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Copied and compiled by / Gertrude A. Barber>^ 1935. /"^ <^v - ^ C ^ z CP L £6.. John Slmeater of Canaan Dated Jan 17 ,1797 Probated Deo 19,1797 Mentiona; wife Sarah dau. Elizabeth w Wm Mercer John Bishop, and w %dia Exe outer:wife Witneaaea: Elihu K Knapp Patrick Handlton ffilliam Wearer of Chatham Dated Oct 10,1797 Probared Dec £7,7179 1797 Mentions: 9 children: J"ohn, William, Polly, Anna, Lydia, alar^ret, Peter, Olive, Ephraim Executors: 2£artin Kooper of Mnderhook Philip Harder " Witneaaea: D Gardenier Koaes Brink Tyrannua Collena lodowick Batz (Loduwick) of German Camp yeoman Dated Mar 21,1785 Probated Jan_ 8,1798 Mentions: sons: George, Frederick, Henry V/iliiam, Johannes *davia: i-Iargaret w Philip Krum Christina w Conrath Lasher Barbara w George Lasher Executors: Frederick Bats Wm " Witnesses: Willem Linck Philip Diederick Conrat Finger Gideon Burr of Mngs Pisttict Albany Co Dated Peb 11,1784 Probated Jan 16,1793 Mentions: wife Hannah sons: Gideon, Oziaa daua: Enuie w Oliver Kidder Sarah wid Stephen Burr late of Windsor,Conn Elizabeth w BenJ Hall Phebe w Benj Atwell Albi gr d Hannah rxlwell heir to Hannah, late w. of Joseph Atwell deed Exe cutor a: 2 sons Witnesses: Joel Savage of Whitestown, Herkimer Co Martha " and George Hinsdala Joshus^Lamphere - Dated Kay 13,1797 Probated Jan 31,1798 Mentions: eldest son Lemuel sons: Samuel, Joshua, Reuben, Richard Executors: wife Anne John Humphreys, Seth Jenny Witnesses: Zach. Standish, John Bemia, BenJ Moor c (U I 1 Hentlona: wife .Susannah ^ apna* Roawell, ii^dward. dana* loviey Parlcer Polly, Patty Executora: wife Philip Frishee Wm fiardner Vitneaaea* Pat Hamilton Daniel Morri a p f Chatha m Beni Bovejoy Thomas Connor of Hilladale i7Qfl Dated Jan 27 1798 Probated Feb 19,1798 \ Mentions: wife Sarah i Sxe cutor " I ii^itneaaea: Y/ait Darning I Daniel Morris I Deliverance ^mith I Andries Heermanaa of liv^lngatm Dated Jan 13,1798 Probated Apr 12,1798 Mentions: wife Slizab eth son John dau Mariah Executors: Andriea Heermance John Sayera Semon Heermance Witnesses: Helen Sayre Jno A Fonda Pater Frea Samuel Willbur pof CaMan Dated Hot 11,17 92 Probated l-ay 25,1798 Mentions: wife Susannab .son Sam^ daus: 31izal>0^H Goodfeliow Hannah Pitta Sarah Wilbur I Executor: Samuel Wilbur I' Witnesses: Nehemiah Finch { Ezra Be leer I Smitan Bro-flnel lawrence landt of °lsTeraok yeo^n I Dated ^us 29 17 97 Probated Ji^ay 29 ivya 1 Mentions: sona: Johannia , Lawremce, Casparua, I wife Christina Shulta \ daus: Christena, 3va, iJilizabetn 1 Executors: Casparua Landt i Witnesses: W Wimple George A Shu^elt I Henri clc Shult 46. Zachariala Stand!ah of Hilladale Dated Dec S8,1303 Protated Jan 27,1804 Mentlona: wife Iiiary Executors: Jacob Ford wife ""Itneaaea: Jonathan G Oimg-ted Daniel itorris, V/m Austin William Batiahell of Canaan Dated ^ct 23,1802 Probated Fab 6,1804 Mentions: wife Xabitha dau " sons: Moses, Jesse dau Deborah w Stewart dau Mary w 8eth Crewel Executors: ^fe son Moses Witnesses: Jonathan and James Y/arner Benj Sobey I" Andries Shirts of Divingaton I Dated Feb 27,1804 Probated Apr 27,1804 i Mentions: wife Mary I ^ daus: Hannah, Polly, Caty^ Moyer I ' gr 3 Jacob a Francis Shirts I Executors: wife son andries f- son in law Peter Moyer ta.of Caty I Witnesses: J A Fonda I Peter tVagganer Jr I Ells ha X I Gabriel Esselstyne of ClaTerack I Dated Feb 25,1802 Probated iwiay 20,1804 I Mentions: wife Catlintie I Executors: " I, Dr George Monell of Clayerack I Y/itnesaea: Jeremiah Fonda of Clayerack I James Bensway r Dwight Monell I > .William iVest of Hillsdale i Dated Apr 13,1789 Probated June 4,1804 i Mentions: wife Louise r . sons: Dayid, Samuel, Asa daus: Mary Hodman ^ Hannah Decker f; 3v e W 8 st [ Executors: son Dayid of Hilladale I Stephen Graves " \ Witnesses: Jacob Ford Br and Jr I Sarah Curtis I ♦I James Peterson of Chatham ; Dated ^ec 30 1803 Probated June 14,1804 f Mentions: wife Elizabeth ; * son Conrod 1 John Calicin of Hlllsdale Dated ^ug 23,1805 Probated Hoy 26,1805 Mentions; brothers; Daniel Benjanin Executor: Joshua Dakin Witnassaa: Jacob " of Hlllsdale Israel Sabins ^BenJ Covey of Bamibas Merrick of Hlllsdale Dated Kay 25,1805 Probated Peo 4,1805 Mentions; wife Ellis sons Joseph, Josiah, Barnabas rtilliam, Joshua daua: Beseall May Gills ■ Looine Stephens Zenua Caty Pla tt Executor: son Joseph of Hlllsdale Amasa Andrews " John Kfttle of Hindarhook Dated -^eb 2,1805 Probated Dec 7,1805 Mentions: wife Margaret sons: ^ndrew John Henry Nicholas daua; Eytie Hargare t Catherine Executors: Nicholas Hittle John Haniy Kittle and w Margaret Witnesses: Catharine Van Alen Peggy " Andrew "-of Kinderhook Iruman Powell of hlllsdale Dated Aug 26,1805 Probated Aug 26,1805 Mentions: wife AHzabsth 2nd wife Ezra Saton sisters nephew Truman s Katrin deed " Stephen s bro John deed Stephen a Joseph deed cousin Daniel Lovejoy nephew Sylvester Hichmond dau in law Sarsh Eaton by 2nd wife Anna and i^ally Eaton Martha w Josiah and dau Anne nephew Andrew Lovejoy Executors; Peleg Sisaon Stephen Richmond Asaph Bmmona Joaaph. iialliaon continued Witneaaea: ^homaa Law tfm T ATary Solomon Abbot Ebenezer Andriea of Andrews of Killadale farmer Dated oapt 16,1301 Probated Peb IE,1807 llentiona: sons: Sphraim Pbenezer Abijah Aaa } deed dau Sarah, late w Peter Smith I leves leaves to her children I children of my deed dau Anna formerly f of llathan Scott of »Vatertown,Conn. I dau Lucy w Ihomaa Andrews I ^ Rebech w Barcillai Patch I " Patience w iili sha Tan Talkenburgh I " Lovie w Lemuel Grossman I " Hannah'W Joaiah Vfoodworth I Executors; aon Ebenezer I Capt Wm lEanner of Hilladale f Witnesses: Joseph Raymond I Joseph i^ick I . Senj Doty f I I George Holsopple of Clermont I Dated Peb 14,1807 Probated ilar 9,1807 Mentions: dau Luciana I Peter I Cooper - her guardian i Executors: John I Botta I Peter P Feller 7 Philip D Rockefeller ] Witnesses: Elisba X i 5 Smith Parks of Canaan Dated ^ec 4 1803 Probated Mar 4,1807 Mentions: sons: Smith, Ezra, Jonathan ; Joseph, David, Reuben ; daua; Mary } Eunice i- Luoy i Executor: aon Erza J -i Witnesses: Aaron Baxter i? SarahAaa Cleramona " 1 ^ David Burtis late of Hilladale. (David Burtis of the !| township of Beekman, Dutchess Co JTY ;f ; Dated Jan 11,1803 Probated Mar 18 ,1807 t ' 9 I 3b 7/iHiani Bal)coclc or Chathato. Dated JiUy 10,1812 ^ralDated Sept 17,1812 Mentions: daua: Pradance, Almira Kmeline, Clarinda Lucretia, Ruth son Justus Avery wife Anna Executors: wife Sbenezer Cady Justus Lovejoy if^itnessea: Reuben Moor John Davis Joseph W Brewster Philo Nichols of Hudson Dated Oct 27,1807 Probated^Got 1,1812 Mentions: dau Betsey w Edw.i? wife Rhoda Executors: Edw. Holly Witnesses: Philip S Parlcar #> Daniel Rodman Henry Roe John Lobdel of Hillsdale. Dated July 17,1811.Probated Oct 31,18^2 ^.entions: wife Fannia inhn sons: Daniel, Nathan, Stephen,Lewis,John^ daus: Elizabeth, Jarusha, Sally, Theodotia, Ruth _ gr ch Anna. Fanny^ ch.of son Tertullus Executors: Samuel Dean.Jonsn Keeler Witnesses: Jonathan C Olrasted Ira A Chase G-eorge P Brush Johannia i'eiglily of livingston Dated Aug.23,1812 Proaated Kov.2o,1812. Mentions: sons Christian Jacob Davud Frederick dau Hannah Executors: son Frederick Peter Waggoner Witnesses: Matthias Waggoner Peter P Best Jnc Lynk Peter I Chrisolaer iCirsolau)of Claverack. Dated Aug 8,1812. Probated ITov 23,1812. Mentions: wife Peggy dau Ontea ^ son:J ohn,Peter bro.J onannes dau Maria sons:James, Wm.,Henry ffilliam 3 Coffin of Hudson. SHipmaster Dated iiar 27,1812 Probated Dec 27,1820 Mentions: wife Horab dau Sliza Sxecutors: Barzellai Sunlcer Stephen Coffin Witneaaas: Moaes Garr Andrew Macy Catharine Hunt Lawrence Van Alen of Chatham Dated July 27,1817 Probated Feb 16,1321 Mentions: wife Elizabeth s on J a me 3 dau Lydia Ann ■bnnthers: Pater,Barent sister iiisria Sxecutors: bro Peter Uncle John Van Alen Arent VanVlecJc Syitnesses: Abrm. " Franklin Mills tt Peter Van Alstyna William T Avary of Canaan Dated June 25,1818 Probated Mar 13,1821 Mentions: wife Phaba dau Clarissa sons: Ha than Hyde Ihroop Wm Thomas G-eorge John Thomas daus: Deborah Cornelia Sxecut or :vvif e Witnesses: Bzekiel Merrells Slisha Hatch Gad Hitchcock Samuel V/healsr of Canaan farmer Dated Sept 1810 Probated Liar 28,1821 Mentiona:wife Asenith sons: Nathan, Aaron,Samuel,Barnard dau3:Freddom, Gliloa (Charlotte,Sophia Victory, Claracy Kxecutora : sons: Narthan, Samuel Witnesses: Abnar Shearman Solomon Finch Orra Pea alee Matthias Miller of GaUatin Datal JTov 14,1810 Probated Apr 27 1824 Men ti on s: aon Benjamin - gets Dutch Bible gr 8 Hathiaa MiUQp ilathias ffilicerson leoeaaad wife Executors; s on Benj. John Matt^ as iyiiller Matthias V/iikerson Witnes ses : J'OB la h Hollj?: -, Olympha " Philogus " V/ilhelmua Harder of Min(ierhoo}c Dated Fab 4,1823 Probated iiay 17,1824 Mentions: wife Lena •t dans: Cornelia, Sophia, Hachel Executors: wife Uncle Nicholas Harder nephew John Vosburgh Iffitneaaes: Lucas Van Schaack D " * Lawrence Van Dyck Jr Jonathan v/arner of Canaan Hot dated Probated June 7,1824 Stentions: wife Lu^cena gr ch Jonathan B., Charlotte children of s.Elijah sons Sliaa Gnoulde Thomas John S dau Clariria Executor: aon J ohn Witnesses: Daniel A'amar this3 " Elam Tilden John Son of Ghent Dated June 6,1823 Probated June 3,1824 Mentions: dau ifery w Robert Bullis wife -oridget sons: John, Thona a Executors: wife Henry VanVleck son John Witnesses: Arent VanVleck Abrm Pruyn Mrrtin Balis 31. ShadracX i/ilbur continued HQntions: daaa: freelove Abigail Pheba Sxeoutors: sona Solomon Carr Rus sell V/itneasea: Stephen Ashle^y Richad I rtilber Timothy Crandall George Lewis of Chatham Dated Feb 5.1820 Probated July 3.1826 Mentions; gr a Chaa Lewis of Baltimore H daua: Hannah Sage Anna Lewis Slizabeth Cone the 7/lfe of Abel Lewis deed mother and wife gr 3 Geo Le'wia Jr s Abel Lewis Executor; son Bartlatt Witnesses: John 3 Southmayd ^Thomas Bunce Nancy " Joaiah Richmond of Chatham Dated June 29 1826 Probated July 27,1826 Mentions: wife Mary son Simeon "^oily Blr^' Executors: Reuben Moore DsTld M Patterson v/lfe I'lary 'Witnesses: Hosea Beebe John H McCord C «V Patterson. l^rla Christina lasher of Clermont Dated Dec 2,1316 Probated Aug 9,1826 Mentions: John I Potts Angel Luykes dau Geo Lasher Maria Christina Potts Keirs of Fredariclc Potts Henry Potts William Potts Johannes " Margaret v; Philip Glum Catharine w Coonradt Lasher Hannah Barberry Lasher w.Geo. 37 Samuel Knight of Lebanon Dated Aug 5 1824 Probated iiar 27 1827 Mentions: wife i/iaiy Knight Executor: " Witnesses: Uriah Betta Isaac Evereat Geo Cornwall Richard Johnson of Canaan Dated Eeb 5,1817 Probated Apr 12,182 7 Hentiona: wife Rachel sons: Franiclin Reuben Richa rd Prentis Bela daua: llaiy Karrick heira of dau Molly Kaplea deed Rachel Barber Phebe Earl Kancy Jackson Executors: aona: Prentia ^ Franklin Witnesses: Jonathan V/a its BenJ Abbery Peter Booth Adrian Wynkoop of Kinderhook Dated Fab 28,1821 Probated Apr 9,1827 Mentions: wife Jane Matilda Mother Lydia Vgn Alen nephev/ Adrian Jynkoop s sister Maria Executors: cousin David Schaack John P Beekman bro in law George Monell of Claverack physji^lnlan Dated Dec 29 1823 Frobated Apr 12,1827 Mentions: wife Catharine widcv/ Polly Strong dau Satherine w Kathan Chamberlin son in law Philip 3 Parker sons: Joseph D Robert Executors: son Joseph son in law Philip S Parker 11!!: Andrew I Sharp continued Mantlona: children of dau Betaa/ Sxecutora: bro John I Iiucaa Ho a 3 iVitnasaaa: I Sutherland of Kindarhook Aaaph Wilder " John Dakin of Stuyreaant i, Jane t'/inana of Kindarhook Dated Sept 1844 Probated Dec 28 1848 Mantiona: husband Henry Lydia Sliza VanDyck Lawrence Van Dyck Samuel P.eter S T/yhkbop niece Lydia Hliza VnDyck dau Lawrence Catherine ^lary i/inana dau Samuel ^ry Jane »Vynkoop dau Peter 3 Vecelia VanAlen Executors: Henry v/inans of Kinderhook Lawrence VanDyck of Hudson rfitnes^a: G-eo Buckley of liinderhook Jeremiah Carpenter " '".i John Henry Kittle of Ghent Dated Hot 11,1845 Probated Dec 28 1846 Mentions J wife ^hriah sons: John Henry Wm George Andrew H daus: Helen iisrgarat Christina Catherine lihtiah ..^Sophia J ana Executors; 3 sons i/itnes se s: Andre.'/ Kittle of Ghent £ L Cobum Tt Peter I Hoes of Kinderhook Dated Mar 4 1846 Probated Jan 25 1847 l!': Mentions: wife -^ria children: John, Peter,Anthony Maria w John VanBuren Executors: David Van Schaack Abr.I. Van Alstyna John Pruyn V/itnesaaa: V/m Vallet of Kinderhook Chaa V/hiting Jr " It!- ;!l. ■ COUNTY NEW YORK. (llastrations and ||iogragliical ^kdche^ i..^OF'==^-' SOME OF ITS PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS. i PHILADELPHIA: EVEE.TS & Ea PRESS OF T. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., PHILADELPHIA. HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 31 the war (excepting the company of Captain John McKin- w n lips veteran would shed tears profusely stry), but it is probable that they saw service of some kind, h-Wdatin'i the killing of uncle and of the execution,— either In the field or at home, in the equally necessary and \' btter part would arouse the old man, and he seemed to scarcely less arduous duty of controlling the troublesome r \ all the ardor of his youth returning at the recital, and dangerous Tories. We therefore give the list of offi rnclo 'Boi' (Bartholomew) Van Valkenburgh has fre- cers and mem of the different coropanres, except that of t.dd me of the circumstances, and how himself Captain Casparus Conyn, the roll of which is not found TShi^ brntlier, the father of John J. Van Valkenburgh * with the others, which are in the possession of Mr. Tobias ^ allL^i and laid out the body of Uncle Abraham, made Esselstyn, of Claveraek. The composition of the compa Tcv-ffin, and how he was buried while the party was guarded nies was as follows: ; bT armed men.' * William t. Van Ness, brother of Jesse, and now a resi- CAPTAIN STEPHEN HOGEBOOM'S COMPANT. . icnt of Northampton Co., Va., adds to the above, concern- Captain, Stephen Hogeboom. in., the mnrder of his uncle Abraham, as follows: "The First lieutenant, Cornelius S. Muller. jrtiTc wmpany, at the time of my uncle Abraham's death. Second lieutenant, Jogham Muller. bid f.r r.iptai'n my uncle David; lieutenant, Uncle John; Third lieutenant, Peter Hogeboom. V. Clerk, Matthew Scott. ind for en.imi. Uncle Abraham. The company, with David Sergeants, John Juriab Van Hoesen, Peter Easclstyn, Juriah „captain, w.is at Saratoga at the surrender of Burgoyne. Smith, John Nap, Nathaniel' Kinney. "The Dirics at that time considered the rebels as outlaws, Corporals, Broar Janse Backer, Ament' Oatrander, John Van KXid orraiiized bands to rob and to arrest any active Revo- Hoesen. Brummer, Jonathan Pitcher. lotionist. Whole neighborhoods of patriots would join to Privates.—Abraham Vosburgh, Berrick 31uller, Jacob Philip, Jr.,. - work, first this and then that man's field, while a small Wm. Michel, Samuel Hollinback, John Harder, Hendrick Row, John poarJ would be left at their houses. My grandfather's Morris, Jeremiah (Jobs.) Muller, Johannes Muller, Robard Halm- family were particularly marked for their disloyalty, and hack, Peter Harder, Joseph Egclston, Jacob Bout, Jr., Thomas Be- gnift, Jr., Jacob Hardock, Jacob P. Hardock, Berrick Van Berker, ooe of these bands of Tories (I think eleven of them) William Rees, John Hardock, Berrick Von Hoesen, William Garner, watrhin'z their chance, fell upon the bou.se when only my johanneCa^^ Jacob Jeremiah Belamater, John Nnt- prandfaiher and Uncle Abraham were on guard. Grand tingham, Maties Hollenbock, Carilon Stolp, Jr., Jacob Anderson, father at the time was at the barn. Resistance was useless. Peter Bout, Jacob Van Hoesen, Jan J.Van Hoesen, Peter Smith, They took my uncle out-doors, and were about to tie him. Matthew Cram, Jaines Parker, Andrus Oatrander, Hendrick Ostmn- der, Jacob Risedorf, Peter Muller, Jacob Hogeboom, Abraham Har He 'bn)ke away, but was fired on by the whole partyf while dock, Samuel Pratt, William Cadinan, Jerome Groat, Berrick(John) on the bridito, between the house and barn, and fell, pierced Muller, Peter (Jonas) Muller, John Hulinbook, Johannes Smith, by wver.ll balls. Grandfather from the barn and grand- Guisbert Turner, Coanrnt Shults, Samuel Church, Henry Solaberg, BKitlicr from the house saw their son fall. The Tories John Sclsberg. Malies Bout, William Bout, John Warn, Garret Van . Hoesen, Jonathan Rees, Baniel Adams. hurriotlly plundered the house and left. •' Nnw cDines in a little scrap I got just fifty years ago. CAPTAIN JAMES SPENCER'S COMPANT. While vet an apprentice in Troy, I was sent down to the Captain, James Spencer. nail-factory to collect a bill from an old man (I regret I Lieutenants, Roger Kinne, Jonathan Bean. , .. have lost his name). On giving him my name he asked my Ensign, Stephen Graves. Clerk, Truman Powell. ppocalogy. When I told him, he at once brightened up Sergeants, Amos Lawrence, Jonah Graves, Judah Lawrence, Jacob to tell one of the descendants of that awful time and scene. Foord. . . He was one of the neighbors in the field. He said, * We Corporals, Baniel Bowers, Jonathan Sheppard, Elcazer Spencer, got the alarm, and in three hours we had thirty men after David Pratt, Brummer, Samuel Foot. ibcm. Your grandfather knew them (or most of them), Privates. Simeon Rowley, Israel Woolsey, Boslion Rosman, John and that vay ni'^lil we had three of them hanging on trees, Rosmau,' Benjamin Allen, Silas Palmer, Eli Reynolds, Eli Reynolds, and the next Jay we caught more. We did not stop to try Jr., David Preston, John Preston, Elibo Lawrence, Ebenescr Soles, ihnn. Must of them were hung near Albany.' Benjamin Richmond, Stephen Richmond, Abel Kiddcr, Ephraim Kid- der, Abraham Chase, Abraham Freesc, Hannonous Flock, Moses Spen " I havi; told you before that my grandfather was too old cer, David Spencer, Phincas Spencer, Samuel Spencer, Stephen Kline, to lake the field. He had been an active scout in the old Abner Johnson, Eliphas Spencer, Baniel Lee, Roswell Lee, Amaziah Frrnch war, .some of his exploits furnishing Cooper whole Phillips, Richard Phillips, Israel Holdndge, •woes in his 'Last of the Mohicans.*" Daniel Stuart, Matthias Spencw, Eliakim Nichols, James Wallen, John Sledman, Charles Davenport, Ezekicl Palmer, Stephen Palmer, Immc-diately prior to the opening of the Revolution Gaius Dean, Jonathan Charaberiin, Reuben Wctmore, Elisha Ch^- there exi.-jted in what is now the county of Columbia an berlin, John Taylor, Benjamin Chittenden, Caleb Brainard, Ileiekiah w-'anized •'regiment of foot," of which the field-officers Doolittle, Jeriah Williams, Elisha Chaddock, Joel Lee, Samuel Dart, Were -b-reniiah Hogeboom, colonel; Johannes Van Hoe- Samuel Curtis, Return Holcom, Stephen Holcom, Ebeneier Holcom, Ashbell Goff, Michel Wilson, David Auger, Zebulon Alger, Samuel -I-.-utonant-colonel; and Jacobus Delamater, major; Williams, ilatthew Hatch, Ebcnezer Andrews, Allen Graves, Increase Nrtotin n .-•trong was adjutant, and Caspar Huyck quarter- Graves, Joseph Mool, Joseph Tillotson, Asa Spencer, Ebenezer Tyler, toa.*ter. \\ e Jo not know what service they performed in John Ward, James Hymes, James Andrus, Stephen Chapman, James Aekley, Christopher Brazee, Jr., Gabriel Brazee, Wilson Bratee, Law •■•bn .t. \ iva Valkenburgh is stil! living in Chatham, at the age rence Brazee, Aaron Taylor, Thomas Jostlin, Beriah Thomas, Timo •r years. thy Spalding, Ichabod Squire, lehabod Squire, Jr., Bartholomew ♦ h will he nociccil that this account of the hilling differs slightly Barret, Daniel Messinger, Andrew Measinger, Roderick Mcssmger, * a»mji«riaiiy from tkat given by ilr. Jesse Van Jfeas. Asel Drake, Ascl Drake, Jr., Charles Blum, N|oh The original towns of Columbia county, seven in num CHAPTER VIL ber, were erected as such by an act passed March 7, 1788 ; their territorial description and boundaries being established THE MASSACHUSETTS BOUNDAET—ANTI-BENT— by that act as follows, viz.; 1751-1852. "All that part of the County of Columbia bounded westerly and The peculiar disturbances known as anti-rent troubles northerly by the County'of Albany, southerly by the north bounds of may be said to have existed in Columbia county for a full the city of Hudson as far as the first falls in Major Abraham's Creek, century before their final extinguishment, for, altltough the and from thence running cast and easterly by n line running from a place in the north line of the county of Columbia ten miles distant long series of violent and unlawful acts which were com from Hudson's River,due south, until it strikes the said last line from mitted in the vicinity of the eastern border, and which the said Falls," to bo the town of Eindcrhook; and had their commencement about the year 1750, have been "All that part of the said county now called Kings District most frequently mentioned as growing out of the question bounded westerly by Kindcrhook, northerly by the County of Albany, easterly by the oast bounds of the State, and southerly by the said of the disputed boundary line between New York and east line from the first falls in Major Abraham's Creek aforesaid, con- Massachusetts, yet it is doubtful whether the controversy tiuued to the east bounds of this State, shall be,and hereby is, erected between the provinces was not less a cause of than a con into a town by the name of Canaan and venient excuse for the lawlessness of those who were deter "All that part bounded southerly by the Manor of Livingston, westerly by the city of Hudson, northerly by Kinderhuok, and east mined to free themselves from the burden of yearly rent to erly by a line beginning at the southeast corner of Eindcrhook, and the manors, particularly that of Livingston, which, as they running thence south fourteen degrees west to the Manor of Living asserted, owed its very existence to" falsehood and fraudu ston," was established as the town of Clavorack ; and lent pretenses." , "All that part of the said county bounded westerly by Ciaveraok, northerly by Canaan, easterly by the cast bounds of this State, and Tliis question of boundary bad been long held in dispute. southerly by the Manor of Livingston nnd the north linelbereof, con By the government of New York it was maintained that tinued to the east bounds of the Stale," was erected as Uillsdale; their eastern limit was the Connecticut river, because" that and the Dutch claimed the colony of New Neiberlandt as ex "All that part of said county beginning on the south side of the mouth of a certain river, commonly called Roeloff Janscn's Kill, and tending from Cape Cod to Cape Cornelius, now called Cape running tbenoe along the south side of said river eastwardty until it Henlopen, Westward of Delaware Bay along the Sea Coast, comes to the Tract of Land heretofore granted to Dirck Wessels, and as far back as any of the Rivers within these Limits lying on both sides of said river, thence along the westerly, northerly, extend ; and that they were actually possessed of Connect and easterly bounds of the said tract until it again comes to the said river, and then along the south side of the said river, and then (by icut River long before any other European People knew various courses) till it meets with the north line of the county of anything of the Existence of such a River, and were not DutcbcBS, and tbenco westerly along the Line of the said county of onW possessed of the Mouth of it, where they had a Fort Dutchcss to Hudson's River, and thence northerly up along said river and Garrison, but discovered the River above a hundred to (he place of beginning," was erected as the town of Clermont, "except thereont the Tract of Country called the German, or East miles up, had their People trading there, and purchased of Camp and the Natives almost all the Lands on both sides of the said "All that part of the said county known by the name of the Gor River, and that the Dutch Governor Stuyvesant did in the man, or Bast Camp," was erected as Germantown. year 1664 surrender all the Country which the Dutch did "And all the remaining Part of the said county of Columbia shall he and is hereby erected into a town by the name of Livingston." then possess to King Charles the Second, and that the States-General made a Cession thereof by the Treaty of The other towns wlucli are at present embraced in the Breda in the year 1G67. That the Dutch re-conquered county have been formed and erected a.s follows: part of this Province in 1673, and surrendered and abso Chatham, formed from Canaan and Kinderhook, erected lutely yielded it to King Charles the Second, in 1673-74, March 17, 1795. by the Treaty of London, and that in 1674 King Charles Ancram, from Livingston, erected as Gallatin, March 19, granted to the Duke of York all the Land between Con 1803 ; name changed as at present March 25, 1814. necticut River and Delaware Bay." Taghkanic, from Livingston, erected as Granger, March The Massachusetts government scouted this argument, 19,1803 ; present name adopted March 25, 1814. and in turn claimed westward at least as far as the Hudson Austerlitz, from Canaan, Chatham, and Hillsdale, erected river,* although, as they said, they "had for a long Time March 28, 1818. Ghent, from Chatham, Claverack, and Kinderhook, •For the ullorior purpose of establishing their daims upon the erected April 3, 1818. Hudson the Boston govcrnnient had, as earl^' as 1659, made a grant New Lebanon, from Canaan, erected April 21, 1818. of land on the Hudson river, below Fort Orange, and in 1672 they Stuyvesant, from Kinderhook, erected April 21, 1823. sent John Pajne to Now York to solicit permission to pass and rc- pass by water. He was reeeived by the authorities wiih great con Copake, from Taghkanic, erected March 26, 1824. sideration and courtesy, and his request was referred to the king, but Gallatin, froffi Ancram, erected March 27, 1830. was never granted. BISTORT OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. gan and Treat in 1685, and confirmed by King William ne-rlcctcd the settlement of the West Bounds, they lying March 28, a.d. 1700; namely, a line running generally verv remote trom Boston. , nr » council of New York inquired, « By what Warrant parallel to, and twenty miles east of, the Hudson river. ^ h .V Claii" or Exercise any right To soil or Jurisdiction It was in the fall of 1751 that the first symptoms of dis J Connecticut River?" The general court of Mas- turbance became manifest, in defiant threats made by the 'adni^tts, in a report made to their governor, September tenants on Livingston manor against their landlord, Robert U 17j3,'retortedthat"It is Demanded of this Govern- Livingston, Jr., grandson of the first proprietor. Many of ,.„t-\Vhat Right we have to Soil or Jurisdiction West of these tenants had neglected to pay their rents, and now O.niiecticut RWer. Suggesting that it was but very lately neglect grew into refusal, open defiance, and an avowed tiiev know we had any possessions West of that River; purpose to continue their occupation, not as tenants, but as this proceeding of the Gentlemen of New York appears owners, under authority of grants to be secured from the Indeed extraordinary, as severall of our ancient and best government of Massachusetts Bay. Among the earliest, Towns Had been settled West of this River about au and at that time the principal, malcontents were Michael hundred Years, and the Shire Town of Springfield near a Hallenbeck, a tenant upon the manor for thirty years, and hundred and Twenty Years." Josiah Loomia, an ore-digger at the iron mines, and a •Mill the first reading of the above paragraph," said the tenant for twelve years under Livingston, who now brought amnnitteo of the council of New York, in a report made action of trespass against Hallenbeck, and warned Loomis Xnvember 10,1753, "few of us doubted but that the Shire off his manor. Whether this action of the proprietor was Town Springfield had been situated on the west side of the cause of, or was caused by, their rebellious conduct does Conoectieut river Till we were informed that it was on the not clearly appear, but it resulted in their seeking protection hliLst side of that river, and that Mr. Poplis' Large map from the assumed authority of the adjoining province. Ki-pre.sent3 it so, which Information some of us doubts the Not long after Livingston received a letter from a resident of Sheffield, the tenor of which was as follows: Truth of. Because of the Difficulty of Reconciling it with "March 24, 1752. wluit was Conceived the Obvious sense of the above para- " giR^ in consequeDCe of ac order of a Committee of the General ^TMpli." And the committee proceeded to say that" The Court of tho Province of Massachusetts Bay to lay out Equivalents in Ma.-'sacliusetts Government have been pleased to appoint a the Province land, I have begun on the East side of Tackinick Bar- time and place for the meeting of their Commissioners with rick and laid out a large Farm which encompasses the Dwellings of thasc of this province. If they would have been pleased Michael Hallenbeeck and Josiah Loomis, and you may depend on it tho Province will assert their rights to said lands. 1 have heard you to liave Recollected that the Government of this Province have sued the one and threatened the other, which possibly may not U his Majesty's Immediate Government, which theirs is turn out to your advantage. I should have gladly seen you and m.t, it would have been something more Decent to have talk'd of tho affair with Calmness and in a friendly manner, which I rvferred die naming of those things to this Government.* hope to have an opportunity to do. In the mean time, I am, Sir, your very humble servant, Oliver PanTUiDGE. Ami as his Majesty is concerned in the Controversy, and no Scttleiiicnt which can be made by any authority derived This seems to mark the commeDcement of a long-con fr.im IJoth Governments without the Royal Direction, par tinued series of active hostilities between the two provinces. ticipation, and Concurrence can bo Binding on the Crown, On the 16th of April, 1752, Mr. Livingston made his wc Conceive that the appointment of Commissioners for the grievances known in a communication addressed to the purpiose would not only be fruitless and Ineffectual to the governor, requesting that official to cause the apprehension Determination of the Controversy, but also Derogatory To and committal of such persons as should disturb his pos the right.s of the Crown and disrespectfull to his most sessions under pretense of authority from Massachusetts Sacred Majesty." The petition was referred to Attorney-General William And thus the controversy grew more complicated as time Smith, who reported that in bis opinion it was most ex ebp.sod. neither party appearing willing to concede, though pedient for the governor " not to Interpose at present by any biiili wiire evidently conscious of the extravagance of their Extraordinary Act or Order, but leave the Petitioner to bis ci.iims ; for it is noticeable that in the voluminous corre- Ordinary Remedy at Law;.and if any of his Possessions which ensued between the governments in refer forcibly taken or fwcihly AeWfrom him, the Statutes of ence to the numerous acts of aggression committed by the England being duly put in Execution will sufficiently punish respcciive partisans upon the disputed territory, frequent the offenders and afford a speedy Relief to the Petitioner. anu.<;iija was made to the distance from the river at which On the 22d of November, 1752, William Bull and fifty- those acts were perpetrated; this being really an acknowl- seven others, many of them tenants upon the manors of on both sides that the boundary should be, and Livingston and Van Rensselaer petitioned the Massa pmi.ably would be, established on the basis suggested by chusetts general court for a grant of land, which they de the niininissioners of the crown in 1664, and, as between scribed as " Beginning at the Top of the first Great Moun- New \urk and Connecticut, agreed on by Governors Don- tain west of Sheffield, running northwesterly with the General course of the Mountain about nine or Ten miles; * ''"mnii.''sioner9 .appointed by both provinces, however, mot in thence turning and running West about six Miles, thence wni-r-n.-r at Albnny in June, 1754," but could not come to any sort running Southerly to tho North Line of Connecticut out; "t i^fi-oinent; and if we may be allowed to judge of this transaction thence running Easterly to the first-mentioned Boundary."t from ■:vi>iit3 which have happened since, instead of operating as a (jjj, quito 4 contrary effect."—Report oj the t These boHDclaries clenrly inclose a tract of which a great por i-nr'U .,f to the fCiii'j, Maif 25, 1757. tion is included in tho present bounds of JIaasachnaetts. m was a tenant at wUl. and had been ordered m toe the This petition of Boll and othera was regarded by Mr. manor two years before; whereon tho said Loomis had Lirin-ston as" the Gronndwork of all the prooe^inp by hei-ed toe to stay long enough to raiseone more s^mer rtieh°he was afterwarfs so serionsly dUtorhed ere" after which he promised he would remove. lutod of - sessions; and this view seems to have been elt^red >>y the which he prepared to put in still another crop, which » . Legislature of Massaehnsetts, who reported" that the p^- tongston! on being informed of the fact Pta-'l« ^warmth and disorders arose upon, or at least qo ekly to him that he should never reap; m accoriauce with which after, the Petition of some persons (who had warning he (Livingston) at harvest-time" went a Suf on this Provinee's nngianted Lands West of ^ e e ^ Scient number of people, and did ^ that the General Court of this Provinee would sell ot d and Cany away that crop, as it was Lawfid and right pose of to them the Lands they thus possesst; proeeeding M state that" not long after this a Nunaber »f ™" Thlf°«cnrrences were followed hy many rimilar ones, the Dwelling-houseEmploy of Kobert of G®"?'Llvingsmn jr.. Esqr ^ :.:tactsff^t of araression moment, and re escepttaliation as committed showing l-o"hy both ^parties, titionere, and Mr. Livingston eaused he ~ and animosities of the contestants were gradually wren attached and Committed to Albany Gaol, by ^ Wa™t opandTncreased until they became ripe for more serious from Authority in New York Brevmoe, who was ^r- wards Bailed by Order of this Government; but Livin named Joseph Payne was arrest^ re 1753 by ston deelared that he caused Kohinson s ^ Mr. Livingston for the alleged destruction of about eleven trespass in oanylng away his (Livin^ton a) g^. and hundred tJees near the Ancram furnace,and was n»P"»"^ aTln his opinion the bailing and defendtng of to by in the Albany jail in default of bail to the amoto of ^e the Massaehnsetts government woe "an At ing an thousand pounds, which was afterwaids furnished by Col- ting of the said Trespass, and an Encour^mont to future Lydto at the instance of the Boston governmen . Trespassers of the like kind. This occurrence was the cause of much hittmem of feel- In the spring of 1753 the Massachusetts governmen^ Tu "uTmany reeriminatious. On the 19th of July re under the plea that they "judged it vain to a^mpt any- that year a party of men. of whom Captain David Inger- thin-r by way of Treaty in the Controv^. appointed soll of Sheffield, was said to he a ringleader, claiming to Joseph Dwight.Esq.. Colonel Bradford,and Capt^n Liver- act'under authority from Massachusetts entered Ac ho^ more a committee to view the lands west of ^ Bohert Vanduesen. taking him and his son Johannre as Stoekbridve. and report the osaet state of afftirs there. prisoners to the jail at Springfield upon chaJ In the re^rtof the doings of this committee it « Lmbere of the party who despoiled the <«ps of Josiah that they met Eobert Livingston upon the ground m Ap , Loomis. Nine days later the governor issued his 1753, and that it was mutually agreed that all proceedings tiou ordering the arrest and imprisonment of there no e , should he held in abeyance, awaiting a final adjustment of upon which Michael Hallenheck (who was said W be one the houndaiy; but that notwithstanding ^ J of the number) was arrested and imprison^ in the jail of .. Mr. Livingston, with above sisty men. armed with Guns. Dntehess county. Concerning this arrest the general eour Swords. and'CuUasses. in a very hosdle and riotous man of Massachusetts reported (Sept 11. ner. entered upon parf of said Lands in the anr that" Mlehad Halenheck. whom they (the New York . Jo^ab Loomis. Cat down bis Wheat and it away ';;tos)supposed to favor the tiding of ^e Vau D^^ in h-is Wagons, and destroyed above five acres of Indian has been apprehended and closely confined m Dutchess county jail (it is said to be in a dungeon), and the most un ^The account given by Mr. Livingston,however. ™ ma exceptional Bail refused." and it was voted that the ^ver- terially different. He rehted that having met the com oor L desired as soon as might he to mittee and esplained the tenure by which he hdd the lands, larly on this affiiir to the governor of New Y'ork showing bis boundaries, and that the estent of hw Governor Shirley did. and in duo time reived the reply was nineteen miles and thirty rods eastwaid ftona Hudson s of Governor Clinton, dated Get 1. 1753. river into the woods, they all proeecded to Taghkani^ «that Michael Hallinheck. who was lately confined re t where they found a great number of people were eollecled Gaol of Dutchess County, made his Escape from thetire wi to whoii the committee recommended that they remain several other debtors. Nor can I think he met with any quiet and satisfied untU the settlement of a division hue. Bovere Treatment whUe there. It must be a mistake tha L that such as were tenants should pay them rentt hon he was confined in a Dungeon, there being. I estly to the landlord. It was his belief, hotrever. that the snob Place belonging to tb« Grel; and as to " committee were insincere in this, desiring only to quiet him fused for lus Appearance, in this, too, I ituagin • * j for the time being, so tbat tbey could afterw^ eiecu e t^em has ijrmisinformed lor.- be was re— tbeir scbeme without bis presence or interruption; and that the Preclamarion I issued, widi the Advi- of the ^m^cU, after hU departure to hie manor-ho^ they he could not have been admitted to Bail btt y PP orders for the survey of the tract petitioued for by »arto tbe Chancellor or to one of the ^8-/'''° Bull and others; which, he added, was accordingly done by Supreme Court,and I am well assured no such Apphcati seven New England men. assisted by the sons of four o his tenants, and they took possession hy the construction of "irinto"'irruptions of 1754. at Hooslck and Stock- a tree-fence. AbdthatastotbemaUerqf Josiah Loomls,he HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. ley. They found Noble's house transformed into a sort of briii""-' caused the organization of several military com- vicinity of the border and within the disputed fortification, with loop-holes for musketry, and garrisoned terriiorv Thei-e were at least two of these in Sheffield, with some twenty armed men, under command of Captain ommanded by Captains David Ingersoll and John Ashley, Noble, who himself carried a pike, which he presented at one at Tairhkanic, with Michael Hallenbeck as captain, the breast of the sheriff, demanding of which side he was; and one at Claverack, under Robert Noble, a tenant of to which Yates replied that he was high-sheriff of the city KfnsA'laerwyck ; all these being under commission by the and county of Albany. With that his prisoner, Whitney, .