A growing population, with accompanying expansions of suburbs, required new roads and increased engagement from county government. Charles F. Dietrich, whose estate is the most extensive and with its many beautiful features is worth a long journey to see; the late H. J. Davison, who built Altamont; and the late and much lamented Col. Daniel S. Lamont, so widely known in public affairs, both in this State and in the Nation; Roswell P. Miller, of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, who has built a fine "Colonial" mansion; H. R. McLane, a Brooklyn gentlemen of literary and artistic taste; Harry Harkness Flagler, whose interest and co-operation in local affairs has been constant, and who is a member of the Board of Education, an active trustee of the Library Association, president and chief promoter of the Millbrook Choral Society, and a supporter of everything that pertains to the general good of the community; the late Captain R. S. Hayes, in whose memory the library was erected; Miss Mary Lenox Kennedy, whose mother was a member of that fine old family so identified with the religious, literary, educational, philanthropic and civic life of New York City; Charles Clinton Marshall, whose ancestors have been in Dutchess county since Revolutionary days; G. Howard Davison, whose stock farm is famous for its horses, cattle and sheep:these are some of the "Millbrook Colony" to whom the town has proved attractive on account of its healthy climate and scenic beauty. Matthew Vassar died in 1868, and his nephews, Matthew, Jr., and John Guy, continued his interest in the institution. 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. 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. Artsen, with a family of ten children, came to live upon and cultivate his land in 1702. On November 1, 1683, the Province of New York established its first twelve counties, with Dutchess County being one of them. Junction was built in 1888. The depot at South Dover is known as Wing's Station. 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. William Coe and Peter Emigh settled on adjoining farms here in 1740. In this building the Society of the Cincinnati was instituted, May, 1783. A large flour mill, operated by the late Starr B. Knox, stood on the dock. About 1735 Jacob Stoutenburgh, a Hollander and trader from Westchester, became interested in lands now comprised within the bounds of this town. Officers, --------- V Life and Annual Members, ----.. yj Cons The town of Dover lies on the southeastern border of the county. Other early settlers were: Hans Hufcut and Martin Preston, who settled on what is known as Preston Mountain, and the latter is said to have been the . 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 names of the early settlers on this tract are only to be learned from mention made in various records, such as surveys of highways and minutes of town meetings.The earliest names found are in the survey of highways in 1745: Eli Nelson, Francis Nelson, David Hustis, Nathan Lane, Gilbert Cronkhyt, Joseph Jaycox, Joseph Aries, Joseph Cronkhyt, Volume 10 contains over 1,200 pages and is focused on families with last names between Paine to Rogers. Born circa 1672. The FamilySearch Catalog: the Amazing Free Resource You Might Be Missing. Among the pupils of this school was Jacob Willetts, whose arithmetic passed through many editions and was widely used in the schools of the country. In the winter of 1778-79 a regiment of Continentals was quartered in Poughkeepsie, and barracks were erected on the south side of the village. 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), . In 1715 Beekman induced many Palatines to locate on his lands. Matthew Vassar gave the site, some 200 acres of land, and added about $400,000. William Humphrey held this office in 1763. James De Long, who was town clerk in 1802-'03, is said to have been a descendant of the settler of that name. Churches. 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 1790 there was formed in Hyde Park the Stoutsburgh Religious Association. The Baptist records are complete from the organization of the society in 1807, when they erected an edifice on Mill street. Water was pumped from the Fall Kill and was used only for fire extinguishing purposes, pipes being laid only on the main streets. The town received its name from its geographical position in the county. The capital which was then $75,000 has been increased to $300,000. A short distance northeast of Poughquag was the home of Col. Vanderburgh, an officer of some prominence in the Revolution. The present brick church was built in 1833. It abounds in wild and beautiful scenery. Students are attracted to it from all parts of the country. 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See the FamilySearch Library line in the above State Census Chart. Tried to use year, where stated, person and where they were from. Later arrivals were Peter Mesier, John Hughson and Rev. 