The road network continued to grow throughout the nineteenth century, eventually being eclipsed by the railroad, which reached Poughkeepsie in the 1830s. Through June and July 1788, the Dutchess County Courthouse at Poughkeepsie provided the scene for New Yorks Ratification Debates on the United States Constitution. 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. A Red Hook High School alum, Gomez graduated from . Catharine Rombout, the only child of Francis Rombout, the patentee, married Roger Brett, and in 1709 the young couple built the house now standing in Matteawan, known as the Teller House. The Bogarts from Holland were among the early settlers at Green Haven. The village of Pine Plains had an official name as a postoffice a few years prior to its organization as a town. Later an industry for the manufacture of cement, for use in the first Poughkeepsie bridge, was started here. This was the origin of river freighting. A grist mill was established in 1850 by Seaman & Northrup. 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. Dutchess County Government. Pamela J. Sears, Who was Catrina: wife of Stephen Jansz Van Voorhees of Jamaica?, New Netherland. A cotton mill had a brief existence here. Nicholas Bonesteel and Anna Margretha Kuhn, his wife, with some of their children, were among the early settlers. Mesier came in 1777 and purchased 422 acres of land from Nicholas Brewer, which included the house now known as the Mesier Mansion in the village park at Wappingers Falls. Among the earliest settlers were the Swartwouts, Storms, Emans, Montforts, Stockholms, Rapeljes, Van Wycks, Baileys and Van Vlackrens. William Seward. 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. 1 But this expansion was not without problems. Kip built a stone house on his land in 1700. Another deed of 1686 conveys land to Hendrick Kip. The Morehouse Tavern at Wingdale, torn down in 1877, was a noted hostelry during the Revolution. Smithfield, Amenia Union, South Amenia and Leedsville are small, pleasant villages. A strip of about five thousand acres was taken from it March 1, 1827, to form part of the town of Union Vale. 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). 1717, a portion of Albany County transferred to Dutchess County. The New York Rubber Co. was organized in 1848, to manufacture articles under the Goodyear patent. We regret that are unable to do personal research for you. It stood until 1833 at the corner of Church and Market streets, when the old Christ Church, still well remembered, replaced it. Early in the twentieth century, Dutchess County regained political prominence as the home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 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 eastern portion of Pine Plains was settled by the Palatines. This page was last edited on 26 January 2023, at 21:11. North of this is "The Locusts," the estate of William B. Dinsmore, now owned by his widow and children. A Baptist church was built here in 1777. At Dover Furnace are the ruins of the works of the South Boston Iron Company, established in 1881, principally for the manufacture of iron for government cannon. and History, Historical and Genealogical Record Dutchess and Putnam Counties. Colonists from New England founded communities throughout the disputed areas of eastern Dutchess in the opening decades of the eighteenth century. In the central portion is a good agricultural region. Matthew Vassar gave the site, some 200 acres of land, and added about $400,000. The Matteawan Evening Journal was started in 1869 by Charles G. Coutant under the name of the Daily Herald. The families of Carman, Brill, Noxon, Baker, Pleas, Uhls from Germany, Cary, Dennis, Haxtun, Sweet and Gardner, were among the earliest known settlers. You may select a specific volume to restrict your search results. Crum Elbow creek formed a natural division between the property of the Bards on the north, and the Stoutenburghs on the south. There is also a Catholic and a Pentacostal church in this village. Little Wappinger Creek flows southerly through the center of the town. The freshet of 1865 swept the dam away. The Clove Kill is a tributary of the Fishkill, flowing southwesterly through the town. 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 A separation in the society occurred in 1828, owing to the dissension of Elias Hicks, and the Orthodox Quakers built a church in 1829 nearby the original stone meeting house. The FamilySearch Catalog: the Amazing Free Resource You Might Be Missing. Phone: (845) 486-2120 The camps were occupied until the "contact period" in the early 1600's. The Wappingers (Wappinnee, Wapinck, Wappinge) and related Native American communities lived along the eastern banks of the Mahikannituck (Hudson River), from modern Dutchess County NY, east into central Connecticut, and south into Westchester County. Harvey G. Eastman, George Innis, Mark D. Wilbur and George P. Pelton were leaders in this latter improvement era. The building remained until 1826, and the business was conducted by descendants of the Brett and Wiltse families. 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. It had a capacity of 250,000 yards of cloth per week. 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. Its surface is a rolling upland, and the soil a gravelly loam. Joshua Shearman of Beekmans precinct Shoemaker. Festal gathering of the early settlers and present inhabitants of the town of Virgil, Cortland County, N.Y., held at Virgil village, on Thursday, the 25th of August, 1853, embracing a historic sketch of the town, supplemented with a brief historical account of events from that time to 1878 DELAWARE COUNTY Services were held in private houses until 1762, when the first edifice was erected. The Dutchess County Genealogical Society was established in 1972 to help organize and direct genealogical work. In 1831 Elisha Sterling & Co. built a charcoal furnace at Clove Valley, with a capacity of twelve tons of iron per day. 