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. 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. Dover was taken off and made into a separate township in 1807. Of the valley there occur Shaw, Cary, Hunt, Sabin, Salmon, Pearce and Slocum. From the date of the erection of the church edifice to the present time, upwards of seventy years, the society has enjoyed unbroken services. The Baptist records are complete from the organization of the society in 1807, when they erected an edifice on Mill street. The production of milk is probably the largest industry in this section. The Quaker Meeting House at Clinton Corners was built in 1777. Kip built a stone house on his land in 1700. Extensive deposits of hematite ore are found in the north part of the town, and have been mined considerably. 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. On November 1, 1683, the Province of New York established its first twelve counties, with Dutchess County being one of them. On November 1, 1683, the Province of New York established its first twelve counties, with Dutchess County being one of them. In 1865 it was changed to a National Bank, Pawling Savings Bank was incorporated in 1870. The Clove Spring Iron Works was organized in 1873. This was destroyed by fire January 18, 1857, and the present brick building erected shortly thereafter, and dedicated September 7, 1858. In 1812, Putnam County was detached from Dutchess. The oldest mill in the town was built by Robert Thorne, two miles west of Lafayetteville. A new court house was erected in 1809, and replaced by the present building in 1903. Isaac Rysdyck, 1765 to 1790. The Bethel Baptist Church at Shenandoah was dedicated in 1835, mainly through the efforts of Isaac Knapp and Abram Pulling. 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. Dutchess County's history is visible at every turn. The valleys are very fertile and well adapted to grain and grass culture. The road network continued to grow throughout the nineteenth century, eventually being eclipsed by the railroad, which reached Poughkeepsie in the 1830s. The town of Wappinger, originally a part of the town of Fishkill, was erected May 20, 1875, and lies wholly within the limits of the Rombout patent granted in 1685. A cotton mill had a brief existence here. Others, such as the Palatines and Quakers (almost all from New England), were early settlers and remained for several generations or more. Education. Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Samuel Thorne and Oakleigh Thorne have returned to the land of their ancestors. Ontario Settlers United Empire Loyalists were Americans who remained loyal to King George III and the British Empire. In 1847 Father Kelly of Connecticut ministered to the Catholics in this section. The Highland Division of the N. Y. N. H. & H. Railroad running east and west through the central part of the town has stations at Poughquag and Green Haven. 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. Among the early settlers on the east side we find the names of Sherman, Merrit, Birdsall, Irish, Akin, Craft, Chase and Osborn. His name appears in the official record of Supervisors in 1754, and that of Bartholomew Noxon in 1761. Thompson Pond and Upton Lake are considerable bodies of water. 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. 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. Its members were composed of adherents of the Church of England, and of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, which continued this form of worship until the early part of the 19th century. Paul Upton and Christopher Dibble were early settlers herethe former coming from Massachusetts, the latter from Long Island. The first deed for lands in Rynbeck precinct bears date of June 8, 1686, recorded in Ulster County Clerk's office. Box 708, Poughkeepsie NY 12602 www.dcgs-gen.org for the Study of FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH Town Historian with more to come! The pulpit is now supplied by Rev. Mr. Arthur Rockwell continued this business until his death in 1910. A new building was erected in 1836; it was sold in 1870 to Jonathan Warner, founder of the Old Ladies' Home, and the money was used for the construction of the present High School. The organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church of La Grange was effected July 14, 1849. The town of Washington occupies a central position in the county. 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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. This village was incorporated in 1886, and now includes within its limits Byrnesville, Wiccopee and Tioronda. For a time, was annexed to Ulster County, separated in 1713. The precinct records shed some light upon the names of the first dwellers in the original town. This series of books is an invaluable resource for researching the early settlers of Dutchess county, New York. 