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. This hamlet was on the Post road from Northeast to Rhinebeck, and was a place of some business importance. Genealogies of the Early Settlers of Dover, Dutchess, NY and Collateral Families Mission Statement Dover Dutchess Genealogy is a research project to study, compile and share the genealogies and histories of the families that settled the area that is now the Township of Dover in Dutchess County, New York. The Church of St. Mary was incorporated March 12, 1879. 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.". A grist mill was conducted here during the Revolution by one Vincent. The Province of New York and the Connecticut Colony negotiated an agreement on November 28, 1683, establishing their border as 20 miles (32 km) east of the Hudson River, north to Massachusetts. In 1911 it contains about 50,000 volumes. Bangall, Stanfordville and Stissing are small villages. Also on microfilm. Occupied as Hospital in 1778 By Revolutionary Soldiers Many of Whom Are Buried South of This Road. The spring itself is seventy-five feet across. Many emigrants from New England lived in and passed through the Beekman Patent on their way west. Most of the first settlers in Dutchess County were Dutch. The company has lately invested thousands of dollars in the acquisition of rights and in erecting buildings for the use of the club. The Methodist Church at Johnsville was organized in 1826. 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. 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. At this place was built a Friends' meeting house, and Oswego monthly meetings were held here as early as 1761. There is a National and a Savings Bank in the village; a daily and a weekly newspaper. Its growth was slow, and services were finally discontinued. The first factory in Matteawan was established in 1814 by Philip Hone (at one time Mayor of New York) and Peter A. Schenck, who had married Margaret Brett, granddaughter of Madam Brett. This land he gave to his son Luke in 1758. Pawling village, incorporated in 1903, has about 800 inhabitants. 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The Quaker Meeting House at Clinton Corners was built in 1777. 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 Among the earliest settlers were the Swartwouts, Storms, Emans, Montforts, Stockholms, Rapeljes, Van Wycks, Baileys and Van Vlackrens. Peter Contine and his wife, Eleanor, daughter of Jacob Heermance of Kingston, lived at Upper Red Hook previous to the Revolution. While the Tories were thus showing authority, they were surprised by a company of American soldiers from Sharon, Connecticut. They numbered about four hundred, and came principally from the southern part of the county. The present church, dedicated May 26, 1869, is the third edifice of the Society in the town. 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. In that year the stone house was built, now standing, on the Emigh homestead, at present in possession of a grandson of William. 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. There are two churchesBaptist and Methodist. Other early settlers were the Vanderburghs, Vandebogerts, Parmentors, Lewis, Pells, Titsoorts and Filkins. Beekman's patent to land in this vicinity was granted in 1697. It was soon rebuilt with substantial brick structures. Landsman Kill, the principal stream, was an important factor in the development of the milling industry in the early days of the town. The Dutchess County Genealogical Society was established in 1972 to help organize and direct genealogical work. Levi P. Morton, as a memorial to his deceased daughter. The title to the soil dates back to 1705 when Peter Fauconier, one of the Little Nine Partner patentees, became sole owner of this grant. In 1812, Putnam County was detached from Dutchess. The towns of Northeast, Pine Plains and Milan, taken collectively, constituted, in 1746, the Northeast Precinct. 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). 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. 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. The advent of graded schools rendered the existence of such an institution unnecessary, and the buildings have been closed since 1888. Mr. Arthur Rockwell continued this business until his death in 1910. The metal was of superior quality. The valleys are very fertile and well adapted to grain and grass culture. 1755, Aprill 22. 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. 