^..vornorof Massachusetts; while Robert Livingston, Jr., was rescued from him, and he himself seized and confined in and Dirck Ten Broeck, holding respectively the commissions Noble's house, where he remained under guard from eleven of i-aptain and lieutenant from the governor of New York, A.M. until ten at night, when he was conveyed to Sheffield, coBiiuaiidod a company made up of men living on both the and there remained in custody for twenty-four hours, at the I ivin"ston and the Van Renssclaer manors. These com- end of which time he was released on a bail of one hundred nics, especially those of Noble and Hallenbeck, were not and fifty pounds to appear for trial at the May term of pnjvided with a full complement of muskets, but the defi court; the offense charged against him being that of having ciency in this particular was made good by the use of pikes, dispossessed two persons, one a tenant of Van Rensselaer cutlx'ses. and hatchets, which perhaps answered all the and the other of Livingston, but who claimed to hold under purjHPses of firearms. It was chiefly to meet the exigencies Massachusetts authority. of hiilian attack that these bodies were organized,* but it The naracsf of the sheriff's captors were Robert Noble, is fimiul that they were used to no small extent as agents of Thomas Willnie, Jacob Bacon, Joseph Jellit, Benjamin intimidation, and even of bloodshed, in the bitter quaiTel Lovejoy, Elysa Stoddcr, Benjamin Ohittenton, Richard of which we write. Vane, Talveois Stevens, Wheat Herk, William S. Hallen The disaffection which first appeared among Livingston's beck, Myhiel Hallenbeck, Hendrick A. Brosie, William J. unants had now spread to those of the manor of Van Rees, Francis Bovie, Andris J. Bees, William J. Hailen- Renssclaer, the proprietor of which, in an affidavit made at beck, Nathan Lovejoy, Hyman Spenser, Andrew Lovejoy, Clavcnick. Feb. 22, 1755, deposed "that one Robert Noble and Daniel Lovejoy. A proclamation ordering their ap and scvondl other of his Tenants within the said mannor prehension was issued on the 2d of April, and 00 the had Entered into a Confirmation with some Boston People, 13th four of them, including Josiah Loomis, were arrested and dLsclaimed being any Longer Tenants to or under him, and lodged in jail; their captain, Noble, and the remainder and '.:avo out and pretended to hold their Lands and pos of the company having fled from their stronghold and sessions within the said Mannor under the Boston Govern retired lo Sheffield before the approach of the capturing ment, and that they had taken Clark Pixley, one of the party, which was led by John and Henry Van Rensselaer Constables of Claverack in the said Mannor, and by force and numbered between thirty and forty men. On the fol of Arms, and had Carried him thence, and one John Mor- lowing morning at daylight the party appeared at the house rws. prisoners into Boston Government, and also had been of William Rees, a tenant of Livingston, and one of the Guilty i)f other Outrages and Threatenings upon severail partisans of Noble. Finding that Rees was in the house, other of his Teunents, in order to force and Compell them they demanded his surrender, which was refused, and im to .Join in opposing the Deponent's Rights and Title in the mediately after he was shot dead by one of the Rensselaer mid Mannor; . . . . aud that he was informed that his party named Matthew Furlong. Kxcclloncy Governour Shirley had given the said Robert The exact circumstances of this killing will never be Noble a Commission to be Captain of a Company within known. The statement made by the Van Rensselaer party CTarcrack in the Manor of Rensselaerwyck, and that he was that Rees was desired to open the door, which be re had also appointed and Commissionated several other Mili fused to do, and at the same time swore that be would take tary (Jfficers to Doe Duty and Have Jurisdiction Within the their live.s ; whereupon a board was broken from the door, aid M.innor, and also in the Mannor of Livingston." and through this opening Rees attempted to fire on the Tlie cause of the capture of Clark Pixley and John party, but fortunately his gun missed fire. That the assail M-rrN •iiiL's not appear. They were seized on the 7th of ants then rushed into the house, and Rees retreated to the I'--ijruary, by Robert Noble and a part of his company, and garret, and thence out through the roof, and was in the •ere Lakcti lo Springfield jail. On the 11th, Sheriff Abra very act of firing upon Furlong, when the latter in self- ham \atcs. Jr., with a posse, and accompanied by John defense shot him through the body, and then surrendered ^ ao Reusselaer and his brother Henry, set out from Clav- himself to Justice Ten Broeck, who was also lieutenant of •'ack. and proceeded towards Noble's house, for the pur- the company. It was further stated as being susceptible of '>f effecting his arrest. On their way they saw and proof, that Rees had repeatedly declared his determination «3r ,1 ,,r<.vinco: and as thai oridence coincides with the general pnn- New York and Massachusetts; the line being substantially 'k- of the agreement between the provinoo of JTew York and the the same as that ordered by George the Second, thirty i'!.'lony of Connecticut in I6S3, which has received the Royal conBr- years before, and identical with the present boundary, ex 'ilion: tVo are of opinion that a line to bo drawn Northerly from a cepting the slight difference caused by the cession of Boston '"dm on the South boundary lino of the Massachusetts Bay twenty .listant du-i East from Hudson's River to another point 20 Corner to New York in 1855. '.k' distant duo East from the said river on that line which divides As has been before mentioned, the royal order in council • lu l'-u\ incos of New Hampshire and tho Massachusetts Buy would of 1757, although it did not then close the question of i 0 I just and equitable lino of division between Y'our JIaj'tys prov- boundary, yet virtually put an end to conflicts of jurisdic iiu-cs "f New York and the Massachusetts Bay. •• But as a doubt might arise whether such boundary could be es- tion between the provinces. And for a period of five years t tlili^bcd without the concurrence of the Massachusetts Bay, the soil from the riots and arrests of 1757 there seems also to have ,„d Jurisdiction of it being granted by Royal Charter, We thought been a season of quiet and freedom from outrage and law pn.pcr to call before Us the Agents for the two provinocs in question, lessness upon the manors. But in 1762 the clouds again :iiid to communicate to them such our opinion and tho authorities wlicrci.n it is founded. And the Agent for New York having signi- gathered, and the malcontents, under lead of Josiah Loomis fi. d to us that he submits the settlement of the said boundary as a and others, again took the war-path. During this state of muter entirely in your My'tya detormination, and tho Agent for affairs Mr. Livingston wrote (March 22, 1762) to Gov t!;.' Masiaohusetts Bay having acquainted us that ho, on hehilf of ernor Golden, " These Rioters have given me no trouble his cmstitucnts. acquiesces in tho above-described line, Wo there- fnre licg leave humbly to propose to your Majesty that you would bo since the Proclamation issued in 1757, but now they intend ••rsci-msly pleased, by your order in Council, to establish the line to make their last bold push, which I think will be pre h.Tciiibcfuro described as a final boundary of property and Jurisdic- vented by another proclamation coming out in time." The ik.ii between tho provinces of N. York and the Massachusetts Bay." governor acted on the suggestion, and nine days later issued Tliia decision, however, did not meet the approval of the hb proclamation, directed particularly against Josiah Loo •ruvcrnor and council of New York, who expressed their mis and Robert Miller, " who, in contempt of said Procla ilis-mtisfaction, and asked for certain alterations. Their mation [that of 1757], have lately riotously assembled roiitiest was duly considered, but being objected to by the within the said Manor, and do now threaten to dispossess atrciit of the Massachusetts government; was definitely and the Tenants of the said Robert Livingston, and to seat and fuiallv denied in a communication by the Lords of Trade maintain themselves therein by Force and Violence;" and to Governor De Lancey, dated Dec. 9,1757; and a royal he ordered and directed the slierlff to suppress all unlawful order in council afterwards established the line as deter- and riotous gatherings at all hazards, and with the whole iiiiiied on by the Lords, and nearly the same as at present force of the county. This prompt action seems to have had existing. the desired effect, and four years more of comparative quiet 13uc oven the king's decision and the order in council did succeeded. not prove to bo a final settlement of the boundary, though But again, in 1766, the disturbances broke out with more it was tacitly accepted by the two proviuces as to jurisdlc- violence than ever, this time under the leadership of Robert tionai conflicts between them. It was not until many years Noble, who assembled his band in such numbers that they after that the line was established. In the spring of 1773, were able to and did attack and defeat a strong posse under .lohii Watts, William Smith, and Robert R. Livingston, command of the sheriff of Albany while in performance of cuinnitssioners on the part of New York, and John Han his duty. This outbreak caused the loss of several lives, cock, William Brattle, commissioners and was immediately followed by a proclamation ordering fl)r Massachusetts, met at Hartford, where, on the ISth of the most stringent measures, and the apprehension of May, they easily and amicably agreed on a partition line of Robert Noble. In an attempt to effect the arrest of Noble juri.^diction, and this agreement received the approval of the sheriff and his posse attacked the fortified house of tlic governors of the two States. The line as agreed on Noble (in the present town of Hillsdale), but without being Was to commence at the northwest corner of "the oblong," able to effect their object, and Noble escaped to Massachu and to run thence north 21® 10' 30" east to the north setts. He and Josiah Loomis had been principal ring iinc uf M;issachusetts; this eastern deflection being given leaders iu the anti-rent insurrection from the time of its to tlie course of the Hudson river, from which first outbreak, but after this time Noble was uo more heard it w:i.s intended to make the line distant, as nearly as might of as an insurgent leader on the New York side of the line. be. a distance of twenty miles at all points. His absence, however, had not the effect to intimidate or But the line, though agreed on, was not then run. Great discourage the rioters. On the contrary, their demonstra- 'rouble appears to have arisen in the execution of the work, tioQS of violence increased to such a degree that the sheriff •>ii account of the baffling variation of the needle among and magistrates, realizing that the civil power of the county die nrc beds of the Taghkanics,—and perhaps from other was entirely unequal to the exigency, notified Governor '"'"--•s.—and it was not until 1737 that the work was ac- Jloore of the fact, and invoked the assistance of the military •'"'iii lisliod. In that year Thomas Hutchins, the national arm. The governor responded by ordering detachments of -''•"'.rraplicr-genenil, David Rittenhouse, and the Rev. Dr. the Forty-sixth Royal Infantry to proceed to the neighbor •b'iin Kwing, of Philadelphia, three gentlemen whom hood of the disordei's to support the sheriff and enforce the '•'U'.tl'ss bad, at the request of tho two States, appointed law. •■■ominissioners for the purpose, succeeded, after great The following, a copy of a letter written by Mr. Living 'iiheiiky experienced from the capricious variation of the ston at that time, has reference to the state of affairs then '""•-■dlf. in running and establishing the boundary between existins on the two manors : 6 'iK mSTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. "Manor Livincstos, 9th Julj, 1766. ing and in the hatred that existed between patriots and "Sin,—This minute arrived here Capt. Claikeof the46tb, with 120 Tories, though doubtless the state of affairs then existing of His Mnjestv'f Troops, in order to assist the mngistrates and sheriff was, in many cases, made an excuse for the wreaking of of the countv to apprehend the Rioters in this Countj. And as it wiU private revenge. After the war, although robber} and be necessary yourself, the gheriff, and Coll. Van Rinslaer should be other lawless acts+ were frequent enough, the old anti-rent here, I desire you immodiulely to send on Express for them, that we may'go on the service to-morrow. It would be agreeable to me if spirit does not seem to have been actively manifested until Capt. SohuylcrS could come along. As it will be in our power to quell about 1790, when combinations were again formed to this dangerous Riot and EsUblish onr authority in our respective wrest from the Livingston and Van Rens.selaer proprietors manors, no time must be lost, nor no expense thought too much. In portions of their lands. In 1791 these combinations took hopes of your spocdy Complyance,I remain, "Sir, your roost Humble Servant, the form of armed resistance to the execution of the laws, " RoBBUT Livingston, Jck. and resulted in the shooting of the sheriff of the county, "To Henry Van Henslaeu, Esq., Cornelius Hogcboom, Esq., while engaged in the perform "Claverack." ance of his duty. The presence of the military had the desired effect. The Few occurrences in the history of Columbia county have rioters seem to have had as tvholesome a dread of bayonets ever moved the feelings and sympathies of its inhabitants as was displayed by their descendants on the same ground more deeply than this atrocious murder of Sheriff Hoge- seventy-eight years later. The spirit of insurrection was boom The following account of the deplorable event ap- immediately and (for the time) completely quelled. peared in the Albany Gazette of Oct. 31, 1791, being On the 24th of February, 1767, Gov. Moore wrote to communicated to that journal by a gentleman of Kinder- the Earl of Sbelburne in reference to this anti-rent outbreak hook : and its suppression as follows: "Cornelius Hogebooin, Esq., sheriff of the county of Colambia, was shot on his horse on Saturday, the 22d inst., "There has been no dispute in the present case between the Prov inces in regard to any Territorial Jurisdiction, but the whole has at a place called Nohletown, in the town of Hillsdale, and taken its ri.«e from a Scene of Litigation among private Persons. Sev on Monday his remains, attended by an uncommon number eral Inhabitants of the Mafsuchusctte, encouraged by their coiintry- of respectable inhabitants from different parts of the county, jiicn (as they acknowledge in some of their affidavits), passed over were deposited in the family burial-place at Squampommoek, the line of Division, apd seating themselves to the Westward of it, on the Lands belonging to Mr.Renslaor, and acknowledged on all hands where they testified an unfeigned sorrow for the loss of so to be within this Province, began Settleincnts there without inviUtion valuable a citizen. from him, or even permission first obtained. Mr. Rcnslaer, unwil "Mr. Hogeboom had filled the office of sheriff for up ling to dispossess them, offered ibein Lenses on the same Terms which wards of two years ; and it was at a very distressing period he bad granted to his Tenants, their near neighbors, which were re fused ; and notwithstanding they could not shew any Right in them that he entered on the duties of this office, whereby his selves to the Lands, refused to acknowledge any in Mr. Renslaer, who unexampled benevolence to the distressed was fully evinced, upon such behavior endeavored So remove them by a due Course of at the same time that a just degree of promptitude was Law. But as it never was the intention of these People to submitt their Title to a legal examination, every opposition was made to the sheriff paid to the interests of his employers. Few men were when be attempted to do his duty, and mutters wore carried to such capable of giving so universal satisfaction. He was a real a length thai they assembled armed in a great body and attacked and patriot and a true friend. defeated him in the Execution of his office, altho' supported by the "The mufder of Sheriff Hogeboom is of such a barba Posse of the County, and some lives were lost on both sides. After an rous and inhuman nature, while at the same time it is so action in justification of which so little could be said, many of the Delinquents thought proper to quitt this Province immediately, and interesting, that we shall give to the public a short and sheltered themselves under the Protection of the Neighboring Govern circumstantial account of the horrid deed. A few days ments of MflssachusetU and Connecticut; ... but none of them previous to the murder one of the sheriff^s deputies was to were over secured, although they appeared publickly in the Provinces have held a vendue at Nohletown by virtue of an execution of the Massachusetts and Connecticut, neither have any of those oom- plainanis thought proper to return to their Homes and submit their against one Arnold, but on the day of the intended sale Cause to be decided by the Laws of their Country. ... It was with the Nohletown people assembled, and with threats deterred great concern I saw the progress of these disturbances, but was still the deputy from proceeding in the vendue, who thereupon in hopes that the civil Power alone would be able to prevail, and it adjourned it to the Saturday following, informing the peo was at the earnest request of the Magistrates of both those counticst that the Troops were sent to their assistance....I should have been ple that he should acquaint the high sheriff with what had guilty of a neglect of my Duty had I refused the aid required, es happened, which he accordingly did. The sheriff attended pecially in the County of Albany, where the rebels had set the civil on Saturday, and after waiting till near four o'clc^k for his Power at Defiance, and had defeated the Sheriff at the head of the deputy, who had the execution, and he not arriving, and a Posse of the County." number of people having assembled in a riotous manner, After tlieir suppression, in 1766, tbe anti-rent partisans he concluded to leave, and told the people that since his did not again rally (as such) for a period of twenty-five deputy had not come he would leave it to him to make such years. During the Revolution many scenes of violence return as he thought best. He then, with his brother and were enacted within the limits of the county, but these had (or were supposed to have) their origin in party fecl- * For the suppression of tbe numerous felonies which were com- mined in this vicinity after the Revolution a company of rangers was * Afterwards Mnjor-General Philip Scbuylcr, of Revolutionary organized, and fifteen hundred pounds were raised under authority fame. •f Referring to disturbances which occurred also about the same of the act of May 11, 1780, to defray the expense thus incurred; but time in Dutehess county, requiring the assistance of the military to neither the date of the formation of the company nor the particular quell. A part of tbe Twenty-eighth Infintry was sent to that county. acts of outrage which caused its organization can ho given. sego, Oneida, and Rensselaer, at last began to r^rd. their -entleman, rode off, and when they were opposite condition^ as unendurable, and as being little, if any, better the h irn young Arnold fired a pistol, at which signal seven- than< that of vassals. They argued that they and their men' painted and in Indian dress, sallied forth from .ancestors had already paid in rents far more than the value ,1.0 barn, fired and marched after them, keeping up a con- iof the lands, even includiog the buildings and improve- firin Senatorial Diitrida.—Columbia was a part of the eastern Districts.—1847-78, two districts in the county,—first district from the erection of the county, March 4, 1796, district, comprising the towns of Ancram, Claverack, Cler- wheu it was made a part of the middle district, and so re- moiit, Copake, Gallatin, Germantown, Grcenport, city of roaioed until the second constitution was adopted. From Hudson, Livingston, and Taghkanic; second district, the that date to adoption of constitution of 1846 the county towns of Austerlitz, Canaan, Chatham, Ghent, Hillsdalc, was a portion of the third senatorial district. By the new Kinderhook, New Lebanon, Stoekport, and Stuyvesant. constitution, Colombia and Dutchesswas formed the eighth district. In 1857 the number was changed to the eleventh, MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY. and so remains at this date. OF THE COtOXV. 1716-28.—Robert Livingston, Sr. SENATORS. 1728-37.—Gilbert Livingston. 1792-95. William Powers. 18.32-35. John W. Edmonds. 1737-59.—Robert Livingston (third lord of manor). 1796-99. Ambrose Spencer. 1838-39. Edward P. Livingston. 1759-68.—Robert R. Livingston. 1769-74.—Robert R. Livingston.® 1797-1800. Peter Silvester. 1845-47. John P. Beckiuan. 1801-4. John C. Ilogeboom. 1850-51. John Snyder. 1774-75.—Peter R. Livingston. 1805-8. Stepben Bogcboom. 1851. Joseph Halstead. OF THE STATE. 1809-12. Edward P. Liviogston. 1854-55. Robert A. Barnard. 1778.—Gilbert Livingston. 1813-20. Martin Van Buren. 1858-59. William G. Mnndeville. 1780.—Matthew Adgate, Peter R. Livingston. 1821-22. John I. Miller. 1802-63. William H. Tobey. 1781.—Matthew Adgate, Philip Friable, Samuel Ten Broeck, Jacob 1823-24. Edward P. Livingston. 1860-07. Edward G. Wilbor. Ford. - 1820-29. Ambrose L. Jordan. 1874-75. Benjamin Ray. 17S2-S3.—Matthew Adgate, Jacob Ford, Samuel Ten Broeck. 1784.—Matthew Adgate, Jacob Ford. TEE ASSEMBLY. 1785.—Matthew Adgate, Jacob Ford. The first representative Assembly that convened in what 1786.—Lawrence Hogeboom, John Livingston. is now the State of New York wa."? '' The Twelve Men," 1787.—John Livingston, Wm. Power, under the Dutch rule, who were elected in Manhattan 1788.f—John Livingston, Wm. Power, Peter Silvester. 1789.—Matthew Adgate, John Baj, John Kortz, (New York city), Brooklyn, and Pavonia (Jersey City) to 1790.—Ezekiel Gilbert, John Livingston, James Savage. suggest means to punish the Indians for a murder they 1791.—Matthew Adgate, Stephen Hogeboom, James Savage. had committed. The first representative Assembly under 1792.—Benjamin Birdsull, Jared Coffin, Jacob Ford, Lawrence Hoge boom, Henry Livingston, James Savage. English rule met at Hempstead, Long Island, March, 1655, 1793.—Matthew Adgate, Benjamin Birdsall, Jared Coffin, Philip but this could not be called a legislative As.semb]y, as it Frisbie, Stephen Hogeboom, Samuel Ten Broeck. simply promulgated laws—" the Duke's Laws"'—prepared 1794.—Matthew Adgate, John Bay, James Brebner, Dirck Gardenier, for such purpose. The first legislative Assembly was that Matthew Scott, Ambrose Spencer. 1795.—Matthew Adgate, John Bay, James Brebner, Philip I. Hoff of 1683, which was afterwards abrogated, and all the laws man, Elisba Jenkins, Matthew Scott. it had enacted, and that one of 1691 created, which con 179C.—Benjamin Birdsall, James Brebner, Patrick Hamilton, Ste tinued through the colonial period. Under the State au phen Hogeboom, Philip L. Hoffman, Samuel Ten Broeck. thority the Assembly has always been chosen annually. It 1797.—Caleb Bcnton, Palmer Cady, John C. Hogeboom, John Mo- Kinstry, Peter 1. Vosburgh, Jonathan Warner. consisted at first of seventy members, with the power to 1798.—Caleb Benton, John C. Hogeboom, Eillian Hogeboom, Elisba increase one with every seventieth increase of the number Jenkins, Samuel Ten Broeck, Peter L Vosburgh. of electors, until it contained three hundred members. 1799.—Elisha Gilbert, Killian Hogeboom, Charles McKinstry, John "When the constitution was amended, in 1801, the number MeKinstry, Peter B. Ten Broeck, Samuel Ten Broeck. 1800.—Ezekiel Gilbert, Robert T. Livingston, Charles McKinstry, had reached one hundred and eight, when it was reduced John Noyes, Anson Pratt, Jacob Rutsen Vau Rensselaer. to one hundred, with a provision that it should be increased ISOI.—William Cantinc, Asa Douglass, Dirck Gardenier, Ezekiel after each census at the rate of two annually until the num Gilbert, John Livingston, Elisba Williams. ber reached one hundred and fifty. The constitution of 1802.—Thomas Brodbead, Josiah Holley, Henry W. Livingston, Samuel Ten Broeck, Peter Van Alstyne, Moses Younglore. 1821 fixed the number permanently at one hundred and 1803.—Samuel Edmonds, Aaron Kellogg, Moncrief Livingston, Peter twenty-eight, and members were elected on a general ticket. Silvester. The constitution of 1846 required the boards of super IS04.—Benjamin Birdsall, Stephen Miller, Samuel Ten Broeck, visors of the several counties to meet on the first Tuesday James I. Van Alen. in January succeeding the adoption of that instrument, and 1805.—Moncrief' Livingston, Peter Silvester, William W. Van Ness, Jason Warner. divide the counties into districts of the number apportioned 1806.—Moncrief Livingston, Peter Silvester, William W. Van Ness, to them, of convenient and contiguous territory, and of as Jason Warner. nearly equal population as possible. After each State cen 1807.—Elisba Gilbert, Jr., Peter Sbarp, Gains Stebbins, Anson Pratt. 1808.—Thomas Brodbead, Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Jason sus the Legislature is to re-apportion the members, and to Warner, E. Williams. direct the time when the supervisors shall meet for the pur 1809—James Hyatt, Moncrief Livingston, Gains Stebbins, Jacob pose of re-districting the county. Pursuant to this pro Rutsen Van Rensselaer. vision, the boards met in June, 1857, and in June, 1866. 1810.—Thomas P. Qrosvcnor, Henry W. Livingston, William Lusk, Adsod Pratt. Hamilton and Fulton counties together elect one member, 1811.—Thomas P. Grosvenor, Augustus Tremain, James Vnnderpoel, and every other county one or more. Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer. Apportionment.—178C—1791, three members; Feb. 7, 1791-1802, six; March 31, 1802-22, four; April 12, ® Declared disqualified, being a jndge, and refused a seat. ■{■First representation of Columbia county. From 1780 to 1780, 1822-46, three ; March 8, 1846-78, two. inclusive, in Albany county. 78 HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. COUNTY JUDGES. SHERIFFS. 1S47. John T. Hogeboom 1863. Darius Peck. Appointed. 1825. 1851. John T. Hogeboom 1867. Darius Peck. 1772. Philip J. Livingston. 1828. John Pixley. 1855. Darius Peck. 1871. John Cadmau. 1786. Lawrence Hogeboom, 1831. Edward 0. Hollcy. 1859. John C. Newkirk. 1877. Hugh W. McClellau. 1789. Cornelius Hogeboom. 1834. Leonard W. Ton Broeck. 1791. John C. Hogeboom. 1837. Leonard Freeland. JUSTICES FOR SESSIONS. 1795. John Koyes. 1840. Abram F. Miller. 1796. 1843. Henry C. Miller. 1847. Wealej R. Gallup. 1863. Henry Shear. Peter B. Ten Broeck. 1801. Samuel Edn3ond8. 1846. Jacob R. Hollenbeck. CofDoliue Moul. 'Wm. Kipp. 1802, Barent Vandorpoel. 1840. Abram F. Miller. 1849. Wesloj- R. Gallup. 1804. John C. Sweet. 1806. John 0. Hogeboom! 1852. William Best. Cornelius Moul. Geo. A. Eisselburg. 1850. Weslej R. Gallup. 1865. Hampton C. BulL 1810. Moncrief Livingston. 1855. Heniy Waldo. 1811. John King. 1858. Ezra Waterbnry. Jacob Bariuger. Geo. A. Kisselburg. 1813. Reuben Swift. 1861. Sherman Van Ness. 1851. Wm. H. De Witt. 1866. Henry P. Uorton. 1815, John King. ' 1864. Whiting Sheldon. Seth Daley. James E. Cristie. 1819. Alexander Smith, Jr. 1867. John H. Overhiser. 1852. Wm. U. Ilawver. 1867. James E. Cristie. 1821. James Warner. 1870. Stephen W. Ham. Wm. H. De Witt. George S. Snyder. 1873. William H. Van Tassel. 1853. Edward Gemou. 1868. James E. Cristie. Elected. 1876. Henry M. Hanor. Elisba Moore. George S. Snyder. 1854. Elbridge G. Studley. 1869. James Dingman, 1822. Samuel E. Hudson. Elisba Moore. Philip Rookefeller.. REGISTER OF CHANCERY UNDER COLONY. 1655. Simeon M. Collier. 1870. James C. Ferguson. 1720. Gilbert Livingston. Seth Daley. Philip Rockefeller. 1856. Wm. M. Bunker. 1871. James C. Ferguson. CLERK OF CHANCERY. John MoKinatry. Philip Feltz. 1720. Robert Livingston, Jr. 1857. Richard Marrin. 1872. Richard Hallenbeck. James Diugman. Wm. Kipp. COUNTY CLERKS. 1858. John C. Sweet. 1873. John H. Smith. Appointed. 1828. Joseph D. Monell. Wm. Eipp. Philip Rockefeller. 1675. Robert Livingston. 1831. Joseph D.-Monell. 1874. Wm. W. Hoysradt. 1859. Wm. Kipp. 1591. Robert Livingston, 1834. James Storm. Jacob R. Hollcnbeck. Abram Ashley, Jr. 1706. Robert Livingston. 1837. Killian Miller. 1860. Abraham Lyle. 1875. Wm. W. Hoysradt. 1721. Philip Livingston.* 1840. J. A. Van Valkenburgh. Philip Smith. Abram Ashley, Jr. 1786. Robert Van Rensselaer. 1843. John I. Traver. 1801. Jacob R. Uollenbeck. 1876. John H. Smith. 1801. Jacob R. Van Rensselaer. 1846. James Siorm. Abraham Lyle. John Busby. 1802, Kilian Hogeboom. 1849. John R. Currie. 1862. Henry M. Kiver, Jr. 1877. Henry P. Van Hoesen. 1808. Marshall Jenkins, Jr. 1852. David C. Neefus. Abraham Lyle. Philip Rockefeller. 1813. Ezekicl Gilbert- 1855. David C. Neefus. 1816. Cornelias Miller. 1858. Cornelius Bortle. .• SURROGATES. 1820. Abraham B. Vanderpoel. 1861. Henry P. Heermance. — Appointed, Appointed. 1821. Cornelius Miller. 1864. Edwin C. Terry. 1786. Killian K.Van Rensselaer. 1845. Joseph D. Monell. 1867. Edwin C. Terry. 1791. Philip L. Hoffman. Elected. Elected. 1870. Edwin C. Terry. 1800. Wm. W. Van Ness. . 1847. Charles B. Dutcher. 1822, Justus MoKinstiy. 1873. Henry B. Hall. d804. James I. Van Alen. 1851. Elijah Payne. 1825, Harmon Bay. 1876. Levt F. Longley. 1808.. Martin Van Buren. 1855. Robert B. Monell. 1813. James VanderpoeL 1859. Charles Esselstyn. COUNTY TREASURERS. 1815. James I. Van Alen. 1863. Charles Esselstyn. Walter Vrooman Wemplo, of Claverack, was appointed treasurer of 1822. Abraham A. Van Buren. 1867. Hugh W. McClellau. the county b^- Ibo first board of supervisors iu 1786, and held 1837. John Gaul, Jr. . 1871. Herman,V. Esselstyn. the office until bis death in 1798. 1840. Wm. H. Tobey. 1877. Isaac N. Collier. Elisba Jenkins was appointed treasurer Sept. 4, 1798, and re-ap DISTRICT ATTORNEYS. pointed in 1799, 1800, and 1801. The State was divided into seven districts in 1796, in each of which Robert Jenkins was appointed in 1802, and was re-appointed in 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, 1807, end 1808. an assistaut attorney•geuoral was appointed by the governor and James Hyatt, 1S09. - council. . The third district was formed by Columbia and Rensselaer counties. Amariab Storrs, 1810-12. Ambrose Spencer, of Columbia, was appointed assistant attorney- Abner Austin, 1813. general for this district in 1796. Jonathan Frary was appointed in 1814, and held tbe office until The office of district attorney was created in 1801; tbe State was 1S25. divided into seven districts; the third district was formed by the James Van Deusen, 1S25. counties of Greene, Columbia, and Rensselaer. David Rowley, 1826. Thomas P. Grosvcnor, of Columbia, was appointed district attorney Silas Stone, 1827-29. Solomon Wescott, 1830.^31. • for this district in 1810. Each county in the State was made a separate district in 1818. Robert McKinstry, 1832-36. Joseph White, 1837—45. Appoi'nied 6y Court of General 1850. John C. Ncwkirk. Abram C. Vosburgh, 1846. , — ' SeBtiont. 1853. William A. Porter. Silas W, Tobey was appointed in 1847, and was elected to the office 1818. Joseph D. MonelL , . 1856. David S. Cowles. in 1848, being Ifae first treasurer elected by the people. 1819. Thomas Bay. 1859. Francis Silvester. Silos W. Tobey, re-elected 1861. 1 1821. Julius Wilcoxson. 1862, James Storm. - Allen Rossmon, elected 1854. 1832. Josiah Sutherland, Jr. 1865. John M. Welsh. Peter S. Wynkoop, elected 1857-60. 1843. Theodore Miller.- 1868. John B. Longley. 1871. Charles M. Bell. * Henry Livingston, of Livingston manor, then Dutcheas connty, Elected ly the People. 1874. Gersbom Bnlkley. was appointed county clerk in 1742, and held the office nntil 1799, 1847. Robert £. Aodrews. 1877. John B. Longley. when he died. so flISTOET OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. moot; George Mooelt, Clnrer&ck; Nicholas Kierslead, Brebner, Chatham. James Brebner, moderator; Andrew Germantown: Jonathan Warner, Canaan; Evert Vosbnrgh, M. Carshore, clerk. Kinderhook. Thomas Jenkins, moderator j Walter V. 1804.—George Monell, Claverack; William Wilson, Clermont: Mat Wcrople, clerk. thew Borr, Chatham: John Whiting, Canaan ; Jumes S. 1792.—Henry Livingston, Livingston; George Monell, Claverack; Livingston, Livingston : Nicholas Kline, Gallatin; Samuel John Thurston, Hudson; Evert Vosbnrgh, Kinderhook; Mallery, Hillsdale; John Tan Alen, Kinderhook; Garret Samuel Ten Broeck, Clermont; Nicholas Kicrstcad, Ger- Cuck, Germantown : Henry Avery, Granger; James Hyatt, mantotvu; Charles UcKinstry, Hillsdale; Ellsha Gilbert, Hudson. William Wilson, moderator; Andrew M. Cur- Canaan. Evert Vosburgh, moderator; Walter V. Wemple, shore, clerk. clerk. 1805.—George Monell, Claverack; Samuel Mallery, Hillsdale ; Hen 1793.—Stephen Paddock, Hudson; Evert Vosburgh, Kinderhook; ry Avery, Granger; John Van Alen, Kinderhook; Peter Patrick Hamilton, Canaan; Hartin J. Cooper, Clermont; Sharp, Germantown; Matthew Dorr, Chatham; James Philip L. Hoffman, Livingston; Peter Scharp, German- Hyatt, Hudson; Isaac Williams, Gallatin; James S. Liv town; Charles JtlcKinstry, Hillsdale; George Idonell, ingston, Livingston; Thomas Brodhead, Clermont; John Clavcraok. Stephen Paddock, moderator; Walter V. Whiting, Canaan. Samuel Mallery, moderator; Andrew Wemple, clerk. M. Carshore, clerk. 1794.—Stophcu Paddock, Hudson; Philip L. Hoffman, Livingston ; 1806.—Samuel Ten Broeck, Clermont; James S. Livingston, Living Evert Vosburgh, Kinderhook; Charles McKinstry, Hills ston; Allen Sheldon, Gallatin; Peter Sharp, Goruiantown; dale; Patrick Hamilton, Canaan; Nicholas Kicrsiead, Henry Avery, Granger; John King, Canaan; Moses Young- Germantown; Samuel Ten Broeck, Clermont; George love, Hudson; Samuel Mallery, Hillsdale; George Monell, .Monell, Claverack. Stephen Paddock, moderator; Walter Claverack; John Tan Alen, Kinderhook; Matthew Dorr, V. Wemple, clerk. Chatham. Samuel Ten Broeck, moderator; Gilbert Jenkins, 1795.—Stephen Paddock, Hudson; Evert Vosburgh, Kinderhook; clerk. George Monell, Claverack; Charles McKinstry, Hillsdale; 1807.—Henry Avery, Granger; Matthew Borr, Chatham; Samuel Samuel Ten Broeck, Clermont; John A. Fonda, Living Mallery, Hillsdale; Frederick Rockefeller, Germantown; ston; Aaron Kellogg, Canaan; Plulip Rockereller, Ger John Van Alen, Kinderhook; James S. Livingston, Living mantown; James Savage, Chatham. ■ Stephen Paddock, ston; Peter Mesick, Claverack; John King, Canaan; moderator; Walter V. Wemple, clerk. Robert Taylor, Hudson; Isaac B. Smith, Gallatin; Thomas .1796.—Birck Gardenier, Kinderhook; Elisha Jenkins, Hudson; Brodhead, Clermont. Matthew Borr, moderator; Mar Philip Rockefeller, Germantown; John A. Fonda, Living shall Jenkins, clerk. ston; George Monell, Claverack; Leri Stone, Chatham; 1808.—James S. Livingston, LiVingslon; Matthew Borr, Chatham; Elisba Gilbert, Canaan; Charles McKinstry, Hillsdale; Thomas Brodhead, Clermont; Samuel Mallery, Hillsdale; Samuel Ten Broeck, Clermont. Birck Gardenier, mod Peter Mesick, Claverack; John King, Canaan; John Van erator; Waller V. Wemple, clerk. Alen, Kinderhook; Frederick Rockefeller, Germantown; 1797.—Elisba Jenkins, Hudson; Birck Gardenier, Kinderhook; Gallatin; Henry Avery, Granger; Robert Charles McKinstry, Hillsdale; Peter Bishop, Livingston; Taylor, Hudson. Matthew Borr, moderator; M. Jenkins, Lovi Stone, Chatham; George Monell, Clavcraok; Samuel Jr., clerk- Ten Broock, Clermont; Benjamin Tobey, Canaan ; Philip 1809.. Thomas Brodhead, Clermont; Allen Sheldon, Gallatin; Rockefeller, Germantown. Charles McKinstry, moderator; . Henry Livingston, Livingston; Henry Avery, Granger; Walter V. Wemple, clerk. Abraham Van VIeck, Kinderhook; Samuel Edmonds, Hud 1798 —William Wilson, Clermont; Birck Gardenier, Kinderhook; son ; Peter Mesick, Claverack; Timothy Oakley, Chatham; Philip Rockefelicr, Germantown; Peter Van Alstyne, Kin- Ebcnezer Soule, Hillsdale; Frederick Rockefeller, German- derkookj Charles McKinstry, Hillsdale; Elisha Jenkins, town; Jason Warner, Canaan. Thomas Brodhead, mode Hudson ; George Monell, Claverack;. Peter Bishop, Living rator; Andrew M. Carshore, clerk. ston; Eleazer Grunt, Canaan. William Wilson, moderator; 1810. Thomas Brodhead, Clermont; Abraham Van Vleek, Kinder Andrew M. Carsbore, clerk. hook; Allen Sheldon, Gallatin; Ebenezer Sonic, Hillsdale; 1799.—William Wilson, Clermont; Eleazer Grant, Canaan; Henry Jason Warner, Canaan; Henry Livingston, Livingston; Livingston, Livingston; Abm. L Van VIeck, Kinderhook ; Henry Avery, Granger; Peter Mesick, Claverack; Nathan . Charles McKinstry, Hillsdale; Jobp C. Hogeboom, Clav Sears, Hudson; Timothy Oakley, Chatham; Frederick erack; Peter Sharp, Germantown; Peter Van Alstyne, Rockefeller, Germantown. Thomas Brodhead, moderator ; Chatham; Robert Jenkins, Hudson. William Wilson, Luther Bingham, clerk. moderator; Andrew M. Carsbore, clerk. 1811.—Henry Livingston, Livingston; Ebenezer Bonle, Hillsdale; J800.-^John C. Hogeboom, Claverack; Henry Livingston, Living Henry Avery, Granger; Abraham Van VIeck, Kinderhook ; ston; Robert Jenkins, Hudson; Philip Rockefeller, Ger Nathan Sears, Hudson; Peter Mesick, Claverack; Allen mantown; Samuel Ten Broeck, Clermont; Peter Van Sheldon, Gallatin; Timothy Oakley, Chatham; Frederick Alstyne, Chatham; Abm. I. Van VIeck, Kindorbook; Wil Rockefeller, Germantown; BanicI Warner, Canaan; Tbos. liam Aylesworth, Canaan; Samuel Mallery, Hillsdale. John Brodhead, Clermont. Ebenezer Soule, moderator; Samuel '0. Hogeboom, moderator; Elisha Jenkins, clerk. Edmonds, clerk. 1801.,—Abm. I. Van VIeck, Kinderhook ; George Monell, Claverack; 1812. John Van Bcusen, Livingston; Thomas Brodhead, Clermont,* . Moncrlef Livingston, Livingston; Jonathan Warner, Ca Frederick Rockefeller, Germantown; Abraham Van VIook, naan; Matthew Borr, Chatham; Robert Jenkins, Hudson; Kinderhook; Nathan Sears, Hudson ; Allen Sheldon, Galla . John N. Taylor, Germantown; William Wilson, Ciormont; tin ; Peter Mesick, Claverack; Baniel Warner, Canaan; Samuel Mallery, Hillsdale. Abraham L Van VIeck, mod Henry Avery, Granger;'Bartbolomew Williams, Hillsdale; erator; Andrew M. Carshore, clerk. Timothy Oakley, Chatham. Baniel Warner, moderator^ 1802 'William Wilson, Clermont; Henry Livingston, Livingston; - - James S. Livingston, clerk. George Monell, Claverack; James Brebner, Chatham; 1813.—Peter Mesick, Claverack; Baniel Warner, Canaan; Henry John Whiting, Canaan; Samuel Mallery, Hillsdale; Garret Avery, Granger; -Ssmnel Wilbur, Chatham; John Van Cuek, Germantown; John Van Alen, Kinderhook; Cotton Bcusen, Livingston; Amnriah Storrs, Hudson Henry Gelston, Hudson. William Wilson, moderator; Andrew Mink, Gallatin; Wm. Tanner, Hillsdale;. Garret Cuck, M. Carshore, clerk. Clermont; Abm. Van VIeck, Kinderhook; Frederick Rocke 1803.—Robert T. Livingston, Livingston; Nicholas Kline, Gallatin; feller, Germantown. Baniel Warner, moderator; Wm. G. ;Samue] Mallery, Hillsdale; William Wilson, Clermont; Hubbel, clerk. George Monell, Claverack; Garret Cuck, Germantown; 1814.—Peter Mesick, Claverack; Wm. Tanner, Hillsdale; .Amariah Henry Avery, Granger; Cotton Gelston, Hudson; John Storrs, Hudson; John Van .Beusen, Livingston; Garret \an Alen, Kinderhook; John Whiting, Canaan; James Cuck, Clermont: Simon Rockefeller, Germantown; Isaac HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 81 1846—L. Van Buren, chairman; John Mosher, clerk. B.Smitb, Anoram; Henry Arery, Tagbkanio; Peler Van 1847.