill, extends along the east border. The Dutch Church here, which was used as a military prison during the Revolution, was erected in 1731. These marriage records were transcribed by Lester Card and compiled in 1949. In the year 1760, Johannes Rowe, a German by birth, located in this town north of what is now Lafayetteville, on nine hundred and eleven acres of land which he purchased of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston. Oswego and Verbank are hamlets. The same year a free library was organized as a voluntary association. 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. They moved to Canada after the American Revolution. It is one of the largest industries of this kind in the State. He built his tavern, which is still standing, about the year 1768, on the A. C. Briggs farm. This land he gave to his son Luke in 1758. The " Red Lion," another notable inn, was located at Webatuck, and part of the original building is standing. The Legislature was in session at Poughkeepsie when the news of the surrender of Cornwallis was received, in October, 1781. Volume 10 contains over 1,200 pages and is focused on families with last names between Paine to Rogers. The General Montgomery and the Governor Lewis mills were built in 1774 and 1800, respectively. In the autumn of 1796 the famous Nine Partners Boarding School was established by Isaac Thorne, Tripp Mosher and Joseph Talcott. 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. Artsen, with a family of ten children, came to live upon and cultivate his land in 1702. The first edifice of the Church of the Nativity was erected in 1852. Petrus Vas. The Quaker Meeting House at Clinton Corners was built in 1777. Dover was formed as a town from Pawling, February 20, 1807. Dutchess County Historical Society 845-471-1630 54 Main Street Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Dutchess County Genealogical Society 845-462-4108 P.O. 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. It became a National Bank in 1865. This is the estate to which the name of Hyde Park originally applied. The plant employs about 250 persons. Nicholas Van Vranken, Rev. Its capital stock is $45,000. The reservoir happened to be empty on May 12, 1836, when Poughkeepsie was visited by the greatest fire in its history, a fire which burned nearly all the buildings on the south side of Main street, between Liberty and Academy streets. It did not prosper and was terminated in 1789. The Methodist Church at Johnsville was organized in 1826. Aaron Van Vlackren settled at Gayhead, where his son Tunis built a grist mill in 1768. The Clove Valley Rod and Gun Club is another association of wealthy gentlemen of sportsman taste, as the name implies. for the manufacture of fine wool hats. Revolutionary Notes. The company has lately invested thousands of dollars in the acquisition of rights and in erecting buildings for the use of the club. Among the early homemakers in this region we find the old Dutch names of Ousterhout, Van Dusen, Dutcher and Knickerbocker. An electric railway connects the village with the city of Poughkeepsie. Millbrook owes its birth to the building of the railroad in 1869. 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 first town meeting in Northeast, as at present constituted, was held at Northeast Center on the first day of April, 1823. Canaan, Columbia County, New York. It was in this church building that a band of Tories, in the summer of 1777, assembled. It was replaced in 1852 by a stone bridge, thirty feet wide, which in 1884 was widened to sixty feet. Clinton came to Poughkeepsie and the Council of Safety soon followed. As noted in the book (see here .). In 1873 this church was affiliated with the Presbyterian denomination, and a new house of worship was built in Millerton in 1905, at an expense of $7,800. It is said that there was quite an influx into the town about 1740. 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. A broad and fertile valley runs through the central portion. Early European settlements clustered along the Hudson River at modern Beacon, Fishkill, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, and Red Hook. The property was purchased from Joseph Mabbett. The Matteawan Manufacturing Co. was organized in 1864, with a capital of $150,000. It became widely known throughout the country, and students were enrolled from every State in the Union. The oldest religious organization in the town is that of the Society of Friends of Arthursburg. This village has grown up around the original Five Corners and become a place of importance within the last thirty years. All genealogical and family history records we come across are being added to this website. Shortly after the completion of this building Roger Brett was drowned from a sloop, and the care of his estate was left to his widow who became known as "Madam Brett." 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. Water was pumped from the Fall Kill and was used only for fire extinguishing purposes, pipes being laid only on the main streets. From 1730 until 1775 New Englanders were the main new settlers in Dutchess County. Records current events for posterity; 9. 