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. Wassaic. One half of the business section was destroyed by fire May 8, 1864. Millbrook owes its birth to the building of the railroad in 1869. The Clove Kill is a tributary of the Fishkill, flowing southwesterly through the town. 1870 also has parents' birthplace. 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. He returned the following statistics: Population, 2,300; electors, 431; taxable property, $547,106. 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, All genealogical and family history records we come across are being added to this website. 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." He resigned in 1856 to become a Justice of the Supreme Court, as his father had been before him. Upon their attempt to escape, the Yankees gave them a broadside and killed several. 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 The name of the town is derived from Col. Henry Beekman, who in 1697 obtained a grant of all the land east of Rombout's patent to the Oblong. Franklin Ellis 342. Dutchess County, New York City, County and Rural Directories (Source: Online Historical Directories) Early Shaftsbury (VT) Settlers Many came from Dutchess County (Source: Gateway to Vermont) Names of Palatine men above 21 years old in Livingston Manor, NY - winter of 1710 and summer of 1711 The present brick church was built in 1833. It is not definitely known by whom the town was first settled, but it is supposed that the first settlements were made by the Dutch who came here from the vicinity of Hudson's River. It is a large, two-story structure, in good repair, notwithstanding its age. 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. The advent of graded schools rendered the existence of such an institution unnecessary, and the buildings have been closed since 1888. 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. DeRuyter was formed from Cazenovia March 15, 1798, and was named at the suggestion of John Lincklaen from Admiral DeRuyter of the Dutch navy. Levi P. Morton, as a memorial to his deceased daughter. Staatsburg, a village in the northern part of the town, derives its name from the Staats family, who settled here about 1720. 1880. 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. It was in this church building that a band of Tories, in the summer of 1777, assembled. In 1812 the Presbyterians of Pleasant Valley erected a house of worship in the village, which gave way to a new edifice in 1848. As a natural consequence the Junction has become the business center of the town. Vassar College, founded by Matthew Vassar, was chartered by the Legislature January 18, 1861. It continues to prosper. These barracks became the retreat for wounded and naked soldiers. Dover Plains is the most important village in the town. 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. Between 1830 and 1837 the village grew rapidly and a remarkable real estate boom was inaugurated by the Poughkeepsie Improvement Party, which included such men as Paraclete Potter, editor of the Poughkeepsie Journal, Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, United States Senator, Matthew Vassar, Walter Cunningham, George P. Oakley and Gideon P. Hewitt. The village contains four churches : Baptist, organized 1794, present edifice erected in 1833; Methodist Episcopal organized in 1852, church built in 1853 at a cost of $5,000; St. Charles Borromeo (Catholic) erected in 1859, during the pastorate of Rev. Three additional patents, to 1706, laid claim to the remaining interior lands. The Church of St. Mary was incorporated March 12, 1879. 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.". The Shekemeko runs in a northerly direction through its western portion. The early members have long since passed away, leaving their descendants to unite and to conform to the manners and discipline of other sects. 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. The Rhinebeck Savings Bank was organized in 1862. Later an industry for the manufacture of cement, for use in the first Poughkeepsie bridge, was started here. Also on microfilm. Quaker Hill, Holmes and West Pawling are hamlets. 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 The New York Rubber Co. was organized in 1848, to manufacture articles under the Goodyear patent. There is a National and a Savings Bank in the village; a daily and a weekly newspaper. In 1843 Silas Rogers founded a wagon axle manufacturing business, which was carried on until western competition became too strong. His family's home is now managed by the National Park Service. The Beekman Iron Mine was discovered in 1846 by William E. Haxtun. This volumn covers the segment between Geneva and Utica, New York. Volume 10 contains over 1,200 pages and is focused on families with last names between Paine to Rogers. Basic contents of the records include: Name, sex, age, color, marital status, place of birth, month of death, occupation, and cause of death. The town received its name from its geographical position in the county. and Helen Wilkinson Reynolds. Early settlers in the Town of DeRuyter taken from 1784 History of Chenango & Madison Counties, NY by James H Smith; pub. 