As this leisure class with money and time to pursue learning and culture emerged, literary and historical societies, schools, and institutions of higher learning emerged. Of the valley there occur Shaw, Cary, Hunt, Sabin, Salmon, Pearce and Slocum. North of Spencers Corners stands the old-fashioned house of the Dakins, built by Orville Dakin, when the country was a wilderness. 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.". Among the early settlers are the names familiar at the present timeWinans, Smith, Harris, Reynolds, Hoffman, Pulver, Deuel, Dibblee, Husted, Stevenson, Rau (Rowe), Seldon, and others. The Treaty of Dover of 1731 stabilized the border zone. It lies in the extreme northwest corner of Dutchess, bordering Columbia county. Adjoining Hyde Park village on the north is the country seat of Mr. F. W. Vanderbilt, who purchased the property in 1895. Search Free Dutchess County New York Genealogy and Family History Records Online . This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers, particularly David Anderson. There is a National and a Savings Bank in the village; a daily and a weekly newspaper. From 1872 to 1898 it occupied rooms in the High School building, and was then removed to the Adriance Memorial Library building. Many of these moved in from Albany and Ulster Counties. Prepares genealogy tables of early settlers; 7. The "Christian Denomination" was composed of Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists, who held meetings in the town as early as 1820. Dutchess County, New York genealogy and family history page is a place where you can come in and research your genealogy and family history. The Methodists organized in 1804 and built a church in Jefferson street. Lewis, Jonathan Lyon, Isaiah Sherman. The only dwelling spared was the home of Gilbert Robert Livingston, who remained loyal to the crown during the Revolutionary War. Basic contents of the records include: Name, sex, age, color, marital status, place of birth, month of death, occupation, and cause of death. 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. For a substitute, see. The early settlement of the eastern part of the county through the length of the Harlem Valley was made by people from the New England Colonies, aU that part of New York State being originally claimed as belonging to and embraced within the New England grants of land. 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. Conklin, Baltus Overacker, Eleazer Taylor, Baltus Velie, Rickertson Collins, John D. Brown, Abram S. Storm, Isaac B. Clapp and John Clapp.". It was opened in 1869 by Albert Tower, who owned and operated it for many years. 1755, Aprill 22. Another deed of 1686 conveys land to Hendrick Kip. Putnam County, New York, formed from Dutchess in 1812, ostensibly encompasses the patent granted in 1697 to Adolph Philipse. Vassar College, founded by Matthew Vassar, was chartered by the Legislature January 18, 1861. The Reformed Church at Hopewell dates back to 1757. The sons built the Methodist church there, and were generous supporters of local enterprises. A new court house was erected in 1809, and replaced by the present building in 1903. A special dispensation required sparsely settled Dutchess County to maintain only a path or highway wide enough for horse and man. From 1683 to 1715 most of the settlers in Dutchess County were Dutch. The town of Washington occupies a central position in the county. South Dutchess County expanded rapidly, growing from fewer than 50 families in 1740 to nearly 1,400 in 1790. Settlements of the town took place during the time it was a part of Crom Elbow precinct1737-1762. 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), . The Dutchess County Genealogical Society was established in 1972 to help organize and direct genealogical work. The Christian Church of Stanfordville was established in 1840; and the Methodists built a house of worship in 1843. The capital which was then $75,000 has been increased to $300,000. Another large house in the village was Gilbert Budd's, a cousin of Underhill Budd, whose farm lay in the vicinity. Captain Charles P. Adriance, Solomon P. Hopkins and Gilbert S. Hopkins conducted a freighting business from Low Point until 1856. Among the descendants of Gen. Lewis still resident in Staatsburg is the family of the late Lydig M. Hoyt. A final study for the Stoutenburgh panel of a mural for the post office in Hyde Park, New York. Red Hook is a town in Dutchess County. 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 Rothery File Works was established in 1835, by John Rothery, who came from Yorkshire, England. William Coe and Peter Emigh settled on adjoining farms here in 1740. 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. It was not a success financially, and in 1883 was discontinued. Copyright Paul Upton and Christopher Dibble were early settlers herethe former coming from Massachusetts, the latter from Long Island. 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. Amenia Seminary was built in 1835, and the school opened in the same year. It was established in 1797, and was the first public library in Dutchess county. Its growth was slow, and services were finally discontinued. The Baptist church was organized in 1777. 