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. Its surface is a rolling upland, and the soil a gravelly loam. We regret that are unable to do personal research for you. Some were long term tenants, while others resided a short time and moved on, going farther north into New York and . The extant records of the village begin in 1803, when Andrew Billings was president. A Baptist church was built here in 1777. The valleys are very fertile and well adapted to grain and grass culture. In 1743, the milling industries having largely increased, Madam Brett and others organized the Frankfort Store House. When Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River in 1609, laying claim to the valley for the Dutch Crown, the east bank of the river had been home for centuries to the Wappinger Indians and other members of the Algonquin Federation. That, however, was only for the first election, all subsequent elections for many years coming in April. It was destroyed by fire in 1910. 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. Joshua Shearman of Beekmans precinct Shoemaker. Be the first one to write a review. 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. It was rebuilt and leased by the Rotherys to Messrs. Rockwell & Son for a silk factory. 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. The village contains several stores, mechanical shops, and the Borden creamery. From 1715 to 1730 most of the new settlers in Dutchess county were Germans. 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. A new court house was erected in 1809, and replaced by the present building in 1903. The territory comprising the town of La Grange was formed from portions of the towns of Fishkill and Beekman, February 9, 1821, under the name of Freedom. 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. pilot or "Flying Tigers" Chapter Page Number Clear search Browse this collection Table of Contents Title Page Contents to This Section July 1938, Title Page 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. Frank J. Doherty, Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York (Pleasant Valley, New York: Frank J. Doherty, 1990), 3:64. Methodism was introduced into the town in 1788, and in 1825 the Society built a church here. Levi P. Morton, as a memorial to his deceased daughter. He enjoyed the friendship of Washington, who, in his diary, mentions stopping with him to take dinner, when on a hasty visit to Hartford . They came as far as Cooperstown on horseback, and thence by canoe down the Susquehanna, leaving Cooperstown May 2, 1786. They have leased the old ore mine property for a term of years, and erected a large club house, where they are at liberty to come at pleasure. Milan was formed from the town of Northeast March 6, 1818. The plant covers about 1200 acres, and gives employment to 400 persons. 20-62; Transcribed by Terri Griffiths). Born circa 1672. Enos came direct from New Haven. 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." Consider membership. The road network continued to grow throughout the nineteenth century, eventually being eclipsed by the railroad, which reached Poughkeepsie in the 1830s. Junction was built in 1888. The Episcopal Church at Hopewell Samuel and Amos had been connected with the Goshen, Connecticut settlement. North of Spencers Corners stands the old-fashioned house of the Dakins, built by Orville Dakin, when the country was a wilderness. For thisland he paid 750 pounds, on which, in 1766, he built a stone homestead. In 1812, Putnam County was detached from Dutchess. A strip of about five thousand acres was taken from it March 1, 1827, to form part of the town of Union Vale. The early members have long since passed away, leaving their descendants to unite and to conform to the manners and discipline of other sects. The town added population very slowly down to 1900, when the growth of one of the suburbs of the city, called Bull's Head, East Poughkeepsie, and more recently Arlington, had made much progress chiefly because of the growth of Vassar College. South of this is the Catholic church, its attendants forming an outlying mission of the Sylvan Lake Church. Later an industry for the manufacture of cement, for use in the first Poughkeepsie bridge, was started here. Several Quaker families resided in this vicinity. Nearby was a grist mill operated by one Schut. The Rhinebeck Savings Bank was organized in 1862. The Baptists organized and built a church at Fishkill Plains in 1782. Following the division in the Society in 1828 the Hicksites built a meeting house at Moore's Mills, where meetings are regularly held. Among the pastors who served this church were Rev. South Dutchess County expanded rapidly, growing from fewer than 50 families in 1740 to nearly 1,400 in 1790. Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York: Abbot to Burtch Frank J. Doherty F.J. Doherty, 1990 - Beekman Patent (N.Y.) - 1206 pages 0 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but. . On this Emigh homestead is the far-famed Clove Spring. EARLY AMERICAN HISTORIES The original thirteen colonies were: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia. 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." On the former stream at one time stood Judge Livingston's mill at the river; General Armstrong's mill at Cedar Hill; Van Benthuysen's mill, and a woolen factory in the same place; the Chancellor's mill in the interior, and Robert G. Livingston's mill on the Rock City branch. The name of Freedom was given to the town by Enoch Dorland, a Quaker preacher. John Carman represented the precinct at Supervisors' meetings from 1739 to '42. 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. 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. Its growth was slow, and services were finally discontinued. Henry Sleight, a native of Long Island, is credited with being the first innkeeper. 