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. In 1812 the Presbyterians of Pleasant Valley erected a house of worship in the village, which gave way to a new edifice in 1848. 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. The pulpit is now supplied by Rev. This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers, particularly David Anderson. It depicts a winter forest-clearing scene on the land of Jacobus Stout 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 first settler on the "Equivalent Land," or the Oblong. Its surface is a hilly upland, intersected by a broad valley extending north and south. The freshet of 1819 destroyed many mills on the banks of the Wappinger, and carried away the Main street bridge at the Falls. 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. Among those recorded from 1748 to 1756 are Nathan Bull, Moses Harris, Isaac Germond, Dirck Van Vliet, Jacob Spricor, John Earll, Lieut. Dutchess is an archaic form of the word duchess. A second edifice was built in 1760, and in 1822 a third church was erected on the site of the present church building. The first settlement in Afton was made in July, 1786, by Elnathan Bush, who came in from Sheffield, Mass., with his family, then consisting of his wife and four children. Back to Table of Contents In 1859 a Catholic Church was built at Sylvan Lake, and another at Clove Valley, forming a part of the Parish of St. Denis. Gulian Verplanck, the co-patentee, did not come to live or build on the land set off to him. 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The first town meeting was held at the house of William Wolven in April, 1821. The grist mill at Pleasant Plains, which has been operated by water power over one hundred and thirty years, is an interesting landmark. 1878 It is no easy matter, in view of the conflicting testimony, to fix the exact date of the first settlement.. It was replaced in 1852 by a stone bridge, thirty feet wide, which in 1884 was widened to sixty feet. This territory was a portion of the Beekman patent, and settlement is supposed to have begun about the year 1716. Wurtemburg. John Barkalo, Dr. Thomas De Witt, Rev. In 2013, Dutchess County celebrated its 300th anniversary of democracy based upon a legislative resolution sponsored by County Legislator Michael Kelsey from Salt Point. The road leading south from Pawling village, now called the State road, was laid out in 1745, and is described as running from Beekman's Patent into Westchester. The present building of the Reformed Church was erected in 1826. Its territory belonged to the tract known as the Great Nine Partners Patent. Thomas and Alice Casey, from Rhode Island, emigrated here about 1750, and located on what is now known as Chestnut Ridge, Derrick Dutcher and Jacob VanCamp came here previous to 1731, and located near Plymouth Hill. These owners subsequently sold lots or rented out allotments to tenants, leading to fraught relations that presaged the American independence movement. The town of Rhinebeck embraces 18,945 acres in the northwestern part of the county bordering the Hudson River. The Franklindale Cotton Co. was operated by the Garners from 1844 to 1885, when the plant was destroyed by fire. The village was incorporated June 30, 1875, with N. C. Beach, President. The Carmans and Arkles settled near them, about the year 1758, and to the north, Isaac Adriance, "of Nassau Island, Queens County," purchased two hundred and fifty acres of land in May, 1743, and shortly thereafter George and Abraham Adriance purchased and settled. Gilbert Budd had a lumber yard, and was interested in the freighting business. Extensive plains originally covered by pine forests gave the town its name. For a time, was annexed to Ulster County, separated in 1713. Several Quaker families resided in this vicinity. A portion of the village of Red Hook is now on the easterly part of their farm. See the FamilySearch Library line in the above State Census Chart. The organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church of La Grange was effected July 14, 1849. Occupied as Hospital in 1778 By Revolutionary Soldiers Many of Whom Are Buried South of This Road. Quaker Hill and West Mountain were probably settled long before the lands in the valley. 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. They settled along the Fishkill River and in the areas that are now Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck. 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. In 1847 Father Kelly of Connecticut ministered to the Catholics in this section. 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. Charles B. Whitehead and Rev. In 1728, three years before the New York-Connecticut boundary line adjustment, the first settlers had arrived in "the Oblong." The Native Americans who lived in the Hudson Valley just before and at the time of European contact were agriculturalists," says Joseph Diamond, a professor of archaeology at SUNY New Paltz. The Starr Institute, which contains a free library, was built and furnished by Mrs. Mary R. Miller in 1862, at a cost of $15,000. The hamlet contains a hotel built in 1858, two stores and a few dwellings. Matteawan. The towns of Northeast, Pine Plains and Milan, taken collectively, constituted, in 1746, the Northeast Precinct. It is the only public building in Rhinecliff. By Capt. 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Schryvers, Justice of the Peace, 1830-1831, 1834-1840, History of Little Nine Partners of North East Precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Dutchess County, vol. Whaley Pond, Lake Norton, Green Mountain Lake and Lake Hammersley are considerable bodies of water. A new building was erected in 1838. This hamlet was on the Post road from Northeast to Rhinebeck, and was a place of some business importance. The plant employs about 250 persons. 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