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. Among them were the Marshalls, Bakers, Briggs, Hoags, Halsteads, Moshers, Stringhams, Watters, Lamorees, Nelsons and Williams. In 1882 the Millerton National Bank was organized with G. S. Frink as President, and W. M. Dales as Cashier. Salt Point and Washington Hollow are hamlets. The town of Dover lies on the southeastern border of the county. Riverview Military Academy was opened in 1867 by Otis Bisbee. The present building of the Reformed Church was erected in 1826. It was not a success financially, and in 1883 was discontinued. Canaan, Columbia County, New York. If you have some time and would like to get involved please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org. 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. The first town meeting was held at the house of William Wolven in April, 1821. 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. Counties included are Oneida, Madison, Chenago, Onondage, Chemung, Brooms, Elmira, and parts of Ontario. At this place was built a Friends' meeting house, and Oswego monthly meetings were held here as early as 1761. The population was 9,953 at the time of the 2020 census, down from 11,319 in 2010. Through June and July 1788, the Dutchess County Courthouse at Poughkeepsie provided the scene for New Yorks Ratification Debates on the United States Constitution. The Christian Church of Stanfordville was established in 1840; and the Methodists built a house of worship in 1843. 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. From 1715 to 1730 most of the new settlers in Dutchess county were Germans. A short distance northeast of Poughquag was the home of Col. Vanderburgh, an officer of some prominence in the Revolution. Following the division in the Society in 1828 the Hicksites built a meeting house at Moore's Mills, where meetings are regularly held. They erected a stone cotton mill in 1814. Methodism was introduced into the town in 1788, and in 1825 the Society built a church here. 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. Dr. John Bard, the earliest physician in this locality, bought out the heirs of Fauconier, of whom his wife was a descendant. This is a natural fountain of the purest water, from which flows a stream equivalent to an ordinary mill-race. It was replaced in 1852 by a stone bridge, thirty feet wide, which in 1884 was widened to sixty feet. The towns of Northeast, Pine Plains and Milan, taken collectively, constituted, in 1746, the Northeast Precinct. A grist mill was established in 1850 by Seaman & Northrup. This town was formed from Rhinebeck June 2, 1812. ^ P A^ P E R S NEW HAVEN COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Daughter of Wyellem Heocken and Annatje Andries Willjards. On the west side there once dwelt the ancestors of the families by the name of Worden, Moshier, Dentory, Dibble, Davis and Turner. Early European settlements clustered along the Hudson River at modern Beacon, Fishkill, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, and Red Hook. The Methodists organized in 1804 and built a church in Jefferson street. 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. In this building the Society of the Cincinnati was instituted, May, 1783. Records of Crum Elbow Precinct, Dutchess County, New York, 1738-1761, Together With Records of Charlotte Precinct, 1762-1785, Records of Clinton Precinct, . The Rothery File Works was established in 1835, by John Rothery, who came from Yorkshire, England. Occupied as Hospital in 1778 By Revolutionary Soldiers Many of Whom Are Buried South of This Road. Adjoining Hyde Park village on the north is the country seat of Mr. F. W. Vanderbilt, who purchased the property in 1895. Tradition says they acquired 2,800 acres between them, around the shores of the beautiful sheet of water long known as Thompson's Pond. Prior to Anglo-Dutch settlement, what is today Dutchess County was a leading center for the native Wappinger peoples. The 1890 Census is lost. It was a transfer on the part of three Indians, to Gerritt Artsen, Arie Rosa and Jan Elton. NEW HAVEN: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY. Those for Dutchess county are as follows vizt. 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. Dutchess County New York Family Research with free historical data transcriptions, census, biographies, obituaries, newspaper articles, military information and much more for your family tree.> . In 1812, the southern part of Dutchess County was set off as Putnam County. Dutchess County remains a community rooted in deep history and facing forward towards new opportunities. There is also a Catholic and a Pentacostal church in this village. In 1830 a direct stage route twice a week was established from Poughkeepsie to Pine Plains, by way of Pleasant Valley. VOL. This website requires a paid subscription for full access. A freshet in 1841 swept away Given's cotton mill and the print works dam. A second edifice was built in 1760, and in 1822 a third church was erected on the site of the present church building. Millbrook is the principal village. Another "Old Union" stood on the Amos Denton farm, perhaps older than the one at Green Haven. Old Gravestones of Dutchess County, NY collected and edited by J. Wilson Poucher, M.D. 