A Fire Company is maintained with a well equipped hose house. The Bank of Rhinebeck was organized in 1853, with a capital of $125,000. Mr. Rothery was the first to manufacture new files in America. 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.> . The capital which was then $75,000 has been increased to $300,000. Those for Dutchess county are as follows vizt. Colonists from New England founded communities throughout the disputed areas of eastern Dutchess in the opening decades of the eighteenth century. 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." Many emigrants from New England lived in and passed through the Beekman Patent on their way west. In 1709 the settlers numbered thirty families. 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. 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. The town of Dover lies on the southeastern border of the county. Others, such as the Palatines and Quakers (almost all from New England), were early settlers and remained for several generations or more. Derick Storm was the first to take up land here, and was soon followed by Isaac, George and Thomas Storm, whose descendants are still to be found upon the lands thus early purchased. The Ten Mile River, some eighteen miles in length, runs south through the eastern part of the town. The Shekemeko runs in a northerly direction through its western portion. The two towns comprised the greater part of Rynbeck precinct, organized December 16, 1737. This territory was a portion of the Beekman patent, and settlement is supposed to have begun about the year 1716. The precinct records shed some light upon the names of the first dwellers in the original town. The " Red Lion," another notable inn, was located at Webatuck, and part of the original building is standing. Born circa 1672. 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. After the burning of Kingston in October 1777, Poughkeepsie served as the state capitol until the conclusion of hostilities. Revolutionary Notes. The Dutch church was organized October 10, 1716, by Rev. 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 . North of Spencers Corners stands the old-fashioned house of the Dakins, built by Orville Dakin, when the country was a wilderness. The spring itself is seventy-five feet across. The College opened in 1865, with 353 students. It is a frame building 35 by 55 feet, three stories high, and cost about $8,000. It was rebuilt and leased by the Rotherys to Messrs. Rockwell & Son for a silk factory. 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. Nearby was a grist mill operated by one Schut. The only dwelling spared was the home of Gilbert Robert Livingston, who remained loyal to the crown during the Revolutionary War. 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. The hamlet contains a hotel built in 1858, two stores and a few dwellings. Richard Sackett who was one of the first settlers of Dover in the Beekman Patent, obtaining a patent for 7,500 acres on 1 Nov. 1704. For a time Dutchess County was annexed to Ulster County and some genealogical records up to 1713 may be found in Ulster County. 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. 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. 1877. I expect there will be sixteen or more volumes before this series is finished. John Barkalo, Dr. Thomas De Witt, Rev. The village contains several stores, mechanical shops, and the Borden creamery. v. 2. It was in this church building that a band of Tories, in the summer of 1777, assembled. There are in the town six villages. Construction of the Borden Milk Companys headquarters at Wassaic in Amenia insured the long prominence of the dairy industry in that region. Online at, Rensselaer and Columbia (NY) Turnpike 1799, New York County Common Pleas Court, 1792-1895, New York County Superior Court, 1828-1895, New York City and County Supreme Court, 1868-1906, U.S. As early as 1755 a Baptist Society was organized in the town which had an interesting career. 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. It was undenominational, and was named Carmel in the Nine Partners. In 1882 the Millerton National Bank was organized with G. S. Frink as President, and W. M. Dales as Cashier. The establishment of ferry service at Rhinebeck in 1752, brought the inhabitants in closer connection with Rondout. Wassaic. In 1748 a church was organized near the center of the town. 1755, Aprill 22. Henry Sleight, a native of Long Island, is credited with being the first innkeeper. 8 Favorites. Churches. The second Mayor was Charles W. Swift, Apart from some notable political meetings on Forbus Hill, the space which remained open for many years between Union and Church streets, back of the Forbus House, nothing of great importance took place in Poughkeepsie down to the Civil War. George Clinton, was formed from the precincts of Charlotte and Rhinebeck, March 13, 1786. The Church of the Sacred Heart at Barrytown, and St. Sylvia's Church at Tivoli, were erected by the Catholics in 1875 and 1903 respectively. Dutchess County Genealogical Society 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. 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. Matthew Vassar gave the site, some 200 acres of land, and added about $400,000. 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 business was discontinued with the failure of the first bridge project in 1873. VOL. It has changed hands several times, and is now successfully conducted by Morgan H. Hoyt. Crum Elbow Creek and the Fallkill flow in a southwesterly direction through the town. The Rutsen mills, on the turnpike east of "the flatts," were built in 1742, and the Traphagen mill in 1750. 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. Ontario Settlers United Empire Loyalists were Americans who remained loyal to King George III and the British Empire. 