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." Dutchess County Records Management 170 Washington Street Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 486-3677 A list addresses and phone numbers of town clerks and/or municipal offices where vital records may be obtained is available on the Dutchess County Genealogical Society Vital Records web page. and Helen Wilkinson Reynolds. Services were continued for some years in the school house as often as a supply could be obtained. For a time, was annexed to Ulster County, separated in 1713. The community was set off from the Town of Poughkeepsie when it became an incorporated village in 1799. This is one of the southern tier towns of Dutchess, its southern angle extending almost to the north line of Putnam county. William Traphagen was one of the largest taxpayers in 1718. The Hudson River Railroad was built through from New York to Poughkeepsie in 1849, the first train coming through to the site of the present station January 4, 1850. High-tech industries and modern shopping malls have replaced brickyards and trading posts. In exchange, Rye was granted to New York, along with a 1.81-mile (2.91 km) wide strip of land running north from Ridgefield to Massachusetts alongside the New York counties of Westchester, Putnam then Dutchess, known as "The Oblong". Charles B. Whitehead and Rev. Its capital stock is $45,000. The oldest religious organization in the town is that of the Society of Friends of Arthursburg. The valleys are very fertile and well adapted to grain and grass culture. In 1683, the colonial assembly established the twelve original counties of New York. 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. Wing was one of the early settlers in New England, and his son Benjamin married Rhoda Rogers, a descendant of John Rogers the martyr, who was burned at Smithfield, England, Feb. 4, 1555. Poughkeepsie has long been known as a city of schools. Please keep checking back. The business was discontinued with the failure of the first bridge project in 1873. At this place was built a Friends' meeting house, and Oswego monthly meetings were held here as early as 1761. This was destroyed by fire January 18, 1857, and the present brick building erected shortly thereafter, and dedicated September 7, 1858. 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. William Humphrey held this office in 1763. Among the pastors who served this church were Rev. Matteawan. The plant covers about 1200 acres, and gives employment to 400 persons. One of the early aldermen was Henry W. Shaw (Josh Billings). Occupied as Hospital in 1778 By Revolutionary Soldiers Many of Whom Are Buried South of This Road. 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. Some were long term tenants, while others resided a short time and moved on, going farther north into New York and . See the FamilySearch Library line in the above State Census Chart. 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. But in 1713 this path was widened to conform to the rest of the highway. 1880. The Patents, in the twelve years 1685-1697 lawful patents had been granted securing for their purchasers every foot of Hudson River shoreline in the original county. Isaac Rysdyck, 1765 to 1790. It was formed as a town March 17, 1788. The records of the present society state that the Presbyterian church of Pleasant Plains was organized March 28, 1837, by Rev. 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. It shows the plottings of a proposed village with several streets, including Liberty, Spring, Union, Market and North; also a Broadway. In 1785, New York State granted the first license for the Post Road, formally establishing a series of taverns and inns along modern Route 9, some of which still stand today. A new building was erected in 1838. Revolutionary Notes. In 1911 it contains about 50,000 volumes. A large flour mill, operated by the late Starr B. Knox, stood on the dock. 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. First Effective Action Against Slavery Taken Here in 1767. Milan was taken off in 1818, and Pine Plains was erected into a separate township in 1823. The Memorial Building at Rhinecliff contains a libbrary, a reading room, and an auditorium. Methodism was introduced into the town in 1788, and in 1825 the Society built a church here. St. James Episcopal Church was built in 1904. 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. Dutchess County Historical Society 845-471-1630 54 Main Street Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Dutchess County Genealogical Society 845-462-4108 P.O. In 1859 a Catholic Church was built at Sylvan Lake, and another at Clove Valley, forming a part of the Parish of St. Denis. In 1849, 33,000 acres of its area were set off to form the town of East Fishkill, and in 1875 its territory was further reduced by 16,025 acres for the erection of the town of Wappinger. Quaker Hill and West Mountain were probably settled long before the lands in the valley. Thompson Pond and Upton Lake are considerable bodies of water. Dutchess County remains a community rooted in deep history and facing forward towards new opportunities. 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. 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. It abounds in wild and beautiful scenery. The Town of Red Hook. About 1750 Aaron Stockholm built a mill at Hopewell. George Clinton, was formed from the precincts of Charlotte and Rhinebeck, March 13, 1786. 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. Henry Sleight, a native of Long Island, is credited with being the first innkeeper. It hopes to restore power in Orange County by 4:30 p.m. and Dutchess County by 5 p.m. The name Poughkeepsie is first found in an Indian deed, dated May 5, 1683, on file in Albany, granting to Pieter Lansingh and Jan Smeedes each a farm, and to the latter "also a waterfall near the bank of the river to build a, mill thereon. 060, p. 306] Gilbert FERGUSON. From Vassar College to small community libraries, learning thrived in Dutchess County from the second quarter of the nineteenth century onwards. Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Back to Table of Contents Barracks were erected on the plateau southeast of the village, and frequently large bodies of troops were stationed there. LDSGenealogy.com is privately owned and is not an official site of FamilySearch International or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Little Wappinger Creek flows southerly through the center of the town. 