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. The same year a free library was organized as a voluntary association. The Baptist church was organized in 1777. The building was enlarged and remodelled in 1853. By 1826 the Presbyterians were permanently organized and built a church on Cannon street. 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 . The Memorial Building at Rhinecliff contains a libbrary, a reading room, and an auditorium. 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. It was located on the then chief highway from Hartford to Fishkill. March 27, 1799, Poughkeepsie was incorporated as a village, the charter providing for a board of five trustees to be elected on the third Tuesday in May. This territory was a portion of the Beekman patent, and settlement is supposed to have begun about the year 1716. CountyNew YorkGenealogy The FamilySearch Catalog: the Amazing Free Resource You Might Be Missing. The village contains several large manufacturing plants, notably the Fishkill Landing Machine Co., incorporated in 1853; The Dutchess Hat Works, organized in 1873 by Lewis Tompkins; and the Dutchess Tool Co., which has been in existence since 1886. 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. II Match all terms exactly First & Middle Name (s) Last Name Any Event Year Location Keyword e.g. The printed index is also available at the end of this volume, starting on page 845. He built his tavern, which is still standing, about the year 1768, on the A. C. Briggs farm. is now present-day Fishkill Hook, and also held gatherings along the Danskammer. C37, JMM "10,000 Vital Records of Eastern New York, 1777-1834." Matthew Vassar gave the site, some 200 acres of land, and added about $400,000. 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. 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". The Morehouse Tavern at Wingdale, torn down in 1877, was a noted hostelry during the Revolution. A paper mill was established previous to 1840, and in 1844 was burned down. Settlements of the town took place during the time it was a part of Crom Elbow precinct1737-1762. 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 earliest settlers within the present town limits were the families of Van Vliet, Schultz, Sleight, Garrison, Cookingham and Traver, some of whose descendants reside upon the ancestral acres. Water was pumped from the Fall Kill and was used only for fire extinguishing purposes, pipes being laid only on the main streets. Amenia Seminary was built in 1835, and the school opened in the same year. 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. Little Wappinger Creek flows southerly through the center of the town. 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. Hopewell Junction is the only village of importance therein. The location of the tavern on Colles map of 1789 places it about a mile and a half southeast of Sylvan Lake. Records for the time period of 1683-1713 are in Ulster county. In 1873 this church was affiliated with the Presbyterian denomination, and a new house of worship was built in Millerton in 1905, at an expense of $7,800. This embraced the present towns of Beekman, Union Vale, a portion of La Grange, and nearly all of Pawling and Dover, with the exception of a strip along their eastern border. Dutchess County Historical Society 845-471-1630 54 Main Street Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Dutchess County Genealogical Society 845-462-4108 P.O. A range of hills, locally known as Quaker Hill, extends along the east border. Samuel Dor-land and wife, Allen Moore and wife and Andrew Moore are recorded as being present at this meeting. This village has grown up around the original Five Corners and become a place of importance within the last thirty years. Thomas Garner became the principal owner. A Fire Company is maintained with a well equipped hose house. These early Quaker settlers or "Friends" as they preferred to be called, were mainly farmers and came from Dutchess County, NY and previously England. 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. On-Demand Laundry Service Dutchess County, NY Place Your First Order Today! From 1872 to 1898 it occupied rooms in the High School building, and was then removed to the Adriance Memorial Library building. in Rhinebeck, NY STARR LIBRARY Local History Room William Coe and Peter Emigh settled on adjoining farms here in 1740. Near the western border is Sylvan Lake, covering over one hundred acres. 20-62; Transcribed by Terri Griffiths). 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. The division in the first deed for lands in Rynbeck precinct bears date of June 8, 1864 P.. 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