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. Pawling precinct was taken from Beekman precinct in 1768, and erected into a town in 1788. Box 708, Poughkeepsie NY 12602 www.dcgs-gen.org for the Study of FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH Town Historian with more to come! Aaron Van Vlackren settled at Gayhead, where his son Tunis built a grist mill in 1768. In 1760, Samuel Mabbett, a Friend, came to Mechanic and opened a store and a tavern. For thisland he paid 750 pounds, on which, in 1766, he built a stone homestead. Bangall, Stanfordville and Stissing are small villages. In later years it was used only for entertainments. This family name in Holland is Wiltsee, but some branches spell it Wiltsie, as does the family herein recorded. The town of Rhinebeck embraces 18,945 acres in the northwestern part of the county bordering the Hudson River. He resigned in 1856 to become a Justice of the Supreme Court, as his father had been before him. Kip built a stone house on his land in 1700. 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 estate of Gen. Morgan Lewis is now owned by his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Ogden Mills. The earliest settlements in the town were made in the Oblong tract of Spencers Corners. They had their council-fire at what is now present-day Fishkill Hook, and also held gatherings along the Danskammer. The Beekman Iron Mine was discovered in 1846 by William E. Haxtun. James Emans obtained a grant of land from Madam Brett near the present hamlet of East Fishkill. Its capital stock is $45,000. It was formed as a town March 17, 1788. The early residents included Dutch and French settlers and migrants from New England and Westchester County, New York. Artsen, with a family of ten children, came to live upon and cultivate his land in 1702. It was destroyed by fire in 1910. Dutchess County, New York, one of the twelve original Counties of New York was formed in 1683. Washington, Arnold, Marquis de Chastellux and La Fayette lodged at this tavern. The villages of Red Hook and Tivoli-Madalin are the chief centers of population, and Barrytown is of some importance as a railroad depot. Staatsburg, a village in the northern part of the town, derives its name from the Staats family, who settled here about 1720. Clinton Corners, Clinton Hollow, Schultzville and Pleasant Plains are hamlets. Meetings are held here at stated intervals. The minutes of the society contain no records of the early pastors, except for the year 1851, when Rev. The first trustees were James S. Smith, Valentine Baker, Andrew Billings, Ebenezer Badger, and Thomas Nelson. Halcyon Hall, built in 1893, was used as a summer hotel until 1907, when the property was purchased and transformed into a school for girls by Miss M. F. Bennett. These include the Elmendorph Inn at Red Hook and the Beekman Arms in Rhinebeck. The Bethel Baptist Church at Shenandoah was dedicated in 1835, mainly through the efforts of Isaac Knapp and Abram Pulling. Among them were the Marshalls, Bakers, Briggs, Hoags, Halsteads, Moshers, Stringhams, Watters, Lamorees, Nelsons and Williams. Harvey G. Eastman, George Innis, Mark D. Wilbur and George P. Pelton were leaders in this latter improvement era. Red Hook is a town in Dutchess County. On November 1, 1683, the Province of New York established its first twelve counties, with Dutchess County being one of them. From Vassar College to small community libraries, learning thrived in Dutchess County from the second quarter of the nineteenth century onwards. Large quantities of stores from Dutchess and adjacent counties were there accumulated for use of the Continental army. This village has grown up around the original Five Corners and become a place of importance within the last thirty years. The charter was granted to Abraham Kip on the east side of the river, and to Moses Contine on the west side. 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. By Capt. Search terms should be focused on First and Last names. Note that this database has a name only index, derived from the book index itself. 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. CountyNew YorkGenealogy The families included "Sovryn the Baker," Harmans, the patentee, Balthazar Barnse, Hendrick Ostrom, Simon Scoute and Baltus Van Kleeck. They may include county histories, town histories, other types of histories, collections of biographies, genealogies of families, collections of records for a specific area, etc. Services were continued for some years in the school house as often as a supply could be obtained. Alonzo Welton of Poughkeepsie, with twenty-one members. C37, JMM "10,000 Vital Records of Eastern New York, 1777-1834." Hunt, Selleck and Collins. Also on microfilm. Schultz mountain rises 780 feet above tide. Dutchess County Historical Society 845-471-1630 54 Main Street Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Dutchess County Genealogical Society 845-462-4108 P.O. New Volume for Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), New sketches: Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784, Vermont Genealogy: Volume 21 (2016) now available, The Connecticut Nutmegger: Volume 50 (2017) now available, The Essex Genealogist: Volume 37 (2017) now available, Suffolk, MA Probate File Papers: new records, Brimfield, MA: Deaths and Burials, 1808-1850 Now Fully Indexed and Browsable, New Database: The Genealogical Advertiser. They settled along the Fishkill River and in the areas that are now Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck. They are 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). William Seward. Please keep checking back. I LDS Genealogy, History of Little Nine Partners of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess county, Vol. 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." She set about establishing mills and invited settlers to come upon her land and develop it. The erection of several grist, saw and woolen mills on the Landsman Kill, were potent factors in the early development of Rhinebeck. William Coe and Peter Emigh settled on adjoining farms here in 1740. Migration routes for early European settlers to and from North East, Dutchess County, New York Genealogy included: [3] Alford and Egremont (MA) Turnpike [4] 1812 Ancram (NY) Turnpike [5] 1805, also sometimes called the Catskill Road, from Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut Genealogy to Catskill, Greene County, New York Genealogy Other early settlers were the Vanderburghs, Vandebogerts, Parmentors, Lewis, Pells, Titsoorts and Filkins. Develops programs and educational projects in conjunction with area educational institutions and historical societies; 6. The Broughton and Rymph families have also been land owners in this section for many years. Until 1713, Dutchess was administered by Ulster County. 