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 Whaley Pond, Lake Norton, Green Mountain Lake and Lake Hammersley are considerable bodies of water. The first trustees were James S. Smith, Valentine Baker, Andrew Billings, Ebenezer Badger, and Thomas Nelson. Mr. Arthur Rockwell continued this business until his death in 1910. Dover was formed as a town from Pawling, February 20, 1807. The village was incorporated June 30, 1875, with N. C. Beach, President. Pamela J. Sears, Who was Catrina: wife of Stephen Jansz Van Voorhees of Jamaica?, New Netherland. 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. This town was formed from Rhinebeck June 2, 1812. The Rhinebeck Savings Bank was organized in 1862. The settlement grew quickly, and the Reformed Church of Poughkeepsie was established by 1720. Municipal Historians of Dutchess County. He built his tavern, which is still standing, about the year 1768, on the A. C. Briggs farm. Red Hook was taken off in 1812. 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. 4 were here. Samuel Dor-land and wife, Allen Moore and wife and Andrew Moore are recorded as being present at this meeting. The First Settlement. 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. The village then had something like 1,500 inhabitants, and the population of the whole town in 1800 was 3,246. Oswego and Verbank are hamlets. The first settlers were the families of Barent Baltus Van Kleeck and Hendrick Jans van Oosterom. The charter was granted to Abraham Kip on the east side of the river, and to Moses Contine on the west side. With the granting of a patent known as Minnisinck to Robert Sanders and Myndert Harmans, October 24, 1686, the site of the city of Poughkeepsie began to acquire settlers enough to determine the location of a center or hamlet. "They grew corn, beans, and various species of squash, and gathered plant foods such as hickory, nuts, butternuts, walnuts, acorns, and chestnuts, and . This hamlet was on the Post road from Northeast to Rhinebeck, and was a place of some business importance. The fine old estates in this town overlooking the Hudson include "Rokeby," "Blithewood," the Callendar House and "Chateau Tivoli," elsewhere described in this volume. 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. Box 708, Poughkeepsie NY 12602 www.dcgs-gen.org for the Study of FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH Town Historian with more to come! During the Civil War the name of the post office was changed to Fishkill-on-Hudson. 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. Date: 2003-01 ISBN: 0962644315 | ISBN-13: 9780962644313 More Details Similar Books Compare Prices 1717, a portion of Albany County transferred to Dutchess County. It stood until 1833 at the corner of Church and Market streets, when the old Christ Church, still well remembered, replaced it. Near the western border is Sylvan Lake, covering over one hundred acres. The village of Chelsea, formerly known as Low Point or Carthage Landing Postoffice, had at one time a shipyard owned by Cornelius Carman, where sloops and steamboats were launched. It became widely known throughout the country, and students were enrolled from every State in the Union. The Quakers established a meeting house on Clover street in 1802. James De Long, who was town clerk in 1802-'03, is said to have been a descendant of the settler of that name. Records are drawn from the marriage and death columns of central New York newspapers published prior to 1850. 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. In 1865 it was changed to a National Bank, Pawling Savings Bank was incorporated in 1870. 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. For thisland he paid 750 pounds, on which, in 1766, he built a stone homestead. Includes marriages and deaths for the 12 months prior to the census, ending 1 June of the census year. They were freighters, storekeepers and millers before and after the Revolution. 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. THE town of Amenia, erected in 1823, embraces some forty square miles on the extreme eastern border of the county. A Presbyterian Society was organized at Pleasant Plains in 1785. Water was pumped from the Fall Kill and was used only for fire extinguishing purposes, pipes being laid only on the main streets. 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. Moses Shearman of do Labourer. 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. It is said that there was quite an influx into the town about 1740. William Seward. 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 first Oblong Meeting House, as it came to be known, was finished in 1742. It originally extended westward to the Hudson and comprised over 66,000 acres, with a population in 1790 of 4,607. Among the early settlers we find the names of Livingston, Potter, Abel, Morey, Reed, Uhl, Cline and Wilkinson. Johannes Rowe died in 1771, and was buried in the family ground across the road from the church which bears the family name. It is a large, two-story structure, in good repair, notwithstanding its age. This family name in Holland is Wiltsee, but some branches spell it Wiltsie, as does the family herein recorded. 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 Abraham Polhemusfamiliar names in the annals of the Reformed Church of New York. 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 families included "Sovryn the Baker," Harmans, the patentee, Balthazar Barnse, Hendrick Ostrom, Simon Scoute and Baltus Van Kleeck. Its boundaries at that time included the present Putnam County, and a small portion of the present Columbia County (the towns of Clermont and Germantown). In 1812 the Presbyterians of Pleasant Valley erected a house of worship in the village, which gave way to a new edifice in 1848. 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