—RibertG. Frary, chairman; ErastusH. Be^. clerk. Vleck, Canaan; Henry L. Van Dyck, Kinderbook; Mat- t848.-Roborl A. Barnard, chairman; Harmon B. Whttbcok, clerk. tbow Bealo, Cbatham. Amariab Storrs, moderator; Wm. G. 1349.—Jonas H. Miller, chairman ; Harmon B. Whitbock. clerk. Hubbel» olerk. I3.i0-5l.—L. Van Burcn, chairman; David C. Neefus, clerk. 1S15 —Robt H. Van Rensselaer, Hudson; Thos. Jenkins, Hudson; 1352.—Peter P. Rossmon, chairman; John Whitbeck, olerk. jajSj^guilMjAncram : Henry L. Van Dyok, Kinderbook; 1353.—Henry W. Reynolds, chairman; John M. Welch, olerk. fRnVarbo^ Canaan; Peter Mesick, Clareraefc; Garret 1864,—Ira Hand, chairman ; Jacob P. Miller, clerk. Cuck, Clermont; Simon Rockefeller, Germantown; John 1355.—Ira Hand, ohatrman: Gilbert Langdon, clerk. Van Deusen, Linngston; Augustus F. Haydon, Chatham; 1850.—Samuel A. Barstow, chairman j John Whitbeck, clerk. Friend Sheldon. Taghkanio; Jonathan C. Olmstead, HiUs- 1857.-WUliftm M. Elton, chairman; Robert W. MeClellan, Clerk. dalo. Henry L. Van Dyck, moderator; Wm. G. Hubbel, 1853.—Oeo. A. Kisselburgh, chairman ; Valentine Pingar, clerk. clerk. . 1859.-Horatio N. Hand, chairman; Charles G. Coffin, clerk. 1316—Henry L. Van Dyck, Kinderbook; John Van Deusen. Linng 1360.—Hir.am D. Ford, chairman; John V. Whitbeck, clerk. ston ; Garret Cuck, Clermont; Friend Sheldon, Taghkanic ; 1861.—Horatio N. Hand, chairman; Theodore Snyder, clerk. James Strong, Hudson; John P. Jenkins, Hudson; Jona- 1862.~Stephen B. Barteau, chairman; John Whitbeck, clerk. than 0. Olmstead, Uillsdalei Simon Rockefeller, German- 186.3—Wm. G. Mandeville, chairman; John Whitbeck, clerk. town; Petor Moiick, Clavcraok; Isaac B. Smith, Ancram; 1864.—Wm. G. Mandeville, chairman; J. Southart Van Wyok, o er . Daniel Warner, Canaan; Augustus F. Haydon, Chatham. 1365.—Peter Mesiok, chairman; John V. Whitbeck, clerk. H. L. Van Dyck, moderator; Wm. G. Hubbel, clerk. —Thomas Brodhead, Clermont; Henry L. Von Dyck, Kinder- 1866.—John H. Overhiser, chairman; Gilbert Langdon, clerk. 1317 1867—Peter Mesick, chairman; Gilbert Langdon, clerk. hook; Henry Avery, Taghkanic ; Anthony Boucher, Clav- 1868-69.—Jacob H. Proper, chairman; John Whitbeck, clerk. erack; Isaac B. Smith, Ancram ; Daniel Warner, Canaan ; 1370—Henry Cornell, chairman; Aaron V. D. Whitbeck, olerk. Edward Bogley, Hillsdole; Anson Pratt, Chatham; James 1371.—Sherman Van Neas, chairman; James Miller, clerk. Nixon, Jr., Hudson; Paul Dakin, Hudson; John Van Deu 1872.—I/orenzo Gile, obairmuD ; Henry P. Horton, clerk. sen, Livingston ; Simon Rockefeller, Germantown. H. L. 1373.—Hugh Van Alstyne, chairman; Ruluf Neefus, olerk. Van Dyck, moderator; Wm. G. Hubbel, clerk. 1374.—Sherman Van Ness, chairman; John C. Hnbbard, clerk. 1813.—Henry L. Van Dyck, Kinderbook; Peter Van Alstyne, Chat 1375-77.—Perkins F. Cady, chairman ; Ruluf Neefus, clerk. ham ; Elam Tilden, Canaan; Tobias L. Hogobooin, Ghent; 1877.-Perkin8 F. Cady, Cbatham; Eraatus Coons, Germantown; Jonathan C. Olmstead, Austerlits; Anthony Boucher, Clav- John W. Coons, Greenport; James Dingman, Stockport, erack; Joseph Morehouse, Uillsdnle; James Nixon, Jr., Jacob H. Duntx, Gallatin; Frederick F. Folger. Hudson, Hudson: Paul Dakln, Hudson ; John Van Deusen, Living 3d ward; Michael Guinan, Hudson, 2d ward; Franklin ston; Adam I. Strevel, Taghkanio; Isaac B. Williams, Hand, New Lebanon; Charles W. Havens, Canaan; Mag Ancram; Garret Cuck, Clermont; Simon Rockefeller, Ger- nus D. Herbs, Hudson. 4th ward; William Hoag, Ancram ; mantown. H. L. Van Dyck, moderator; Wm. G. Hubbel, William G. Kittle, Ghent; John D. Langdon, Copake ; clerk. Samuel L.Myers,Taghkanic; Henry C. Pierson, Austerhts; 1319—Henry L.Van Dyok, Kinderbook; Peter Van Vleck, Canaan ; John Sagendorph, Claverack; Abram L. Schermerhorn, Edward B. Pugsley, Ghent; Anthony Boucher, Claveraok; Sluyvesant; Allen Sheldon. Uiilsdale; Samuel ShutU«, Liv John King, New Lebanon; Joseph Morehouse, Hillsdale; ingston ; Charles W. Trimper, Kinderbook; Sherman Van Adam I. Strevel, Taghkanic; Peter Van Alstyne, Chatham ; Ncss, Hudson, 1st ward; Harold Wilson, Clermont. Sher Thomas Brodhead, Clermont; Paul Dakin, Hudson; Bar man Van Ness, chairman ; C. W. Davis, olerk. nabas Waterman, Hudson; Isaac B.Smith, Ancram; Simon RockefeUer, Germantown; George Lawrence, Auaterlits; John Vim Deusen, Livingston; H. L. Van Dyck, moder ator; William G. Hubbel, dork. 1320. Anthony Boucher, Claverack; Henry L. Van Dyck, Kinder- hook; Joseph Morehouse, Uiilsdale; Edward B. Pugsley, Ghent; George Lawrence, Austorlits; Samuel A. Curtiss, CHAPTER XL Canaan; John King, New Lebanon; Isaac Mills, Chatham; John Van Deusen, Livingston; Thomas Brodhead, Cler DISTINQinsHBD MBH" OS* OOLCTMBIA. COUNTT. mont; Isaac B. Williams, Anoram; Adam I. Strevel, Tagh kanio ; Barnabas Waterman, Hudson; Paul Dakin, Hud The county of Columbia has always been remarkable for son; Simon Rockefeller, Germantown; H. L. Van Dyck, the very lar^e number, among her natives and residents, of moderator; William G. Hubbel, clerk. men who have risen to high places of distinction. It la 1S21- John King, moderator; William G. Hubbel, clerk. claimed—and, as we believe, without the possibility of suc 182:;, Walter Patterson, moderator; William G. Hubbel, clerk. 1824-27 .rohn P. Beekman, moderator; William G. Hubbel, clerk. cessful contradietion—that there is not in the State of New IS28. Charles Waldo, moderator; William G. Hubbel, clerk. York, Dor indeed within the United States, a county of 182!)..—John King, moderator; William 0. Hubbel, clerk. equal' size which is able to boast of a roll so brilliant. ISIil).—Oliver Wiswall, chairman; William G. Hubbel, olerk. This county has produced a President and a Vice-Presi- is:il. Wiu. It. Wilson, chairman ; William G. Hubbel, clerk. IS.IC-_34. Robert G. Frary, chairman ; William G. Hubbel, clerk. dent of the United States; Secretaries of War and of the 1835.—Lueas Hoes, chairman; William G. Hubbel, clerk. Treasury; Senators and Secretaries of State, both of the is:;r,.—Garret Burgert, chairman ; Iliram Tapping, clerk. United States and of the State of New York; Ministers l.8;;7 Levi Pius, chairman; Hiram Tapping, clerk. •Plenipotentiary to foreign courts: governors; judges; and .—.fames Mellen, chairman ; Joseph G. Palen, clerk. 1839 Chas. Esselstyne, chairman ; Joseph G. Palen, clerk. many civil officers of scarcely less exalted station, as weU as 1.840 Tobn E. Warner, chairman ; Rodolphus P. Skinner, clerk. military and naval heroes. 1841.—.John Vanderpoel, chairman; Theodore Miller, clerk. It is our purpose to give, in this chapter, brief persotial 1842, .tohn Vanderpoel, chairman; Stephen Storm, clerk. sketches of some of the distinguished men of Columbia, 1843.—Peter I. Hoes, chairman; Stephen Storm, clerk. 1.8U.—James Storm, chairman: John It. Overhiaer, clerk. chiefly of those who have passed away, and including none 1845.— L. Van Burcn, chairman; Henry Miller, clerk. who are now residents of the county. To include all, of the past and present, who deserve special mention would ® The list of supervisors from 1821 to 1376 has been omitted on be tmpractiouble. account of Us extreme length. 11 117 HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. ber of the County Society, and represented it as a delegate — ^illrrliiflir to the State Society. On the 23d of May,1872, while mak 1863.-^aMhHis& ing aposl-mortevx examination, he received a wound, which 1865.—W. v. B. Blighton. wM the direct cause of his death. He suffered the greatest 1866.—S. E. Calkins. agony for several days, and died June 1, 1872. And thus 1867.—G. L. Barnes. died one whose life, for many years, was identified with the 1868.—C. P. Cook, W. M. Sprague, H. B. Horton, city of Hudson, and whose name upon every tongue was as Kinderhook. 1869.—James Green, James H. Green. familiar as household words. 1870.—Oliver J. Peck, North Chatham; Dwight War To the hearts and homes of hundreds he was endeared by many kindly acts and offices, while to all alike, the high, ren, Spencertown. the low, the rich, and the poor, he was ever ready to exer 1874.—N. H. Haviland, Spencertown; A. F. Moore, cise those rare abilities and attainments of which he was Coxsackie ; David B. Collins. possessed. Lamentation for the loss of Dr. Pitcher extended George W. Calkins, of Gormantown, began the practjce over the whole county, and the citizens of Hudson mani of medicine under the old school in 1836, and about 1857, fested their regard for his virtues by erecting a beautiful or before, changed to the homoeopathic practice, and soon after moved into Wisconsin, and is now practicing near monument to his memory. Janesville, in that State. He was a graduate of the New HOMCEOPATHT. York Medical College. The practice of medicine after the school of Hahnemann TUB PRESS. was introduced into Columbia county in or about the year THE HUDSON GAZETTE 1840, by Dr. George W. Cook. Dr. Robert Rossman also began the hommopathic practice about the same time. Dr. was the first paper published in the county, and is now one A. P. Cook was an old-school physician in Chatham in 1835, of the oldest in the State. The first number was issued and went to Kinderhook in 1839, and in 1842 began the March 31, 1785, by Charles R. Webster and Ashbel Stod- practice of the new school, and in 1844 came to Hudson, dard, who had been apprentices together in the office of the where he is yet in practice. Drs. G. W. Cook and Ross- Connecticiit Courant, at Hartford. The size of the sheet man were also of the old school, as was Dr. Stephen was ten by fourteen inches. In typographical appearance Coburn, in Ghent, who changed to homoeopathy in 1842. it was quite equal to the publications of that day. The Edward L. Coburn began the practice also in Ghent in introductory of the "printers" is in t-he following words. It will be seen that they were profuse in the use of capital 1843. Homoeopathic medical societies were authorized to be letters: formed by the act of April 13,1857, and under that act the "The Subscribers having establiabed a PRINTING OFFICE in this flourishing CITY, think it necessary to remind its respectable COLUMBIA AND GREENE HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY Inhabitants of the many Advantages to the Public in general, and the City in particular, from the Publication of an impartial NEWS was organized Oct. 1,1861, with the following officers: A. PAPER, conducted on truly republican Principles, and which shall P. Cook, Hudson, president; T. T. Calkins, Coxsackie, ever be the WATCHFULL CENTINEL of its Liberties. It shall vice-president; C. M. Samson, Hudson, secretary, P. W. snffice us to observe that every Rank and Station of Life must per Mull, Ghent, treasurer; C. H. Stevens, Hudson, J. W. ceive Us Advantages." Smith, Jr., Claverack, James S. Philip, Kinderhook, cen The terms were "twelve shillings per. annum. Each sors. A constitution was adopted, which provides that any subscriber to pay Six Shillings on receiving the Fifth regular licensed physician under the laws of the State, who Number, at which time the Printers will obligate them avows his belief in the homceopathic maxim similia simili- selves, in Case of any Failure on their part, through Neg his curantur, and conforms his practice thereto, may become lect, to refund the Whole of the Subscription Money." a member of the society. Drs. Cook, Calkins, and Smith Amons the most important news items in the first num were the first delegates to the State Society. ber is the following, under date of Albany, April 1. On The presidents of the society have been as follows: A. Friday se'nnight two persons broke open the house of Mr. P. Cook, 1862-64; T. T. Calkins, 1865-66; W. H. J. M. V. Wagoner, of Livingston ilanor, and after beating Barnes, 1866-67; P. W. Mull, 1867-69 ; W. H. Barnes, him in a most cruel manner, robbed him of one hundred 1869-70; H. B. Horton, 1870-71; T. T. Calkins, 1871- pounds in specie and about seven hundred in bonds and 72; C. P. Cook, 1872-73; P. W. Mull, 1873-74; A. P. other paper securreties. Mr. Wagoner is since dead, and Cook, 1874-75; W. H. Barnes, 1875-76; P. W. Mult, the villains have been apprehended and committed to gaol 1876-77. in this City." The present officers are: President, P. W. Mull; Vice- Among the sensations, Philo Socius enters his" earnest President, A. F. Mull; Secretary, T. T. Calkins; Treas protest against a dancing-school" that had been established urer, W. H. Barnes; Censors, J. S. Philip, 0. J. Peck, in the city, as having a tendency to "send all the young James Green. people directly to perdition.' The members of the society have been and are as follows: From its columns we see that it required one week to ISei —A. P. Cook, T. T. Calkins, C. M. Samson, P. get intelligence from Albany, two weeks from New Y'ork, "W. Mull, C. A. Stevens, J. W. Smith, Jr., Jas. S. Philip, and two months from Europe. Wrisrht H. Barnes. At the commencement of the second volume Mr. Web- 120 HISTORr OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. incurred both fine and imprisonment, which destroyed his of 1840, as a" Tippecanoe" paper, by J. R. S. Van Vliet, business in New London. and its complement was The Thrasher, published during the same campaign. THE BALANCE AND COLUMBIAN EEPOSITOET The Columbia Democrat was commenced at Chatham was commenced in 1801 or 1802, in quarto form, by Ezra Four Corners, in 1847. Sampson, George Chittenden, and Harry Croswell, who The Temperance Palladium was published at Hudson, first published it as a neutral paper; hut in less than a year in 1851, by John W. Dutcher. it became the organ of the Federal party, the proprietors The Hudson Daily News was published, in 1855, by refunding to such of the subscribers as did not like the Richard Van Antwerp. change their due proportion of the subscription money. In The Valatie Weeldy Times was published, in 1853, by 1808 it was removed to Albany, and was discontinued in H. N. Hopkins. 1811. Mr. Sampson, familiarly known at that time as The Equal Rights Advocate was begun at Chatham Four "Dominie Sampson," was a Presbyterian clergyman and a Corners, in the spring of 1846, by an anti-rent association. vigorous writer. Mr. Chittenden was a book-binder, and In 1848 it was removed to Hudson, and changed to The Mr. Croswell a printer. Democratic Freeman, under which name it was published The Wasp was contemporaiy with the Bee, and, judging by Charles H. Collins. It was discontinued in 1855-56. from the personal abuse which filled its columns and those The Columbia County Journal was published at Chat of the Bee, the office of each was to return sting for sting. ham Four Corners, in 1850, by Philip H. Ostrander. It was edited for a short time only, in the early part of this The Chatham Courier was established in 1862, and has century, by" Robert Rusticoat." since been published at that point. The Sudson Newspaper and Balance Ajdcertiser was The Chatham Press had its first issue April 11, 1877. commenced in October, 1806, by Hariy Croswell. It was published a year by Burrows & Woolhiser, and then Th£ Repuhliccofi Fountain, founded in December, 1806, discontinued. was published in the interest of the Lewis branch of the The American Repositmy, a paper supporting Millard Democratic party about one year. It was discontinued Fillmore for the presidency, in 1856, was begun in that after the election, which resulted in the defeat of Mr. year, but discontinued shortly after the election. Its editor, Lewis. R. Van Antwerp, also commenced a daily, which was pub The Northern Whig was begun in 1808, by W.B. Steb- lished two months, a short time before the introduction of bins, upon the removal of the Balance to Albany. He the Repository. continued it two or three years, and was succeeded by Wm. The Columbia County Family Journal, a semi-monthly L. Stone, who continued it until 1816, when it passed into literary paper, was begun in 1861, by F. H. Webb, but the hands of Richard L. Corss, and subsequently, in 1821, discontinued after six months' issue. into those of Wm. B. Stebbins, son of the original proprie The Columhia Farmer was a late as well as brief venture, tor, who continued it until 1824, when it was discontinued. having heen begun and completed during the past two It was one of the strongest Federal papers in the State. years, in Hudson. The Columhia Magazine was published at Hudson, at The Journal of Materia Medica was begun in New an early date, by the Rev. John Chester. Lebanon, in 1857, by Henry A. Tilden, and its publication The Spirit of the Forum and Hudson Remarker was is continued by Tilden & Co., with Joseph Bates, M.D., as published in 1817, as a literary paper, by an association of editor. gentlemen. The Messenger of Peace was started at Hudson,in 1824, by Richard Carrique, and continued one year. The Rural Repository, a semi-monthly literary paper, in CHAPTER XIII. quarto, was begun, in 1824, by Wm. B. Stoddard, son of Ashbel Stoddard, the.fi rst printer in Hudson. It was dis BDUOATIONAIi AND EELIGIOUS. continued in 1851.* During the twenty-seven years of its Prioe to the Revolution no general system of education existence its able and judicious management secured for it was established. All schools in existence previously were a large and appreciative list of subscribers, who early private schools, or were fostered by special legislation. learned to value and welcome its regular visits, and who The necessity and importance of common schools had not deeply deplored its loss. been recognized, and education was confined to the wealth Tlie Columhia and Greene CounJty Envoy was b^un, ier dasses. At the first meeting of the State Legislature, in 1831, by Edward G. Linsley, and continued two years. in the year 1787, Governor Clinton called the attention of The Diamond, semi-monthly, was published, in 1833, that body to the subject of education, and a law was passed by George F. Stone, at Hudson. providing for the appointment of regents of the university. The Magnolia, also semi-monthly, was published at In 1789 an apportionment of public lands was made for Hudson, in 1834, by P. Dean Carrique. gospel and school purposes. In 1793 the regents were The Hudson Flail was published during the campaign authorized to report a general system of common schools, and in 1795 Governor Clinton strongly recommended the « The first number was issued Saturday, May 29,1824, and the last, same, and urged its adoption by ihe Legislature. On Saturday, Oct. 4, 1851. April 9 of that year a law was passed" for the purpose of HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 121 encouraging and maintaining schools in the several cities abolished, and a tax on property for the entire expense of and towns in the State, in which the children of the in the schools provided. This law was submitted to the habitants of the State shall be instructed in the English people, and ratified by a vote of three to one. But the language, or be taught English grammar, arithmetic, math taxes levied under the law being unequal, the law became ematics, and such other branches of knowledge as are most distasteful, and remonstrances poured into the next L^is- useful and necessary to complete a good English educa lature against its continuance, and in 1850 it was again tion." By this act the sum of 20,000 pounds (New York submitted to the people and again sustained, though by a currency), or 850,000, was appropriated annually for five decreased majority. In 1851 the free-school act was re years for the support of schools. Under the law of 1795, pealed, and the rate-bill again substituted. At the time of counties were required to raise at least half as much as the repeal the sum of 8800,000 was provided for annual distribution by a State tax, which in many districts practi was received from the State, and the public money was to be divided according to the number of days of school cally made free schools. Afterwards this sum was replaced taught. In 1798 there were 1352 schools organized, and by an annual tax of three-fourths of a mill on all property 59,660 children taught in them. No further legislation in the State, making an increase in the aggregite and in was had, except for additions to the school fund, until creasing with the wealth of the State. In 1853 the act for 1811, when five commissioners were appointed to report a union free schools was passed, and in 1854 the office of complete system for the organization and establishment of superintendent of public instruction* was created. On common schools. The commissioners reported a bill, which April 13, 1855, a law was passed providing for the designa became a law in 1812, by which the sum of 350,000 was tion by the regents of the university of certain academies to be distributed annually among the counties, the boards wherein teachers' classes might be instructed free, the State of supervisors being required to raise an equal amount, the allowing ten dollara for each pupil, not exceeding twenty whole to be distributed among the towns and districts. in each academy. April 12, 1856, the office of school com Three commissioners in each town were provided for to missioner for counties was created, and that of town super superintend schools and examine teachers, and three in intendent abolished. spectors in each district were to engage teachers and other- In 1867 the rate-bill was again abolished and the schools wbe provide for the local necessities of the schools, the supported entirely by a tax on property, the doors of the whole system to be placed under a State superintendent. school-houses being thrown wide open to all, of every shade TTToa the first superintendent, and held the of color, political or religious opinion, and of every condi Jl, when the office was abolished, and the tion in life. Lcretary of state charged with the performance of the The permanent school fund of the State was derived duties pertaining to it. Mr. by bis efforts, con chiefly as follows: tributed largely to the advancement of the school system. 1799.—Seven-eighthi of four lottariea of $100,000, aggre- After the abolition of the office of superintendent, the 1301.—One-balf of ioUeries for'$100,000 50»000 1805.—Proceeds of 500,000 acres of land sold; stock sub duties of the office could not be properly or promptly per scribed in Mercbanla' Bank,and increased m 1807 formed by the secretary of state, owing to the press of his andlSOa. . ^ , 1816.—One-half proceeds of Cruinhorn mountain tract of other duties, and governors every succeeding year urged 60Wi acres, amounting to 1819.—One-half of.arrears of quit-rents - upon the Le^lature the necessity of a better system of An exchange of securities between general and schools, and of laws to correct obvious defects in existing common schogl fund, by which the school fund gained laws. In 1835 departments of teachers were established Proceeds of escheated lands given. in eight academies, one in each senatorial district. In 1822.—By constitution, all public lands amounting to 991,6.59 acres wero given to the school fund. 1838 the district library system was established by law, by 1827.-Balance of loan of 33.81# Bank stock owned by the State - a tax levy of twenty dollars on the taxable property in the Canal stock owned by the State "U district, and ten dollars annually thereafter, which law was 1S3S.—From the revenue of the United States deposit fund modified in 1851, making it discretionary with the super And an additional sum from same fund for libraries 55,000 visor of the town to levy the tax. In 1838 $55,000 was appropriated by the State for libraries, and counties and The sum of 825,000 from the revenue of the United towns were required to raise an equal amount for the same States deposit fund is annually added to the common- purpose. school fund, and the capital of this fund is declared by the In 1841 the office of deputy superintendent of schools constitution to be inviolate. for counties was created. In 1843 the board of town in spectors and commissioners of schools was abolished and SCHOOLS IN COLUMBIA COUNTY. the office of town superintendent substituted. On May 7, In the ancient documents, which contain most of the 1844, the State normal school was provided for, and opened obtainable colonial history of the territory now comprised in at Albany in December following. Nov. 13, 1847, the Columbia county, the earliest reference to schools or educa Legislature abolished the office of county superintendent, tional matters is found in a declaration concerning some against the earnest protest of many of the best friends of church affairs, signed by four residents of Kinderhook, and education in the State. During this session teachers' insti- dated Nov. 30,1702, in which they allude to a man named tutes, which had existed for several years as voluntary Paulus Van Vleck, who" was accepted as precentor and associations, were legally established. March 26, 1849, free schools were established throughout the State, rate-bills • Michigan bad the flrst ofBco of this name in the United States. 16 HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 143 Rockefeller, Jacob H. Teal, George Ellsworth, Henry H. $5000. The interest is charged at seven per cent., and Teal, EHsha Miner, Philip W. Eockefeller. the same paid into the State treasury, less fees and expenses Surgeon's-Mate: John T. Brodhead. of collection, and by the comptroller distributed among the And at the same time the following were issued for the counties for the support of schools and academies. 44th; The State loans were guaranteed by the board of super Second Major, John Tibbits. visors, and after paying several losses, an order wa.s passed Quartermaster, John Lockwood. to pay the principal back to the State as fast as the loans Captains: Henry P. Mesick, Isaac Ford, John Knox, were paid in by the parties who contracted the same, and Zadoc Knapp. in 1850, the amount remaining of the loans of 1792 and Lieutenants: Ralph Tanner, Luther Chase, David Cham 1808 was but S5510. Some portion of this fund is^stiU berlain, Flavel Tiffany, Jakah Lawrence. runniu" at interest on the original loans made in 1795. Ensigns: Daniel Morehouse, Samuel Wise, William The amount reported ou loan by the loan commissioners m Stuart, Peter Downing, Amos M. Knapp. November, 1877, was $69,013.70. Under the act of 1786, A list of commissions, issued about the same time, for 000 was apportioned to Albany county, a portion of the 165th Regiment, was as follows: which was loaned to citizens in the territory now included Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant,•< in Columbia county. Firet Major, Nicholas Robinson. Second Major, John Finch. Quartermaster, CHAPTER XVII. Adjutant, Isaac B. Williams. Surgeon, Charles Suydam. MILITARY. Pavma.stcr, Elisha Wilcox. Columbia County in the War of 1312-15, and the Great RebeUion. Captains: Gideon P. Wolcott, John Stall, Teunis Race, Conrad I. Wilsey, Henry M. Hoffman, George 1. Rossman, WAR OF 1812 TO 1815. John A. Decker, Daniel Baker, Jr. Lieutenants: John C. Drum, Christian C. Shultz, David Im the last war against Great Britain, in 1812 to 1815, Langdon, Abraham Bain, Daniel Loughren, John B. Van Columbia county furnished a large number of troops (both Dusen, John T. Bresee, Cornelius S. Williams. volunteers and dratted men), though few of them saw ac Ensigns: Richard Townsend, Peter SilvernaUjEbmi^ tual service under hostile fire. Finch, Robert Kline, Cornelius Washman, Of the military organizations existing in the county prior Jame.s Conklin, John Kingman. to that war we obtain some idea from an old brigade order, signed by Joseph Lord as brigade-major, and issued by For the 5th Regiment of cavalry we find commissions command of Brig.-Gen. Samuel Ten Broeck, Aug. 10, issued in 1813 and 1814 to residents of Columbia county, as follows: 1806, directing that a review and inspection of his brigade LieutenantrColonel Commandant, Walter T. Livingston. be held near the tavern of Jacob Moul, in Claverack, on First Major, Henry Brown. the 2d of September in that year. The different commands Second Major, Reuben Raoney. mentioned in the order as composing the brigade were as Captains: Robert H. Van Rensselaer, John P. Mesick, follows: r • -D u 1. The regiment of infantry commanded by Maj. Robert 'First Lieutenants: Daniel B. Stranahan, Jeremiah Hoff- T. Livingston, having attached to it the troop of cavalry man. commanded by Capt^ Walter T. Livingston. Second Lieutenants: Seth Mix, Adam Sagendorph, Wil 2. The regiment of infantry under command of Lieut.- liam 1. Johnson. Col. Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer; attached to which was Cornets: Aaron Beardsley, Amasa K. Center. the troop of horse commanded by Capt. Killian Hogeboom, The following is a copy of the" muster-roll of a company and a company of artillery under Capt. Gilbert Jenkins.^ of voluDteer cavalry under command of Captain Lodowick 3. The infantry regiment of Lieut.-Col. Cornwell; with S. Babcock. Mustered into the service of the United States Capt. John Whiting's troop of cavalry attached. Aug. 25, 1812, for the term of one year, actual service, or The briszade was still under command of Gen. Ten Broeck at the opening of the war, and as to the commands fbr°he term specified in an act of Congress passed Feb. 6, composing it, we find reference to the loth, 44th, 56th, and 1812; 165th Regiments of infantry. In the 15th Regiment the Lodowick S. Babcock, captain. following commissions were issued in April, 1814, viz.: John Ranney, first lieutenant. Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, John Shaver. Royal Torrey, second lieutenant. G. R- Fitch, cornet. JIajors: First, Cyrus Capron; Second, Ira Gale. William Moore, sword-master (Nov. 20, 1812). Captains: Robert Siting, Joseph Hoot, John I.Ross- Oliver W. Brewster, first sergeant man. Elias Fingar, Hugh Knickerbacker. Abram P. Douglass, second sergeant. Lieutenants: Anson Gale, Jonas Lasher, John Kline, Henry Warner, third sergeant. Frederick F. Stickle, John ?IcKiostry, Jr., Charles Robin Henry Budlong, fourth sergeant. son, Cornelius Washburn. Ensigns: Benjamin I. Miller, Jeremiah Best, Jacob P, Ovid Pinney, first corporal. HISTOR? OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 1T9 very prosperous, perhaps on account of the fact that the THE FARMEOa' NATIONAL BANK period of its existence was the time of Hudson s severe is the same institution which was organized in 1839 as the business prostration; commencing; immediately after the "Farmers' Bank of Hudson," with a paid-in capital of enforcement of the embar^'O, and extending through the $100,000. The first directors were twenty-one in number, War of 1812-15- During, and immediately after, the war among whom were Elihn Gifford, president; Frederick the bank emitted considerable amounts of notes of denomi Mesiek, Jacob Mesick, John Mesick, Dr. E. B. Pugsley, nations less than one dollar. These were not generally Ewell Lawrence, Dr. Ebenezer Reed, Jacolr Ten Broeck, received with favor, and became depreciated, though in Captain Coffin, Hiram Gage, Robert McKinstry, William 1816 and 1817 we find several mechanics and tradesmen, Nash, Allen Rossman, and Jacob N. Harder. The first and the lottery-ofifiees,* advertising that thoywould receive cashier was Ezra Dean. "Facility Bills" of the Bank of Hudson at par in the way The capital was subsequently increased to 8300,000,and of their trade. At the same time the postmaster. Captain April 7,1865,the bank received authority from the United Alexander Coffin, advertised that he would receive nothing States Treasury Department to transact business as a in payment of postage except specie, United States Bank national bank, under its present name and title. At that notes, and bills of the New York banks. time Samuel Bachman was president and Isaac H. Vrooman Some of the facility bills are still in existence, being cashier. preserved with" Old Tenor" and" Continental" paper money The bank first did business in a building on the north as curious relics of the olden time. side of Warren street, between Fifth and Sixth streets. Its present elegant bankiog-iiouse was erected (on the same THE HUDSO-V RIVER BANK side, a little above the first building) in 1873, at a cost of was chartered in the winter of 1830, and organized June 871,000. The circulation of the bank is now 8236,700, 30 of the same year. Its capital was §150,000. The first and its present officers are Jacob W. Hoysradt, president; board of directors was composed us follows: Oliver Wiswall, Allen Rossman, vice-president; Jacob Ten Broeck, Henry president; Rufus Reed, Solomon Wescott, Samuel Anable. House, Abram Bedell, Lorenzo G. Guernsey, Peter Mesick, Lsrael Platt, William H. Coleman, Abner Hammond,Robert Hiram Macy, Harper W. Rogers, William H. Crapaer, A. Barnard, Laban Paddock, James Vanderpoel, J. P. Charles W. Hinsdale, William H. Gifford. Frederick F. Beekman, Herman Livingston, Abraham Van Buren. Folger, directors; Charles C. Macy, cashier. William Currie was first appointed cashier, but resigned the office, immediately after, upon which Francis W. Ed THE HUDSON CITY SAVINGS INSTITUTION monds was appointed in his stead. Mr. Wiswall retained was chartered April 4, 1850. the presidency of the bank until the expiration of its char The first board of trustees was composed as follows: ter, in 1855. Darius Peck, president; Peter S. Wynkoop, Henry J. The bank was reorganized with the same name June 12, Baringer,vice-presidents; William Bryan, Abijah P. Cook, 1855, under the banking law of April IS, 1838. The George H. Power, Samuel T. Du Bois, John E. Gillette, capital was §200,000, and the following-named gentlemen William B. Skinner, James Clark, Jacob were chosen directors, viz.: Robert A. Barnard, president; W. Hoysradt,. and J^iah W. Fairfi^d, There have been Jonathan Stott, Alexander C. Mitchell, Conklin Terry, no changes-made in this board of officers. George Barker, Charles Paul, L. R. Mellen, Peter Hoffman, The institution pays five per cent, interest on sums of Charles McArthur, Henry Hubbell, Richard F. Clarke, five dollara or more when left on deposit for at least two George H. Power, Stephen A. Du Bob; A. B. Scott, months. • cashier. The deposits amount to about 81,000,000. ; In 1865 the institution was reorganized under the (then) The bank is located at No. 98 Warren street, in a build recently-enacted national banking law, and became ing erected and owned by the institution. THE NATION.iL HUDSON RIVER B.4.NK. THE FIRST NATIO.V.AL B.-I.NK OP HUDSON The capital had previously been increased to $250,000, and has continued at that amount until the present time. was organized under the national banking law, March 25, The first pr^ident under the national organization was 1864, with a capital of 8200,000, and a guaranteed circu Stephen A. Du Bob, and the cashier A. B. Scott. lation of 8180,000. It was then located at No. 167 War The present officers of the bank are Henry A. Du Bob, ren street. The first officers were: President, Josiah W. president; Edwin C. Terry, Henry J. Baringer, William Fairfield; Vice-President, Robert B. Shepard; Cashier, Bryan, Abijah P. Cook, Cornelius H. Evans, George B. Peter S. Wynkoop; Directore, George H. Power, Milton Fairfield, Benoni S. Johnson, Henry Hubbel, William J. Martin, S. T. Du Bois, David Crapser, Hiram W. Dixon, Miller, Augustus McKinstry, Ezra Waterbury, Caspar P. Isaac N. Collier, and Theodore Miller. In 1869 it was re moved to its present location in the city-hall building. The Collier, directors; William Bostwick, cashier. present officera are Robert B. Shepard, president; Milton » Norman's, and ilellen'a lottery-offices wore on the south side of Martin, vice-president; William Seymour, cashier; Milton Warren street, a few doors east of Front. One styled itselt the" truly Martin, William I. Traver, Lucius Moore, Jam^ C. Roger- Lucky Office," and announced that in adrawing of the" Medical Sci son, R. E. Benedict, Edmund Rockefeller, David Crapser, ence Lottery," in 1816, it had sold two of the capital prizes,—$3000 Robert B. Shepard, Isaac N. Collier, directors. and S10,000, and had paid them both, in cash, on the same day. 199 HISTOKY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. R S. V. G.; Andrew Shiller, L. S. V. G.; Herbert H. BUDSO>f CITY LODGE, NO. 1-42, Trent, Chaplain; Robert F. Hermaoce, Organist; Hiram wa3 instituted in Hudson, Aug. 9,1849, with the following Best, Jr. P. G.; John B. Longley, Frederick A. Welch, charter members: M. W. Leiand, Abraham G. Vosburg^, Wilson Van Hoesen, Trustees. Silas W. Tobey, Henry Miller, Wm. H. Coons, Morgan H. Chrysler, Wm. I. Traver, John Crapser, Wm. H. Crapser, KNIGHTS OP PYTHIAS. Edward Crossman, Chas. Mitchell, John H. Chariot. JOBN BANIM LODGE, NO. 83, The first officers were Abraham G. Vosburgh, N. G.; was instituted May 31,1872. Number of members at or- Mor-an K. Chrysler, V. G.; Edward Crossiuan, Sec.; ganizatiou, forty; present number of member eigity. ChaSes Mitchell, Treas.; Henry Miller, P. Sec. The officers for 1878 are M. J. Crapser, Past Chancellor, Officers for 1878 are Jacob Fleahman, N. G.; Robt. Jacob Wronski, Chancellor Commander; E. T. Denei^ar, J. Smith, V. G.; Richard J. Rxce, Sec.; Lewis W. Bach- Yice-Chancellor; H. Moores, Prelate; C. Champ m, man, Treas.; William Horton, W.; Augustus H. Santord, Keeper of Record and Seal; H. T. Waterman, - v C.- William Horton. I. G.; E. H. Roberts, 0.G. ; Wil ter of Finance; L. Geiger, Master of Exchequer; S. G. liam H. Crapser, Alexander Tanner, and Charles Ziesneilz, George, Master at Arms; John Keneyon, Outer Guard. Trustees. The lodge meets at Odd-Fellows' ball. Present number of members, ninety-one. The lodge meets at Odd-Fellows' hall, Warren street, SONS OF THE COVEN.\NT. every Tuesday evening. GAMALIEL LODGE, NO. llC, ALLEN LODGE, NO. 92, was instituted and chartered by the Grand Lodge, Aug. 23, was instituted Aug. 12,1843. The first officer wore M. 1868, the number of original members being twenty-fiv'e. B. Chariot, N. G.; M. L. Pultz, V. G.; Jas. Batcheilor, The first officemwere M. Greentbal, President; N. Sec.- A. Heermance, Treas. Present officei-s: Dosenheim, Vice-President; Jacob Wronski, Sec 1 N. G.; H. L. McArthur, V. G.; Charles Cham- Harris, Financial See.; S. M. Swarta, Treas.; W.lham pS^ec.; H. Payne, Treas. Boston, Mentor; M. Peyser, Assistant Mentor ; J. Fne.- lander. Warden ; M. Simon, Guardian ; S. Kntzman, M. UNION ENCAMPMENT Sylvester, A. Israel, Trustees. was instituted at Hudson, July IB, 1844. first officers The lodge has at present a membership of fifty, and a were James Batcheilor, C. P.; M. L. Pultz, H. P.; S. A. fund of nearly SIOOO. Its cardinal principles are benev Coffin, S. W.; William R. Steele, Scribe; H. Doty, Treas.; olence, brotherly love, harmony, and the rendering of aid a Dixon J. w. Present officers: J. W. Quick, C. P.; and support to the sick, needy, and aged of the order. At H. p.; Jacob VVatera,a„, W S. the decease of a member, the widow and children receive Taylor, Scribe; Tliomas P. Nash, Treas.; W. D. Holsap- the sum of $1000, which is collected by a per capita tux ple, J-W. upon the members in the district. The order, of which this LINDENWALD LODGE, NO. 44^, is a subordinate lodge, extends through the United States, and has a membership of over twenty-five thousand. was instituted Nov. 19, 1875, at Hudson, with twenty- The present officers of Gamaliel Lodge are M. Greentbal, eiMit charter members, as follows: Edmond Chas. Getty President; M. Sylvester, Vice-Prcsident; Jacob Wronski, (P. G.