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. A broad and fertile valley runs through the central portion. His family's home is now managed by the National Park Service. From 1715 to 1730 most of the new settlers in Dutchess county were Germans. A range of hills, locally known as Quaker Hill, extends along the east border. The Clove Kill is a tributary of the Fishkill, flowing southwesterly through the town. 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. 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. 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 present church, dedicated May 26, 1869, is the third edifice of the Society in the town. Salt Point and Washington Hollow are hamlets. Parties were sent to the bordering settlements to intimidate the patriots, and obtain supplies for the British army. It depicts a winter forest-clearing scene on the land of Jacobus Stout 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.". In 1847 Father Kelly of Connecticut ministered to the Catholics in this section. On this Emigh homestead is the far-famed Clove Spring. Be the first one to write a review. The materials of this were removed to the farm of Vincent Williams, and converted into a barn, where it still stands, good to battle with the storms of a half century to come. William Thorne, great-great-grandfather of Samuel Thorne, the present owner of Thorndale, was one of the first settlers of Nine Partners, and was a merchant and large landholder. The combination of highways, railroads, and river access transformed western Dutchess into an industrial powerhouse, while strengthening agriculture in eastern Dutchess. Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 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. Brendan Morrow, Staff Writer. Levi P. Morton, as a memorial to his deceased daughter. Conrad Ham was another early settler, and the old home he built six generations ago still stands on a lot adjoining the present home of the family. Many people every season make a pilgrimage to this relic of bygone days. William Humphrey held this office in 1763. 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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. 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. Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady, From 1662 to 1800 (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1873), . CONTENTS Page. In 1790 there was formed in Hyde Park the Stoutsburgh Religious Association. The historic Oblong Meeting House, which is still standing, bears a tablet containing these words: "OBLONG MEETING HOUSE of the Society of Friends Erected in 1742 South of This Road. For Sale: 280 Jeremy Swamp Rd, Southbury, CT 06488 $124,900 MLS# 170551724 1 Acre Lot, Approved Building Lot, Approved for and Will Accommodate a 4 - 5 Bdrm Home , Lot is Mostly Clear and Jus. Co. which was organized in 1812 by Peter H. Schenck, J. J. Astor, Philip Hone, and others. In that year the stone house was built, now standing, on the Emigh homestead, at present in possession of a grandson of William. 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. He built a tavern, opened a blacksmith shop and this formed the nucleus of the present village of Rhinebeck. In 1720 Scotch-Irish settlers in the vicinity of Goshen, Orange County, New York, were numerous enough to form a congregation. The Reformed Church at Hopewell dates back to 1757. The boundaries of the village as then fixed remain the limits of the city of Poughkeepsie today. It was established in 1797, and was the first public library in Dutchess county. land grant given to Col. Henry Beekman in 1697 by the English Crown and the second largest patent in present-day Dutchess County, New . 6,388 Views . 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. A notable fire of the village days was the burning of the court house September 25, 1806. The building they had erected in 1873 was destroyed by fire in 1876. It was not a success financially, and in 1883 was discontinued. The Poughkeepsie Collegiate School, a noted institution, founded in 1835, continued until 1867, when the property was sold to settle the estate of Charles Bartlett, its first principal; the Grecian temple still crowns College Hill. The Clove Spring Trout Company, an association of New York gentlemen, have utilized the waters of this spring in the construction of ten ponds, each fourteen by sixty feet, in which are twenty-two thousand trout, assorted into five sizes; the last pond containing two thousand two-pound trout. But the influx of Quakers and their progeny wasn't, and over the next 20 years the community outgrew it. 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 Charles B. Whitehead and Rev. Peter Montfort bought 370 acres of land in the vicinity of Fishkill Plains in 1735. The religious denominations of the town are the Methodists, with churches at Red Hook and Tivoli; St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Red Hook; and the Episcopalians with a church in each village. First Presbyterian Church at New Hamburg, Dutchess, New York. A large portion of the land about what is now known as Tivoli was owned by the Hoffmans, who built the mills northeast of Tivoli, nearly a century and a half ago. Among the early settlers on the east side we find the names of Sherman, Merrit, Birdsall, Irish, Akin, Craft, Chase and Osborn. After the destruction of Kingston by the British, October 16, 1777, Gov. Wappingers creek is the principal stream. 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. 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