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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. Joseph Wing of do Farmer. The McDermott Milk Co. have a large factory here, handling about 100 cans of milk per day; and the Hall & Ferguson Cold Storage plant has a capacity of 15,000 barrels of fruit. This town, which was named for Gov. Settlers Of The Beekman Patent Dutchess County New York Mills To Page by Frank J. Doherty Westward are the buildings of the Millerton Iron Co., now in ruins. These are soon to be let loose in the adjacent streams, to be angled for when the"law is up." Rebecca's father was Joseph Bryan, and her mother died shortly after . We are very happy to add Volume 11 to our database Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent. The Bethel Baptist Church at Shenandoah was dedicated in 1835, mainly through the efforts of Isaac Knapp and Abram Pulling. ^ P A^ P E R S NEW HAVEN COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. It hopes to restore power in Orange County by 4:30 p.m. and Dutchess County by 5 p.m. See the FamilySearch Library line in the above State Census Chart. 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. In 1812, the southern part of Dutchess County was set off as Putnam County. 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. The territory was included in the Little Nine Partners' Patent; together with Milan and a portion of present Northeast it was in 1788 erected into a town, the three being known as Northeast. They settled along the Fishkill River and in the areas that are now Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck. 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. Crum Elbow Creek and the Fallkill flow in a southwesterly direction through the town. Phone: (845) 486-2120 Of their descendants, Philip N. Bonesteel was a merchant, magistrate and post-master in Red Hook for many years. 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. Search terms should be focused on First and Last names. 1755, Aprill 22. 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. Dover Plains is the most important village in the town. 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. Mass was celebrated in the village as early as 1848. Daniel is my first cousin, six generations removed. Matteawan. The Millerton Telegraph, a weekly publication, was started in 1876 by Cooley James, and subsequently became the property of Colvin Card. The Beekman Iron Mine was discovered in 1846 by William E. Haxtun. A short distance northeast of Poughquag was the home of Col. Vanderburgh, an officer of some prominence in the Revolution. It stood until 1833 at the corner of Church and Market streets, when the old Christ Church, still well remembered, replaced it. John Montross, Gideon Ver Valin, Johannes Schurrie, Adolphus Brewer, John Schuyler, Samuel Bayard and Joseph Vail were early settlers. By 1826 the Presbyterians were permanently organized and built a church on Cannon street. He settled on the west side of the river, opposite the forty acre island, known as Stowel's Island . The village of Pawling has a fine water system constructed in 1895. The Association holds real estate as follows: Aikin Hall and Manse, the Library Building, Mizzen Top Hotel and cottages. (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. The town of Dover lies on the southeastern border of the county. 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. Dutchess County Government. Three additional patents, to 1706, laid claim to the remaining interior lands. Isaac Blauvelt, Rev. The mills that were built subsequent to 1725 on the Sawkill and the White Clay Kill (now Stony creek) were a prominent feature of the earlier times. 1880 lists how long a resident of the county. It is a spacious structure, and was erected in 1907 by Hon. The village of Pine Plains had an official name as a postoffice a few years prior to its organization as a town. The charitable institutions of Poughkeepsie include the Home for the Friendless, built in 1887; The Old Ladies' Home; the Vassar Brothers' Home for Aged Men, and Vassar Brothers' Hospital. Genealogy Trails The grist mill at Pleasant Plains, which has been operated by water power over one hundred and thirty years, is an interesting landmark. Snowfall began around 8 or 9 p.m. Monday in the mid- and lower Hudson Valley and continued in various forms Tuesday morning with up to 8 1/2 inches in some areas. 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. 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Smith, Index to Howard Morse's Historic old Rhinebeck, Kipsbergen in Dutchess County : its history, location and boundaries, its founders, and their families through many generations, Peter J. Schultz account book, 1824-1846 : Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, NY, Rhinebeck Precinct accounts book, 1783-1788 : Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, NY, Rhinecliff : a Hudson River history : the tangled tale of Rhinebeck's waterfront, Salt Point - origin of the name and some [of] its early settlers, Salt Point - origin of the name and some of its early settlers, Town book, Town of Stanford, Dutchess County, New York, 1793-1825. The waterfall is called Poughkepesingh and the land Minnisingh, situate on the east side of the river.". In 1891 the village was bonded for a sum not to exceed $15,000 to procure a water supply. 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. 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