\ Henry W. Race, Depew C. Wildey (P. G.), Geo. Sec.; M. Wolke, Financial See.; J- Kritzman, Treas. C Byrne Jr.(P. G.), Martin Rowe, Alexander R. Benson rp. G.) Charles F. Dernell, William L. Shortman, Muiard miscellaneous SOCIETIES. C. Shaver, Jacob Watermuu (P. G.), William E. Hallen- AmoD" the earliest of the many societies of Hudson beck Edward A. Osborno, John B. Longley (P. G.), Ira was the Society of Mechanics of the city of Hudson and Rider, Hiram Best (P. G.), Milo P. Moore, George G. town of Ciaverack, which was formed m the spring ot tinier (P G.), Norman S. Roe, Jay D. Ten Broeck, Fred 1791. We are unable either to state the objects ot the erick Hebener, Dedrick Van Hoesen, William Park, George society or to give the names of its first officers. B Sweet, William Rowe, Andrew H. Getty, Richard M. Remington, Jr., John Elting, Christopher M. Mellen. the HUDSON MECHANICAL SOCIETY Officers when instituted: Alexander R. Benson, N. G., was incorporated by act of L^islature, passed March 21, George C. Byrne, Jr., V. G.; Depew C. Wildey, Sec.; 1806 ; the corporators being Jonathan Ames, Aaron Char- Norman S. Roe, Treas. lot Abiel Cheney, Daniel Clark, Jared Coffin, Paul Dakm, Present number'of members, eighty-seven place ot Isaac Hathuwav, Nicholas Hathaway, Charles Holt Prosper meetimi, No. 225 Warren street. Hosmer, John Keeney, James Nixon, Jr., Laban Paddock, The^officers for 1873 are George P. McArthur, N. G.; Nathaniel Porter. William Rogers, Nathan Sears, S^dvanus Charles Van Albert, V. G.; Hiram Simons, Sec.; Seely, Ashbel Stoddard, Robert Taylor, John C. Ten C. Falk, Treas.; Alexander R. Benson, R. S. N. G., Broeck, Cornelius Tobey, Samuel Wigton, and M dlmm Robert R. Dormandy, L. S. N. G.; Richard Roche, Wigton," mechanics of the city of Hudson, in the county Warden; Valentine Raab, Conductor; Casimer^H. Guer- of Columbia." tin R. S. S.; Dedrick Van Hoesen, L. S. S.; Jacob The first officers of the society were Prosper Hosmer, Waterman, 0. G.; M:irtin Egaii, I. G.; Theodore Morns, HISTORY OF COLUMBIA. COUNTY, NEW YORK. Snperrison. Town Clerks. 1808-15. Joshua Wildley. 1818-40. Barent I. Goes, Jr. 1809 Abraham Van Vleck. Benjamin Hilton. 1810-13. Andries Witbeek. 1810 " " " 1821. Medad Butler. 3811 " •' " John L. Van Alen, Jr. Cornelius Watson. 1823-25. Isaac McCagg. 1812 " " " John L. Von Alen, Jr. 182f>-29. John J. Van Buren. 1813 " " " Derick Gardenier. 1830-36. Horace Bidwell. 1814 ...... Heikrj L. Van Djok. John L. Van Alen. Adnm Van Alen. 1816 " " « 1835-36. James Sutberland. 181G " " « 1813-27-29. Jesse Merwin. 1837. Ansell Canoll. 1817 M u . u 1813-27. John L. Van Alen, Jr 1840. John Trimper. 1818 " " « Barent Van Buren. 1841—43. Francis W. Bradley. 1819. « « « 1820 " " William Dickie. 1844-48. Alanson Albcrtson. 1821 JaliD P. Beckmnn.' Stephen Wendover. 1845—49. John Trimper. 1822 « " 1815-18-21-27. Lucas Goes. 1872. Peter Springstien. 1823.. « « Samuel 1815. Robert Patterson. 1873. John C. Sweet. 1824 « " n 1825 " •" Andrew Van Dyck. 1815-18-21. Adam Van Alen. Henry P. Van Hoesen. 1826 « " Samuel 1815. Laurence Van Buren. . 1874. Jacob Cook. 1827 " " John A. Staats. 1875.'John Busby. 1828 Peter B. Boin. David Van Sebaack. 1829 " J. I. Pruyn. 1815-27. Ebencser Kingman. 1876. Henry P. Van Hoesen. 1830 " *! Barent Hoes. 1815. Jonathan Howland. 1877. John C. Sweet. 183! Lacas Hoes. « « Elisba Gridlcy. 1878. Jacob Cook. 1832 " « Henry Flaglcr. 1818. Poter I. Vosburgb. 1833 " « James Sutherland, Jr. 1834 " " « « ti 1835 u ii Augustas Whiting. It is claimed that the town of Kinderhopk has produced 1836., " « it it 1837 Lanrenee Van Bnren. John Trimper. more eminent public men than any , other town in the 1838 " « country. The appended list gives the names of its citizens 3839 " « 1840, « John H. Coming. who have attained prominent national, State, and county 1841 John Vanderpoel. Leonard B. Flagolar. positions: , • . , 1842 " « 1843 Peter I. Hoes. Peter Huyck. The offices of president of the United States, vice-presi 1844 ...Lucas Hoes.' 1845 Laurence Van Bnren. dent, United States senator, secretary of state, minister to 1846... " • " , J. W. Stickles. England, governor of New York, attorney-general of New 1847 - Henry M. Kivcr.. « «< 1848 Henry Hoysradt. John R. Beale. York, member of constitutional convention, and surrogate 1849 Benajob Conant. Jaoub P. Miller. and regent of the University, were all held by Martin Van 1830 Laurence Van Buren. John W. Stickler. 1851 " " a 41 tt . Buren.. 1852 Aaron Huyck. Bdwin Hoes. 1853 Laurence Van Buren. <( II MemleiB of Congress from this town have been Peter 1854 Benajab Conant. Howland Van Slyck. Silvester, John P. Van Ness, Aaron Vanderpoel, Charles 1856 " • " , Edwin Hoes. 1856.. Henry M. Niver.' George Hoxsie. L. Beale. . . - - • 1857 Henry Snyder. James Miller.' . Of State Senatoi-s, Kinderhook has furnished Peter 1858. Abram I. Van Alen. W. 1. Mcrwin. 1859 James C. Vosburgb. John A. Van Bramer.' Silvester, Martin Van Buren, John P. Beekman, Wm. H. 1860 " " • Geo. W. Hoxsie,. Tobey. ' 1861 Henry Dennis. Peter H. Niver. 1862..., . - " " . « II II ' . . Members of the Assembly.—Peter Silvester, Dirck Gar- 1863..... Allen Jacobio. A. V. D. Whitbeck. . 1864 James Miller. « II ' ' , denier, James Brebner, Peter ,1. Vosburgb, James I. Van 1865 .'. " "- • ■ . Alen,James Vanderpoel, John L. Van Alen, Jr., Peter Van . 1866..... 'Wm. J. Pencyer. . . Walter Miller. 1867 John A. Van Bramer. II ■ II - Vleck, Barent Van Buren, Aaron Vanderpoel, Julius Wil- 1868....!.,...... Charles W. Trimper. ■ i< '11 ' 1869 " A. De Meyer. coxson, John S. Vosburgb, Wm. H. Tobey^ Lucas Hoes, 1870 ; " « • II II George Van Santwood, Adam A. Hoysradt, Samuel W. 1871 « • Wilson Miller. 1872 Ransom Gardenier. George Rrynolds. Carpenter, Alonzo H. Farrar. 1873 John Snyder. - W. S. Hallenbeck. Delegate to adopt United States Constitution.—rPeter 1874..;. !...Calvin Ackley. 1875 Charles W. Trimper. Michael W. Lant. Van Ness. 1876 " 1877 Member of the Council of Appointment.—Peter Van 1878 Ness. . • . Presidential Electors.—Lucas Hoea, Laurence Van Bu JUSTICES OP THE PEACE APPOINTED BY THE ren, Charles L. Beale, David Van Schaack; GOVERNOR. Regent of the University.—Peter Silvester. - • - 1786-89-92. Peter Van Ness. 3795-98. Derick Gardenier. 1786-89-92-93. Peter Silvester. 1795. Eldam Van Ness. COUNTY. 1786-89-92. Isaac Goes. Lawrence Van Dyck. 1786-89-92—98. Jacobus Von 1798. Isaac VanderpoeL First Judges.—Peter Van Ness, Julius Wilcoxson. Alen. 1801. John Goes. Judges.—Peter Silvester, Peter Van Nera, William P. 1786. Coraellns Van Schaack. 1801—4. James I. Van Alen. Van Ness, David Ludlow, Lawrence M. Goes, Richard 1. 1769. Harmon Van Buren. 1801. Medad Butler. 1789-92-95-98. Isaac P. Van 1801—4. WilbetmuB Van Bergen. Goes, James Vanderpoel, Julius Wilcoxson.- Valkenburgh. 1801. Cornelius Vui Alen. Justices of Sessions.—John C. Sweet, Wm. Kip, Heniy 1792-95-98. Abraham Van Als- .^1804. William Dickie. M. Niver, Jr., William Kip, John C. Sweet tyne. John A. Van Buren. Surrogates.—Wm. W. Van Ness, James I. Van Alen, 1795. Evert Vosburgb. Lawrence M. Goes. .James Brebner. 1808. Richard I. Goes. James Vanderpoel, Wm. H. Tobey. > Francis Silvester. Volkert Wilbeck. District Attorneys.—Julius Wilcoxson, Francis Silvester, Lucas Van Alen. John Van Ness. Gershom Bulkley. 25G HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. Blatner, and others. luan^' of whom have descendants occu Su)>crvi8ore. Tuvrn Clerks. 1839 Charles Esselstvnc. Henry Shear. pying the land they then lived on. Of the foregoing, Peter 1840 " Jacob Baringer. Benham was a physician of large practice at Oak Hill and 184 1 Henry Punspaugh. Henry Shear. 1842 Peter Van Pcusen. the surrounding country. He always visited his patients 184.-! " " Jacob Baringer. on foot, and having once been induced to ride, declared it 1844 Henry A. Du Bois. Robert Humphrey. 1845 Thomas Best. Jacob Baringer. the most fearful experience be ever had in his life. Colonel 1846 Ellas Lasher. 1847 John II. Smith. John McKinstry was a Revolutionary veteran, and was a 1848 Thotniis Best. Henry Shear. captain at the battle of the Cedars, as has been mentioned. 1849 " " 18.50 John Pierce. He was a very brave man and highly respected. John Best 1851 Wm. H. Snyder. Jacob Horton. was also a captain in the American army, and had settled in 1852 •• " Ira Williams. 1863 Jiusob L. Potts. Milo C. jMarshatl. Livingston in 1760. Samuel S. Myers, an early-settler, was 1854 Robert Wasliburn. 1855 Walter Shutts. Ira Williams. one of the first mail-csirriers; and Allen Myers served in 1860 Peter I. Biiehinnn. ■ Austin Wnsbburne. the War of 1812. Conrad Patrie was a soldier of the Rev 1867 David Miller. Nathan Sngendorj'ii. 1858 Walter Shutts. Lewir Potts. olution, and was one of a number of that name who were 1859 Samuel Ten Bnicck. Jacob Horton. very early settlers. At a later period the principal inhab ISOO German Fingar. Edwin Bnchmnn. 1861 John Whitlieck. itants of the town are shown in the list of road districts, 1802 Walter Sheldon. 186.3 Jacob H. Proper. Peter F. Potts. given on another page. In 1875 the population of the IS04 Reuben Van De Bogart Philip Smith. town was 19C0. 1865 Rensselacr Proper. John II. Putnis. 1866 " " 1867 Wilson Potts. Samuel Shutts. CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 1868 Jacob H. Proper. Walter Stickle. 1869 In common with many other towns of the county, Liv 1870 " Henry Smith. 1871.... " " Waller Stickle. ingston has suffered the loss of its early records. The first 1872 John Whitbcck. Benedict A. Wicks. account of the town-meetings begins with 1803, thirty-one 1873 Rensselacr Proper. Mark Molhusen. 1874 Stephen 0. Potts. .Tacob H. Decker. years after its organization as a district. The following list 1875 Wilson Potts. Mark Mcthusen. of civil oflBcers embraces the names of those who were ?87C Jacob U. Proper. ■Walter Stickle. 1877 Samuel Shutts. Kelson Ilallenbeck. elected after the organization of the county : 1878 Henry Younghouse. Supervisors. Town Clorks. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 178" John Livingston. 178S tViHiiim Rockefeller. Appointed. 1789 John Livingston. 1811. Chriftianr Patrie. 1790 John A. Fonda. 1786. Peter R. Livingston. 1791 llenrv Livingston. Samuel Ten Brocck. Peter Bcemer. 1792 •'* 1789. Peter Bishop. Thomas Fairbanks. 1793 Philip Li Hoffman. John A. Fonda. 1815. Peter Benham. 1794 " " Leonard Ten Brocck. 1795 John A. Fonda. Jacob Rnssman. 1790 " " 1792. Peter R. Livingston. Charles Robinson. 1797 PelerBishop. John A. Fonda. James S. Livingston. 1798 " " Peter Bishop. Christian Patrie. 1799 Henry Livingston. 1800 " Jacob Rossinan. 1818. Peter Benham. 1801. Moncricf Livingston. 1795-98. Peter Bishop. Christian Patrie. 1802 llenry Livingston. Jacob C. Pecker. Philip L. Hoffman. James S. Livingston. 1803 Robert T. Livingston. James S. Livingston. 1804 James S. Livingston. Jas. S. Livingslon, Jr. Jacob C. Decker. 1805 " " John Van Dcusen. John Shaver. 180C " " " " John A. Fonda. Samuel B. Platnor. 1807 " " " John Wigrain. 1821 . Peter II. Beat. 1808 " " " " 1809 Henry Livingston. " " Thomas Trafford. Eleasor Smith. ISIO " " •' Josiah Lawrence. Samuel T. B. Plainer. 181 1 - " " " " 1801. Henry Hoffman. Charles Robinson. 181 2 John Van Dcusen. John McClellan. John Wigram. Francis Burroughs. 1813 " " " 1S14 " " •' " Philip L. Hoffman. Walter Merrifield. 181 5 " " Thomas Trafford. 1827 Robert H. Morris. 1816 " " Christinn Patrie. 1804-8. Walter T. Livingslon. Henry Mink. isis!!!!!!."!!!!!!!!!!"!! " " " " Samuel Myers. Christian Patrie. 1819 " " Charles Robinson. Leonard Ten Brocck. Charles Robinson. 1S20 " " " " Killian Miller. 1828 Henry Mink. 1821 " " Jacob Baringer. 1811. Jeremiah H. Strong. 1829 . Peter R. Livingston. 1822 " 1823 " " Eillinn Miller. 1824 " Elected. /■ 1825 " " " " 1830. Jacob Baringer. 1839. Joseph Burroughs. 1826 'Walter Paticrson. " " 1840. James Richmond. 1827 Christian Patrie. " " 1831. Charles Robinson. 1828 " " 1832. Zncb. P. Foland. Brockbolst II. Livingston. 1829 Killian Miller. Jacob Baringer. Eli Persons. 1841. Charles Essclstyne. 1830 John McKinstry. Charles Esselslync. 1833. Peter R. Livingston. Wm. W. Weismer. 183 1 " " Henry Baker. 1832 " " ". " 1834. Moncricf Livingston. 1842. Jacob Baringer. 1833 Henry A. Du Bois. James S. Livingston. Jacob Baringer. 1843. Wm. S. Vosburgh. 1834 " " Henry linker. 1835. Joseph Burroughs. 1844. Francis Burroughs. 183.5 " " Herman Best. 1836. Moncricf Livingston. 1845. Wm. I. Mogec. 1836 Henry Baker. Jacob Baringer. 18.37 " " " " 1837. John S. Fulton. 1646. Jacob Baringer. 183.'< Peter R. Livingston, Henry M. Whitbcck. 1833. Jacob W. Baringer. 1847. Wm. M. Jones. HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 283 ter Stijder, Jacob P. Feller, John H. Hover, Grilbert Rocke place. Alexander Coon was the first landlord, and kept a feller, Jacob H. Moore, Herman Gardner, and George W. famous house. Wm. Kurd, Abram Potts, Joseph Sliirtts, Feller. Horatio Plank, and Reuben Van De Bogarc have since Besides those already named, H. L. Rockefeller, David kept this house, the latter since 1871. A Masonic hull is Moore, Josiah Kniskern, and Peter P. Fraleigh have been in one of the upper stories of the hotel. presidents of the company, and W. L. Fraleigh secretary: - lu 1800, Samuel Tea Broeck, M. Livingstou, and Wm. • Wilson were excise commissioners of the town, and granted CLERMONT. licenses to keep public-houses to George J. Best, Ira Gale, Jacob Salspaugh, Bernard Creamer, Maria Whitman, John On the post-road, twelve miles south from Hudson, and Cooper, John Moore, and Philip D. Rockefeller, living in sis east from Gerrauntown, is the only village in the town. different parts of Clermont. Near the last stand—a farm It is located on a rich and beautiful tract of land, and was house now occupied by Allen Coon—J. W. Coon opened formerly a place' of greater importance than at present, a store and tavern in 1834, which has been carried on since the railroads having diverted the trade it enjoyed to other 1859 by W. L. Fraleigh. points. It now contains three stores, an Episcopal church, The Clermont post-office is one of the three first estab four or five good mechanic shops, a large hotel, and has lished in the county,—July 31, 1792,—and had Win. Wil about two hundred inhabitants. Before the Revolution, son for its first postmaster. He was succeeded, in 1820, by Dcrick Jansen lived at this place, near the residence of Wm. H. Wilson, who held the appointment until 1852. Wm. H. Wilson, and kept a store in one of the two houses Since' then tlie postmasters have been Levi Le Roy, Horatio then standing there. ' Jansen remained in the place, but be Plank, Joseph Shirtta, and Martin Williams since 1862. came much reduced in bis circumstances. A Major Grier The office has a daily mail from Hudson. and Patrick Collins were afterwards engaged in trade in the It is said that a Dr. Thompson was the first physician in same locality. About 1800, Dr. Wm. Wilson erected the town, living here at an early day. In 1784, Dr. Wm. store-house at present in use in thb part of the village, in Wilson located here permanently, and remained in active which Elisha Miner opened a store. Having gone to New practice many years. He died in 1328. Before 1790, Dr. York to purchase goods he contracted the yellow fever, from Thomas Broadhead was also a resident physician, and was which he died. Cyrus Capron succeeded a.s a merchant, one of the ablest practitioners in the county. A short and was followed by Bnnesteol & Broadhead, A. Wacker- time before his d^th, in 1830, his son, John, also a very liagen, and later by Levi Lo Roy,' who remained about able physician, was associated with Iiim, and shortly after twenty years. George D. Poland is at present here in trade. Dr. Peter Van Buren followed in this praetiee, he having In the central part of the village Edward P. Livingston, at been a son-in-law of Dr. Broadhead. A Dr. Robert Clough, that time the proprietor of Clermont, erected a store-house, in practice at Clermont, met with an accidental death from which has bad numerous occupants. For the past twenty- the use of poison. Dr. Philip H. Knickerbocker is well two years Martin Williams has here been in trade. The remembered as a worthy physician, as well as his successor. co-operative store, on the opposite comer, was opened in the Dr. Thomas Broadhead, a grandson of old Dr. Thomas spring of 1878. • Broadhead. For many years Dr. Rensselaer Plainer has On the Wilson comer was an old-time inn, built in the ably represented the profession in Clermont. long rambling way peculiar to the taverns of that day,— As an attorney, Cornelius P. Van Ness was hero a short before the Revolution,—in which Ira Gale was a keeper time, at a later period. Wesley R. after 1808. The house stood until afler 1825 ; but its use Gallup was the last resident lawyer in the village, and Eras- fulness had been superseded by another tavern, erected tus Coon in the eastern part of the town, the law having at farther down the street, by Cyrus Capron, who kept a store present no representative in Clermont. in part of the building. Other landlords were Peter and Eiias Smith, Charles King, and Wm. McGill. The old THE MILITART LIST, house was removed in 1852, and the present spacious hotel embracing the names of those who took part in the late civil erected by Captain Eliakim Littell, a native of the south, war in defense of the Union, may be found at the close of who was accustomed to spend several months a year in this the town histories. 320 HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. SODS of the latter, John W. and Hezekiah, reside at New The first annual meeting of the district was held at tlie Concord. house of Grixson Frisbie, May 5, 1772, and was oj^nized Ebenezer Cady was in the same ncighborliood as early by choosing Daniel Buck, moderator, and Martin Bebee. as 1760. Of his family there were David, Eiias, Elijah, clerk for the district. The election then proceeded, with Ebenezer, and Eleazer, whose descendants yet live in town. the following effect: Supervisor, Wm. B. Whiting; Col West of these was John Bebee, whose sons were Daniel, lector, Daniel Buck ; Constables, William Russell, and John. The latter became a weaver, and made Jarvis, and Philip Frisbie; Poormasters, Daniel Loveiov. some remarkably fine goods for those times. first, and Jarvis Mudge, second; Fence-viewers, Aaron South of Red Rock, in what is now Austerlitz, David Kellogg, first, and Eleazer Phinney, second; Poundmas- Barret purchased a large tract of land about 1765, on ters, Ebenezer Cady, first, and Elijah Gifford, second- which his sons John, David, Daniel, Jeremiah, Elijah, and Tithing-Men,*'Jarvis Mudge and Elnathan Griffith, for Ezra settled. Two sons of the latter, Egbert S. and Anson New Lebanon; Samuel Wheeler and Joseph Wood, for E., are well-known citizens of Chatham. A little north of New Britain ; David Wright, Jr., and William Warner, Red Rock was the home of the Ford family, and the man for New Canaan; John Bebee and Ebenezer Cadv. for sion erected there at an early day is yet standing. Jona New Concord ; Nathaniel Culver, for Philipstown ; John than Ford was a lieutenant in the American army in the Blair, for the southeast of King's district. Revolution; Joseph G. Ford was born in Canaan in 1787, and became a very distinguished surveyor. The family is "Voted, That Ebeoezer Cady's yard be tbe pound for the south one of the oldest and most respected in town. end of the district, and Elijah Gifford'g for the north end of the district. Smith Park settled here in 1780, coming from Sharon, "Voted, That the next meeting be held at the house of Grixson Cone. A son of his served three years in the Continental Frisbie." army. Other early district and town-meetings were held at the Simeon Doty, a descendant of the Pilgrims, removed to houses of Solomon Demon and Jonathan Warner. Canaan in 1760, taking up the place now owned by A. The following have been the principal town officers from Freehan, where he died in AprU, 1807. He was one of 1773 to the present time: the first deacons of the New Concord church. His sons were John, Joseph, Samuel (who was a Revolutionary sol Siii)orvisors. Town Clerks. dier, U^keu prisoner by the British, and nearly starved), B. Whiting. Abraham Holmes. and Simeon. A grandson, D. S. Doty, lives at New Con ^'74 Martin Bi-bee. 1775 " " cord, and other descendants of the old Doty family are in ^776 Philip Frisbie. Barrett Dyer. the county. ^777 Matbew Adsate. 1778 « « Esra Murray. At what afterwards became Canaan Post-Office settled 1779, " " 1780 " " the Frisbies. Philip Frisbie erected a house at that point, ^781 Martin Bebee. 1782 : « " which yet remains. His sons were Gideon, Samuel, and ^783 ....Philip Frisbie. I^swell B. Members of the family have lived here ever ^784 William Powers. 1788 " " since the first settlement of the town. 178C " « Other early settlers were the Wilcox 1787 Mathew Adgate. Jonathan Warner. 1788 '< " family, the Baldwins,and many others wlio.se names appear 1789 William Powers. in the civil lists, church histories, and other records given 1790 «< » J791 Jonathan Warner. in this work. In the last two decades the population of 1792 Elisha Gilbert. Elihu Phinney. ^793. Patrick Hamilton. the town has changed materially, many of the old families 1794 " .. removing. In 1875 the total population was 1700,—males, 1795 Aaron Kellogg. 82-1; females, 876; native, 1492; foreign, 208. 1790 Elihu Gilbert. Kathnn Noyes. ^797 Benjamin Tobey. Jason Warner. In the northeastern part of the town are several Shaker ^798 Eleazer Grant. 1799 " families connected witlj thesociety at Mount Lebanon. They William Aylesworth. Jonathan Warner. number about seventy-five persons. ^802 John Whiting. 1803 «' «« ^ 1804 " " CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 1805 i,' " " The nortbeastern part of the county formerly constituted '806 John King. Elias Warner. Kings district, and was formed "by virtue of an Act 1807 " " « (< 1808 " >' Reuben SwifL made and passed by his Excellency the Governor, the '809 Jason Warner. 1810 .. .< Kathan Whiling. Council, and the General Assembly of the Province of New '811 Daniel Warner. John Hamilton. 1812 « " York, bearing date March 24, 1772, and entitled an 'Act 1813 " " to Divide the Counties of Albany and Tryon into Dis- '814 Peter Van VIeek. Jason Warner. '815 Daniel Warner. tricts.'" As originally erected, King's district embraced 1816 " « all of the present towns of Canaan, New Lebanon, the 1817 " « John Hamilton. '818 Eiam Tilden. Thaddeus Elmnre. east three-fourths of Chatham, and Austerlitz in part. '819 Peter Van Ylcck. The inhabitants were principally natives of New England, John Hamilton. and were noted for their public spirit and the method which • Those officers were charged with a general oversight of the con characterized their civil affairs. duct of tbe inhabitants, in a manner similar to the committees of safety which were afterwards appointed. / HISTOKY.OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. Curtis H. Porter. 1SG7. Jacob I. Miller. Martin Harder, Jonatlian Head, Benj. Vredenburgh, "V\ il- Cornelius Moul. George A. Kissclburgh. Ham Winu, Matthew Waltermire, George Follout, Thomas Henry I). Kittle. 1868. George S. Snyder. Van AistvDC, Jehoiakim A'an Hagen, Jeremiah Mandeville, Hiram Allen. ]Rf>9. Joseph P. Uogeboom. Jacob M. Ilivenbnrgh. 1870. Geo. A. Kisselburgh. Jacob Loop, Henry J. Mesick, Matthias Emeriek, Henry George A. Kippleburgh. 1871. Jacob I. Miller. Link, J. J. Mesick, William P. Smith, Henry Combs, Cornclins Mual. 1872. Katban C. Hogcboom. William Day, Wilhelmus Links, Johannes Moul, Jehoiakim Peter J. Mesick. 1873. Henry I). Kittle. Schinkle, James May, James Crandell, Samuel Coleman, George S. Snyder. 1S74. Cornelius Moul. John Frost, James Bullis, John Son, John L. Holsapple, II. D. Kittle. 1875. George S. Snyder. Jacob M. Rivcnburgb. 1876. IVesley B. Wager. John Shufelt, Henry R. Van Rensselaer, Ezekiel Thomas, Peter H. Storm. 1877. Geo. R. W. Link. Edward K. Pogsley. Joseph P. Hogcboom. Katban C. Ilogoboom. The highways of Ghent are at present in an admirable 1878. George A. Kisselburgh. condition. Several important thoroughfares traverse the From the town books the following interesting excerpts town, the principal ones being the old "post-road, in the have heen taken: western part, and the Union turnpike, from the southwast 1818.—S600 was voted for the support of the poor, and to the northeast. The Berkshire railroad (now the Hud larger amounts thereafter. son and Boston) was constructed through the town in 1837- 1820.—"If any person shall suffer any Canada thistles 38, and the New York and Harlem railroad at a more recent to go to seed on his land or premises, he shall subject him date. They enter the town from the sooth, several miles self to a penalty of ten dollars." apart, and converge until they meet at the village of Ghent, The assessment-roll this year shows the names of several from whence the lines are parallel to Chatham village. The hundred tax-payers. Below are the names of those pos fonner road has stations at Pulver's, in the southern part, sessing .$2000 or more of real and personal property: and at Ghent, which is also a station on the Harlem road. Peter Andrews, Nathan Collins, Samuel Colemao, Philip These railways have done much to promote the prosperity r • Benspaugh, Richard Deyse, Philip Diedrlch, Martin Gar of the town; ner, William Groat, Cornelius Goes, Henry Groat, Palmer THE CEMETERIES Holmes, widow Henry Holsapple, John J. Holsapple, Mar of Gheiit, with one exception, are controlled by church tin H. Hoffman, John E. Hogebooro, Tobias L. Hoge- societies and private individuals. One of the finest of boom, Stephen J. Hogeboora, Bartholomew Hogcboom, these is connected with the West Ghent Reformed church. widow Jacob Harder, the Emeriek heirs, Adam J. Her- It embraces several acres, carefully kept, and contains some Hatt, Harder & Duel, Nicholas. William, and Michael Har handsome monuments. der, Edward Hunting, John Jaeobi, John J. Kittle, John Henry Kittle, William Link, Wilhelmus Link, Legget & THE GHENT UNION CEMETERY,- Staats, John Lane, William Link, Jr., John Leggett, Jacob in the eastern part of the town, below old Ghent village, Moul, John Moul, John Macy, Anthony Melius & Son, contains about five acres of ground tastefully arranged, Thomas H. Mesick, Jacob J. Miller, Jacob New, Wilhcl- and nesitly inclosed. It is on the opposite side of the nins .Ostrander, Jeremiah Pulver, Philip W. Pulver, Ed street from the old church cemetery, and is under the con ward B. Pugsley, Daniel "Pultz, Peter Philip, Henry trol of a rural cemetery association, formed Oct. 11, 1SC5. Poucher, George Risdorpb, Peter Rody, Henry Schinkle, The firet trustees were A. C: Garner, Abram Vosburgh, Philip P. Shufelt, widow Martin Stupplebeem, David Geo. A. ClunijP. M. New, Wm. E. Snyder, and Jacob H. Southard, Jacob H. Snyder, Henry Snyder, Jolm H. Sny Stupplebeem. Tlie present officers are: President, Abram der, William H. Snyder, Henry Shufelt, Jonah Schinkle Vosburgh ; Secretary, P. W.Mull ; and Treasurer, A. .M. & Son, Wm. P. Smith, Jacob Stupplebeem, Leonard Smith, Tracy. ■ ' George T. Snyder, Jacob and John Siminons, Sageudorph, A short distance northeast from the village of Ghent, on the Heermance place, George Tator, John G. Talor, arc Jonathan Tniver, Jacob Tipple, Oliver Teal, James Utter, - THE COUNTY POOR FARM Thomas Yan Alstyue, John L. Vosburgh, M. L. Vosburgh, and buildings connected therewith. They were located Benjamin Vredenburgh, Barent Van Buren, Sally Water- here on account of the central position of the place. Tlie meyer,. David Wager, Jacob Wager, William Waggoner, farm comprises two hundred acres of land, in a high state John Whitbeck, Jacob Waltermire, and W. Yager. of cultivation, wliose products afford considerable revenue. This year, 1820, William Link manumitted his slave The present main building, which is a substantial brick woman Diannah, and the next year Barent Van Buren structure, was erected in 1857, at a cost of $22,000. The freed his negro man Cato, who was under forty years of lunatic asylum, on the same farm, was completed io 1877, age, and able to provide for himself. In the years following and Has at present thirty-five inmate. The poor-house other citizens endowed their servants with liberty. Most has two hundred and thirty-seven inmates. These institu of these negroes remained in town, and many of their tions are noticed at greater length in the general history of descendants may yet be found withiu its bounds. the county. r THE PUBLIC HIGHWAYS THE GHENT MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY received the attention of the town soon after the first meet was organized Feb. 5, 1859, for a term of thirty years. ing, and the following thirty-two overseers were appointed: The directors chosen were David Crapscr, Edward B- HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 337 Sluii pi Wendel Hum, David Sager, Paulus Moon, Anthony Hogeboom, Edward Holmes, Philip Dunspaugh, Teunis Molius, Slichael and Cornelius Muller, William Holsapple, Snyder, and John Holsapple. Barent and Jacob Wager, Latbam._LaiaDkear. and others, The congregation was now more regularly supplied with as Wood, Cerder, Jackson, Conner, Whoms, and McKarty, preaching, and in 1819 ninety-six persons united in a and wives, with patronymics of Herder, Maul, Sheffer, petition to the classis of Rensselaer, asking for the forma Viiizon, Eggelston, Stahl, Dittmore, and Scott. In 1782, tion of a separata church. The prayer being granted, a Dominie Gebhard began stated services once in two months, special meeting was held to perfect the organization and and during their continuance the church enjoyed a fair install a consistory. measure of growth. Forty persons were added to the This first consistory of the Reformed Dutch church at membership in the ensuing seven years, twenty-eight of Ghent were William P. Link and Teuois G. Snyder, elders; whom were on confession of their faith. Exactly when John Jacobie, Jr., and Geoige A. Shufelt, deacons. In and why the arrangement with Dominie Gebhard was ter 1820, in addition to the before-mentioned persons, the fol minated I am unable to state. It would seem to have been lowing were ordained elders and deacon.s, viz.: Jacob about 1790. Stupplebeem and John H. Ryfenbergh, elders; Adam Gaul In looking over the names of the early church membera, and Zechariah Link, deacons. And June 10 of that year of names that yet continue among us, we find Hogebooms, these eight persons formed themselves and their successors Millers, Herders, Kuns, Gerners, Zufelds, Schermerhorns, into a body corporate, under the statute providing "for the Van Dusens, Diedricks, Sharps, Shaffers, and Lants. Sub- incorporation of religious societies." The corporate name sequent to 1790, while services were not perhaps as regular, adopted was the" Consistory of Christ's Church in the town and with no stated supply, yet they were continued with of Ghent." It may be well to remark that this corporate tolerable frequency up to 1801, and occasionally on to 1816. title was subsequently (April 29, 1824) changed to "The The record of baptisms contains the names of over three Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Ghent," the certifi hundred children baptized. The last entries are John, cation of which, as filed in the county clerk's office, bears Tobias, and Franklin, sons of Tobias L. and Eliza Hoge- the names of P. S. Wynkoop, minister; Conrad Gaul, boom, and Jacob, son of James W. and Rebecca Peterson, Jacob C. Miller, Barent Van Buren, elders; Wilh's Os —the first in 1809; of the latter two, one in 1816 and the trander, William Kisselbui^h, Tunis Isbister, John Harder, other in 1818. In looking over this list, amoug many deacons. This is yet the corporate name of the church. names now unknown in our community beyond those already Thus, as far as ecclesiastical and civil law could go, the iiieniioned, the following have representatives yet abiding church was completely organized. Its only further lack among us: Stopelbeen, Jones, Grod, Hoffman, Rifenberger, was a constituency that would enable it to support the or Kossman, Moet, Gaul, Martin, Decker, Van Valkenburgh, dinances of the gospel. This could only be secured through Ostrander, Mesick, DeGraff, Pulver, Deo, Hess, Bauman, the consent of the churches of Kinderhook and Claverack; Van Dassel, Gardinier, Hoes, Van Ness, Leggett, and for, of the ninety-six persons who signed the petition to Travcr. classis, nearly all were membere of either the one parent In 1801 the church, having stood for over a quarter of church or the other, and the heads of families were pledged a century, was in need of repairs, and the membership and to the support of the pastors of those churches. So long congregation were yet small and weak. It was little more as the new organization were satisfied with what services -Vk.> than a preaching station of Claverack, and offered few in these pastors could render, and were willing to be a mere ducements for persons who could attend at Claverack or out-station of these churches, no opposition arose; but when, Kinderhook to identify themselves with it. The building in order to call a pastor of their own, application was made was rapidly falling into decay, and the congregation felt for the dismissal of those members who resided more con- cither unable or dbinclined to make the needful repairs. veniont to the church of Ghent, and their release from their At this juncture the Hogebooms, on behalf of the church, subscriptions to the pastor's salary, both Claverack and Kin A arranged with the Lutheran congregation, then organizing, derhook refused to grant the application. At length, on -I tlrat if they would put the house in repair they should, by the 23d of September, 1822, the bounds of the new church such process, acquire a half-interest in the building. An were determined, and a call to the pastorate was extended agreement to this effect was drawn up and signed, the re to Rev. Peter S. Wynkoop immediately after. pairs duly made, and thus began a fraternal copartnership, Mr. Wynkoop arrived and began his ministry in Ghent a practical illustration of Christian fellowship, destined to Dec. 10, 1822. He was installed Jan. 9, 1823, Revs. continue not only during the further fifteen years' occupancy Andrew Kittle, Isaiah Y. Johnson, James Romeyn, and of the old edifice, but to be perpetuated in the building of Richard Siuyter participating in the services. Immediately a new one. steps were taken as to the constitution of the membership. This edifice was erected by the two societies in 1816, Those who had been received by verbal recommendation and was consecrated in the spring of 1817. It was an were required to bring certificates, and others presented attractively proportioned frame building, forty-five by fifty- theirs, and still others came forward on confession; and on five feet, with a shapely spire, surmounted by an angel Feb. 14 the revised list of members was made up as fol blowing a trumpet. The cost, including a good bell, was lows (copying the register of the clerk): "5 members -$-l-550. A board of trustees was elected by the Dutch heretofore admitted by certificate; 11 do. by confession; congregation, March 3, 1817, to control its interests in the 60 this day from Kinderhook by certificate; 36 do. from building. This was composed of Jacob Harder, John 0. Claverack; 1 do. from Hyde Park; 1 do. from Hudson; 43 HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. at lioiuc, adding to the advantages of the conimou schools of many estates, his sound judgment and practical knowl a thorough course of sclf-culture, embracing the branches edge eminently qualifying him for such duties. He is a usually taught in academies. He has followed the habits man of more than ordinary inteliectua! capacit}-, strict in of study thus early begun all his life, and has a firm con tegrity and uprightness of character, and is liberal in the viction of the truth of the adage that a man is never too distribution of his means for the promotion of all worthy old to'learn something useful. He is well informed in objects. classical and general literature, and has an accurate knowl In 1827 be was married to Miss Pamelia Jane Tullar, edge of history, especially that relating to his own country. of Egremont, Mass., by whom he had four children, all of .In politics he has always been a Democrat, and has been whom are living. She died in 1870. In 1871 he mar called to fill several important positions of responsibility ried for his second wife Miss Jane Becker, of Hillsdule, and trust in his town and county. Besides holding many and by this marriage ha.s one child, Frank B. ColHu. His of the minor town offices, he was a member of the board eldest son, John F. ColHu, is a farmer, residing with his of supervisors for many years, a member of the Legislature father. Quiney J. Coliin is a clergyman, residing at Santa in 3834, and a representative in the Twenty-ninth Con Clara, Cal. Tije elder daughter, l-'amelia Lorania, mar gress, from 1845 to 1847. ried Rev. John Brayden, who resides in Nashville, Tenn. In local affairs his life has been an active one, being em Frances Amelia married Sylvester Barbour, Esq., an attor- ployed in many cases as an arbitrator and in the settlement ney-at-law, residing in Hartford, Conn. AUSTERLITZ. This town lies on the Ciist border of the county, north There are but two ponds of any considerable size. Tiic of the centre. It is bounded on the north by Chatham largest of these lies near the northeast corner of tlic town, and Canaan, on the east by Canaan and by the town of Al- and, from a tradition that at one spot in it no soundings, ford, Mass., on the south by Hillsdale, and on the west by however deep, have ever found the bottom, is called "No- Ghent. It contains twenty-seven thousand seven hundred Bottom Pond." It lies in the extreme north, bordering and ninety-two acres, about one-quarter of which is unim the Canaan line, at the foot of a rocky eminence that in f- proved lands, and ranks fourth in size among the towns of closes it on the west, and covers about twenty acres. In this county. It is centrally distant a little north of east from most parts it is rather shallow, and sometimes in a drought Hudson about fifteen miles. In population it now ranks it becomes almost entirely dry. It empties its waters as the sixteenth town of the county, having a population of through the Green river. The second pond is formed thirteen hundred and eighty-eight,—a loss of five hundred partly by artificial means. It is on the farm- of W. J. and one in fifteen years, and of fifty-four in the last five Cadman, near Mount Pleasant, in the north centre of the years previous to 1875. town, and covers about ten acres, It has been plentifully The surface is hilly and broken. Along the east side of the stocked with trout until within a few years. It is the town the range of the Taghkanic mountains stretches in a source of "Indian Brook," which runs northwest in'" series of liigh, rounded peaks, and at their foot the beauti Canaan, crosses into Chatham, and then, deflecting souih- ful valley of the Green river winds along. West of this ward, crosses the northwest corner of Austerlitz into Glieiit. valley the surface rises in a series of high, irregular hills, and from that point flows in a northwest course till it enij- again descending a little west of the centre to the valley of ties into Kinderhook crock in Chatham. It is sometime?, Punsit creek. To the westward of this the country is un especially in Ghent and Chatham, called "Kline Kill- dulating. Most of the hills are arable to their summits, This creek, Green river, and Punsit creek are tlic principal but in the north centre of the town they are rocky, barren, water-courses. Green river issues from No-Bottom jKiml. and sterile. The soil is generally composed of a slaty or and flows south across the east end of the town. The val- ; gravelly loam of varying fertility. In some parts traces of Ic}' is noted for its quiet beauty and the manj* picturesque- clay are found. The principal and almost sole occupation scenes through which it passes. Leaving this town, n of the inhabitants is agriculture, the main crops being rye, crosses the northeast comer of Hillsdale, passes into M:is.