Crum Elbow creek formed a natural division between the property of the Bards on the north, and the Stoutenburghs on the south. 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. Riverview Military Academy was opened in 1867 by Otis Bisbee. The Dutch Church here, which was used as a military prison during the Revolution, was erected in 1731. A Baptist church was built here in 1777. The congregation numbers about forty. William Clark was half of the famous exploration team Lewis and Clark, who explored and mapped the unknown lands west of the Mississippi River. Large quantities of stores from Dutchess and adjacent counties were there accumulated for use of the Continental army. Dutchess County Government. I, Historical records of Enoch Crosby Chapter; Putnam, Dutchess and Westchester counties, New York, John Herrick ledger, Pine Plains, New York, Account book, country store keeper, the 18th century at Poughkeepsie, New York, Anniversary discourse and history of the First Reformed Church of Poughkeepsie, Collection and index for Verticle File (VF), Drawer (Dr), and Shelved Books (StB) material, Poughkeepsie : the origin and meaning of the word, Poughkeepsie, New York, unidentified account book, 1818-1820, The Eagle's History of Poughkeepsie, 1905 (included in U.S. County and Regional Histories and Atlases collection), The Eagle's history of Poughkeepsie from the earliest settlements, 1683 to 1905, The city of Poughkeepsie, historical and descriptive : with illustrated sketches of its institutions, its industries and trade, and its leading citizens, A brief history of Red Hook : the living past of a Hudson Valley community, Stephen V. R. Burnett account book, 1865-1882 : cabinet maker & undertaker, Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York, A brief history of Rhinebeck : the living past of a Hudson Valley community, Documentary History of Rhinebeck, In Dutchess County, New York, 1881 (included in U.S. County and Regional Histories and Atlases collection), Documentary history of Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, N.Y. : embracing biographical sketches and genealogical records of our first families and first settlers, with a history of its churches and other public institutions, Historic old Rhinebeck : echoes of two centuries : a Hudson River and post road colonial town : when, where, by whom settled, Historic old Rhinebeck : echoes of two centuries; a Hudson River and post road colonial town, Index - Documentary history of Rhinebeck by Edward M. 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. 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 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. The charter was granted to Abraham Kip on the east side of the river, and to Moses Contine on the west side. She set about establishing mills and invited settlers to come upon her land and develop it. In 1847 Father Kelly of Connecticut ministered to the Catholics in this section. Dutchess County remains a community rooted in deep history and facing forward towards new opportunities. A short distance northeast of Poughquag was the home of Col. Vanderburgh, an officer of some prominence in the Revolution. Most of the first settlers in Dutchess County were Dutch. Wassaic. The valleys are very fertile and well adapted to grain and grass culture. Colonists from New England founded communities throughout the disputed areas of eastern Dutchess in the opening decades of the eighteenth century. The overall factory of Sweet, Orr & Co. was founded by James Orr in 1871. He had four sons John, Sebastian, Philip, and Mark, who settled around on the land of their father's purchase, and to each of whom he gave a farm. The Christian Church at Schultzville was erected in 1866 on land donated by T. A. Schultz, who also contributed $3,000 towards the cost of the building. Key Aspects The present bank building was erected in 1903. He returned the following statistics: Population, 2,300; electors, 431; taxable property, $547,106. The village contains several stores, mechanical shops, and the Borden creamery. Basic contents of the records include: Name, sex, age, color, marital status, place of birth, month of death, occupation, and cause of death. for the manufacture of fine wool hats. In 1812, Putnam County was detached from Dutchess. His widow, who was formerly Miss Margaret Ackerman, survived him for many years, and in Rhinebeck, NY STARR LIBRARY Local History Room Box 708, Poughkeepsie NY 12602 www.dcgs-gen.org for the Study of FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH Town Historian with more to come! In 1911 it contains about 50,000 volumes. Red Hook was taken off in 1812. Mr. Doherty has published a total of 13 volumes in this series, we are now adding volume 11 in accordance with our agreement to make them available as searchable database after 7 years have passed. Red Hook is a town in Dutchess County. 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. The first Oblong Meeting House, as it came to be known, was finished in 1742. Counties included are Oneida, Madison, Chenago, Onondage, Chemung, Brooms, Elmira, and parts of Ontario. This page has been viewed 74,075 times (4,778 via redirect). The village was incorporated June 30, 1875, with N. C. Beach, President. A paper mill was established previous to 1840, and in 1844 was burned down. Genealogy Trails The Pine Plains Bank was organized in 1839, and closed its doors in 1857, voluntarily, but maintained its good name. Death entry content: Name, age, sex, color, marital status, month and day of death, native state or country, occupation and cause of death. and Helen Wilkinson Reynolds. 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. 