Following the division in the Society in 1828 the Hicksites built a meeting house at Moore's Mills, where meetings are regularly held. Dr. John Bard, the earliest physician in this locality, bought out the heirs of Fauconier, of whom his wife was a descendant. It was replaced in 1852 by a stone bridge, thirty feet wide, which in 1884 was widened to sixty feet. 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. 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. His grandson, Gulian, came about 1730, and built the house still standing known as Mount Gulian. The first record of the Methodist Episcopal church bears date of 1842, and under date of April 2, 1859, is found the following: "The trustees of Millerton beg leave to report that they have purchased a lot on which they have erected a church edifice which costs, with the said lot, the sum of $4,500. Captain Charles P. Adriance, Solomon P. Hopkins and Gilbert S. Hopkins conducted a freighting business from Low Point until 1856. Early European settlements clustered along the Hudson River at modern Beacon, Fishkill, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, and Red Hook. 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. Beekman's patent to land in this vicinity was granted in 1697. The present brick church was built in 1833. A church at Washington Hollow was erected in 1747 by the Presbyterian society. 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Schryvers, Justice of the Peace, 1830-1831, 1834-1840 Family History Library, La Grange : an historical review Ancestry, History of Little Nine Partners of North East Precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Dutchess County, vol. Pine Plains has a public library of nearly 3,000 volumes. Prepares genealogy tables of early settlers; 7. Quaker Hill, Holmes and West Pawling are hamlets. 1870 also has parents' birthplace. It stood close to the water at what was known as the Lower Landing, north of Dennings Point. Dutchess County remains a community rooted in deep history and facing forward towards new opportunities. Crum Elbow creek formed a natural division between the property of the Bards on the north, and the Stoutenburghs on the south. One half of the business section was destroyed by fire May 8, 1864. Most of the first settlers in Dutchess County were Dutch. Its surface is generally hilly, and in the southern part mountainous. Its surface is a hilly upland, intersected by a broad valley extending north and south. They died, respectively, in 1881 and 1888, and left the college considerable sums of money. Supervises subordinate staff members; 8. Mr. Card's introduction to this transcription reads: "These marriages are taken from some minister's personal record, entered in a small ( 5 x 8 ) memorandum book. 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 Beekman mill, built in 1710, near the river, was followed in 1715 by the Beekman-Livingston mills, below "the flatts." Vassar College, founded by Matthew Vassar, was chartered by the Legislature January 18, 1861. It was in this church building that a band of Tories, in the summer of 1777, assembled. 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 paper mill was established previous to 1840, and in 1844 was burned down. Wappingers creek is the principal stream. Matthew Vassar died in 1868, and his nephews, Matthew, Jr., and John Guy, continued his interest in the institution. 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. The Ten Mile River, some eighteen miles in length, runs south through the eastern part of the town. High-tech industries and modern shopping malls have replaced brickyards and trading posts. In 1683, the colonial assembly established the twelve original counties of New York. Parties were sent to the bordering settlements to intimidate the patriots, and obtain supplies for the British army. EARLY AMERICAN HISTORIES The original thirteen colonies were: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia. Abraham Polhemusfamiliar names in the annals of the Reformed Church of New York. A grist mill was conducted here during the Revolution by one Vincent. It was a transfer on the part of three Indians, to Gerritt Artsen, Arie Rosa and Jan Elton. Before 1870 the second great period of growth, comparable to that of the days of the old improvement party between 1830 and 1837, was in full sway. 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.". Moses Shearman of do Labourer. But the influx of Quakers and their progeny wasn't, and over the next 20 years the community outgrew it. 1717, a portion of Albany County transferred to Dutchess County. In this building the Society of the Cincinnati was instituted, May, 1783. 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. Later an industry for the manufacture of cement, for use in the first Poughkeepsie bridge, was started here. Many of these moved in from Albany and Ulster Counties. They were: The Settlers of Beekman Patents, 13 volumes. Thomas Newbold. It was destroyed by fire in 1910. Meetings Discontinued in This House 1885.". Several Quaker families resided in this vicinity. 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. Education. The Congregational Church of Northeast was organized in 1827, and the building erected in 1828. In 1810 the town had 4,669 inhabitants and the village 2,981. 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. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Search Free Dutchess County New York Genealogy and Family History Records Online including census, cemetery, vital, military and other genealogical and historical records that can be used for your family history research. In 1855 when the city had been taken out, the town had left but 3,110 people. Present Meeting House Erected in 1760. The Beekman Iron Mine was discovered in 1846 by William E. Haxtun. This page was last edited on 26 January 2023, at 21:11. Her mother was Mary Wady, daughter of John Franklin Ellis 342. 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. On the west side there once dwelt the ancestors of the families by the name of Worden, Moshier, Dentory, Dibble, Davis and Turner. 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 town received its name from its geographical position in the county. John Barkalo, Dr. Thomas De Witt, Rev. It became a National Bank in 1865. Philip had a son, William P. Rowe, who served as a soldier in the war of 1812. The present edifice waserected in 1837, enlarged in 1859, and the parsonage built in 1866. A Presbyterian Society was organized at Pleasant Plains in 1785. Thompson Pond and Upton Lake are considerable bodies of water. The Methodist Church at Johnsville was organized in 1826. The Pine Plains Bank was organized in 1839, and closed its doors in 1857, voluntarily, but maintained its good name. Matthew Vassar gave the site, some 200 acres of land, and added about $400,000. By the erections of precincts in the county in 1737, Poughkeepsie had a slice taken off its northern end, and was given a definite eastern boundary. First Effective Action Against Slavery Taken Here in 1767. 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. The minutes of the society contain no records of the early pastors, except for the year 1851, when Rev. 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. 1776-1805 Dutchess County, New York Marriage Records. Churches. It has always been a good agricultural and fruit growing section. This valley is known far and wide as "The Clove," its limits extending beyond the town borders, and was an important landmark in the early history of the region. They were freighters, storekeepers and millers before and after the Revolution. 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. By 1826 the Presbyterians were permanently organized and built a church on Cannon street. 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. Among them were the Marshalls, Bakers, Briggs, Hoags, Halsteads, Moshers, Stringhams, Watters, Lamorees, Nelsons and Williams. Until 1713, Dutchess was administered by Ulster County. The "Christian Denomination" was composed of Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists, who held meetings in the town as early as 1820. Located in southeastern New York in the valley of the Ten Mile River, Wassaic is bordered to the east and west by mountain ranges. Records for the time period of 1683-1713 are in Ulster county. North of this is the estate which has been in the possession of Mr. Archibald Rogers for the past twenty-two years, and is known as " Crumwold." The company eventually gave up the business, as they could not compete in price with machine made files. In 1899 the control of the library was given to a board of library trustees. These include the Elmendorph Inn at Red Hook and the Beekman Arms in Rhinebeck. Wood, map between 56 and 57, and 203-205. Volume 10 contains over 1,200 pages and is focused on families with last names between Paine to Rogers. 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. A range of hills, locally known as Quaker Hill, extends along the east border. This page has been viewed 74,075 times (4,778 via redirect). Extensive plains originally covered by pine forests gave the town its name. 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