-:i- oats, corn, potatoes, and buckwheat. Stock-raising and chusetts, in the town of Alford, which it crosses into Greai dairying are carried on to a considerable extent, and con- Barrington and unites with the Housatonic. It was for sidemble hay is shipped. merly noted for the great numbers of trout that thronged The hills are in many parts thickly wooded,—chestnut, its waters. The name was derived from the traoslucout maple, elm, oak, butternut, and birch being the principal green color of the water, and its fame was sung in cliariu- kinds of timber, while pines and hemlocks occasionally ing verse by the poet Bryant, while he was a resident of appear. Great Barrington, in bis younger days. HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 379 Puiistt creek (called "Grist-Mill Brook" ia tlie olden "Istly. Mr. John Williams, Moderator. time) rises in the southwest part of the town, and flows in "2dly. Seth Powell, Proprietors' Clerk, and Sworn to a northerly course nearly across the town. It then turns the faithful Discharge of Said office. to the west, and entering Ghent unites with Indian brook. "3dly. Voted that one hundred acres be laid out to Each . It has two tributaries of some size which flow into it from Setling Lot, and So in Proportion. the east. On each of these streams is a picturesque fall. "'ithly. Voted that Sd. Hundred Acre Lots Be Laid hi The largest one is known as Davenport falls, and is located out to Each original Grantee's Right, and Not to Be Di where the stream crosses the highway, half a mile south- vided. c:ist of Speneertown. On the east line of the town, near "5thly. Voted that Ensign John Doan, James Sexturn, the northeast corner, is Harvey mountain, which rises to Truman Powell, Joel Spencer, and Ephraim Kidder Be the an altitude of about twenty-five hundred feet above tide. Committee for Laying out the Setling Lots. Mercer mountain is a high ridge south of No-Bottom pond. "Bihly. Voted that it shall be Left to the Committee to Fire hill is an elevation in the south part. Lay out the land and Size it in quantity and quality to This town was principally a purchase made by a number the Non-Possessors of the place as they shall see fit. of Massachusetts and Connecticut men from the Massa "7thly. Voted that meetings of Said Propriety shall Be chusetts Bay colony. The western part, however, bounded Called for the future By five or more of the proprietors by a line entering near the northwest corner and crossing applying under their hands to the Clerk, Setting forth the in a southeasterly direction, belonged to the Van Rensselaer Time, place, and ocation of said meeting, the Said Clerk patent. Notifying Said meeting according to Law." SETTLEMENT. The proprietors soon after decided to lay out two high The town was first settled by squatters from the cast, ways through the township, one crossing it from north to who came into this part about 1750. The first effort at a south, and the other running east and west, each highway general settlement was made by a company of settlers who to be eight rods wide. The one running north and south obtained of the Massachusetts government a grant of a tract was laid out as wide as that, and the other road, beginning of land some six miles square, along the Green river. This near the northwest corner, crossed the town diagonally to tract was divided, in 1757, into two divisions, the eastern the line of "Nobletown," about where the Hillsdale line half being called the first division, and the remainder the now runs. The part of this, west of the first road, wa.s but second division. Each proprietor was entitled to one hun four rods wide, while the remainder was eight rods wide. dred acres in each division, the choice of location being Subsequently they were all reduced to four rods each. made by lot. Tliese lots were surveyed from the south These roads \Vere surveyed and laid out Nov. 2, 3, and 5, line, and the remainder, after all had received their one 1757, by Samuel Doty, surveyor, and Ahimaaz Spencer hundred acres in each division, was to be divided equably and Edward Richmond, commissioners of highways. among them. The names of those who had lots surveyed The first officers other than those already mentioned were elected Oct. 19,1758, as follows: "Nehemiah Spencer, and assijmedO to them between 1757 and 1760 were as fol- lows, viz.: Ezekiel Baker, Nathan Beers, Jethro Bonney, Collector; Thomas Skinner, Treasurer; and Seth Powell, Obadiah Brainard, Benjamin Brown, James Cary, Benja a Sesser." Amos Lawrence was subsequently chosen col min Chittenden, Joseph Chittonden, Rev. Jesse Clark, Na lector, Joseph Prindie and Samuel Hutchinson, Jr., clerks, thaniel Culver, Hosea Curtis, Nathaniel Darrow, Ensign and Joseph Prindie surveyor. John Dean, Samuel Doty, Jedediah Graves, Cornelius Within the limits of this grant there was a tract contain Hamblin, Elisha Hatch, J*^ ing one and three-fourths miles belonging to the Indians,— Samuel Hutchinson, Samuel Hutchinson, Jr., probably to the Mohicans, which the proprietors decided Abner Johnson, widow Mary Johnson, Ephraim Kldder, to purchase in the fall of 1760, and appointed Joel Spencer, Stephen Kinne, Amos Lawrence, Joseph Lawrence, Judah John Dean, and lilnirifiir to confer with the Indians M. Lawrence, Peter Lockwood, James Mead, Noadiah and negotiate the purcliase. Moore, Benjamin Palmer, Isaac Palmer, Elijah Powell, About 1765, owing to the conflicting claims of the colo Joseph Powell, Martin Powell, Seth Powell, Truman Pow nies of New York and Massachusetts, both of which claimed ell, Truman Powell, Jr., Peter Powers, Azariah Pratt, jurisdiction over the lands lying between the Connecticut David Pratt, Joseph Prindie, Benjamin Richmond, Edward and the Hudson rivers, trouble arose regarding the posses Richmond, Lemuel Roberts, James Sexton, Micah Skinner, sion of the lands. At meetings held by the proprietors Thomas Skinner, Thomas Skinner, Jr., Abner Spencer, action was taken to defend their title, the proprietors shar Abiinaaz Spencer, Benjamin Spencer, David Spencer, Itba- ing equitably in the incidental expenses. Ensign John Dean mar Spencer, Israel Spencer, James Spencer, Jeremiah was chosen as an agent to represent them, and urge their Spencer, Joel Spencer, John Spencer, Nehemiah Spencer, claims to the land "at New York or elsewhere." The Phineaa Spencer, Simeon Spencer, Joseph Taylor, Ebenezer troubles, however, continued until finally a meeting was Tyler, Ezra Tyler, Zebulon Walbridge, Ebenezer Warner, held, May 27, 1767, and the fullowing votes were passed; Reuben Whitmore, John Williams. " Voted, that a memorial be forthwith sent to Boston by The first meeting of the proprietors was held at" Spen the Committee with Noble town and tockonock, Requesting cers' Town," May 31, 1757. The record of this meeting the protection of the Government of the massaciiusetts reads further, as follows, viz.: Bay. Voted, to join with nobletown in sending a man to "Then past the following Votes, Viz.: see mr. Ingorsal as an atorney." 380 HISTOKY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. In tlie following tnontli William Kellogg, of Nobletown, Grisivold, a young man from New England, and by trade was appointed an agent to represent them at Boston, and a woolen manufacturer. He at once erected a cardiiia'- to carrj-, or send by some other agent, a petition to lay machiue and fulling-mill, and commenced the manufacture before the king of Great Britain, praying for relief. The of fine cloths. He increased his business as opportuiiitv money to pay the expenses was proeured by Ensign John afforded, and became prominent in the manufacture of Dean, who went to Nine Partners, Dutchess Co., to borrow broadcloths, supplying the markets in this and adjoiniui: it. counties almost exclusively, and rapidly accumulated wcaltii. Again, jost before the breaking out of the Revolution, About 1795 he erected a fine and commodious man.sioii, Nathaniel Culver and James Savage were sent to England the work on some of the rooms costing SIOUO each. The to secure a royal grant to the settlers to confirm their titles house is still standing, being now occupied by his urand- to the lands, but, owing to the growing disaffection exist son, Lucien S. Griswold. One of John's sons, Francis ing between the colonies and the royal government, they Griswold, also resides there. On this place is an apple- were unsuccessful in their mission. tree, now filled with growing fruit, that was in bcariu- The troubles were finally settled, and the titles to the over one hundred years ago. It is said that every time a lands confinned to their possessors by the act of March member of the family has died, a limb of this tree lias jire- 22, 1791. viously broken off. It is true in some instances, at Ica.st. It is not possible to give anything of a full history of and furnishes a theme for the consideration of the curious, these first settlers. Their names we preserve for the bene speculative, and superstitious. John Griswold married fit of posterity, but the incidents of their pioneer life, the Eunice Calkins, who survived him several years, and died scenes and circumstances of their first years here, and all at the great age of one hundred years and twenty-five days. their interesting experiences, form but a vague memory in Turner Calkins was a native of Lyme, Conn., and in the busy minds of the present generation. We append 17(2 he bought and settled on the place now occupied l)v the few details of the first settlers we have been able to Mrs. Gildersleeve, in the southeast part of Austerlitz. He gather. was twice married; the last time to Plicebe Cadinaii, and Judah Monis Lawrence is supposed to have been the first had twenty-one children, eight by the first and thiriocn bv settler in the town. - He came from Connecticut in 1754. the second wife. One of these children, Absalom Calkins, His location was a little south of Speneertown, on the place is still living in Alford, Mass., at the age of uinety-oiu' now occupied by William G. Palmer. He was a prominent years. man in the town j of judicial mind and of great probity of Reuben Whitmore was an early settler near the "dug- character. He was appointed justice of the peace at an way," iu the vicinity of W. Vincent's place. earl}' day; served several years in that capacity, and was Most of the Spencers lived in the Speneertown neigh appointed associate judge of the court of commou pleas in borhood, and the town, and afterwards the village, burc 1812. He had three sons, George, Jakah, and Uel, all of their name. There were several families of Powells. wIkim.' whom were prominent citizens and held many town offices. farms were in the nortli centre of the town, in the section George died in Speneertown at an advanced age; Jakah known as" Macedonia." The Dean family settled in tiic removed to the west many years ago; and Uel, who was a Punsit creek valley, a mile northwest of Speneertown. man of very lovable character, died at Speneertown three Horatio L. Smith now lives on the place. or four yeare since, aged about ninety years. He merited, Roselle Lee was an early settler on the present nar\'i'y as he received, the admiration, respect, and confidence of Vincent place. his fellow-men. The brothers were bachelors. Jonathan Chamberlln, from Hebron, Conn., was the Samuel Pratt settled on the hill west of the present resi first settler on the farm now occupied by Samuel C- Ingor- dence of Lucien S. Griswold. He was somewhat greedy soll, whose wife was his (Chamberlin's) granddaughter. for land, and cut a brush fence around some six hundred Jacob Ford first settled the farm now occupied by Alan- acres. After a time he found he could not manage so large son Osborn, on the mountain in the east part of tin- town. a tract, and reduced the size of his farm. It is related of He was a prominent man in his day ; was appointed justico him that he once went visiting a neighbor, some miles to of the peace in 1786 and in 1801 ; was associate judge of the south, and while he and liis family were on tlmir home the court of common pleas in 1795, and was mad*' Gf>t ward way they were overtaken by the darkness of night, judge in the following year. None of his descciidaiitii. which prevented their being able to see the •' blazes" on bearing his name, are now living in this vicinity. the trees, which were their only guide through the yet Edward Cadman, who settled in this town near Mount unbroken forest. They were therefore compelled to lie Pleasant several years before the breaking out of the lb'V>- down upon the leaves, with such shelter jis they could im lution, was a son of Christopher Cadman. who liad then provise, and wait till the morning light enabled them to recently emigrated from England to Connectieut. HI- find their way home. children were nine in number. Lydla married Ikmohi settled in the valley a little northeast of Ford, and removed to western New York; Rebecca mar Pratt s, and built the first grist-mill and saw-mill in the ried Isaac Clark, of Speneertown ; Phcebe married Tunicr town. They were located on Punsit creek, south of the Calkins, of Green River; Hannah married Aeki' V- present mill of Wm. G. Palmer. This bouse stood near and went west; Edward and Joseph died in their count n .• the residence of C. Lasher. About 1773 he sold a small service during the Revolution; George and Cliri.'^t"!"'''-' portion of his land, including a water-privilege, to John removed to the western part of tliis Suite, and John mar- HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 385 !irc John M. Niles, J. D. Pratt, Daniel Clark, I. E. Clark, membership bad dwindled to but seven persons, but the W. B. Wager, and William S. Higgins. number at the reorganization was twelve, three joining on The pastors in their regular order have been Reverends profession of faith and two by letter. The number has George Brown, Edward S. Stout, Albert Nash, Thomas increased until at present the membership is about thirty- Edwards, William McK. Bangs, Joshua Hudson, Phineaa five. Cook, Joseph D. Marsball, Jeremiah Ham, Elijah Craw The deacons from the organization of the church to the ford, Hiram Lamont, Goodrich Horton, Thomas Bainbridge, present time have been Ithamar Spencer, Joseph Andrews, Richard Wymond, .Jonathan N. Robinson, Alexander H. Charles Topping, Thora:is Lewis, .James Platt, Ephraim Ferguson, Josiah L. Dickerson, Pelatiah Ward, James N. Gleason, David Chamberlin, Joseph Gleason, John C. lo- Shaffer, Isaac H. Lent, Marvin R. Lent, Delos Lull, N. S. gersoll, Janies N. Barnes, George Woodin, Samuel C. In- Tuthill, John A. Edmonds, H. B. Mead, J. W. Jones, W. gersoll, and Ozias Olds, the two latter being the present S. Siillwell, Alfred Coons, J. W. Smith, J. H. Lane, and incumbents. E. B. Pierce, the present pastor. The present valuation The church was incorporated .January 19, 1801, at a of the church property is about $3000. meeting presided over by Moses Chittenden and Caleb Rogei-s, and at which James Platt was secretary. Matthew CONGREGATIO.N.\L CHURCH IN AUSTERHTZ. Fitch, James Platt, Ephraim Gleason, Caleb Rogers, Moses This society was organized March 21, 1792, by Rev. Chittenden, and William Tanner were elected trustees. David Porter, of Speucertown, assisted by Rev. John Ste The present oflacers of the society are Alanson Osborn, vens, of New Concord (now East Chatham), the latter E. S. Hamiin, David L. Osborn, Amasa Cook, J. Edwin minister preaching the sermon on the occasion. Prayer- Ingersoll, and Gilbert Brown, trustees; David K. Lane, meetings had been previously held for several months. The society clerk; J. Edwin Ingersoll, church clerk; E. P. names of the original members were Daniel Lee, Ithamar, Osborn, treasurer. Amos, Rebekah, and Dorcas Spencer, Gideon, Samuel, CHRISTIAN CHURCH OP AUSTERLITZ. Isaac, Sarah, Abigail, and Abigail (2d) Andrews, William Southworth, Jonathan Chamborlin, Matthew Fitch, Allen At a meeting held Oct. 30, 1851, in the house of Itha and Mary Graves, Jonathan and Mary Wise, Beriah and mar Lane, in the village, of Austerlitz, Revs. S. B. Hay- Sarah King, Eber and Mary Scofield, Solomon and Sarah ward, G. N. Keiton, and A. Hayward, members of the Curtiss, Joseph and Abigail Dibble, Anna Cliittenden, New York Eastern Christian Conference, instituted a Mary Palmer, Surah Drake, Phcebe Miller, and Philomela Christian church, with about forty members, and it was Davenport. called the "Fii-st Christian church in Green River valley." The first communion was on March 28, 1792, and on The mule members were James N. Barnes, Elisha C. Os that occasion Rev. David Porter acted as moderator, and born, David C. Osborn, James L. Tyler, Ileniy D. Gott, Jonathan Wise as olerk, Ithamar Spencer and Matthew George Tyler, William Gardiner, Charles Fitch acting in tlic capacity of deacons. Kinne, Timothy Woodin, William Van Hoesen, William For several months of the preceding summer an uncom Tyler, Har\'ey G. Kinne, Amos Cain, A John mon religious interest was manifested among the people of H. Callender, Abram Palmer, Austin Damon, Thomas L. this vicinity, and about forty were converted, many of Smith, T. H. Thurston, Samuel D. Piersoo, Morris M. whom united with this church. Brainard. Elisha C. Osborn was chosen deacon, and still The first church was built during the summer of 1792, holds tiiat office. on land donated for the purpose by Judah Swift In 1828 The first church building was erected at Green River, iu the church was thoroughly repaired at a cost of about the town of Hillsdale, and was in part owned by the $2000, and in 1873 it was again repaired and modernized Methodists. It was built in the spring and summer of at a cost of 81000. Its pre.sent valuation is about S2500. 1852, and was dedicated July 15, 1852. It cost about Previous to the organization, services had been held by $1200. The second chapel was built in the village of Aus Rev. Mr. Martin, who lived a little northwest of the vil terlitz, in the spring of 1353. and was dedicated on the lage. The first pastor was Rev. John Morse, who began eveniiiu of June 6, 1853. The New \ork Eastern Chris to preach May 6, 1792, and was regularly installed as pas tian Conference wiis then in session here, and the dedication tor November 7 of that year. The following-named min was conducted by the ministers.in attendance. Rev. Isaac isters have since been pastors, viz.: Reverends Timothy N. Walter preached the dedicatory sermon. Revs. G. N. Woodbridge, D.D., Joel Osborne, John W. Davis, Samuel Keiton, E. S. Fay,0. J. Wait, and A. S. Doau participated Uttley, C. S. Sylvester, James A. Clark, J. H. Goodell, in the services. A collection amounting to $230 was taken, 1 Archibald H. Sloat, J. H. Goodell, Rufus King, and H. to assist in removing the debt incurred by the building of P. Bake, the present pastor. the chapel, which cost about $1200. The churches are still From September, 1859, till the spring of 1861 regular in use, and valued at $1500. The pastora of the church, services were held by the Methodists. Then Rev. P. 0. in order of their service, have been Revs. Allen Hayward, Powers, a returned missionary, preached from November, R. B. Eldridse, Jr., Richard Mosher, W. B. H. Beach, 1861, till April, 1862. The church was then silent and Josepli Steams, Charles Peak, Hoag, C. H. Havens, unoccupied for a period of nearly ten years, when it was Leonard Tliorn, Thomas Taylor, George Strcvell, and E. revived through the efforts of Rev. James A. Clark, who E. Colburn, who commenced his .services in April, 1877, w:i3 then preaching in Speucertown. At that time the and is the present pastor. -49 386 HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. The first pastor was prostrated while preaching on the Mills Atwood, Clark Beebee, Charles Kinne, Edwin J. Fourth of July, 1852, in the school-house at Austerlitz, Ford, Melancthon Shaw, and David L. Oshorn were chosen and did not recover sufficiently to resume his duties. Pre trustees. The cemeteryis on the west side of the town, vious to the oi^anizing of the church, a series of "grove about a half-mile south of Austerlitz village, and contains meetings" had been held by Rev. George N. Kellon, with one acre of land, which was a gift from Mrs. Hannali Lane. good success, and created a degree of interest in religious The present officers, who also compose the present board of matters that eventually, as we have seen, resulted in the trustees, are Edwin J. Ford, president; Charles Kinne, formation of a church. The present membership is about vice-president and treasurer; C. Gamwell Varney, secretary; fifty. Melancthon Shaw, collector; and David K. Lane, sexton. There has been a flourishing Sabbath-school connected with the church from the beginning. The first superin WAR RECORD. tendent was James N. Barnes. Charles Kinne was superin The town of Austerlitz has always been prompt to re tendent for a score of years, and Rev. E. E. Colburn is the spond to every call of patriotism, and her citizens have present one. The school now numbers about forty. They marched forth to battle for independence, for iiation.al have no library, hut distribute papers and tracts instead. honor, and for the preservation of natural rights, and the The church was incorporated under the general statute, integrity of the union of the States. Among the carlv Jan. 31, 1852. Jared Winslow presided at the meeting, patriots whose names have been handed down to us as pen and William Van Hoesen acted as clerk. Elisha C. Os- sioners in the year 1840, we find the names of Jacob Bice, bom, ^SS^j^top^Timothy Woodin, Lewis B. Ad.sit, and Nathan Lester, John Harmon, Jonathan Benton, James Samuel B. Rowe were elected trustees. The present trus Platt, Joseph Foot, Storey Goct, and Seth Jennings. tees are Harvey Gott, Jr., John M. Varney, Hamilton In the war for the suppression of the Rebellion, this town McArthur, Geoi^ Tremain, Charles T. Woodin, Henry poured forth its treasure of men and money, and performed Rowe, Cyrus Moore, and David L. Wcstover. its full share of the work which cost so great a price. The names of those credited to this town will be found elsewhere CEMETERIES. in this work. There are a large number of small burial-grounds scat tered about this town, most of them private ones. They are generally in a sadly neglected condition. Among the public grounds we mention one near the former site of the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. Baptist church in " Macedonia," and one on the east side of the Green river, at Austerlitz. THOMAS SLOCUM, son of Samuel and Phebe Sloeum, was bom in La Grange, THE BPENCERTOWN CEMETERY Dutchess Co., N. Y., Sept, 8, 1810. His parents aiinc is located at the Presbyterian chnrch in that village. It from New Jersey. His father died when he wa,s a mere contains about two and a half acres of ground, surrounded child, and he was put out to service till his majority, and by a handsome and substantial iron fence, and is owned by afterwards for fifteen years worked by the montli as a hired the Presbyterian and Methodist churches. In it. are the man. In 1846 he married Jane Burtis, of Hillsdule, and graves of many prominent citizens of the town. Some of began his married life on a farm which he purchased on the monuments are very fine, notably the one erected to credit. He worked and paid for this farm, and sold it in mark the resting-place of Dr. Ebenezer Reed. 1858, and purchased the larger one where he now resides, consisting of two hundred acres. He is in the sirieu-st THE AUSTERLITZ CEMETERY sense a self-made man, having attended a school hut thrif was formed as an incorporated cemetery at a meeting held months of his life, having started a poor orphan boy, mid at the school-house on the evening of Feb. 18, 1858; having by his own unaided industry and economy acquired Abijah Heath, chairman, and Mills Atwood, secretary. a comfortable competence. He is an honest, upright man. Samuel C. Ingersoll, David K. Lane, Charles Kinne, Ste Three of his four children are living, viz.: Sarah Eliza phen W. Olmstead, Melancthon Shaw, David L. Oshorn, beth, wife of Nicholas Pulver, farmer, Austerlitz, Columbia Lyman C. Gleason, Ithamar Lane, Clark Beebee, Aaron Co.; Richard R., residing in the same town; and LouLsa Bell, and Alanson Oshorn were the incorporators. (unmarried), living at home with her parents. -S "7 C O P A K E. w- f'j This town lies on the east border of the county, and in the Indians, whom the anti-renters had Induced to contest the second tier of towns from the south line. It contains the validity of the Livingstons' title to the land. A small an area of twenty-two thousand eight hundred and siity- island lies near the southern shore nearly opposite this point. eight acres, of which a little more than three-fourths are The peninsula, the bland, and the" Pond hill" farm, on improved lands. Its population was eighteen hundred and the south shore, are still owned by members of the Living thirty-nine in 1860, seventeen hundred and thirty-eight in ston family. Robinson's pond, or lake, is a smaller body 186.0, eighteen hundred and forty-seven in 1870, and of water, near the centre of the town. It b an expaosica eighteen hundred and eighty-four in 1875. It ranks as of the" Roeloff Jansen's Kill," covering about one hundred the ninth town in the county, both in area and in popula acres, and b partly artificial, a dam at its lower extremity tion. It is bounded as follows; north by Hillsdale, east by holding back the water for use as a motive-power for the the town of Mount Washington, in Massachusetts, south grbt-mill. The other ponds are still smaller, and are all by Ancram, and west by Taghkanic. It is nearly square located in the southwestern part of the town. Woodward in form, being six miles wide, from east to west, and seven and Porter ponds lie partly in the town of Ancram. All miles long, froui north to south. The surface is broken by of them, except Chrysler pond, empty their waters into the ranges of high hills, separated by valleys of varying width. kill; that one empties into Copake creek, in Taghkanic. The eastern border is formed by the range of the Taghkanic The waters of these ponds abound in fish of all kinds, mountains, the highest part, called the "Alander," lying and fine bass especially are found in abundance in Rhoda near the centre of the east part. "Pond hill," on the shore pond and Copake lake. The principal streams are Roeloff of Copake lake, is a high, rocky, and wooded eminence. Jansen's Kill, wbich enters the town from Hillsdale, about "Old Tom's hill," or" Mount Tom," is an isolated rocky two miles from the State line, and runs across the town height lying near the centre of the town, about three-quar into Ancram; " Bash-Bbh" creek, which, rising in Mount ters of a mile north from Copake flats. To the westward Washington, breaks through the mountains near Copake of the Taghkanic mountains lies a lovely valley about two Iron-Works, and flows southwest into Ancramj where it miles wide, narrowing considerably as it neara the north line unites with the kill; and a brook, which rising near Bos m of the town, and shut in on the west by high hills, gently ton Corners, flows northerly and empties in Bash-Bbb, sloping in the southwest and rising more abruptly in the near Copake Flats. The Bash-Bbh goi^e is a very pic north part of the town. In the extreme northwest there turesque one, and the falb at the place where the stream is another valley about two miles long, following the course breaks through the last rocky barrier, on the western face :'-l. of Copake creek in a southwesterly direction. The waters of the mountain,- present a very beautiful appearance. 1 of the town are Copake lake, Rhoda, Robinson's, Snyder, Surmounting the fail b a beetling crag, called the" Eagle's Chrysler, Miller, or Porter, and Woodward's poods. Copake Cliff," from which one looks down on a scene of wild gran Ar lake is a flne sheet of water in the western part of the deur and beauty, not surpassed, if it b equaled, by any town north of the centre, and a small part of it lies in thing in thb part of the State. During the summer many Taghkanic. It has an area of about six hundred acres, visitors make thb delightful spot a picnic ground, and pass and is of an average depth of about twelve or fifteen feet. the hot hours of midday within the cool recesses of the In some places it is thirty-six feet deep. The circumfer glen, refreshed by the spray-mobtened air and lulled to ence of the lake is about nine miles. Its outlet is Copake calm reveries by the music of the miniature cataract. The creek, to which it is connected by an outlet a mile long. glen below tbe falb gradually widens, and the course of the Near its western extremity lies a beautiful peninsula, which stream grows less rapid. The falb and glen, together with is commonly called "The Island." Whether it was an several hundred acres of land on tbe surrounding moun island and the connection with the mainland is artificial tains, are owned by Mrs. Douglass, widow of the late Alfred is not positively known. It contains some twenty acres of Douglass, of New York, who purchased the property sev ground, mostly covered with a fine growth of chestnut eral years ago, and at great expense of time and money timber, and its surface is rolling in character, presenting a turned the rocky banks of the creek into an enchanting delightful diversity of knolls and dells. On one of these stretch of beautiful garden and velvety lawn, dotted here miniature hills are seen the ruins of what was once the and there with rustic cottages in the Swiss style of archi abode of some of the members of the Livingston family. tecture, with green-houses, carriage-houses, and barns of the This residence was large and commodious, and stood on a same style, all combining to make it a very pleasant and gentle elevation overlooking the lake to the southeast. It beautiful summer re.sidence. The broad interval along the was built in 1809, and torn down after the anti-rent excite Kill and Bash-Bbh creeks, below Robinson's pond, has ment, to prevent its being used as a place of harboring by always been called "Copake Flats," and b supposed to be 387 3S8 HISTOlty OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YOllK. the location of tlie six hundred acres grunted to Livingston Deusen, living near Hillsdaie, is a grandson of Barnard's under the Dongan patent of ICSC, and desicnated therein brother John, who lived at Copake Flats. as " Tachkanick.'' A fuller description of this name and William Link removed from Rhinebeck to Copake about its application will be found in the history- of Taghkanic. 17S5, with a family of five children. He leased about two The soil of this town is largely composed of a gravel!}' hundred and fifty acres in the we.st part of the town, about and clayev loam, but on the hills is of a slaty character, a mile south of Copake lake. His family eousisted of fifteen and in the valleys of the creeks considerable quantities of children, eight of whom were boys. Four of the children alluvial deposits have formed a deep, rich soil. As a whole settled in Copake, three of them in other parts of t]ii.« it is very productive, fine yields of all the various crops county, and eight of them removed to central and western repaying the husbandman's labor. Wheat is not grown, New York. Joseph Link, the eleventh child, is still livin;:. but rye, corn, oats, barley, buckwheat, potatoes, peas, and at the age of eighty, on the homestead, tlm soil of which beans are the principal products. he purchased in 1830. This town was a part of the Livingston manor, lying at In the spring of 1753 the captain of a Dutch vessel ad Its northeastern extremity. vertised that his ve.ssel would make an excursion on Wiiit- Iron ore is found near the foot of the Taghkanic moun suiiday. Among those enticed to take the trip were Peter tains, and is mined at the iron-works and the Weed ore- Rimda, Peter Swart, Abraham Decker, Jacob Haner, and bed, a fuller description of which will appear under appro William Dinehart. The latter was from near Heideiberir. priate beads in another part of this sketch. in Baden, Germany. Tiie excursion was taken accordiui; The Rhinebeck and Connecticut railroad runs a distance to promise,and a grand feast was spread for the delectation of three and a quai-ter miles through the south part of the of the excursionists, after partaking of which, dancing and town. Copake Station, a half-mile south of Copake Flats, music whiled away the time. Liquors were furnished in is the only station. great abundance, and the merry company soon became The early settlers of this town were almost entirely of oblivious to all external surroundings. When they betruii Dutch and German ancestry, and settled along the course to get sober they awoke to the realization of the fact that of tlie creeks or the shores of the lakes and ponds. No they were bound to take a longer "excursion" than they doubt a few of them settled here some years before the had bargained for. The captain told them they were bound general settlement began, about 1750, but no trace of the for New \ork, and at that port they were landed in tl»e exact dates can now be found. The Whitbecks, who settled fall, after a long passage. Not being able to pay their jias- along Copake creek, near the lake, were probably the ear sage, the captain, according to the laws and customs of the liest settlers. The date of their coming seems to have been time, apprenticed them to the highest, bidder for a length previous to lil4, a map made during that year showing of time sufficient to pay his claim. The men were all ap their residences. The Brusies also were very early settlers. prenticed to Livingston and brought to the furnace at An- They were in the south part of the town. Another family, cram, where they served the terra of their apprenticosliip. by the name of Spoor, must have been early settlers uear four and one-half years, to pay seven pounds p.'i.ss:igir- the centre of the town. money. At the expiration of their term of service Living Daniel lived on the side of the mountain south ston offered them the choice of any unoccupied farm on the east of Copake Iron-Works, and was for many years a jus manor which they might select, and which he promi.sod to tice of the peace. He is said to have been a remarkably lease to them upon favorable terms. They all accepted lii.