1880 lists how long a resident of the county. The Methodist Church at Poughquag was erected in 1839, and in the same year the Baptist Society built a church at Beekmanville. A grist mill was established in 1850 by Seaman & Northrup. From 1730 until 1775 New Englanders were the main new settlers in Dutchess County. The Matteawan Evening Journal was started in 1869 by Charles G. Coutant under the name of the Daily Herald. George Clinton, was formed from the precincts of Charlotte and Rhinebeck, March 13, 1786. Thomas Newbold. In 1882 the Millerton National Bank was organized with G. S. Frink as President, and W. M. Dales as Cashier. They began operations on Staten Island, and in 1857 removed to the present location in Matteawan. It had a capacity of 250,000 yards of cloth per week. They settled along the Fishkill River and in the areas that are now Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck. The Settlers of the Beekman Patent series, by Frank J. Doherty, contains data on over thirteen hundred families who settled in the Beekman Patent, an original land grant given to Col. Henry Beekman in 1697 by the English Crown and the second largest patent in present-day Dutchess County, New York. It has always been an industrial center. The village of Pine Plains had an official name as a postoffice a few years prior to its organization as a town. Whaley Pond, Lake Norton, Green Mountain Lake and Lake Hammersley are considerable bodies of water. The building was enlarged and remodelled in 1853. Petrus Vas. 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. In 1748 a church was organized near the center of the town. The Rothery File Works was established in 1835, by John Rothery, who came from Yorkshire, England. 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. Adjoining Hyde Park village on the north is the country seat of Mr. F. W. Vanderbilt, who purchased the property in 1895. It was replaced in 1852 by a stone bridge, thirty feet wide, which in 1884 was widened to sixty feet. Co. which was organized in 1812 by Peter H. Schenck, J. J. Astor, Philip Hone, and others. Dutchess County Genealogical Society Meetings Discontinued in This House 1885.". The "Christian Denomination" was composed of Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists, who held meetings in the town as early as 1820. The families of Carman, Brill, Noxon, Baker, Pleas, Uhls from Germany, Cary, Dennis, Haxtun, Sweet and Gardner, were among the earliest known settlers. Website: http://www.co.dutchess.ny.us/countygov/departments/countyclerk/ccindex.htm, "Specializing in New England and New York Colonial American Ancestry", Index of Wills of Dutchess County, New York, 1742-1811, http://www.co.dutchess.ny.us/countygov/departments/countyclerk/ccindex.htm. In 1728, three years before the New York-Connecticut boundary line adjustment, the first settlers had arrived in "the Oblong." Many acres of land were plotted and sold in lots, two chief centers of development being around Mansion Square and the old French farm, south of the English Burying Ground, that is, south of the present location of Christ Church. Several Quaker families resided in this vicinity. South of this is the Catholic church, its attendants forming an outlying mission of the Sylvan Lake Church. Peter Montfort bought 370 acres of land in the vicinity of Fishkill Plains in 1735. N. O. 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. During the post-Revolutionary era, the county began a slow climb to economic prosperity. The Quakers established a meeting house on Clover street in 1802. 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. I expect there will be sixteen or more volumes before this series is finished. They were freighters, storekeepers and millers before and after the Revolution. 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. The village lies on both sides of the creek, having been made to include the village of Channingville, in the town of Poughkeepsie, by its incorporation, September 22, 1871. The county was named for Mary of Modena, Duchess of York, second wife of James, Duke of York (later James II, King of England). 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. Staatsburg, a village in the northern part of the town, derives its name from the Staats family, who settled here about 1720. Among the earliest landholders within the present town limits were the Van Benschotens at New Hackensack. From 1683 to 1715 most of the settlers in Dutchess County were Dutch. You may select a specific volume to restrict your search results. The building they had erected in 1873 was destroyed by fire in 1876. In 1865 it was changed to a National Bank, Pawling Savings Bank was incorporated in 1870. By a payment of a small annual fee to the farmers they have secured the right to hunt and fish over miles of adjacent territory. Amenia Seminary was built in 1835, and the school opened in the same year. The building was finished in 1723. 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. 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 trail would become the means by which settlers would access the frontier. The foundations alone mark the spot from which the buildings have been removed. 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. John, James, Daniel and Robert Wilson, four brothers, settled in the vicinity of Upper Red Hook before 1770, and engaged in farming. Consider membership. 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