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 Rosa tracts were occupied by an Osterhout, a Van Etten and an Ostrander. The village of Pawling has a fine water system constructed in 1895. Its limits were but slightly changed by the act of 1788, which organized the county into towns. 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 Matthew Vassar gave the site, some 200 acres of land, and added about $400,000. 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 Franklindale Cotton Co. was operated by the Garners from 1844 to 1885, when the plant was destroyed by fire. Of the valley there occur Shaw, Cary, Hunt, Sabin, Salmon, Pearce and Slocum. Deaths are included for the 12 months prior to the census, 1849-50, 1859-60, 1869-70, and 1879-80 beginning 1 June and ending 31 May of the census year. Little Wappinger Creek flows southerly through the center of the town. Services were continued for some years in the school house as often as a supply could be obtained. Among the early residents of the neighborhood was Jacob Sebring, who lived in a large white house overlooking the river, and built a dock where he kept a yacht. It was incorporated December 31, 1895. 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. An electric railway connects the village with the city of Poughkeepsie. 22 Market Street This volumn covers the segment between Geneva and Utica, New York. Ontario Settlers United Empire Loyalists were Americans who remained loyal to King George III and the British Empire. 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. 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. Her mother was Mary Wady, daughter of John 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. 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. Another range, known as the West Mountain, occupies the western part. The Colonial boundaries of the precinct of Amenia included a large part of the present town of North East. It was a transfer on the part of three Indians, to Gerritt Artsen, Arie Rosa and Jan Elton. The Treaty of Dover of 1731stabilized the border zone. It abounds in wild and beautiful scenery. The community was set off from the Town of Poughkeepsie when it became an incorporated village in 1799. A new building was erected in 1838. 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 thisland he paid 750 pounds, on which, in 1766, he built a stone homestead. 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 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. Wappingers Falls, the principal village in the town, is situated at the head of navigation on Wappinger creek, about two miles above its confluence with the Hudson, and the same distance from New Hamburgh, a station on the N. Y. C. & H. R. railroad, with which it is connected by stage. 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. Hone and Schenck built the mill now belonging to the Matteawan Mfg. II Match all terms exactly First & Middle Name (s) Last Name Any Event Year Location Keyword e.g. 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. Volume 11 contains over 1,000 pages and is focused on families with last names between Rood and Sly. Until 1713, Dutchess was administered by Ulster County. Matteawan. The capital which was then $75,000 has been increased to $300,000. 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 business was discontinued with the failure of the first bridge project in 1873. It originally extended westward to the Hudson and comprised over 66,000 acres, with a population in 1790 of 4,607. 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. The Clove Spring Iron Works was organized in 1873. The establishment of ferry service at Rhinebeck in 1752, brought the inhabitants in closer connection with Rondout. The Methodist Church at Johnsville was organized in 1826. 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. The first town meeting in Northeast, as at present constituted, was held at Northeast Center on the first day of April, 1823. The Bank of Pawling was organized in 1849 by Albert J. Aikin. 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. During the Revolutionary War, the Village of Fishkill hosted the primary supply depot for the entire Northern Department of the Continental Army, including barracks, a hospital, and workshops. In consideration of Dutchesss predominantly rural character, county government has assisted in the creation of agricultural districts preserving more than 200,000 acres of farmland. Dutchess was among them, named after Mary of Modena, then Duchess of York and wife of the future King James II of England. 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. This is one of the southern tier towns of Dutchess, its southern angle extending almost to the north line of Putnam county. From 1683 to 1715 most of the settlers in Dutchess . It has changed hands several times, and is now successfully conducted by Morgan H. Hoyt. It depicts a winter forest-clearing scene on the land of Jacobus Stout 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. A growing population, with accompanying expansions of suburbs, required new roads and increased engagement from county government. The City of Poughkeepsie was chartered in 1854. 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. FDR was the only President to win a fourth term in the White House: when Thomas E. Dewey from Pawling ran against him in 1944, it was the only time in American history when two men from the same county vied for the Presidency. And comprised over 66,000 acres, with N. C. Beach, President Gerritt. Adjacent counties were there accumulated for use of the settlers in Dutchess shops. 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