-i eccentric man in many respects. He was a firm believer offer. Jacob Haner selected a farm in Taghkanick. Wm. in witches and witchcraft. On one occasion, it is said, he Dinehart chose a farm on the north shore of Copake lake, became convinced that his cattle and land had been be west of the outlet. He married, and reared a fauiily nf witched by an old woman who had crossed his clearing, ten children, six of them boys. His grandson, Killiaii -\. and, preparing himself, he lay in wait for her, and upon Smith, lives in Taghkanic, near the place once owned \>\ her appearance discharged a charge of fine bird-shot into Dinehart. One of Dinehart's sons, Wiliiara, Jr., sfuhil her body. What effect this treatment had upon the evil in the west part of Copake, and his only son, dulin • spirits we know not, but Toucrny was arrested, tried, con Dinehart, is now living at West Copake. A daugliier, Mre. victed. and heavily fined for his remarkable prescription. Hannah Link, is also living in Copake. Thomas Trafford, one of the first justices of the,peace in Peter Rhoda selected a farm on tbc south shore of tlif the town of Granger, was an early settler in the west part Rhoda pond, which was named after him. He had two of Copake. He had two sons,—William T., lived and died sons,—Peter, Jr., and David. The former settled iiiChetit. in Copake; Robert, moved to Wisconsin. The latter lived and died in Copake, and had a fainiiy "f John Van Deuseu was one of the first settlers in the several children, all of whom went west. south part of the town. His son Barnard married Phcebe Peter Swart settled on the farm now owned by .lolni Hollenbeck, and took a life-lease of. two hundred acres of Stickles. land in the northeast part of the town, being the farm now Abraham Decker chose the pre.sent Benjaniin B- Mi'b'r owned by Sylvester Waldorph. His family consisted of farm, and lived on it for many years. seven sons and four daughters. They ^11 settled in this Nicholas Robison settled at the foot of the pond whieh vicinity, and some of their descendants are now living in was named after him, and built a mill tlicrc at a very earh Copake ; among them are Lewis and William Van Deusen, day. Some of his descendants still live in tlii.s town and two of Baruard Van Deusen's grandsons. Ludington Van the adjoining town of Hillsdaie. HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. Pri}vioii3 to the RevoUition, George Niver, a native of soon after his arrival here married Margaret Cook, and Germany, came to America and settled on the farm in the leasing a farm of two hundred and seventy-two acres in the southwestern part of Copake which is now occupied by northwest part of this town, settled down and tilled the .soil. Palmer and George Niver, two of his grandsons. His chil Peter's family consisted of two sons, Caspar and John, and dren were John, Jlichael, and Henry, and three or four four daughtere. The sons, after their father's death, divided daughters, all by his first wife, and George, Philip, and the homestead, and continued to live on it till their deaths. Frederick, by his second wife. John and Michael went John C. Lampman now lives on the part that the old house to Kinderhook. Henry settled on tiie farm on which David stood upon, and Walter Lampman occupies the other part. and George Niver now live. George, Jr., and Philip di They are grandsons of Peter Lampman. vided the homestead and lived on it. Frederick removed William Williams was a native of Wales, who,coming to to Claverack. George R. Niver, a son of George, Jr., this country before the breaking out of the last French war, Philip, Jr., a son, and Silas, a grandson, descendants of enlisted in the colonial service, and marclied with Brad- Philip Niver, all live in Copake. dock's ill-fated army to attack Fort Duquesne. He never Christopher Niver, a brother of George, also came to Co- returned, and is supposed to have been killed at the bloody pake at the same time, but in a short time was taken sick defeat suffered by Braddock's forces. He was accompanied and died, leaving two sons, Michael and Christian. Michael to this country by his two sons, Aaron and William, then went to what is now Livingston, and upon attaining his ma young men. William went to Schoharie county, and settled jority settled permanently there. Christian went to live there. Aaron married a sister of Peter Lampman, and with his uncle George. He subsequently married Polly leased and cleared a new farm a little east of Copake lake. Ruyter, and .settled on the place now occupied by Derby It is now the Pells farm. He built a small log house about Miller. He afterwards went to Bain's Corners—now called four rods southei\st of the present residence, and in this, Oraryville—and settled on the farm now occupied by his with but one room and a loft, with no floor but the ground, son Norman. Of his family of eight children, Henry and they reared a family of fourteen children. Their names Norman Niver, Mrs. Charity Miller, Jlrs. Hannah Shufelt, were William, Elizabeth, Casparus, David, Peter, Nelly, and Mrs. Catharine Bain are still living in Copake. The Cornelius, Henry, Lanah, Clara, Hannah, and John. The others are dead. sons all lived in Copake. Cornelius lived on the farm now The Vandebogart family were among the earliest settlers occupied by Sylvester "Yosburgh, in the east part of the in the neighborhood of Copake Flats. Their homestead was town. His children were Elizabeth, John C., Aaron, at the west side of the first three corners west of the fiats, Jlary, Rhoda, Calvin, Lewis, Moncrief, Seymour, and on the place now occupied by Homer Miller. Here the Clara. Three of these children are still living,—Mrs. fii-st settlor, who was the great-grandfather of the present Mary Shulria, in Illinois; Mrs. Rlioda Decker, in Jlillerton, ueneration, built his house, a portion of the frame of which N. Y.; and Seymour Williams, in Wisconsin. John C. is still in use as a part of the present building. He had a has four children living in the county,—Clara Williams, in son Philip, who was the grandfather of the two cousins who Glenco Mills; Mrs. Eiiza Trafford, in Hillsdale; and John are the present representatives of the family. One of these, and Sylvester I. Williams, in Copake. "Wesley "Vandebogart, is the proprietor of the "Peter Miller" Cornelius Conklin removed to this town from the vicinity hotel at Copake Flats, and the other, Ward Vandebogart, of Fishkill, Dutchess Co., about 1770. He leased a farm is a merchant at the same place. of two hundred and twenty-five acres, on the north shore of John Langdon was a native of Quaker Hill, Dutchess Copake lake. His children were named John, Jacob, Ellas, county, and served in the French war of 1754-59. During Jeremiah, Abraham, James, Lavinia, Polly, and Katy. All his term of service he was at one time stationed at Fort of them except James removed to other parts of this State. Stanwix, and was there attacked with the smallpox, and He remained on the homestead, and married Martha becoming convalescent was discharged. He then returned Covert, who still survives him, at the age of eighty-five home, and a few years after, probably about 1765, came to years, and lives on the homestead with her son, Jacob I. Copake and settled upon the farm now occupied by James Oakley. Another son, Calvin Oakley, lives in Taghkanic. E. Miller, a little north of Copake Iron-Works. Tlie farm Cornelius "Yosburgh came to tliis country from Holland, had been occupied previously, but had been cultivated in a about 1760. and settled in the northern part of Copake, on very rude, primitive, and superficial manner. His first the farm now occupied by his grandson, Egbert Yosburgh. plowing was done with a yoke of oxen and three horses, all He built his first house on the rise of ground about twenty- attached to one plow, and the furrows turned in the rich soil five rods north of the present residence. The old well was were deep and wide. The neighbors all ridiculed this style covered up, but still remained in existence until within a of cultivation, but when the harvest came were compelled to few years, when it caved in and was then filled up. His acknowledge its superiority. John Langdon's family con family consisted of four sons and four daughters. At his sisted of fourteen children. All of the sons, with one ex death the farm, consisting of five hundred and fifty acres, ception, who removed to Salisbury, Conn., lived and died was apportioned among them. Cornelius, Jr., was twice in Copake. The last surviving child, a daughter, died in married; first to Susan Lampman, by whom he had five Copake about a year ago. children, and second to Catharine Whitbeck. by whom he Casparus Lampman, a Hollander by birth, emigrated to had eleven. Of these .James lives in Ancram, Sylvester this country a little while before the breaking out ot the and Egbert in Copake, three are dead, and the rest are living Revolution. He was accompanied by his son Peter, who I at different places in the west. HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. Other early settlers were the Pulvers, Frederick Tan Supervisors. Town Clerks. CoHectore. Tassel, Jacob Hagerman, and Dederick Snyder, in the north William Murray. Wilson Bates. Tunis Race. part of the town, and Jacob Decker and Thomas Spade in RusscI Everett. the western part. Peter Decker. Jacob A. Decker. Cornelius Wolcott. This town was formed from Taghkanic March 26, 1824, « 11 • comprising the eastern half of that town, and was named William Yager. Copake, after the lake of that name, which lies almost William T. Trafford. Horace Culver. M. G. Van Dcuson. Abram Bain. Ira Williams. Thomas Groat. whollj within its borders. The derivation of this title is « « Norman Brusic. wrapped in mystery. It is generally supposed to be of Horace Culver. Samuel Frayer. Indian origin, and to refer to some peculiarity of the Jake. Peter Decker. Ransom Rogers. Martin Holsapple. The first meeting of the electors of the new town to com John D. Langdon. Thomas Williams. <1 « Jacob A. Decker. plete the organization of the town by the election of officers Walter Sbafer. John A. Bain. P. Van Debogart. to conduct its business was held at the house of Catharine Cbas. Van Deuscn. Orvillc U. Wilcos. Isaac Davis, Williams. The following is a copy of the record of this " ti Wm. T. Trafford. first town-meeting: Martin Uolsapple. Cornelius Woluotl. Calvin Williams. Lee Chamberlain. Charles A. Iluug. Gilbert Langdon. "becobd of copake, 1824. Thomas Edwards. John D. Langdon. W. M. VuD Benscho• Wm. T. Trafford. "At the first Town-meeting, held at the house of Catharine Wil- I liams, in the Town of Copake, on the first tuesdaj in April, 1824, John Miller, John H. Williams. "Voted to raise Eight hundred Dollars for the Support of the poor (< II Kelson Williams. Epbraim Iluwvcr. the ensuing year. David Rboda. A. M. Ten Broeck. "To raise one hundred and fifty Dollars for the support of Bridges. Freelin Van Densen. John S. Decker. "To continue the Bye-Laws this year that were in force in Tagh- William M. Elton. Nelson Williams. Wm. Waldorph. kanio last year. Viz.: Wm. I. Holsapple. P. G. Eisselbrack. Abram Shultis. (Copied from the Record of Taghkanic). Wm. M. Elton. " II Joseph G. Near. H it Lester Van Deusen. "bve-laws Abram Wolcott. "Enacted hy the /reeholden and inAafiitants of the Town of Tagh Orville H. Wiloox. a II Jacob D. Suydor. Peter S. Pulver. kanic, April 6, 1819. Freelin Van Deusen.• P. Van Debogart. "That 00 Ram Shall be allowed to run at large after the Itlth day Norman A. Nooney.. George I. Rossman. of September until the 10th day of Norember following. M. Van Deusen. Sylvester Tumor. "And if any person or persons sbnll suffer his, her, or ther Ram Fyler D. Sweet. II <1 LevI Race. or Rams to run at large between the said 10th day of September and John D. Langdon. Nicholas Robison. Jeremiah Decker. the said 10th day of November he, she, or they shall forfeit the sum Robert E. Trafford. Morgan Williams. of Five Dollars to the person or persons aggrieved, to be recovered, Plait Rogers. Milton Trafford. with costs of suit, in any Court in the County of Columbia having Porter VanDebogart.Norman Brusie. cognizance thereof, in like manner as other damages are sued for, Wm. I. Holsapple. Hoffman Sweet. Dedrick Shultis. II u recovered,and collected. And further, that no Boar Shall bo allowed Gilbert Langdon. Nelson Williams. to run at large after three months old under the same penalties as £. Van Benschoten. Hoffman SweeL John Stang. John D. Langdon. Sidney Shufelt. Rams. Isaac Oakley. Hoffman Sweet. "Voted, To elect two oonstables. Artemus Austin. Wesley Burdick. "Voted, To elect one collector, and to allow him three per cent, Spencer T. Wolcott. John I. Langdon. on the Tax for collecting. Jerry S. Miller. Elisha W. SwecL ."And the following persons were elected to the following offices Nicholas Robinson. 11 II Abram Decker. respectively, Viz.: William Murray, Supervisor; William Elliott, II II Almond Shufelt. Seymour Docktr. Town Clerk; Caspaurus P. Laropman, Cornelius Vosburgh, Gideon John D. Langdon. n u Jacob G. Rossiiiiin. Sheldon, Assessors; William Groat, George Niver, Jr., Jacob Snyder, Theo. Lampman. W. Van Debogart. Sylvester Turner. Commissioners of Highways; David Langdon, JacobShafer, Overseers of the Poor; John Langdon, Jr., Augustus Reed, James Knicker bocker, Commissioners of Sobools; Benjamin Hamlin, Peter Sturgee, JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. RusboI Everett, Inspectors of Sohools; George I. Roasman, Collector; 1824. Benjamin Hamlin. Albertus Noonoy. William W.Turner, Evert Whitbeck,Constables; Isaac Oakley, Harvey Jacob Sbafer. James Austin. Mallory, Fence-Viewersj Frederick Van Tassel, Pound-Master. 1825. William Elliott. Richard Van Deuscn. "Jacob Sbafeb, 1826. Ulysses Cole. Isaac Griffin. Bekjahik Hahli.v, 1827.* Jeremiah Sbufelt, Jr. '. James Austin. "faaticet of the peace and Innpectort of Election, William T. Traffor. Isaac Griffin. "Recorded by me, Gideon Sheldon. . Andrew Whitbeck. "Wm. Elliott, Tomt Clerk." Jacob Sbafer. . Albertus Nooncy. T)ie following is a list of the most important town officers 1828. Augustus Reed. James Reynulds. 1829. Gideon Sheldon. . Williain Elliott. from the organization of the town to the present: 1830. William T. Trafford. . Norman Brusic. 1831. John Chrysler. , Andrew Whitbeck. TOWN OFFICERS FROM 1824 TO 1878. 1832. Augustus Reed. Ransom Rogers. 1833. Gideon Sheldon. . Albertus Nooncy. Supervlsois. Town Clerks. Cullecton. Aaron Williams. James Austin. 1824. William Murray. William Elliott. George 1. Rossman. 1834. William Elliott. William T. Trafford. 1826. " " « « « « 1835. Horace Culver. William T. Trafford. 1826. " " Jacob Sbafer. Wm. M. Turner. 1836. Andrew Whitbeck. William M. Elton. 1827. " " Wm. T. Trafford. Cornelius Williams. Adam Shultis. Abram Coons. 1828. Jacob Sbafer. Peter Snyder. 1829. William Murray. Calvin Williams. 1830. <' " Jacob A. Decker. • From this time the justices were elected by the people. HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 1850. Jamca Austin. 1S64. James B. Cbristie. sonthwest of Copake Iron-Works, at Copake Flats. This 1351. William T. Trafford. Artemus Austin. village is very plea.santly situated a little southeast of the Kansora Roacrs. 1805. George Shafer. centre of the town, on the level ground that formed Liv 1352. Andrevf Whilbeek. 18«8. Edmund Sbultis. ingston's purchase, called Taghkanic. Before the village 1S53. William Elliott. 1867. William Wright, Jr. Daniel Sheldon. 1863. Jamca E. Chriatie. attained any size the locality was called" the Copake Flats, lS5-t. George Heywood. 1869. George Shafer. and this cognomen has clung to it through all the stages of 1855. James E. Christie. Daniel Haywood. its growth. Located on the principal thoroughfare of the Comeliua Snyder. 1870. George Shafer. county from north to south, it offered a fine stand for an 1850. Ransom Rogers. Nicholas Robison. ^ James I. Snyder. Milo Van Deuson. inn, and the water-power, a short distance north, caused a 1857. Frederick W. Shattuok. 1871. Conrad A. Wheeler. mill to be built there at an early day. The growth of the Walter Brusie. Byron N. Crary. village has never been rapid, but it has rather been re 1358. William Murray. 1872. Byron N. Crary. garded as a quiet, pleasant place of residence, and bus at Martin L. Smith. 1873. Nicholas Robinson. 1359. James E. Christie. 1874. William Wright. tracted the farmers of the vicinity who desired to retire Daniel Uaywood. 1875. Peter Wilsey. from active business. The buildings are generally of a 1860. Fyler D. Sweet. 1876. John P. Marshall. very good class, and the citizens manifest a commendable 1861. John E. Judson. Wilson Sheldon. public spirit in beautifying their grounds with flowers and George Shafer. 1877. George Shafer. 1862. Peter Decker. 1878. William Wright. shrubbery. 1863. William Wright. William Murray was an early merchant at this place, The town htis always been In favor of licensing the sale and Nicholas Robison was the first miller. Among the of intoxicating liquors. The first hoard of excise of the earliest settlers were Francis Brusie, Nicholas Brusie, Cor town (1824) granted licenses to Peter Vandebogart, Peter nelius Brusie, Wilhelmus Viele, and a family of Millers. Sturges, Elisha Wilcox, John Parsons, and Catharine Peter Miller was an early innkeeper, and one of the hotels Williams, all of whom were innkeepers. The present year still bears his name. At present the village consists of two there are four licensed hotels in the town. hotels, two stores, a carriage-shop, three blacksmith-shops, The commissioners of excise elected since the act of a Methodist church, a shoe-shop, a tin-shop, a harness-shop, 1874 went into operation have been as follows, viz.: 1875, a school-house, and about thirty dwellings. Near the vil Cornelius Whitheck, Waller Jjampman, Peter G. Kissel- lage is located the Copake trotting-course, which is a mile- brack; 187C, Norman Niver, Porter Vandebogart; 1877, track, and was first opened in 1856 by Hoffman Sweet and Freelin Vandeusen; 1878, Benjamin B. Miller. The latter Lee Chamberlain. The land was leased of Daniel L. Wil was appointed, the vote being a tie. liams. At present the course is under the control of E. At the second town-meeting, the citizens passed a law Halstead. that every person who allowed Canada thistles to go to seed, The third post-office is located at West Copake, in the either upon his land or upon the roadside adjoining his southwest part of the town. This place Is a small hamlet, land, should pay a fine of 63 for the benefit of the poor containing half a dozen houses, a summer hotel, and a store fund. and post-office. At this place, which was formerly called The town-meetings are usually held at Copake Flats, but "Anderson's Corners,'' is located the splendid residence of occasionally at Copake Iron-Works, and at Craryville. Henry Aster, which was built in 1875, and is a much more Previous to 1866, the town formed one election district; elegant, imposing, and costly building than is very often but on Oct. 2, 1866, it was divided into two districts, the seen in such a rural section. The fourth and last of these north and west part forming the first district, with the post-offices is located at Craryville, in the northwest corner polling-place located at Craryville, and the east and south of the town. This place was first settled by Jacob Hager- part forming the second district, with the polling-place at man, who owned nearly, if not quite, all the land on which Copake Flats. the village is situated. It was formerly called " Bain's Cor- There are four post-offices in the town, located in small nere," after Peter Bain,—a son of Abraham Bain, and villaires and hamlets. graudson of Peter Bain, who was an early settler in Tagh The first of those is "Copake Iron-Works," located at kanic,—who kept the hotel and owned considerable prop the village bearing the same name. This village has at erty in the place. About 1870 the Bain property was sold tained its present size in a growth of thirty-three years, to Peter Crary, and the name of the place was changed to and is a direct result of the establishing of the iron-works " Craryville." It is a small village, pleasantly located in at this place. In 1845 there was not a dwelling-house in the valley of the Copake creek, and contains about eighty the place. Two old shanties, hardly fit for use as barns, inhabitants. It has about fifteen dwellings, two stores, one were the only buildings. The growth of the village has hotel, two wagon and blacksmith-shops, a shoe-shop, and been such that it now numbers about forty dwellings, has railroad depot. It is a station on the New York and Har two stores, one hotel, a depot, two churches,—Protestant lem railroad, 111 miles north from New York, and 16 miles Episcopal and Roman Catholic,—the Copake Iron-Works, south from Chatham. The post-office was formerly called and about two hundred inhabitants. It is a station on the "North Copake." New York and Harlem railroad, one hundred and four In the northeast part of the town, one and a half miles miles from New York, and twenty-three miles south of south from Hillsdale, is a little hamlet called the "Black Chatham. Grocery." It contains a store, wagon and blacksmith-shop, The second, Copake Post-office, is located two miles and two or three dwellings. Near by the New York and HISTOKY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. Harlem railroad crosses the Roeioff Janscu's Kill, on a long, times of low water. The works employ about fifty hands, covered bridge, at a considerable height. and consume annually about eight thousand tons of iron Tiie manufacturing interests of this town are limited in ore, twelve hundred tons of limestone, and four hundred number. The principal one, and which ranks well with and fifty thousand bushels of charcoal. Tlic iron produced similar enterprises elsewhere, is the amounts to three thousand seven hundred and fifty tons per year, and is of a fine quality, excellently adapted to the COPAKE IRON-WORKS. making of car-wheels. Its tensile strength is from thirty-two Tliis enterprise was first established, in the jear 1845, thousand to thirty-seven thousand pounds tn the square inch. by a firm called "Lemuel Pomeroy The church, which will seat two hundred persons, cost "Catharine Brusie," "Nicholas C. Brusie," and '• Ciirif- §5000. Present valuation about the same. Una, wife of Ephraim Race," iu 1796; aud " Abraham A. . Previous to Father O'Sullivan's ministrations, Rev. Wil Decker," in 1797. liam Howard, of Hudson, held services. He first began The second ground is now known as the "Lvall bun-, about 1849. ing-ground," and is located near the Reformed Protesuitu The congregation now consists of forty-five families. The Dutch church in the western part of Copake. It received present lay trustees are Michael Herlihy and Matthew this name from the "Lyall church," so called after the Murnane. Rev. William Lyall, who was its pastor for many ycjirs, and now lies buried iu this cemetery. He died May 6, 1S6S, EEPOEMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH. aged seventy years. This ground contains but one stone This church is situated in the western part of the town that antedates the present century. It is that of '• Eliza of Copake, and is generally known as" the Lyall church," beth, wife of Abraham Commer," who died March 22, a name which it derived from the Rev. William Lyall, who 1794, aged thirty-four years. was its pastor for a number of years. He was known popu The third ground is pleasantly located a half-mile \ve.»: larly as "Dominie" Lyall, and died while pastor of this of Craryville. It is called the " Niver burying-ground," church. He is buried in the ground adjoining it. There is but one stone dated before 1800 the iuscriiaiua The church was an offshoot of the Greenbush" or on which can be deciphered. This is evidently the grave "Vedder" church, in Gallatin. The present pastor is Rev. of some member of the Wbitbeek family, the inscription •: Garretson, who, by his neglect to furnish a good his being, " . E. W. BORN GUNE 1 1752 DIED tory of his church, forces us to pass it by with this brief APRIL 10 1785." There are several bid slate slabs, the notice. inscriptions on which have been effaced by the waste and wear of the elements. CEMETERIES. The fourth ground is a small one located in the north There are four cemeteries in Copake. They are called east part of the town, and called the "Williams burv ing- town cemeteries, and a sexton is appointed for each ground ground." at the annual town-meeting. The first record of these ap 1- The town of Copake was active in furnishing troojts and pointments is found in the year 1836, when it was" voted money during the late war. It furnished a total of one to have a grave-digger appointed at each burying-ground, hundred and sixty-six men, and raised money as follows, and paid by the town." The meeting then proceeded to appoint the grave-diggers, and fix the amount they were to Id 18f)2, on credit of the town $.",800.00 receive for their services on each occasion, as follows, viz.: " 1863, by town tax I,5o7.<'0 " 1804, " " 41,060.82 At the "burying-ground near Peter Miller's," John F. " 1805, " " 1.622.10 Brusie, fee $1; at the "burying-ground at Presbyterian " " on creditor the town 21,30;;.lMi meeting-house," Philip I. Lown,fee $1.37 i ; at the" bury- . Total Sro,208.112 ing-ground near Christian Niver's," David Taylor, fee $1; Of this amount $05,773.12 was paid out as bounties for and at the" burying-ground near David Williams'," Thomas volunteers, and $1122.50 for expenses of enlisting them. Williams, fee $1; and a tax of §50 was voted for expenses The State refunded to the town the sum of $21,100 of this of grave-digging. The first of these, and also the oldest one, is more commonly.known as the Copake Flats burying- amount. The town bonds issued were sixteen in number, and of ground. It is situated in the lot of the Methodist Epis various amounts, ranging from $300 to $5000 each. The copal church. It contains about two acres of ground, and gross amount of the bonds was §21,363. is quite full of graves. Many of the stones and monu ments are costly and of fine designs. The ground, however, lacks the symmetry of arraogemeot, the walks and drives, and the results of care and labor that ought to characterize our cities of the dead. The earliest date on any of the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. ^mbstones is home by a slab of gray stone, the inscription on which reads as follows, viz.: "Abraham Spoor, died Oct. 23d,1757." Among the other early graves (nearly all ALFRED DOUGLAS, JR., of which are marked by smooth slabs of black slate more was born in New York city, in 1829, and died at his couiory or less elaborately carved) are found the following:" Gashe, residence, at Copake, N. Y., Tuesday, Oct. 3, 1S76, at the wife of Mr. Abraham Spoor, died May 3,1777, in her 63d age of forty-seven years. He was the first son of Earl year;" "Arnaut Viele," and" Catharine Van Kcuren," in Douglas, who was of old Scottish ancestry, of which his 1776; "Francis Brusie," in 1780; "Elizabeth, wife of tory has recorded so many valiant deeds. The genealogy' Wilhclmus Viele," in 1785; "Isaac Spoor, Esq.," in of the Douglas family is of great historic interest. c"»- 1789; "James Robison, who fell June 2, 1791, by ye ac bracing as it docs the name of Richard Dougla-s, one I'f cidental discharge of a gun. Aged 51 years "Nicholas the Pilgrims, who came from Scotland to this countty in McArthur," in 1793; "Silence Lawrence," in 1795; the year 1G49, landing at Plymouth, Mass, and subse "Rebecca JA)tt," in 1793; "Eleanor Brusie," in 1794; quently settling in New London, Conn. The Revolution "Andrew C. Brusie," and "Cornelius Brusie," in 1795; ary fame of Captain Richard Douglas, who was a lieuicn- A N 0 R A M. This is the southeast corner town of the county, centrally part of the town, the largest of which are called "Wood- distant from Hudson about eighteen miles. It is bounded worth," or "Lower Rhoda,"" Porter,' or" Jliller.s, and north by Copake and Taghkanic, east by the towns of "Long" ponds. The two first named He partly in Copake. Mount Washington, Mass., and North East, in Dutchess Fish of all kinds, including ba.ss and pickerel, are found in county, south by North East and Pine Plains, in Dutchess them. The principal streams are Roeloff Jansen's Kill and county, and west by Gallatin. It is the fifth town in the Punch brook. The former enters the town near the mid county in point of size, and eleventh in population ; its dle of its north boundary, and flows in a generally .southwest area being twenty-six thousand nine hundred and nineteen course across the town into Gallatin. Punch brook rises acres, nearly four-fifths of which is improved, and a popu in the south part, and flows north till it empties into the lation of seventeen hundred and fifteen. In 1860 the kill, about a mile and a half from the town line. These population was seventeen hundred and twenty, in 1865 it streams have numerous small tributaries. The waters of was sixteen hundred and fifty-one, and in 1870 it was the ponds in this town and the south part of Copake empty seventeen bundled and ninety-three. into the kill. A small brook rises in the Taghkanic moun The eastern boundary of the town was formerly a line tains, near Boston Corners, and flows north into Copake. running at a very oblique angle. The northern liiub was a The soil of this town is generally a gravelly loam, inter line two miles long, running in a direction a little west of mixed with clay. In tlie southeast and east there is, how south, and was simply an extension of the present boundary ever, considerable limestone soil, and in the interval border line between New York and Massachusetts, north of the ing the kill considerable quantities of alluvial deposits. angle near the south Fine of Copake. This angle was then It is a productive, fertile soil, and generally easily tilled. at the end of the dividing line between Copake and An- The crops arc similar to those of other towns, rye, corn, cram. The southern limb of the angle was the present east potatoes, oats and buckwlioat being the principal crops. boundary between Ancram and North East. This boundary • Some of the land U particularly adapted to grazing pur was changed, as will be explained farther on, so that a poses, and dairying is carried on to some extent. Iron ore has been obtained at different points in the hills along the trianfmlarO tract of land,' called" Boston Corners," containing about one thousand acres, was set off from Massachusetts east border, and near the Taghkanic, in the north part of and annexed to Ancram; the northern limb of the angle the town. Lead ore hiis also been mined at Hot Ground, above described becoming one side of the triangle. Sub near the centre. sequently, a triangular piece of land containing about one This town is well supplied with railroads. The New thousand acres was taken from Ancram and annexed to York and Harlem railroad was built through this town in Copake, leaving the northern boundary a straight line as it 1852, and entering at Boston Corners (its only station in is at present. Ancram), runs one and three-fourths miles north into The surface of the town is broken and hilly. The range Copake. The track of this road is elevated on an embank of the Taghkanic mountains occupies the eastern part of the ment some twenty-five feet high for a considerable dis northeast corner. The highest point is Monument moun tance north from this station, and on a slight curve, about tain. A monument on its summit marks the boundaries of half a mile north, the wind has twice blown trains from New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Tlio eiistorn the track. These accidents occurred within a few rods of part of the town adjoining North East is occupied by a high the same spot; the first some eighteen or twenty years rounded edge of land, which is an extension of "Chestnut since, and the last about ten years ago. Both trains con Ridge," in Dutchess county. It is called "West Hill,' sisted of one baggage-car and two coaches each, and were "Card's Hill,"" East Hill," and "Chestnut Ridge." The running south. The engine in each case remained on the latter is the most correct name. In the southwest a broken track, but the cars were lifted bodily from the rails, and range of hills runs in a generally northerly direction, termi rolled over and over down the bank. Some lives were lost nating in a high hill east of Ancram, called " Mill Hill." each time and many people injured. Trains now often The hills tn the northwest are high, but rise with a very wait at tiic station for hours when one of these fierce gradual slope. There is a prominent pointed hill near the easterly winds is blowing, till it abates sufficiently to allow centre of the town, which is called " Croven Hill." Along them to proceed with safety. The Poughkcepsie, Harctord the course of the two piincipal streams in the north centre and Boston railroad enters the town from Pine Plains, of the town the land is flat, low, and swampy, forming a about a mile east of the Gallatin line, and crosses it in a sort of vlaie.. occupying several hundred acres. northeasterly direction, making a wide detour to the north There are several small lakes or ponds in the northern to ""et around the cud of Chestnut Ridge, and leaves the 403 HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. town at Boston Corners. It.s length in Ancrani is 8.07SG7 "Masou Livisgstov, May G. Kip.^. miles, and there are four stations,—Aneram Lead Mines, '■ IIoNi.i;. Sh. : Halstoad, Tanner's, and Boston Corners. The two inter '■On Mtinday Mr, Connor went to Warn tbe People to oi mediate suitions arc flag stations. Near Halstoad are two Theusdny Morning at Tiighkanick. and as he Arrived to Anchoran; wooden trestles .spanning the valleys of two small streams. about .Sun llown, lie Was Informed that there Was a proclainatioh from ye Lieutcnant-Govcmour of Boston Nailed ujion Dirck .^poor The smaller of these is about half a mile south, and is Door, and Mr. Conner being Uneasie to know what Was Meant l.v five hundred and twenty-five feet long and twenty-five feet the jiroclaination being put up there, he Went to Dirck Spoor's, nucj high. The larger one is a few rods north, and is over When they seen him Coming towards the house they took it of au'i one thousand three hundred feet long and sixty-five feet Looked it up in one of their Chest. But Mr. Conner Insisted I'pon Seeing tbe paper that was Nailed to the Door, and After Some Dis- high in its most elevated part. Work was bezun on this pittc Got it out of the Chest, Which is Now Inciused and sent to "i'ou road in 1SC8 (it was then called the Poughkcepsie and for Your Better Information, and as Mr. Connor was in Comcin- Eastern railroad), but trains did not begin running until Whome lie Came by Ancboram, Where he Stayed till Ten O'clock a: Aug. 1, 1S72, when the first regular train ran over the Night; he Likewise ordered the peojileof Ancboram to keeji to^utln-r in one house, and to be Sure to Make Deffcnce, But in Steed of li. ;. whole length of the road. The first siiipnient of freiirht fending Themselves the fl ed after a Base Mannor, and Made Ni. 1;. . from Aneram Lead Mines was eleven cans of milk sent to si.otauec at all. New \ork by Jacob Miller. After the usual preliminaries " Inclosed you have the Number of Men Which Were taken liiis the town was bonded in aid of this railroad to the amount Morning out of Anchoram By the New England Company, and vimr 1 Scrvt., Jacob Knight, Who Was among them, and call'd out to tlie of 830,000, receiving in return three hundred shares of New England People to ty tbe Ancboram, and as Mr. Connor In tlie capiuil stock. The commis-sioners of the town in the formed me that the New England Sheriff Come up to Mr. Decker and work of bonding were Peter P. Rossman, John M. Smith, Shook hands With bim, and said be Would not take him, and Mr. and Backus Mclntyre. The bonds were to run thirty Decker never offered to make any Ressistance and all against him. and its said they are to Come and take Mr. Conner and the Re.«t of years, bearing seven per cent, interest. Subsequently the the Anchoram People, and We are Going there Now With aComjiany road was mortgaged, the mortgage became due, and was of men to Assist him as far as We Can. foreclosed, and tlie road was sold, so tliat now tlie town has " I am, bond. Sr., your most no interest in the road, they having sold their stock at a " Obedient Saperriwn. Town Clerka. Collectors. 1838. Henry S. Hoysradt. 1857. William W. Hoysrad;. 1S:{C. I)uncan Kesfsr. iJavid K. Trlp|i. Henry I. Silvernail. John D. Owen. Asa Hoag. 1S«7. D.irid K. Tripp. John Silv'cruail, Jr. John Moarc. 1830. John Kissclbrack. 1858. Enocl) N. .Siivder. IS3S. Jjdcph Ual^iead. DdiieuQ Kcjl'cr. John B. Oweu. 1859. Simeon M. Collier. 1839. Richard Muorc. John Woodward. 1840. John Munroc. 1860. James Butts. 1840. Ale. place was built by Livingston about 1775, for a Mr. Mabey, ; organization until 185G this church was connected with [j,.. the father of Henry Mabey, late of Ancram. It was owned Copake charge, but since that time has been connected \vi;l, afterwards by Robert Van Deuscn, who bought it of Liv the Ancram church. ingston, and for a period of eigliteen years by John Rocke The pastors have been Revs. L. M. Pease, Loyal R, feller. Id the spring of 18G5 it was purchased by the drus, Jeremiah Ham, Aaron Hunt, Jr., Cyrus G. Piiud;. present owner, Eason Card. It is located on Punch brook, Marvin R. Lent, Isaac K. Lent. Fv. S. Anierman. TiiniHiL- a mile north of Ancram Lead Mines, and has three runs of Ellis, Edward Ashton, Hiram Lamont, Abram Davis. Ih-t- stone driven by a fourteen-foot overshot wheel. It is used jamin H. Burcb, Edward Ashton, James Burch. J. ]] only for custom grindiug. During the anti-rent troubles a Michel], S. P. Gallaway, and Adee Vail, the present jtastor. society was organized in Ancram, which met at the house who wa.s appointed to this charge in the spring of 1S7S. of Rockefeller. There were but a few members, and only The present officers are Eason Card. George Egglosnm, one meeting was held. During this exciting period the William Hoag, and William Tanner, trustees; Eason Card, barns and out^buildings of David K. Tripp, in the west part George Eggleston, William W. Tanner, and William Tan of the town, were burned by the anti-reuters. ner, stewards. The number of members is sixty, and the Sabbatli-- Joha Mclntyre, Mrs. Heorj Strever, Mr. and Mrs. George The Gallatinville school numbers about forty, and b under Finkle, Henry Englekee, Mrs. J. P. White, Mrs. Henry the superintendence of Jacob Edleman. Miss Kate Bush, Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. John I. Lown, Widow Lown, Eliza secretary. beth Turner, Mrs. Henry Hoysradt, Mrs. Tiel Dennis, John The school at the Weaver school-house, in the north part Hines, Margaret Shook, Regina House, Lydia C. Traver, of Gallatin, has about fifty scholars. George Palmer is the and Clarissa Cryne. superintendent, and P. P. Bush is the secretary. Steps were taken to build a church, subscriptions were The fourth school is at the Niver school-house, in district made by one hundred and three persons to an aggregate No. 3. Abraham A. Yosburgh is the superintendent, and amount of S1334, and at a subsequent meeting held at the John Pelts the secretary. It has a membership of about house of John H. Miller, in Gallatin, Peter P. Rossman, thirty scholars. Jacob F. Suydam, and Henry Silvernail were appointed as a building committee. The work was pushed forward and ANCEAM LEAD MINES PRESBYTERIAN CHUROH. the church erected during the summer of 18-47. A Mr. This church was built in the summer of 1847, by Ezra Traver, from Valatie, did the work. The cost of the build Burrows, of Copake, at a total cost of $3500. The lot was ing was §2400. The site was purchased of Claudius Mo- donated by John and Adam Hoysradt, and was situated nell, and contains a little over an acre of ground. In the about two miles northwest of Ancram Lead Mines, on the fall of 1854 the front of the church was extended about Ancram road. It was built as a Union church, the Luth fifteen feet and a belfry added, costing about $1000 in all. erans being entitled to the use of the building one-fourth The parsonage was built during the pastorate of Rev. of the time. It was dedicated in June, 1848, by Rev. Dr. JIatthew Mallinson, about 1853, at a cost of about $1500. Darling, of Albany, then of Hudson. In the fall of 1859 The value of the church property is not fur from $6000. the church was taken down, and rebuilt at its pre.sent loca Commencing with the small number above named, the tion in Ancram Lead Mines. The present site was given society has constantly increased in numbers until it now has by William Tanner. The removal and repairs cost alto a membership of one hundred and seventy. Three hun gether about $1150. It was re-dedicated in June, 1860; dred and eighty-four persons have had their names inscribed Rev, William Leavitt, of Hudson, preaching the sermon. upon its roll of members. The present valnation of the property is about $3000. The pastors have been as follows, viz.: Revs. William The church was a branch of the Pine Plains church until Askam, Matthew Mallinson, Nicholas Wert, William Hull, 1877, when the church was separately organized. The orig Matthew Mallinson, William H. Shalland, John L. Smith- inal number of members was about twenty-five, and the deal, A. N. Daniels, and John Kling, who is the present present number is about forty-five. There were quite ex pastor, and entered upon this field of labor in the spring of tensive revivals in 1866-67, and in 1877-78. The last 1877. Rev. John L. Smithdeal died while pastor of this one added twenty three to the church. church, May 1, 1871. The society was incorporated at a meeting held in the The first ecclesiastical officers of the church were elected church on the 12th of February, 1867. John M. Smith Aug. 20, 1859, as follows, viz.: Cornelius Silvernail and and Duncan K. Pulver presided, and Asa Hoag, John M. Franklin Hoysradt, deacons; Jeremiah Williams, Jacob Smith, Henry Hoysradt, Eaton H. Card, Backus Mclntyre, Lasher, and Abraham A. Yosburgh, elders. and Hiram Hoysradt were elected trustees. John Seism, Philip H. Turner, Archelaus Brandt, George The present officers are Frederick C. Barton, Egbert H. Niver, Hiram Williams, Lyman A. Backman, Michael Miller, Duncan K. Pulver, A. C. Niver, Jamw Mickle, Rowe, Philip M. Lown, and Talmadge Decker have also John M. Smith, trustees; John M. Smith and Duncan K. served as deacons, the three last named being the present Pulver, elders; George H. Hopper, clerk. incumbents. While connected with Pine Plains Presbyterian church Jonas Felts, Cornelius Silvernail, George Palmer, Her- Rev. William N. Sayre was the pastor. Since the separa raon Miller, and Abraham A. Voshurgh have served as tion, July 1, 1877, Rev. Emory Yan Wagoner has been elders, and the three last named are the present elders. pastor. The church was incorporated July 15, 1847, at a meet The Sunday-school Is a summer school, and was first or ing held at the school-house in district No. 7, at four ganized about 1850-55, with William H. Smith as super o'clock P.M. Peter Lasher and Peter P. Rossman pre intendent. The present membership is about sixty, and sided. Seven trustees were elected, as follows, viz.: Peter the library contains over one hundred and fifty volumes. Lasher, Henry Silvernail, John 1. Lown, Jonas Felts, Peter The present officers are John M. Smith, superintendent; P. Rossman, Jacob Loucks, and Jacob F. Suydam. The Mrs. Evelyn Hoysradt, assistant superintendent; William present trustees are James E. Stickle, John J. Stickle, N. Smith, secretary; Mrs. Elizabeth Barton, treasurer; Ellsworth J. Brandt, Robert Hinsdale, Robert Backman, Albert L. Hoysradt, librarian. and Horace Yosburgh. There are four Sabbath-schools ANCRAM IRON-WORKS. connected with this church. The Ancram school numbers about fifty scholars, and its library contains about one The town of Ancram first derived prominence and noto hundred volumes. The officers are Rev. John Kling, riety from the iron-works erected by Robert Livingston, superintendent; Abraliam A. Yosburgh, assistant super grandson of the first lord of the manor, at Ancram village, intendent; Philip M. Lown, secretary; Rosa Woodward, in 1748. This was the firat, and for many years the only treasurer; Philip M. Lown, librarian. iron-works in the colony. The furnace stood on the site of HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. the present paper-mill, at the south end of the bleacbing- dam and water-privilege, and 3Ir. Peaslee owns about a room. The top-house was on the north side. There were dozen dwelling-bouses, occupied mostly by his employees. four forges built at different times,—one stood near the furnace, one stood nearly opposite on the east side of the MINING INTERESTS. kill, one stood near the dam on the west side, and the other • There are four mines in Ancram,—three iron mines and was about eighty rods down the stream on the west bank. one lead mine. The first of these in importance is the The one near the dam was carried away by a freshet in the spring of 1839. Tbe others were torn down, with the ex WEED IRON MINE. ception of tbe lower one, which was afterwards converted This is located on the north line of the town, about a into a dwelling. The ore used was formerly brought from mile and a half from the Massachusetts line.- It was fir.>-it Salisbury, Conn., in carts, but about 1830-35 they began opened about 1775-80, and the ore was then used at Salis to get ore from the Copake mine. The ore was first made bury and at Ancram. About twenty.years ago it was pur into pig-iron in the furnace, and then refined in the forges, chased by.Captain Weed,of Salisbury, Conn., and since that and made into bar, and rod-iron of all kinds. The manu time it has been actively worked. Its owners since tiicu factures of this furnace won a wide reputation for their have.been tbe" Columbia County Iron Company,"" Weed excellence. ' "When running full force the works furnished Iron Company,"" Weed Ore Company." It is now being employment for from sixty to one hundred men as colliers, worked by George Williams, lessee, of Amenia, N. Y. It teamsters, founders, blacksmitlis, etc. "The iron-works re is worked by the open-cut method, and the present vein mained in the possession of the Livingston family until has been worked to a depth of about fifty .feet. Tiic ore 1845, when 4t was sold under foreclo.sure of mortgage to mined here is hematite ore, of a fine,quality, containing Peter P. Rossman and Joseph D. Monell. In 1847, Ross- from forty-five to fifty and .a half per cent, of metallic iron. man sold out to Monell, who held it till 1853,'when he sold About fifteen thousand tons are mined yearly, furtiisliing to George W. Platner; In 1854 the furnace was torn employment for about thirty men and several teams. The down, and a paper-mill was erected on the site by Platner ore is take'n from the mine in cars drawn by one horse on u and Elizur Smith, of Lee, Mass. It was afterwards owned railroad, and, after being washed in the Newbold washer, by Stephen H. Platner and Peter G. Conkling, and was is loaded on the cars. There is an inclined plane seven sold by them in 1859 to Messrs. Pcaslee & Carpenter, of hundred feet' long; leading to the track of the New York Kindcrbook, who erected the present and Harlem railroad, up which the ore is drawn in cans hv a wire cable and drum run by steam-power. The lllunc- PEASLEE's PAPER-MILL. . beck and Connecticut railroad track runs very near ilie It was not built all at once, but the difierent buildings mine. The pumps and washer are run by a twenty Iiorsc- were put up from time to time during the four years suc power Rider steam-engine, and two smaller engines, ilic ceeding the sale. In 1864 they rebuilt the dani in a very power being furnished by a flue boiler and a tubular builiT durable manner. The present proprietor, George H. Peas- of forty horse-power each. ' lee, succeeded this firm in 1868, and continues the business. This mill is the largest one in Columbia county. Tlie main TUB REYNOLDS.ORE-BED building, which is fifty-four by ninety feet and two stories is located on the farm of Jesse Reynolds, three miles south high, stands east and west, and is flanked by two wings one of the Weed mine, near the foot of Chestnut ridge. li and a half stories high, the southern one being the machine- was first opened by Eiias Reynolds about 1855-56. He room, sixty by ninety-five feet, and the nortliern one tbe prospected for and tested the ore, and finally sold a niinltig- bleach-room, fifty-seven -by seventy-six feet Tlie buildings lease covering thirty acres to James W. Wilson, of New are built of heavy cut stone and covered with slate roofs. York. It passed through the hands of a number of jHT>>in>, They cost about $50,000. The machines (one seventy- being worked by them to a greater or less extent. .•Viiimig two-inch, and one'sixty-eight-inch cylinder) are set upon these was the "Empire Company," The present owm-rs iron beams, supported by iron columns, and turn out an are the "American Iron Company," of New York city, aggregate of from" twenty to.twenty-five tons of wrapping- Francis A. Palmer president. It is leased on royalty by paper each week... Tbe materials used-are about thirty tons James M". Winchell -& Son, of Millerton, N. Y. Sinw of straw; five or six tons of lime, and twenty' tons of coal 1.875-the mine, has not been-worked.- The cut is about each week, and employment is afibrded for forty-five or fifty sixty feet deep, and of an irregular circular form, boiiu- hands. The water is curried from tlie dam in a trunk times ten thousand tons of ore have been taken out in otic three hundred feet long, and furnishes power to run three year. The mine was furnished with,a fine steam-eiigim'. a turbine-wheels,T^ne of seventy-five horse-power and two No. 5 cannon-pump, and a .Bradford washer. A of twenty horse-power each..- The fall in the stream is four miles long was built iwme years since, connecting tlic thirty feet at this point. In the bleach-room are eight mine with the Harlem railroad at Boston Corners. boiling-tubs or vats, each having a capacity of four tons of the Poughkeepsie and Eastern, road was built this track staw, and the straw, after bleaching and washing, is ground was sold to them. to pulp in six engines, the roll-bars of .which are thirty-six inches in length.. The total cost of the buildings and THE MORGAN IRON MINE. machinery was about $100,000. The real estate connected This mine is located on the Arthur Mc.\rthur fann, two with the mill consists of about fifty acres, exclusive of the miles cost of Ancram Lead Mines. It was first discovered HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTT, NEW YORK. owner of the mine by virtue of a purchase of the soil. In by LivingstoQ about 1776, but was not worked uutil withm 1850 March 1—the mine was leased for a period of twelve the last twenty-five years.. It is a small mine, and rath^er years to Josiah Sturgis, of New York, who worked it for difficult to work, and has been lying idle, since.1876.. Its about three years, and then sold the lease to Alexander C. capacity was rated at seven thousand tons per annum, and Farrington.for S2000. It remained idle till 1863-64, when the ore contained over forty-three per cent of metallic iron. a stock company was formed and the mine was fitted up George Williams, of Amenia, is the present owner of the with ail the most improved machinery for crushing, wash- in", hoisting, and handling the ore, at a great expense. The THE ANCEAM LEAD MINE. , , company continued operations about two years, and then About seventy years .ago Henry. Keefer had what is slopped, since which time nothing has been done. The called a « stone bee," at which his neighbors lent their as shaft was sunk to a depth of one hundred feet, and gal sistance to clear a field of the stone that so greatly interfered leries of varying length were opened in all directions. with the work of cultivation. . While prying out some pro The town of Ancram was bonded to the amount ot jecting rock he was struck by the strange metallic lustre it 823,500 to raise money to pay bounties to volunteers to posseted; and upon investigation found it to be lead ore. fill the town's quota of soldiers in the war for the suppres The farm was held under lease, and Livingston, hearing of sion.of the Rebellion. Peter P. Rossman, Elisha Moore, the discovery, immedlately.bought him out and erected a David Brandt, Warren D. Tripp, Simeon M. Collier, Asa small smciting.furnace, in which he .reduced the ore. He Hoa«' Henry Hoysradt, Willis Hoag, William S. Thomp continued to run the mine for about ten years. It wasjhen son,'^Nelson Boucher, and William W. Tanner served on abandoued, and remained idle until.ia 1836 or. 1837 the the war committee, and Elisha Moore, Grosvcnor B. Ross- lease was bought by a New York company, who worked it I man,and Archelaus Brandt were the recruiting committee. a couple of years. In 1818, Harmon Mclntyre became GAL LATIN. has an average depth of about twelve feet, and is said to This,the central southern town of the county,is bounded 1 be very deep in some plac^, it being asserted that it h^ north by Taghkanic, east by Ancrara, south by Milan and |been sounded to a depth of five hundred feet without find- Pine Plains, in Dutchess county, and- west by Livin^too. in" bottom. The shores of the lake are gently .sloping, and It is the seventh town of the county in area, containing generally cultivated to the water's edge. The e twenty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty-niue acres, of the lake is, however, occupied by a heavily-wooded hill of which leas than three-fourths is under cultivation.. In that- rises in an easy slope from the water and attains a population it now ranks as the seveuteeuth towuj and its height of several hundred feet. This lake was named after population has been reported at the four last censuses as fol- I a slave of Robert S. Livingston, who was his ho^keeper lows, viz.: in 1860, 1533; in 1865, 1392; iiLl870,.U16; i at a house he buUt on the shore of the lake. ^The outlet in 1875v 1361. It is centrally distant southeasterly from of the lake is at the outer angle. -It flows south for a mile Hudson about thirteen miles. - and then takes a westerly course through the town to Liv The character of the surface is hilly in the extreme. A ingston, and, after running a- course of about eight miles, narrow strip of comparatively level land borders the Roeloff eoipties into Roeloff Jansen's-Kill. The banks of this Jansen's Kill and the outlet of Lake Charlotte, but these stream are low and flat for the firat four miles of its course, lands soon change to rolling and soon to hilly country. The and after that are steep and rocky. Roeloff Jansen s Kiil, hills are generally arable to their summits, but a high range the principal stream, enters the town near the centre of its of rocky, sterile hills enters the town near Lake Charlotte , east line, and runs a rather tortuous course of some five and in the northeast part, and extends in a southwesterly direc a half miles, in a southwesterly direction, passing into i me tion nearly across the town. The culmiuating point of this Plains near Mount Ross. It again bends to the northward range is " Mattashuk Hill," south of Lake Charlotte. The about a mile west of. Jackson's Corners, and becomes the soil is generally of a slaty or gravelly loam, and is mode southern boundary untU it enters the town of Livm^ton. rately fertile. In the valleys the land is of a good quality The banks of this stream are generally steep and sometimta for agriculture, and the hills in the south and east parts are rocky, and its course is quite rapid, affording several good fertile and productive. The crops raised are the same as mill-seats. ,. . in adjoining towns, rye being the principal grain. Gallatin waa formerly a part of the Lmogstoi. manor. The principal body of water is Lake Charlotte, some ThU town wan first settled in the latter part of the seven times called Goby's pond, after a mau who once lived on teenth centnry by emigrants from Holland and Germany its shore, wliich lies near the centre of the north border of We are enable to give much of a sketch of tins earliest the town. It lies in the form of a bent arm, with the elbow settlement, and in giving the names of early settlers we to the west. It occupies some one hundred and fifty acres, HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NHW YORK. refer to the carlieft ol" ttIioiu anj record or tradition is in hance's residence, and Coon's was near the present residence existence. Tliese first settlers followed the course of the of Mr. William Pulver. Both of these men enlisted in iln- streams, and selected their farms as far as possible in the American army and served in the Revolution. Wlicelcr intervals and fiats. Probably the first inhabitant of the returned after the close of the war and became a resident, town was a man bj the name of Hans Dings, who, as but Coon was killed in the war. His widow aftenvard.- tradition says, came here nearly two centuries ago. As is married Hendrick Younghance, and he retained the iL-a.-e. indicated by his name, he was a Hollander, and upon his which was passed down from one generation to aiiotlicr until arrival in this countrj* decided to take up his residence about 1860, when the title to the soil was purchased bv upon some part of the Livingston manor. Following the Henry Younghance (a grandson of Hendrick Younghanccj. course of the kill to find a good location, he at last came who at present owns tlte lands first owned by Wheeler and to an Indian wigwam standing in a lovely glade, and .stopped Goon. there to rest and refresh himself after his toilsome journe}'. Hendrick Hoysradt was an early settler on the farm nnw The Indian seemed very friendly, and finally invited Dings occupied by Egbert Silvemail, on the east side of the creek. to come to that point and make a settlement. Returning He was one of the first members of the "A'edder" chun-li. to the manor-house. Dings related his adventures, and Liv and always punctual and regular in his attendance on tlic ingston sent a messenger to bring the Indian to him. A services. However, wheu it was thought best to liold the consultation was then held, which resulted in the drawing services, at lc;ist a portion of the time, for the benefit of tlic up of a lease satisfactoiy to all parties, and Dings imme English-speaking inhabitants, he rather demurred, and oniv diately entered upon bis possessions and cut a boundary attended when the sermon to be delivered was given in the line around them. Here the Dings family lived through German language. At one time the pastor, in order to give several generations, until finally the proprietor of the manor to all the benefit of his discourse, translated the discourse suspecting that the farm boundaries included more land into English, and after preaching awhile in German,stopped than the lease called for, caused it to be resurveyed, and and gave the English version, and then proceeded through thus cut off a parcel of land on which was situated a fine the sermon in the same way. The moment the last clause mill-privilege. This incensed the occupant of the farm, of the German discourse was uttered, Hoysradt left his seat and he sold out his lease to Livingston, and removed to and stalked gloomily from the church without waiting to Pennsylvania. On the farm he there occupied, one of the hear it translated.' most valuable coal mines in the State was afterwards dis Matthew George settled on the place now occupied by covered. The Dings farm remained in the possession of Hiram Wheeler. He kept a blacksmith-shop there, and the Livingstons until it was sold to John G. Silvemail. also did something in the line of selling liquor. His son, Egbert Silvemail, now owns and occupies it. It The place now owned by Andrew Coons was first settled originally consisted of three hundred and sixty acres. The by bis grandfather, Andris Coons. That of S. P. Ilain house occupied by the Dings family was built of very heavy by John Harris. That of Caleb Woleott by Christian timbers, some of them being twenty inches square, and Duntz. That of Micha^ Rowe by Heinrich Shook, wlio stood on the south side of the road, directly opposite the is said to have been a fat and rosy Dutchman, who.sc chief present dwelling. It was a long bouse, and stood with its occupation was trying to keep on the shady side of the house side to the road. It was torn down some time during the during the hot days of summer, and endeavoring in winter first quarter of the present century. When it was being to secure an equable distribution of the heat of the fire to demolished, several old documents were found in secure every portion of his body. hiding-places. Most of these were written in Dutch, but John Nicholas Duff was the name of the man who first a few of them were in English. One of the latter was an settled on and cleared the farm now owned by Henry Sil article X)f indenture, by which a young girl, an emigrant, vemail. was bound out as an apprentice by a Captain Hazard to Cornelius Miller was the first settler on the farm now pay her passage-money by a service of sixytars. occupied by Jacob and Adam Fingar, and Frederick Fin- Some years ago, while grading for the foundations of a gar was the first on that occupied by William Fingar, wlm building, a number of human skeletons were discovered a is one of his descendants. few rods cast of the site of the old liouse. One of them Oliver Griswold was the first settler in the northeast was that of a man who must have been over seven feet in part of the town, about five miles north of Gallatinvilio. height, a veritable giant. It is supposed that this was an Nicholas Miller settled in Gallatin, a little south of Aiicrain Indian burial-place. Other relics of the aborigines who village, on the place which still bears his name. John Kil- once inhabited this territory, in the shape of spear and more, on the Kilraorc place, and Peter Johnson were aho arrow-heads, have frequently been discovered. Mr. Silver- early settlers. nail has a spear-head made of fiint now in his possession. In the northwest.part of the town the first settlers were ORGANIZATION. the families of two men named Coon and Wheeler. They This town was formed from Ancram, March 27, iSihh were brothers-in-law and commenced a clearing together, a by running a north and south line across the town near tbo short distance .east of -the present site of the Methodist centre. It was named Gallatin in honor of Hon. Albert church. After the clearing was completed they divided the Gallatin, who was secretary of the treasury of the United land into equal portions and proceeded to build their houses. States in 1801-13. When the town of Livingston was i 'i Wheeler's house stood near the site of Mr. Henry Young- divided, in 1803, the part which was afterwards called A"- HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. cram was named Gallatin. This was changed, in 1814, to Soperrison. Town Clerks.- Collectors. Ancram, and when the division of 1830 occurred the name 1871. Jacob H. Duntz. H. A. Van Valken- Egbert Fingar. of Gallatin was revived and assumed bj the new town. . burgh. 1872. " " " " John P. Magley. The first town-meeting was held in the following April, 1873. R. Younghance. John M. Felts. Philip A. Stall. and we append a copy of the record : 187i. " " " " . John H. Duntz, Jr. 1875. Wm. H. Snyder. Norman Weaver. William Shook. "At a towD-meetiDg held, agreeable to law, at the Hoaee of John 1876. Jacob H. Duntz. " " Horace Coons. P. Killmer, io the Tono of Gallatin, on the Sixth Day of April, 1830, 1877. " ." Millard Rockefeller. B. M. Rockefeller. when the follotring persons were Elected to office, and the following 1878. " " " " John H. Inzles. regnlntions were adopted, viz.: John S. Harris was chosen modemtor of the day; Abraham F. Miller, supervisor; Marks Picster, town JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. clerk; John A. Uoysrsdt, Jacob Teal, Jr., and William I. Coon, as 1330. Job D. Tanner. . Alexander StalL - sessors; John L. Duntzs, Cornelius Vanbenschutcn, and John E. 1831. John Coons. . Philip Feltz. Loomis, commissioners of highways; George Rowe, Job D. Tanner, George Bowo. . Henry Younghance. and Adam Hoysradt, commissioners of schools; Isaac T. Loomis, 1832. Philip H. Mink. Lodowick Snyder. Robert' N. Van Deusen, and Henry Younghause, inspectors of 1833. Walter Hutchings. Charles H. Lown. - schools; John P. Killmer, Philip U. Mink, and Lodawick Snyder, Henry Youoghance. .' Adam H. Duntz. - overseers of the poor; Job D. Tanner, justice of the peace; James 1834. Lodowick Snyder. Abram Lyle. H. Miller, collector; James H. Miller, John Smith, John A. Smith, 1835. John Coons. Silas B. Myers. and Humphrey Crary, constables; Duncan Thompson, poundmas- 1836. David G. Scott. . William R. Smith. ter; Andris Colpougb, inspector and sealer of weights and meas 1837. Walter Hutchings. John E. Phillips.' ures. (Then follows a list of thirty overseers of highways, and the Adam Hoysradt. . Ebenezer Smith. usual restrictions upon the running at largo of animals.) Henry P. Mink. . Abram Lyle. "It was voted at said Meeting that the colleolor's fees shall he 18-38. John Coons. George White. Three cents on a Dollar. 1330. William F. Smith. . Andrew Burger. "Marks Piesteb, Totcn CUrk." 1840. Henry P. Mink. Philip Feltz. We append a full list of the most prominent town officers 1841. William W. Smith. . Robert Younghance. Isaac Miller. Philip Feltz. from the organizatiou to the present time: 1842. William I. Stall. . Philip Feltz. John L. Duntz. . -Abram Lyle. TOWN OFFICERS FROM ISSO TO 1878. Adam Hoysradt. . Andrew Burger. 1843. John I. Clark. Franklin Hoysradt. Supervisors. Town Clerks. CoUoctors. Lodowick Snyder. . Philip Feltz. . Abraham P. Miller. Marks Piester. James H. Miller. Isaac Miller. Edward I. Weaver. . John Coons. John Norwood. 1844. Philip Shook. Edward I. Weaver. . Henry Younghance.. Adam Hoysradt. William F. Smith. 1845. Philip Feltz. Jacob Edleman. . Philip H. Mink. « u Peter Bathrick. William Fingar. Martin Wosbbum. . John Coons. Henry P. Mink. William F. Smith. 1846. William F. Smith. Philip Feltz. . Adam Hoysradt. II II it ii 1847. James Ingles. Franklin Hoysradt. « i( Marks Piester. John Van Tassel. Isaac T. Loomis. Edward I. Weaver. . Lodowick Snyder. (( It Samuel W. Coons. 1848. Philip Shook. Frederick F.Smith. « « Ambrose Smith. William F. Smith. 1349. Isaao Miller. William H. Snyder. . Abraham F. Miller. Chris. Hoysradt. Thomas Scntt, Jr. Walter Hutchings. William Fingar, Jr. Walter Hutobings. 1850. Philip Feltz. Philip Feltz. « <4 Henry P. Mink. Peter Jocoby. 1851. Mosher Spaulding. Herman V. Lyle. Abram Lyie. John S. Fulton. Edward Loomis. William F. Smith. John E. Philips.- « « " " Jacob Feller. 1852. John Scott. William H. Snyder. . John S. Fulton. Eli Loomis. Henry Lavey. 1853. Isaac Miller. Edward L Weaver. . Jacob F. Suydam. " " Ahrubam Carle. Abram LyIe. John Seism. ' . It It " " Isaac T. Loomis. Eli Loomis. Adam Duntz. Thomas Duntz. The towD subscribed for four hundred and fifty shares II II " " James Wentwortb. Jacob F. Suydam. H.W.Vnn BenscbotenJohn £. Pbeips. of the proposed Rhinebeck aud Coonecticut nulroad, and Milton Smith. " " John Knickerbocker. is.saed ninety town bonds of the amount of $500 each, and John II. Duntz. William Wheeler. Fite Jacoby. paid them to the president of the company, Edward Martin, John S. Fulton. Philip Shook. Edward I. Weaver. Oct. 27, 1874, ill payment of the subscription. The road 11 II " " Philip B. Kipp, Charles Ilinsdale. II.W.Van BenscfaotcnDeajainin Snyder. was built through this town in the summer of 1S74, and it <• « John Lasher. Adam I. Duntz. has about five and two-elevenths miles of track lying within H.'Van Bensoboten. " " Robert Van Deusen. its limits. Mount Ross station (named after an English (( II Murks Picster. Thomas T. Scult. man named Ross, who settled near it at an early day, erro Henry Sircver. John Gray. Peter A. Wheeler. 11 II " " Jacob Hood. neously mentioned in the Gazetteer as being io the neigh H. Van Benschotch. Daniel 0. Smith. William Snyder. borhood of Gallatinville), just beyond the town line, in Isaac Smith. William H. Miller. Joseph A. Weaver. Butehess county. Gallatinville, Jackson's Comers, and Norman Mngley. Benjamin Snyder. Elizaville (near Union Corners), are the stations io and ad Jacob If. Duntz. Norman Weaver. Wilson Smith. William H* Snyder. William C. Wheeler. jacent to this town. - " " Tobias Moon. At a meeting of the board of town auditors, held Feb. " " JI. Van Benscboten. 8, 1875, it was resolved to issue another series of bonds, to Isaac Smith. William Fingar, Jr. Stephen Kellerbouse. the amount of $25,000, payable (after seven years) $2000 Henry Younghance. " " John Knickerbocker. II II Eli Weaver. John Miller. annually. Wm. W. Hinsdulc. " " Hiram Wheeler. The towu-meetings are usually held either at Gailatiu-' .HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW. YORK. ville or Weaver Hollow, but sometimes at other places. these have in many cases been obliterated by the efTacitu: The town is divided into two election districts, the polling- finger of Time. The oldest :dale now to be seen is" 17S2," places being located at Gallatinville and Weaver Hollow. on a stone marked "A. D.," and the most ancient readabic The villages of this town are small, scarcely deserving inscription is the followiDg, wliich marks the resting-piaci.' more than the name of hamlets." of a son of Peter Dennis, viz. ; ."Id memory of William Dinnies, Sod of Petries and Mary Din- - - GALLATIXVILLE, - nies, who departed Ibis life Sept. the 2d, 1799, Aged 19 years i :i which is the largest, lies on Roeloff Jansen's Kill, in the inontbs." eastern part of the town. It is a station on the Rhinebeck - The largest cemetery is the one at the Vedder church," and Connecticut railroad, twenty mileshortbeast from Rhine- which contains about three acres of ground and some twelve beck, and.contains two stores, one hotel, a grist-mill, a hundred" graves. The ground is on a gently-rolling lot, in plaster-mill, two wagon and blacksmith-shops, and about a which the church is built. The oldest graves date back to dozen dwellings. • The first store on the south side of the 1770, although without doubt many burials took j)lace creek was kept by Adam Hoysradt, some fifty or sixty there at an earlier date. One of these oldest inscriptions years ago. The first school in this neighborhood now re reads,— membered was kept by an Irishman, named Nicholas Conroe, "Katrinna, Wcib von ■- in a log school-house which stood near the site of the present Johannes Ham, IS • - gc Storbcn Sep 14, ' red school-house, in district No. 7, a mile south of the vil ' 1770 Im 27 : Jahr ^ lage. Gallatinville has.a post-office. ' ' Iber Alther. ." . WEAVER hollow" ; Another commemorates " Doct. Elijah Adams, a patriot and soldier of the Revolution," who died in 1837, at the is situated on the outlet of Lake Charlotte, in the'north west part of the town. It is built mostly on the south'slde age of eighty-three years." of the creek on a ,high bank, and contains one store and . A fine monument standing at the west of the churcli hotel, a grist-mill, plaster-raill, saw-mill, distillery, a black bcare the following inscriptions, which explain themselve.-j. smith-shop, and half a dozen houses. Henry P. and Philip On the west side,— H. Mink were the first residents, and the place was called '' ' "Rev. Herman "Vedder." ' "Mink Hollow" for a long time, after them. The pro . ! . . Died' .• .. '7. . . . . June 29tb, 1873,' prietor of the manor built the first saw-mill on "Dove In the 9Cth year creek" (the outlet of Lake Charlotte) for their use. Philip . . of bis age.' Mink also kept a store there. After several years the prop^ 'I have foilght a good figh^:. ■ J;'...... " I have fi nished my cours^ erty was purchased by Peter and Joseph Weaver, and-the I bavc kopt the faith." place became "Weaver Hollow," though it.is at present sometimes called '^Snydervilie" and "West Gallatiu." And,on the south face,— "Weaver.Hollow" is the more common name. The nearest "Rev. Herman Vedder .. . r post-office is Livingston. I ; ' ' ' Served.. . , ^ . as Pastor of. ^ UiriON'CORNERS, . , , ' " ' " . i thisohurch. . - formerly called "Hariison's Corners" and "Pleasant Vale," C1 years'. f ' Servant of God, well.done :. in the'southeast part of Livingston, lies partly in this town. Rest from thy lov^ employ; . . The post-office there is'" Elizaville." , • The battle fought, the victory, won, Enler thy Master's joy.'" • JACKSON'S CORNERS, . a small village in't>uteh^;county, lies partly in this town. • The cemetery at the West Gallatin Methodist Episcopal church is a small one, and contains but a few graves, none [. There are two churches in this town, one of them of the RefoVmed Protestant Dutch denomination, the other.a of them antedating the century. Methodist Episcopal church. '• Their histories follow under appropriate headings. .. . . ; BEPORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH IN GALLATIN. The earliest record relates to the baptism of infants, and ■ ". . ' . CEMETERIES.. "" ! is dated 1748. Probably the organization was effected at . There; are two cemeteries in Gallatin, and there have about that lime, under the ministjatioos of Rev. J. Frcy- been several • private burial-grounds, most of which have moet.' , . become obliterated.' Many of the people go to Ancram and The'first name or title of this church was that of " Siis- Pine Plains to bury their dead. sick" (probably '^Stissinff" from the mountain at the south), . Probably the oldest of the burial-grounds, is that near the second that of" Ancram," before the town was'dividod Mr. E. Silveroail's, known as in 1830 ; and for many years, in its old age, it has borne the fresh and verdant name of " the Greenbush Church." It ■ THE DINGS BDRYING-GRODND.) is popularly known as the " Vedder" church, after its long Most of the stones erected there were of slate, and were time pastor, Rev. H. Vedder. rudely engraved, often with but the initial letters of tlie The earlier church edifice was a square frame structure name of the person . whose grave they marked. Even with a square or " hip" roof, and stood nearly south from HISTORY OR COLUMBIA. COUNTY, NEW YORK. the present site and.a few rods distant." Its.pulpit was of comber, Henry H. Birkins,.Abram Davis, Aaron Coons, J. the barrel shape,then in vogue, and furnished, with a huge Chester Hoyt, H. C. Masten, William Green, N. H. Bangs, sounding-board. In 1823 this building was condemned, and Charles Gorse,.the present incumbent, who is how serv- and the present one built, it being finished and dedicated ; ing.Tiis second year- in this charge, which includes at present" in February," 1824r The sermon : on that occasion was , Jackson Corners, Union Corners, and West Gallatin. A - preached by the pastor, from, Psalm xxii., first .verse: .' I portion of the time this charge has been attached to the was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house one at West.Taghkanic. :" " • . • • • ^ of:the Lord."' In 1872 a pipe-organ was placed in the ^ The present membership consists of some thirty or forty, church at a c(^t,of $1650, exclusive of the cost of building ; pereons. . The! present officers are Friend Smith, Henry. an arched room in the rear of the church to receive it. ; Rockefeller, Henry Younghance, trustees; Henry Young-., The year following, 1873, extensive changes were made in hance, Marks". Duntz, John E. Phillips, stewards; Henry. the interior arrangements at a large outlay... Tn 1874 the Rockefeller; class-leader. The first Sabbatb.school was parsonage was repaired at a cost of $1800. organized about May 1, 1857, with .Henry Youoghance-- The pastors have been, in order of their service, Revis. J. : aa superintendent. The present superintendent is Marks: Freymoet,—^ Lansing, Harman Vedder, F,M. Bogardus, Duntz, with Elizabeth Duntz as assistant The school lias and Dewitt B."Wyckoff, the present pastor. Rev. Herman an average attendance, of about twenty, and has a .library- Vedder served as pastor from 1803 until 1864. He was a of forty or fifly volumes. : - •" - graduate of Union College, in the class of 1799, and died ' manufacturing'INTEUESTS. / ,. . ! _ ^ in the parsonage. of this church in 1873. . Fon a time, during the Reyolutiop, Rev, Dr. J.. H. Livingston supplied The manufacturing interests of -Gallatin are rather small, in number and imp'^rtance.. .The firet of these is the • - the pulpit. ! The present membership is about one hundred and forty. GRIST AND FLOURING MILL A glance at the records from 1748 to 1752 shows that the families of Knickerbocker, Whepler (then spelled Wieler), of Hoysradt.A. Van-Valkenburgh, at Gallatinville. This Williams, Snyder, KUlmer, Silbernail, Wiltsie, and Hallen- mill was built by thC'Livingstons, for John C. Schultz, one, beck had representatives here at that extremely early day, of their tenants." The first owner of the property after the ; The territory over which this church once hield jurisdic Livingstons was Abram F. Miller, who also kept a store. tion is now occupied by no less than fourteen churches, of The mill has since been owned byyVVilliam W. Hoysradt,, several different denominations, but the mother church still William H. Chadwick, Peter Wlieeler, Henry W. Van Beov Stands, a bright and shining light among them all. " schoteii, Mubey & Van Benschoten, and. by the present, owner. : Its dimensions are forty by sixty-five feet, and it is. ■ WEST GALLATIN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHCTRCH.' : fi tted up with three runs of stones, two for flour and one for ■■ During the pastorate of Rev. Thomas Ellis at West ^ plaster and feed. Its capacity for grinding is one hundred Taghkanici a class was formed at Weaver Hollow, in Gal- : and fifty bushels of-rye every twelve hours. Its power is : derived from three central-discharge water-wheels of four latin, consisting of the following persons, viz., John L., An ■ gelina, AbigaU E., Catharine, Eli, and Delia Duntz; Peter feet diameter and ten horse-power each. . The water is pro J., John E., and Rachael Phillips ; Levina Benton ; Philip cured,from the Roeloff Jansen's Kill, and the head and fall is eleven feet. Considerable flour is shipped .to New_yprk,. R. Wagoner; Deborah,"Henry, Robert, and Cathanne and a good deal of custom grinding is done. , Younghance Catharine M. Kellerhouse; .David and Eliza- beth Cole; JaneStott; Jeremiah P. Decker;.John Law '' , "VAN" BENSCHOTEN's FURNACE. . . .. rence; William J. Dykeman; and David Ham. '.The year This establishment is located one and a half miles south in which this class was formed is not definitely known, but west of Gallatinvijlej op a small tributary of the kill. - It it was probably in 1857, . : • In 1858 the first and present church was erected by was built about thirty-five years ago, by Moses Spaulding, Henry Younghance, and, togetlier with the church lot, in as a plow-shop and foundry. It has been subsequently cluding about an acre of ground, by him presented to tlie owned by Jay Van Benschoten, John Spaulding, John society. It was built by Captain Hezekiah Smith, of Hud Mackey, and William H. Snyder. The present owner, son, and is a frame building, painted brown. Its first cost Sliltou Van Benschoten, purchased it of the latter in 1872, was about S7000. It was dedicated by Rev. Joseph B. and has improved it and enlarged its capacity considerably. Wakeley, lo October. 1858. Nothing more than incidental The product of the shop is about one hundred and twenty- repairs have been made since then, and the church is now five plows each year, which, together with the custom work in rather poor condition. It is valued at about $3000. It done, amounts to about $2000 per annum. An overshot stands on a gentle elevation, on the south side of the road, water-wheel, eight feet in diameter, furnishes the power, and the blast is supplied by a fan-blower. about a mile east of Weaver Hollow. The first officers of the church were Henry Younghance, sntder's mills. John E. Phillips, Eli Duntz, John Leonard, trustees; Henry Younghance, steward; Andrew Lawrence, class-leader. These mills are located on Dove creek, at Weaver hollow, Rev. Joseph Elliott was the first pastor, and he has been and the grist-mill and saw-mill were built by the Living succeeded by the following in their regular order, viz., stons, for Henry P. ilink, the first settler at this point. Revs. William S. Boughton, Edward Ashton, J. W. Ma- He held them under a lease, which was afterwards trans- HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. ferred to Joseph A. Weaver. He bought the property in same bounty as volunteers. It was also resolved that any otic 1851, aud in 1869 sold to Adam and G-ermain Fingar and willing to pay the extra sum necessary above the town William H. Snyder. The Fingars sold out to Snyder in bounty should be entitled to a substitute from the volun 1870, and he sold, in 1876, to his son, William H. Snyder, teers already enlisted; and that the supervisor should be Jr., who is the present owner. At present there are four authorized to borrow money on the credit of the town to buildings located within a few rods of one another at dif the extent necessary to carry into effect the resolutions ferent falls along the creek. The stream here runs very already adopted, such money to be repaid by taxes levied rapidly, and falls nearly or quite one hundred feet within a on the town in four annual instalments, the first to be levied distance of fifty or sixty rods. The upper building is the at tlie September meeting of the board of supen-lsors. grist-mill, with two runs of stones, and a fall of twenty feet. In pursuance of the resolutions previously adopted, the Its wheel is an overshot, with a diameter of eighteen feeU committee proceeded to act, and rendered their report to The second building is the feed and plaster-mill, with the town board, OeL 8, 1864, as follows: one run of stones, and an overshot wheel fifteen feet in diameter. Paid for 1 one jesr volunteer $ 550 " 9 one " " @ $.500 4500 The third building is thesaw-roill, fitted with an upright " 6 three year PubstitutCB @ S500 2500 saw-driven by an iron ccntral-dischai^e water-wheel four " 2 one year volunteers @ $725 1450 " 5 two " " " 3fi25 feet in diameter. This mill has done considerable work till " 6 three year " " 4350 $10,975.00 " to Isaac Smith and Jacob H.Duntz, for within a few years. Latterly, it has sawed but a few thou services end expenses 400.00 sand feet in the spring of each year. The fourth, smallest " to town officers for expenses - 28.50 and lowest of these buildings, is a small distillery, used for Total - $17,403.50 manufacturing cider-brandy, and is gauged for eighty-one gallons. Of this amount 87246.34 bad been raised by tax, and •WAR RECORD. the balance, with interest to October 1, amounting to ■ The town of Gallatin was fully awake to the Importance 810,357.16, was scoured by bonds of the town ranging in of the questions of principle and policy Involved in the amount from $157.16 to 81200 each. 83000 of this < ■: war waged for the suppression of the Rebellion, and con amount was payable in one year and five months, 82957.16 tributed liberally of its means, and promptly furnished its in two years and five months,and 84400 in three years and full quota of troops, in order that the integrity of the nation five months. should be mmntained, and the union of the States remain A third meeting, held Jan. 13,1865, passed the following unbroken. Through the first three years of the war, no rather remarkable ra ■:% ■ ■ 4.: - ROSTER OF SOLDIERS FROM COLUMBIA COUNTY WHO SERYED IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. Robert C. Bruce, enl. May,1861, lUU Regt, Co. K; re-enl. sergt, Jen. 11,1864, CITY OF HUDSON. 139th Regt, Co. G. Abrani Bunt, onl. Jan. 4,1804,159th Regt., Co. 0. Alonio Alger, onl. Oct. 21,186X, S«h Cu*., Co. L. Robert R. Butts, enl. Dec. IXI, 186:!, 159th Rogt., Co. G. Wtn. II. Ashley, orderly sergt.; enl. Sept. il, 1861, 3tli Cav., Co. M. Rowland Brooks, enl. Jan. 26, 1864, loOlh Regt., Co.0. Diivid C. Ashley, sergt.; onl. Sept. 21,1861, 6th Ca*., Co. 31. Caleb Brady, enl. Jan. 29,1804, 1.59th Regt, Co. 0. Wm. J. Aninim, ciil. Sept. 27,1862,12t]i Cav., Co. C. Edward Calkins, orderly sergt.; enl. Oct. 14, 1802,12tli Cav^ Co. 0. Jacob Albert, enl. Dec. 8, 1802,12lh Cav., Co. C. James X. Conktin, corp.; onl. Dec. 2,1862, I2th Cav., Co. C. F- iMwanl Atwood, 1st lloiit.; enl. Sept. 18,1802, loOtU Rogt., C-o. A. Carey D. Coon, corp.; enl. Nov. 24, 1862, 12tU Cav., Co. 0. Thomas Akin. enl. Sept. 12,1862, 150th Regt., Co. A. William H. Campbell, enl. Oct. 29,1862, 12tli Cav, Co. a Wm.'H. Andrews, corp.; enl. Sept. 27,1802, 150th Regt., Co. C. Robert N. Coon, enl. Nov. 8, 1862, 12th (Jav., Co. C. James C. Armstrong, enl. Sept. 18,1802. lyOtli Regt, Co. C. Joslali Carroll, enl. Nov. 8, 1802,12th Cav, Co. C. Charles Alger, onl. Sept. 29,1862, ISOtli Regt., Co. I. John Caton, enl. Nov. 1,1802,12th Cav., Co. C. Wm. H. Alwood, 1st lleut.; enl. Sept. 20,1801, 01st Regt., Co. B. John II. Coon, enl. Nor. 24, 1862, 12tU Cav., Co. a Johu S. AtwocKl, 2d lleiit.; onl. 1st Mounted RUles. Patrick Connory, enl. Sept. 11,1862,159th Regt., Co. X, Wm. H. Andrews, enl. Sept. 7,1801, 91st Regt., Co. G. Walter R Conroe, corp.; enl. Sept. 20.1862,150th Regt, Co. 0. Charles L. Ackley, enl. Jfov. 7,1801, 9;!d RegL, Co. B. Hiram Crumncy, enl. Sept. 18,1862,150lh Regt, Co. C. Ahram .\8hley, Jr., adj.; enl. July 24,1862,128tU Regt. Alexander Amtau, fiiiartorniiister; enl. 128lh Regt. John Charlotte, enl. 159th Regt., Co. 0. Lewis Coppans. enL Oct. 13,1862,159th Regt, Co. C. C. H. AndruB, Ist assist, siirg.; enl. Aug.30,1862,128th Regt. Isaac X. Collier, corp.; enl. Oct. 5,1801, 6lh Car, Co. 31. Ethan Allen, corp.; enl. Aug. 13,1862, 128th RegS, Co. K. Willinnj Childs, corp.; enl. Oct 28,1861, Gth Cav, Co. 3L Stephen Austin, enl. 3Iay, 1861, 14th Regt., Co. K. William H. CUpp, corp.; enl. Sept 20, 1861, Ctli Cav, Co. M. Robert G. F. .Vlger, onl. 3Iay, 1861,14th Regt., Co. K. Job B, CofBn, blacksmith; enl. Oct. 18,1861, Gth Cav, Co. 31. David Ashton, enl. Slay, 1861,14th Regt., Co. K; died In the service. Horatio N. Carpenter, enl. Sept. 30, 1861, Gth Car,, Co. 3L John n. Budgley, enl. Sept. to, 1862,159th Regt^ Co. A. Jamee P. Carpenter, enl. Oct. 17,1861, 6ih Car., Co. iL Avery S. Bradlev, corp.; euL Sept. 11,1862,159th Regt., Co. A. Cyrus H. CrUsey, enl. Oct. 23,1861, Otii Cav, Co. 31. Edward Bingham. corp.; enl. Sept, 22.1862,1.69th Regt. Co. C. Henry W. Converse, enL Oct 21,1861, Gth Cav, Co. 31. Newton R. Benedict, oiil. Sept. 30,1862,159th Regt., Co. 0. George Co<.ii% enl. Oct. 311, 1861, OtU Cav, Co. M. George W, Benxy, wagoner; onl. Oct. 3,1802, 159rh Regt.. Co. E. .Augustus Cox, enl. Oct 31,1861, Gth Cav, Co. 3L George Benzy, enl. Sept. 20, 1802, 159th Regt-, Co. B. Rodolphus Courts, eul. Nov. 12,1861, Gth Cav, Co. 3L Stephen E. Best, enl. Oct. 4.1862, 139th Regt., Co. I. Benjamin Courts, enl. Nov. 20, 1861, Gth Cav, Co. 3L John B irry, enl. Nov. 17,1861, Olst Regt., Co. E. Benjamin Bates, enl. Nov. i:i. 1361, 91st Regt.. Co. E. James H. Cooiia, onL Nov. 24, 1861, 6th Car, Co. 31. Daniel Boruum, onl. Nov. 9,1801, OUt Regt., Co. E. 3IarahaU Cooiia, corp.; enl. Sept 19,1361, 7th Cav, Co. L. Alison Bryant, enl. Sept. 20,1801, 91st Regt., Co. E. Comelina T. Coventry, corp.; onl. Sept 15,1862,159th Regt, Co. L Edwin BiirUwin, drummer; enl. Sept. 20, 1861, Olsc Rogt, Co. E. Charles Clark, drummer; enl. Sept 15,1862, LAOth Regt, Co. I. George W. Bacon, Ist liout. j enl. Sept. 20, 1861, OUt Regt, Co. L John S. Canipbell, eul. Oct. 7,1862,139tU Regt, Co. L Ja-sper Boganlue, corp.; enl. Oct. 10,1801, OUt Regt., Co. L George Cola, sergt.; enl. Sept 20, 1861, OUt Regt, Co. K. John W. Blunt, sergt; eul. Oct. 17,1861, dtli Cav., Co. 51. John Caton, enl. Sept. 14,1861, 9Ut Regt, Co. B. Joseph Blunt, sergt.; enl. Oct 17,1861, Gth Cav., Co. M. John E. Colville, 2d Heat; enl. Oct 1.1881, 9Ut Regt, Co. L Gilbert 0. Brooks, corp.; enl. Sept. 30,1801, 0th Cav., Co. 31. Nelson Cripps, onl. Get 6,1861, OUt Regt, Co. L George L. Bulles, enl. Sept ;10, 1861, Gth Cav., Co. 31. David S. Cowles, colonel; enl. July 22,1862,128th Regt. George Bassett, enl. Oct. 23,1801, 6th Cav,, Co. M. Palmer 0. Colo, surgeon ; enl. Aug. 4,1862, I281U Regt Fniuk Benedict, enl. Nov. 4,1801, 6th Cav., Co. 31. L^^di^^Miil. Aug. 6,1862,128th Regt, Co. A, .Tohn J. llurgfols, onl. Nov. 15,1801, 6th Cav., Co. 31. Jacob CarL enl. Aug. 11,1862,128lh Regt, Co. A. Thomas H. Bainos, onl. Nov. 20, 1861, 0th Cav., Co. 31. George A. Carter, musician; enl. -Aug. 25, 1862,128th Regt, Co. G. Henry Bock, enl- Dec. 4,1861, 6th Cav., Co. 31. Bruce S. Crosiman, enl. Aug. 8, 1862, 128th Regt, Co. K. Wm. Brayman, eul. Sept. 17,1801, 7tli Cav., Co. L. John Carter, enl. 3Iay, 1881,14th Regt, Co. K. Palmer Bartletc, enl. Nov. 2.5,1862,12th Cav., Co. C. Harmon Conroe, enl. 3Iay, 1861,14tli Regt, Co. K. 31iltou Best, enl. Nov. 4, 1302, I2tli Cav., Co. C. Frank Carpenter, enl, 3Uy,1301, Uth Regt. Co. K; taken prisoner and died at Wesley Ur:idley, 2d Hent.; elll. Sept. 18, 1862, loOth Regt., Co. X. .Andoisonvillo. Avery S. Brnlley, corp.; enl. Sept. 11, 1862, loOtli Regt, Co. X. JjumittafafiMMi «"'• enl. May. 1861, Uth Regt., Co. R Daniel K. Uiitis, corp.; enl. Oct. 14,1861, OUt Regt., Co. I. George Bnshnell,sergt; enl. Nov. 7,1861, 93*1 Regt., Co. B. Thomas Cooper, eul 3tit.v, 1861, Uth Regt, Co. K. Angnstua W. Uridbury, sergt.; enl. Aug. 15,1862, I28th Rogt, Co. A. Edward Cook, enl. 3Iay, 1861, Utii Regt, Co. K. Lewis Bent, corp.; enl. July 28, 1862, 128th Regt., Co. A. Andrew Clow, enl. 3lay, 1861. Uth Regt, Co. K. Robert R. Barringor, corp.; stil. July 31,1802,12Stli Regt, Co. A. orderly sergt; enl. Doc, 30, 1863,159th Regt, Co. G. Wallace Brewer, enl. July 28,1862, t'JSth Rrgt, Co. A. Denuis Callahaii, enl. Jan. 25,1864, 130th Regt, Co. G. John Burrilt, enl. Aug. 4, 180'2, 128th Regt., Co. A. John Dorson, enl. July 2, 1861, 48ih Regt, Co. L John C. Baker, enl. July 31, 1862, 128th Regt. Co. A. Edward Drum, saddler; enl. Sept. 23, 1861, Gth Cuv, Co. 3L Johu Best, eiil. Aug. 1.5,1862, 128th Regt., Co. G. James H. Davis, enl. t)cc. 2, 1861, Gth Cav, Co. 31. George Brown, eul. Aug. 15, 1862, t28th Regt, Co. G. Jefferson Dykeinau, enl. Nov. 5,1861, 6th Cav, Co. 31. Robert 31. Blunt, corp.; enl. .iiig. 12,1862, 12Hth Regt, Co. K. John H. Darilus, enl. Sept. 19,1862, 12th Cav,Co. 0. Sylvester Brewer, corji.; enl. .\ug. 6, 1862, l2Sth Regt, Co. K. Uoffinun S. Dorchester, enl. Dec. 6, 1802, 12th Oiv, Co. C. Benjamin Best, enl. Aug. 0, 1802, I28tb Regt, Co. K. Thumus Daley, enl. Sept. 17, 1862, 1.59tU Regt, Co. A. Lemun W. Bmdlcy, Ut lleut.; enl. 3Iay, 1861,14th Regt, Co.K; promoteil to John Dennis, enl. Sept. 16, 1862, 159tb Regt, 0». -A. colonel of 64lh Regt. Robert Do Satin, musician ; enl. loUth Regt, Co. C. Fayette 31. Butler, 2d lieut; enl. Jlay, 1801, Uth Regt, Co. K; promoted to Edward Duffy, corp.; enl. Oct. 6,1862, 159tb Regt, Co. G. captain Co. C, I4lh Regt. Plntt Degraff, enl. Sept 27, 1S62,159th Ih'gt, Co. G. John Barrv-, eiil. May, 1861,14th Regt., Co. K; died in the service. Jiunes Dennis, corp.; enl- Sept. 3li, 1862, 159th Regt, Co. I. George W. Bristol, enl. May, 1801,14tU Regt^ Co. K; re^nl. corp., Jan. 1,1864, John 0. D'demater, sergt; onl. Aug. 8,1862. 128th Regt, Co. A. 1.5'Jth Reg)., Co. G. Thomas N. Davis, 2d lieut; enl. .Vug. 21, 1862,128th Regt, O-t C. 417 53 418 HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. Tliooius Huntii, cnl. Atitr. 11,1SC2,128tli llofrt.. Co. K. Charles Hues, enl. Aug. 11,1862, 128th Regt., tV>. K. Tlnri-ison !)iiipTmi>,i-nI. Mny. ixni. ]4(Ii Ui-gt., Co. K. Leonard Ilnrlon, cnl. Aug. 28,1862, 128th Regt., Co. K. Martin I>n.v, corp.; eiil. Jan.2 NAMES OF CITIZENS WHO ASSISTED AND CONTRIBUTED TOWARDS THE PUBLICATION OF THE HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY; WITH PERSONAL STATISTICS. HUDSON CITY. Samuel Edwards,son of Samnel B. and Rnth L.(Rogers) Edwards, b. Glen- ville, Scbcnectady Co., N. T., s. 1862, Lawyer; residence, 7 Wlllard Bobt. E. Andrews,sob or Asel and Maria (Smitb) Andrews, b. New Lebanon, Place. N. Y., 1819, Lawyer; residence, 307 Warren Street F^ank Forshcw,son of John and Lydia (Wllcox) Fonbew, b. Hudson, N. Y., Kcbard B. Aldcrvnt, son of Abraliam and Samh (Bradbary) Aldcroftt, b. 1825, Photographer; residence,241 Warren Street. Kuiitsford, Ctiesbire, England, s. 1850, Merchant Tailor; 201 Warren Edmund Chas. Getty,son of Andrew C.aiid Cornelia T.(Genet) Getty, b. Green- Street bush, Reiisseiaer Co., N. 7., s. 1853, Deputy Conniy Clerk; residence, Henry Anabte,son of Henry and Aaenath (Wiltey) Anable, b. Hudson, N. T., Greenport, N. T. 1830, Boater in Wool, Leather, and Findings; 38 Colnmbia Street. John Gaul, Jr., son of John and Bachel (Miller) Ganl, b. Hndson, N. T., At O.H. Anable, eon of Henry and Asenath^Wllle}') Anable, b. Hndwn, K.T., torney and Coiinselor-at-Law; residence, 15 Sonth Fourth St 1813, Dealer in Hides and Leather; 34 South Front Street Rensseloer Gray, son of Saml. and Betsey (Gelnisn) Gray, h. Epbratab, Fnlton "Wm. Bryan, son of Clarh and Catharine (Oendry) Bryan, b. Harperafleld, Co., N. T., s. 1844, Dealer in and Manufacturer of Knmiture; 307 War Delaware Co., N. T., s. 1845, Editor and Proprietor Dailg RtptMicati,and ren Street Postmaster; residence, 57 Warren Street Thos. S. Gray, son of Thos. and Margaret (Cunipbell) Gray, b. Durham, Greene Wm. Bostwick, son of Beiiben W. and Harriet (Dibble) Bostwick, b. Pino Co., N. Y., s. 1873 (retired); residence. Prospect Hill. Plains, Dntcbess Co., N.T.,a.18C0,Banker,Cashier O.B. National Bank; Elrom D. Gage, son of Richard and Emily L.(Ford) Gage, b. Hndson, N. T., reeidence, at Worth House. ^ Deputy Postmaster; residence, 321 Warren Street Cbas.E. Butler, son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth (Coventry) Bailer, b. Stocfcport, Glfford Brothers, sons of Elihu and Eliza S.(Starbuck) Giflbrd, b. Hudson, 182:1, Watchmaker and Jeweler; residence, Green Street N. T., 1825 and 1829, Founders and Machinists; 31 Colnmbia Street Chas. L. Beale, son of Chester and Clarissa (Wainwright) Beale, b. Cansan, Leonard Guiger, son of George and Seraphia (Hubert) Gniger, b. Nereheim, N. Y., 1824,.Attomey-at-Law and ex-Member of Congress; Warren St Germany,s. 1849, Inventor Remington Gnn; residence, 58 North Fifth T. M. Best, son of Jeremiah and Margaret (Miller) Best, b. Taghkauiu, M. Y., Street 1818, Merchant Tailor; 331 Warren Street ^ron G. Howard, son of Henry and Sarah (White) Howard, h. Claverack, Henry J. Barlngcr, son of Wm.W. and Miiria (Louks) Baringer, b. Claverack, N. Y^ 1840, City Editor Dot^ Bspabiiom; residence,96)^ Warren Street N. Y., 1819 (retired); residence, 117 Wurren Street. Jacob W. Huysnidt, son of Henry S. end Margaret (Fells) Hoysradt, b. An- Henry Best, son of Walter and Bboda (Smith) Best, b. CalJwell, Bockland Co., cnim, N. Y., 1824, President and General 3Ianager Hudson Iron Com N. Y., a. 1806, Druggist and Fanner; 351 Warren Street. pany ; residence, Allen Street, comer of Second Street A. Frank B. Chose, sun of John M. and Eliza (Becker) Chase, b. Austerlltz, Edward J. Hamilton, son of Dr. Erastus and Harriet (Miller) Hamilton, b. N. Y., 1835, Lawyer; residence,4 WillarU Place. Greenville, Greeno Co., N. Y., s. 1874, Superintendent New York and Isaac N. Collier, son of Philip and Christina (Hallenberk) Collier, h.Coxsackle, Hndson Steamboat Company; residence,68 Union Street Greene Co., K.Y.,a. 1855,Lawyer and Surrogate; residence, comer Allen H. M. Honor, SberilT; residence, Court-House. and Second Streets. John C. Hogeboom, son of Heury and Jane Eliza (Bivingtoo) Hogeboom, b. Abijnh P. Cook, MJ>., son of Geo. W. and Margaret (Teller) Cook, b. Hyde Hndson,N. Y., 1837, Wbolraale Cool Dealer, and President Catekill and Park, Dutchess Co., N. T., s. 1812, Physician and Snrgeon; residence, Albany S. B. Co.; oflBce, 210 Warren Street 100 Wiirren Street W. W. Hannah, Jr., son of Thoe. and Sarah (Cronk) Hannah, b. Soorafevllte, Wm. H. Crapser, son of David and Elizabeth (Craver) Crapser, b. Ghent, N. 7., Delaware Co., N. Y., s, 1855, Jeweler; 203 Warren Street 1822, Grocer; residence,331 UnlonStreet W. H. Hart,son of Newton and Martha 3.(Wlnchell) Hart, b. Sonth Engre- J. Bider Cady,son of Perkins F. and Ann M.(Blder) Cady, b. Cbathum, N. Y., mont. Mass., r. 1863, Dentist; 208 Warron Street. 1862, Attorney and Counselor-nt.L>iw; 302 Warren Street. C. W. Hinsdale,son of Stephen and Eliza (Cain) Hinsdale, b. Claverack, N. T., C. S. Champiln, son of C. W.and H. J.(DollanI) Champlin, b. New Berlin, Ot- 1832, Druggist; 306 Warren Street. sego, N. Y., S. 1860 (retired); residence, Washington Street Lemuel Holmes,sun of Jos. and Maiy (Battles) Holmes,b. Snmner, Oxford Chas. Carpenter,son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Ctandell) Carpenter, b. Claverack, Me., s. 1837 (retired); residence, 11 Union Street N. Y., 1817 (retired); reeidence, 26 Warren Street. F. C. Havilund, sou of John T. and Caroline (White) Uaviland, b. Hudson, James Clark, sun of Comelloa and Elizabeth (Case) Clark, b. Hndson, N. 7., N. T., 1842, Teller Fanners' National Bank ; 302 Wanen Street, I80S (retired); residence.6 South Fourth Street. Job Holme, eon of James and Mary (Hargraves) Hulme, b. Oakamoor,StaOord- John C. Du Bole, son of Stephen A. and Rachel .A. (Schryver) Du Bols, b. shire, England, s. 1847, Baket and^onfectiuner; 277 Wurren Street. Rlilnobeck, Dutchess Co., N. T., s. 1851, Retired Physician; residence, Edward J. Hodge,son of John W. and YTary (Shufur) Hodge, b. Hudson, N. Y., 134 Ailea Street. 1833, City Editor Bndaon Etening residence, 185 UnluQ Street. Henry A. Du Bols, sonof Coert and Mary(Thorn) Dn Bois, b. FIslikill, DutcheM Magnns Herbe, Frederick C. Herbs, and Casper%. Herbs, of F. & M. Herhs A Co., N. 7., s. 1831, Retired Merchant, and President Hndson Biver Na Brother, sons of Frederick H. aud Chriatlija (Kay) Herbe, b. Holstein, tional Bank; residence, Greenpuit, N. Y. Germany,s. 1862, Mauufkcturers Cigars anrt'Tobacco; 340 Warren Street. N. Dosenbeim,son of Joseph and .Amelia (Gerst) Dosenbeim, l>. Palatina, Ger Jason M. Johnson, son of Jasdo H.and Sally (Sherman) Johnson, b. New Let^ many, s. 1855, Dry Goods Merchant; residence, 3U3 Warren Street anon, N. Y., 1837, United States Internal Bevenue Collector 12th N. 7. H. W. Dakin, son of Chae. and Aciisah (Wicks) Dakin, b. Hudson, X. Y.,1822, District; residence, East Allen Street Bntcber; 74 Warren Street Clias. F. Joues, son of Warren 6. and Clarlne (Olmsted) Jonea, b. Sonth GUs- Ezra D. De Lumater, son of Jonas B. and Sarah A.(Groat) De Lamater, b. tenbury, Conn., s. 1866, Jeweler; 189 Warren Street. Greenport, N. Y., 1851, Attorney and Coitnselor-at-Law; residence,corner P. H. Knickerbocker, son of Dr. Philip H. and Jane (Mulfonl) Knickerbocker, State and Sixth Streets. b. Clermoot, N. Y., 1845, Steamboat Captain; residence, 340 Diamond Cornelius Esselslyn, son of Charles and Sarah M.(Vedder) Esselstyn, b. Gai- Street. laiin, N. Y., 1831, Attorney and Counselor-at-Lnw; rMidence,170 Allan John B. Longley.soii of Samnel M. and Lydia A,(Flsk) Longley.b.Providence, Street B. I., B. 1844, Lawyer, District Attorney, and ex-District Attorney and Coraeliue U. Evans, sou of Robert W. and Harriet E.(Wescott) Evans, b. Hud ex-Uecorder; residence, 280 Union Street. son, N. Y., 1841, Brewer and Maltster, aud Mayor of City; residence, 214 Levi F. Lungley,son of Samnel M. and Lydia .A. (Fisk) Longley, b. Hudson, Warren Street N. Y., 1846, Lawyer. County Clerk; residence,282 Union Street W. It Kiting, son of.Abrom 7. V.and Mary .A.(Rand) Eltiog, b. Hudson,N. Y., Chas. W.Lyon, son of Wesley aud Eliza J.(Wilson) Lyon, b. Greenwich, Conn., 1837, Dealer In Boots and Shoes; 336 Warren Street. 8.1876, Dealer in Lager; 1(^ Warren, aud S aud 10 Allen Streets. David J. Ely, sou of David and Elizabeth (Osbora) Ely, h. Catskili, Greene Co., Stephen B. Miller, son of Henry C. and Eliza (Bailey) Miller, b. Hudson, N.7.,_ N. Y., s. 1808, Hotel-Keeper; No. 1 Feiry Street 1824, Bookseller and Stationer; residence, at Worth House. - 437 438 HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. Edward P. Magoiin, son of StepUon L. and Marianne (Penreon) Magono, b. Daniel Sargeantson of Frazierand Pusis (LovelllBargeant, b. Holden, Worce>. Hudson, N. Y., Lawyer; residence, Uuion Street, corner Seventh Street. ter Co., Mass., s. 1H17 (retiredl; residence, 20 Uuion Street. CUas. B. Miller, son of Cornelius H. aud Mary {Van Wagenin) Miller, b. Hod- R. J. Smith, son of John H. and Elizabeth (Best) Smith, b. Livingston, X. Y - son, N. Y., 1851, Proprietor Worlli House; 81. 83, and 87 Warren Street 183C, Fruit Dealer; 338 Warren Street. Chas. C. Macy, son of Edward H. and Deborah J. (Coffin) Macy, b. Uudson, Fayette A, Stupplebeeu, son of J. U. and P. L. Stupplebeen, b. Client, X. Y. E. Y., 183(1, Cashier Fanuere'Hatiunal Bank; residence,07 Uoion Street. 1855, Dealer in Boots and Shoes; 343 M'arren Street. P. Miller, son of Jacob I. and (^arlotte (Ssainan) Miller, b. Clermont, K. V., Henry Sheldon, son of Maurice and Eliziibetli (It/ickefeller) Sheldon, L. W Secretary of the Board of Water Commissionerg; residence, Academy Taghkanic, X. T., 1836, Gi-ocer; 326 WaiTen Street. Hill. Miller W. Snyder, son of Levi and Eva E.(Miller) Snyder, b. Cluverack, X. Y'.. Mile P. Moore, son of Bernard and Hannah (Berger) Moore, b. Hillsdale, 1849, General Grocer; 128 Warren Street. K. Y., 1831, Merchant; 289 W*arreR Street. WlUard Sluyier, sou of IVilliam and Putty (Waterman) Sliiyter, b. New Leba Win. J. Miller, eon of Aodiis 6. and Gertrude (Clapper) Miller, h. Claverack, non, X. r, 1827, General Grocer; cor. Warren and First Streets. K. Y., 1816, ManufoeCarer of Stores, Cooking and Heating; 32 Warren Edwin C. Terry, son of Conklin aud Debonih (Coffin) Terry, b. Catskill, Greene Street. Co, X. Y,s. 1818 (retired), ex-County Clerk; residence, 65 Allen Street C. H. Malleson, son of Charles and Sarah Ann (Talbert) Mailesoo, h. Brooklyn, Cbaa. C. Terry, eou of Conklin and Deborah (Coffin) Teny, b. Hudson, X. Y., N. T., s. 1871, Book-Keeper; 177 Union Street Merchant; residence, 169 Union Street. C. T. H. Morrison, eon of John and Sarah (Herrington) Morrison, b. Greene Silas W. Tobey,eon of Slias and Elizabeth (ilardwick) Tobey, b. Hudsou, X.Y, Co., N. Y., 8.1625, Commission Merchant; 131 Warren Street 1613, Paints and Oils; 297 Warren Street A. C. Macy, 3d eon of Cyrus and Harriet J.(Billitigs) Macy, I. Hudson, K. Y., Will. I. Traver, eon of Jacob and Lucy (Ilardick) Traver, b. Hndson, N. Y., 1646, Dealer in Boots and Shoes; PS3 Warren Street 1813, LiiDibcr Dealer; cor. Fourth and Diamond Streets. Frank Macy, eon of Alexander and Jlaty (Jesaop) Macy, b. Hudson, K. Wm. 11. Traver, son of Wm. I. and Maria (Coons) Traver, b. Hudson, X. Y.. 1839, Dealer iu Cigars and Tobacco; 2UC M'arren Street. 1841, Lumiier Dealer; cor. Allen and Willard Place. Geo. H. Macy,son of Alexander and Mary (Jessup) Macy, b. Hndson, K. T., Jacob Ten Broeck, son of Jacob and Chriatina (Schepmoes) Ten Broetk, b. 1841, Dealer iu Cigars and Tobacco; 20C Warren Street. Clemiont, X. Y'., 18(X)(retired), ex-menibur of Assembly; residence, cur. Ang. McKlnstry, son of Geoige and Susan L.(Hamilton) McKinstry, b. Hnd Warren and Eighth Streets. son, X. Y., 1821, Druggist; resideuce. Academy Hill. Sherman Van Ncss, sun of Juliii Land Martha (Sherman) Van Nesa, b. Chai- John C. Xewkirk, son of Charles and Ann (Crin) Xewkirk, b. Montgomeiy, bam, X. Y', 1817, Civit Engineer, City Surveyor; residence, 70 Uiiiun Orange Co., K. s. ISFi, Lawyer, ex-County Judge; n-aidenee, 151 Street, cor. Second. Allen Street. C. A. Van Deusen,son of Simeon and Hannah (CrandHll)'Van Deusen, b. Ghent John H.Overbiser, son of George and CynUiia(Hegemeii)Overhiser, b.litgrange, X. Y', 1826, Pork Packer, Provisiou and Fiour Dealer; resideuce, 347 Dotcbess Co., X. T., s. 1813, Police Justice, ex-Metuher of Assembly; State Street. residence, 163 Allen Street John K. Vosburg, son of Abraham G. and Samh B.(Simmons) Vosburgli, b. Coukllii W. Oakley, eon of Jacob I. and Mary (Conklin) Oakley, l>. Cupake, Hudson, X.Y,1845, Dry (joods Merchant; resideuce,205 DiHmnnd Street. X. Y., 1839, Geuerel Grocer; 353 M'arren Street Stephen Vailett son of Stephen and Freelove (Green) Y'ullett b. Kiiiderli Mrs. Eliza Moore (widow of .len uiinli J. Moore), liom iti towiiBliip of Gertnan- T. B. Lovejoy, dnuphtcr of Eieazer and Liter (Backus) Cady, h. ColuDibln C,., town, Sopi. 7, resided tfirre since; Kiirtner; P. 0.,Clennoiit. N. T,181C, Dealer iu Groceries; P. 0,New Concord. Jiieoli II. Moore, born in townsliip of Ciermonl, MarcL 22,1800; resided tliere ol and (lUchmnnd) Luui)>lieiir. b since: P. 0., Tivoli. ^Wt^mHK'Co., N. Y., 1S14, Farmer; P. 0., Chntliiini Village. .lereuiiiiL B. Moore, bom in townsliip of Clemiont, I)cc. 0,1820; resided there Ciiester G. Loumlb, son of Calvin and Abigail (Griswold) Loomis, b. Berksiiir. since ; Farmer; P. 0., Geminntown. Co., Ma.«a., s. 1817, Farmer; P. 0., Cbatiiam Village. Gilbert Rockefeiier, bom in townsliip of Gennantown, Feb. 4,1814 ; resided in John B. Lanioree, son of Daniel and Armina (Drill) Lamoree, h. Dutclirsi: 0,, Colmnbio Co. since; Fwrnior; P. 0., Cknnont. N. Y,8.1868, Fanner; P. 0., Red Rock. Harold Wilson, born in towiishiji of Cleruioiit, Jan. 7, 183G; residwl Hiero Frederick W. Miller, eon of Henry and Rebecca (Toal) Miller, b. Colunibiu Co always; Fannor; P.O., Clunnoiit. N. Y., 18(18, Farmer; P. 0., Nivcn-ille. Teunis H. Miller, son of Anron and Lovina (Pultz) Miller, b. Columbia Co. K. Y., 163.3, Farmer; P. 0., North Oiatham. Walter S. Moore, son of John and Deborah (Hicks) Moore, l>. Dntcliess Co CHATHAM. N. T., 8.18C5, Farmer; P. 0., JInlden Bridge. Lewis L. Morrell, son ofThon.ae Land Sarah (Lewis) Morreli, b. Bnaiklyn Sainuo] Allis, son of John .ind Lois (Weston) Allis, b. Pittafield, Vt., s. 1810, N. y,B. 1675; P. 0,,(Tbntham. lletired Fiimier; P. 0., East Clintham. Jacobs. New,son of Williiim and Hunnah (Sharp) New, b. Columbia Co,, N.V, E. P. Allen, son of Williams and Sally (Beebc) Alien, b. Columbia Co., K.T., 1810, Farmer; P. 0., Cliatlmm Village. 1841, Fiirimtr; P. 0., Clintlinm VJllnge. Bradley Niclioia. son of Timothy and Catharine (Lawrence) Nicbois, h. lierk- H. A. .\Bliley,s<)n of Henry and Hnniiah (Smith) Ashley, b. Columbia Co., N.T., shire Co., Mass , s. 1821, Rctiri'd Grain Merchant; P. 0., Nortii Clmtiiaio, IKiKt, Fill nier; P. 0., Clinihniii Villufe. Obadiah Palmer, son of Abniliani and Pnideree (Gillett) Piiimer, b. Colimii.in J. II. Angeli, son of John and Amy A.(Harder) Aiigoll, h. Columbia Co., N. Y., Co., N. y,, 1815, Retired Mcrcliiini; P. 0., East Cliathiim, 1826, Fiirmer; P. O., Chailiani Village. Ahira Paimer, son of Josliua and Amy (Smith) Palmer, b. Stoningtoii, Conn, Eiionezcr Adams, son of David and Catharine (Maul).Adams, b. Coliinibia Co., 1789, 6.171H). Retired Hatter; P. 0., New Concord. N. Y., 1822, Fanner and Paper Manufacturer; P.0., Chatbam Village. J. N. Preston, son of Jndd M. and Maria (Curtis) Preston, h. Columbia Co., E. S. Barrett, son of Ezra and Diantlia (lliinu) Barrett, b. Ckilumbia Co., K. Y., N. Yt 1834. Farmer; P. 0., East Ciiatham. 1818, Fanner; P. 0., New Concord. Oliver Palmer, son of Matiliew and Delioi-ah Palmer, b. Greene Co., N. Y., s. J. W.Blunt, 8i>n of Henry and Eliza (Biirbank) Blunt, b. Columbia Co., N. Y., 1834, Farmer; P. 0., Cliatliam Village. 1840, Fat mnr; P. 0., Chatham Village. Tabor Parks, son of Whiting and Hiinnab (Talior) Parks, b. Bensseiaer Co. r.S. Bcttfi, son of John M. and Ann Il.fTiiatcber) Betis, b. Delaware Co.,K. T., K. Y., 1810, s. 1873, Farmer; P. 0., Maiden Bridge. s. 1862, Farmer and Engineer; P.0.. Cliatham Centre. Horace W.Peasiuc,son of Jephtbah and Ann (Patrick) Peft6lee,b.C<>himIiiaCu., A. n. BulHs, son of K. A. and Marlah (Hulbert) Bullis, b. Columbia Co., N. Y., N. Y., 1807, Millwright and Paper Manufacturer; P.0, Maiden Brldgi-. 1839, Paper Manufacturer: P. 0., Cliatlmm Centre. A. D. Pitts, son of Lcvi and Sniihla (Curtis) Pitts, b. Columbia Co., N. Y., 1826, Porkins F. Cady, son of Albert and Elvira (Parrisli) Cady, b. Columbia Co. Farmer; P, 0., Rider's Mills. N. Y., 1822, Farmer and Supervisor; P. 0., Maiden Bridge. Orrin Phelps, son of Wintlirop and Betsey (Burges-s) Phelps, b. Coluniliiu Co., Lester Carpenter, son of Dexter and D.(Kelb-y) Carpenter, b. Bensselaer Co^ N. y,1800, Retired Farmer; P. 0., Green Brook. N. Y., 1822, 6.1837, Farmer; P. 0., Chatham Village. Bartholomew Pniyii, son of John I. and Eilzal-elh (Van Valkenbut^li) Priiyn, Daniel S. Doty, sun of Sainiiei and HaiiiiHli (Mhkie) Doty, h. Columbia Co., b. Colimibiii Co., N. Y,1820, Fanner; P. 0., VaUtie. N. Y., 1824, Cairenter atid Joiner; P. 0., New Concord. 0. J. Peck,son of Richard S. and Pliod>e (Hunting) Peck, h. Columbia Co., N.Y., Lorin M. Davis, son of Albert and Sarah (Burgess) Davis, b. Columbia Co., 1817, Pliysiciaii and Siirg-on; P. 0., Norlii Clmlhiim. N. Y.,1813, Fanner; P. 0., Clintlmin. Wm. L. Howe, son of G.arrett M. and Betsey A.(Nichols) Howe, b. Columbia Wesley Finch,son of Reuben N.nnd Polly (Lyon)Finch, b. Columbia Co., N. Y., Co, N. Y., 1821, Farmer; P. 0., East Chatham. 1810, Retired Farmer; P. 0., Green Brook. Phlneas D. Reed,son of Daniel and Katie U.(Walker) Reed, b. (Tolunibia Cu., John N. Gamer, son of Tliadileiis R. and Louisa (Mooiiey) Gamer, b. Columbia N. Y.. 1833, Farmer; P. 0., Chatham Centre. Co., N. Y.,1839, Farmer and Paper Manufacturer; P. 0.,Chalhum Village. Samuel H. Riphcnhnrgh, son of T. and Margaret (Ham) Riphcnbiirgh, li. Co* Franklin Garner, son of Christupber and Helen (Honck) Garner, b. Columbia liimhiii Co.. N. Y., 1832, Farmer; P. 0., Maiden Bridge. Co., N. Y., 1831, Farmer; P. 0., Chatham Villago. Thomas B. Rider, son of Jonathan and Mercy (Wilson) Rider, b. Coliiiubia Co., Sylvester Garner, son of Christopher and Helen (Uouck) Gamer, h. Columbia N. Y., 182.3, Farmer; P. 0., Riders Mills. Co., N. Y., 1826, Farmer; P.0., Chatham Village. Thomas C. Rider,«on of Thomns and Esther (Powell) Rider, b..Diitches.<> Co., Lorenzo J.Ooodricb, son of Jesse and Lucy (Powell) Goodricb, b. Columbia Co., N. Y.,s. 183.3, Fanner; Pfo., Chatham. N. Y.. 1823, Fanner; P. 0., Ciiftthsm Village. Lutlier Rider, son of Benjamin and Bolsey (Wilson) Rider, b. Massacliusetis, Sarah A. Garner, daughter of John and Jane (Fowler) SimmoDS, b. Columbia R. 1837, Retired Farmer; P. 0., East Clialhinn, Co., N. Y., 18z8, Resident; P. 0., CHjathiini Village. W D. Stewart, son of John and Sibyl (Marsh) Stewart, b. Columbia Co., N. V., James A. Bousnian, son of William C. and Sarah A. (Talman) Huusman, b. 1803, Farmer; P. 0., Chatlinm Village. Rocklaixl C''., N. Y., s. 1862, Farmer and Fniit-raiser; P.0.,Kew Concord. Wm.Shufeit, son of Jacob I. and Maria (Stapplebeen) Sliufelt, b. Columbia Co., Willinm Hunt, son of Samuel and Kunice (Palmer) Hunt, b. Columbia Co., N. y,1832, Farmer; P. 0., Chatlinm I'illage. N. Y., 1811, Farmer; P. 0., Chatham Village. Wm. H. Strever, son of John B. and Marietta (Dings) Strever, b. Columbia Co., Albert Harris, sun of Benjamin and Lydia (Jinks) Harris, b. Berkshire Co., N. Y., 1820, Farmer; P. 0., Chatham VHiage. Moss., 1808, 6.1823, Retired Farmer; P. 0., Chatbam Centre. Thomas 3V. Stewart son of Solomon W.and Hannah (Barker) Stewart, b. Co Barton llncBted, son of Burton and Jane (IValkcr) Huested, b. Columbia Co., lumbia Co, K. Y., 1832. Farmer; P.0, New Concord. N. Y., 1810, Fanner; P. 0., Chatbam Centre. J. B. Ekinkle, son of Jeremiah and Maria (Van Deearr) Skinkle, b. Cidiimhia Noadiali M. Hill, sun of Caleb and Eunice (Moore) Hill, h. Columbia Co., K. Y., Co., K. Y., 1830, Farmer; P. 0., Chatham Village. 1815, Retired Fanner; P.0., NortU Chatham. Jacob Snyder, son of Henry P.and Catharine (Daeridict) Snydcr, b. Colnmbin Reuben Hoes,sun of Peter ami Uannali (Bain) Jloee, b. Columbia Co., N. T., Co., N. Y., 181C, Farmer; P. 0., Clintham Village. 1841, Piim|i Manufacturer; P. 0., Maiden Bridge. Walter Smith, son of Mitchell T. and Maty (Ham) Smith, b. Rcnsselin-r Cto., . Jiisiice Harris, son of Epbmim and Mary (Hcndrick) Harris, b. Snrntoga Co., N. Y,8.182.3, Farmer; P. 0-, Maiden Bridge. K. Y., s. 18C2, Farmer; P. 0., Maiden Bridge. Lewis Smith, son of John A. and Mary Smith, b. Columbia Co., N. Y,1632. Henry Hill, son of Caleb ami Eunice (Moore) Hill, b. Coiiimbla Co., N. T.,1808, Farmer; P. 0., North Ciiatham. Retired Fnmior; P. 0., Norih Chatham. N. H. Thomas, son of Win. and Emma (Halsey) Thomas, b. Ooiiinibia Co., N. V.. laruel Uncstod, son of Sackett and Olive (Richmond) Huested, b. Ronssclaer 1826, Farmer; P. 0., Cbiitlmm Village. Co, K. Y., 1811, 8.1827, Fanner; P. 0., Clintlinm. Milton M. Tumpkins, rou of States D. and Mary (Meslck) Tompkins, b. C-ulnm- S. N. Hand, son of Horatio K. and Ilaunah (Gamer) Hand, b. Columbia Co, bia Co., K. Y., 1843, Pajier Manufacturer; P. 0., Ciiatham Village. K. y., 1843, Farmer; P. 0.. Maiden Bridge. John J. Van Valkeobiirgh,son of James and Fetmelia (Southeriandl Van Val- William lri>h, sou of Amos and Di-bomh (Steves) Irish, b. Columbia Co., N. T, kenburgli, b. Columbia Co., N. Y., 1783, Retired Mercbaut and Fanner; ISUl, Famicv; P. 0., Maiden Bridge. P. 0,Chatham Centre. Sherman Jaqua, son of Jiiliez and Mary (Giinn) Jaqua, b. Litchfield Co., Cuun., John J. Van Valkenburgh, son of Bartlelt J. and Polly (Beebe) Van Talkcn- 8.1871, Farmer; P. 0., Chatliani Centre. burgli, b. Columbia Co,N. Y.,1821, Butcher; P. 0., New Conconl. Byron K. Kirgbt, sun of John and Patience (Kirby) Knight, b. Columbia Co, V. B. Vnu Valkenburgh, son of G.W. and Sarah Ann (Burgess) Van Viiiken- N. Y.. 182.6, Farmer; P. 0., East Chatliani. burgh, b. Troy, N. Y., s. 1851, Farmer; P. 0., Cbatiiam. Susan C. Knight, daiigiiter of John and Caroline (Auslin) Wood, b. Columbia Andrew Van Alstyuc, son of Isaac S. and Mariah (Smith) Van Aistyne, b. Co Co., K. Y., 1826, Resident; P. 0., East Chatham. lumbia Co., N. Y., 1S3G, Merchant; P. 0., Chatham Centre. A. B. Knappen, SOD of Samuel and Loviiia (ConviTsc) Knuppen, b. Benssehier R. 11. Veddor, son of Jacob and Gertrude (Ostcrhoot) VedUer, b. Groeno Co., Co., K. y., 1817, B. 1871, Proprietor of Hotel; P. 0., Cliathara. N. Y., 8.1847, Pliysiciaii and Surgeon; P.0, i hatliam Centre. Mrs. Emma J. Koiiworlliy, daughter of Seliiiylcrand Eliza A.(Wilber) Chudsey, Wni. D. Van Slyck, son of Wm.and Esther (Gardcniei) Van Siyck, b. Cidumhiii b. Berkshire Co., Mass, s. 1864 ; P. 0., Cliutlmm. Co, N. T,1840, Farmer; P. 0, Chatham. Ilezekiali II. Lovejoy,son of Andrew and Sarah (Hulbcr) Loviyoy, b. Culiimb|a S. S. Wilcox, son of John and Betsey (Cady) Wilcox, b. Columbiii Co., K. 1 •, Co., N. Y,181C, Farmer; P.(>., New Coucord. 1816, Farmer; P. 0., Red Rock. HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 443 Wm. H. Tenbroeck, 8on of Jacob L. and Ellzabolb M. (Clum) Tenbroe«k,.b. Wuu K. Whllo, son of Anthony «nd Emily (Keiiyon) Wliito, b. Dutchess Co., y, Y., 9.18:i3, Fnitner; P. 0., Xew Concord. Columbia Co., X. Y., 1840, Merchant; P. 0., Cliatl.am Village. John B. Wait, son of Eilmnnd and Jlary (Biiddl Walt, b. Columbia Co., N. T., J. T. Wheeler, son of J. T. and Mary Ann (Backus) Wheeler, b. Albany (30., 18;J5, Hardware Merchant; P. 0., CImtliam. N. Y., s. 1856, riiyaician and Surgeon; P. 0., (3hutham Village. Joelnh X. Wait, son of Edmund and Mary (Budd) Wait, b. Columbia Co., X. Y., 1837, Hardware Merchant; P. 0., Chatham. Iloury Wuiderwnx, Jr., son of Henry and Albertina (Wilson) Weiderwax, h. Columbia Co., X. T., 1820, Merchant: P. 0., Korth Chatham. NEW LEBANON. Col. 3. ITbcelor. son of Michael and dusaa (Snook) Wheeler, b. Rensseliier Co., X. Y., s. 1806, Book-keeper; P. 0., Maiden Bridge. David Ashby, son of Wm. and ^lary (Osborno) Ashby, b. Columbia Co., X. Y., 1821, Carpenter; P. 0., Xew Lebanon. Joseph Adants. Jr., son of J-seph and Mary B. (Clark) Adams, b. Columbia Co., CHATHAM VILLAGE. X. Y., Dec^ 1833, Merchant and Custom Miller, P. 0., Xew Lebanon Centre. Geo. W. Bagg. son of Jedeiliah and Clarissa (Xewton) Bagg, b. Berkshire Oo„ Jiibn itiigell, son of Joshua and Mahltablo (Manloo) Angell, b. Providence Co., Mais., s. 1865, Merchant and Custom Miller; P. 0., Mt. Lebanon. B. I., I'M, H, 1806, Retired Farmer; P. 0., Chatham Village. A. B. BougUten, son of Smith A. and 3I;iry K. (Uailey) Boughlcn, h. Itensselaer Abraham -tsliloy, Jr., son of Abraham and Delilah (Beeman) .Ashley, b. Co Co., X. Y., 3. 1870, Farmer; P. 0., East Chatham. lumbia Co., X. T., 1816, JuRtlce of the Peace; P. 0., Chatham Village. JghaC. Bostwick.son of Elijah and Sarah (Buckley) Bostwiek, h. Columbia W. H. Harues, aim of Almon and Mary (WUitmore) Barnes, b. Hampshire Co., Co X. Y., 1808, retired Carpenter; P. 0., Xew Lebanon. Mass., 8. 1851, Physician and Surgeon ; P. 0, Chatham Village. Jos. H. Cornwell, son of Abrain D. and EHza (Sluyter) Coruwell, b. Columbia Lowls K. Brown, son of Clu-ater and Adeline (Kingsley) Brown, b. Columbia Co., X. Y., 1851, Farmer; P. 0., Xew Lebanon (3«ntre. Co., X. Y., 1843, Attorney-at-Law; P. 0., Chnthain Village. Silos T. Cummings, son of Rnssei D. and Sophia (Tlioma-) Cummlugs. b. Ecns- Oeo. E. Burrows, son of Geo. S. and Sarah lUurdjck) Burrows, b. in New Lon seloer Co., X. Y., s. 1817, Farmer; P. 0., West Lebanon. don, Conn., 8.1865, Druggist; P. 0., Chatham Village. E. J. Crego, son of Jonathan and B. (Coiwnl) Crego, b. Columbia (3o., X. Y., 1818, J. 0. Best, son of David and Marg:iret (r,ape) Best, b. Columbia Co., X. Y., 1815, Farmer; P. 0., Lebanon Cettiro. Druggist; P. 0., Chatham Village. Silas P. Campbell, son of John and Effariria (Herrirk) Campbell, b. Columbia J. W. Boright, son of Ralph and Sally (Hunt) Boright, h. Columbia Co^ X. Y., (3o., X. Y., 18.52, General Merchant and Postmaster, Xew Lebanon 1630, Lumberitian; P. 0, Chatham Village. Centre. Samuel Boright, sou of Ralph and Sally (Hunt) Boright, b. ColumbiaCo., X. Y, Simeon B. Carpenter, son of Joel and Charlotte Carpenter, h. Colnmbia Co., 1832, Luuiherniun; P. 0., Chatham Village. N. Y., 18:tl, Farmer; P. 0, Xew LeUauon Centre. Wm. C. Bailey, son of Wm. and Harriet (Cady) Bailey, b. Columbia Co., X. Y., Wm. B. Cole, son of Joseph and Ruth (Ga-iton) Cole, h. (3olumbia Co., X. Y., 1816, Physiciao and Surgeon; P. 0., Chatham Villago. 18in, Farmer; P. 0., Xew Lebanon Springs. Cbaa. H. Belt, son of -Aaron and Coletia (Osborne) Belt, b. Columbia Co., X. Y., Andrew R. Clark, sou of Rodman and Mary (Hunter) Clark, b. Columbia Co., 1847, Merchant; P. 0., Chatham Village. K. Y., 1812, Farmer; P. 0.. Xew Lebanon. B W. Beech, son of Samuel and Clarissa (Pratt i Beech, h. Berkshire Co., Mass., E.O. Finch, son of Smith and Margaret (Brown) Finch, b. Otaego Co., N. Y., 8.1888, Proprietor Hotel; P. 0., Chatho^ Village. s. 1825, Farmer; P. 0., West Lebanon. John Cadiiiau, sun of Wm J.and Ruhamy iBiirrows) Cadman, h. Columbia Ellas D. Glllett, son of Jeremiah and Fanny (Day) Gillett, b. Columbia Co , (Co. X. Y., 1830, County Judge; P. 0., Chatham Village. X. Y., 1816, Farmer; P. 0., Xow Lebanon. Homer Craudcll. son of Solomon and Mary E. (Wheeler) Crandell, b. Columbia Misses C. and M. A. Gale,daughters of Xehemlah aud Susanna (Lyon) Gale.b. Co., X. Y., WiO. Merchant; P. 0., illintham Village. Columbia (3o., X. Y., 1826 and 1828, Residents; P. 0.. West Lebanon. Albert U. Clark, son of Jos. D. and Julia (Eowe) Clark, b. (Columbia Co., X. Y., D. U. Hoag, son of Obadlah aud Mary (Husted) Hoag, b. Renssclaer Co., X. Y., 1844,-Merchant; P.O., Chatham Village. 8.1859, Carpenter aud Joiner; P.O., Xew Lebanon Springs. Warren Decker, son of Peter and Eli/.abetli Ann (Pulver) Decker, b. Columbia Isaac T. Haight, son of Amos and Maria (Tanner) Uaight, b. Columbia Co., Co. X. Y., 1831, Merchant; P. 0., Chatham Village. .v. Y., 1839, Farmer and Justice of llie Peace; P. 0., Xow Lalanon. U. M. Ford, son of Judge nicam D. and Sarah A. Ford, b. Columbia Co., X. Y., Homtio B. Hand, son of tl.-ratio and Hannah E. (Gardner) Hand, b. Columbia 1837, Dealer iu Hats, Caps, and Manufacturer of Shirts; P. 0., Chatham Co X Y 1844, Farmer; P. 0 , Xew Leiianon Centre. ViHS^C^'e John Henry Hatch, son of John aud Polly (Tyler) Hatch, b. Columbia Co.. Thomas E. Finch, son of David Uand Eliza (Cofflu) Finch, b. Columbia Co., X. Y., 1846, Farmer; P. O.. New Lebanon Springs. X. Y., 1849, Merchant; P. 0., Chatham Village. Franklin Hand, son of Ira and Martha (Ross) Hand, b. Columbia Co., X. Y., AlansoQ G. Font, son of Alphonso aud Jane (Clark) Ford, h. Columbia Co., 182.5 Farmer .and Supervisor; P. 0., Xew Lebanon. N. Y., 1828, Carpenter and Joiner; P. 0., Cliatham Village. S. B. Hemenway, son of Justice aud Maria (Russell) Uemenway.b. Bei.sselaer Wtn. B. Uowhitid, son of Harrison D. and Hannah (). (Bailey) Ilowlivnd, h. Co , X. Y., s. 1868, Merebant; P. 0., New Lebanon. Greene Co., X. Y., s. 1871, Editor and Publisher; P. 0., Chatham Village. Frederick Hand, sou of Ira and Martha (Ross) Hand, b. Columbia Co., X. Y., Uriali Harmon, son of Corod..Q and Mary (Jenkins) Harmon, b. Columbia Co., 1826 Fanner (deceaseil); P. 0., Xew Lehuiion. X. Y., 1828, Dentist; P. 0., Chatham Village. Washington Hitchcock, sou of A. P. and Hannah lEddy) HlteUcock, b Wash- son of Ezra and Ann (Knapp) Uawley, b. Culumbia Co., X. Y., ington Co., X. Y., s. 1818, Farmer; P. 0., Xew Lebanon. • ^^^^^j^^nSdware Merchant; P. 0., Cliutham Village. Samuel Hand, son of Im and Martha (Ross) Hand, b. Columbia Co., X. Y., ■•■.SS'V-r U. C. Hamm, son of Henry C. and Abigail (Wheeler) Uamm, b. Columbia Co.. 1833, Fannor (deceased); P. 0., New Lebanon Springs. X. Y., 1842, Merchant; P. 0., Chatham VllLige. D. W. Horrick, son of Calvin L.and Aatoinette (Hall) Uerrick, b. Columbia Geo. W. Hatch, son of John and Polly (Tyior) Hatch, b. Columbia Co., X. Y., 1829 Farmer; P. 0., Xew Lebanon Springs. Co. X. Y., 1848, Cool Merchant; P. 0., (Miatbam Village. James Jacksou. sou of James and Isabella iSuggeu) Jackson, b. Euglaud, s. J. C. Uoil'enbock, son of Charles and Mary Ann (Daken) Hollenbeck, b. Colum 1864, Blacksmith; P. 0., Xew Ubonon. _ bia Co., X. Y., 1832, Engineer; P. a, Chatham Village. Erastus B. Jones, son of Justice and Anna (Voung) Jones, b. Columbia Co., B. J. Luke, sun of Henry It. and Mariah (VuUbiirgh) Lake, b. Saratoga Co., X Y 1821, Farmer (deceased); P. 0., Xew Lebanon Centre. X. Y., H. IST". Coal Merchant; P. ()., Chalham Village. Matthew j'. Jones, son of Matthew and Elizabeth Jones, b. Rensselacr Co.. II. W. MoLeilan, sun of Dr. Samuel and Unra 11. (Cook) McLellan, b. Beiisso- X Y b. 1849, Farmer; P. 0 , Xtw Lebanon. laer Co., X. Y., s. 1846, Attorney-ut-Li»w; P. O., Chatham VillHge. Wm. A. linupp, so.i of Ezokiel and Esther (Merrill) Knapp. h. Columbia Co., Geo. L. Morris, son of Jonn and Esther (Woodruff) Morns, b. Columbia Co., X Y 1825, Farmer; P. 0., Xow Lebanon Springs. X. Yt 1831, Banker; P. 0., Chatham Village. Daniel J. Mickie, son of John and Elizabeth (Smitli) Mlckle, b. Columbia Co., John Kendall,Moss., s. son1820, of Thermometer Thomas, Jr, andJlaaufacturer; Olive (Ci-aue) P. Kendall,0., Xew Lebanon.b. Worcester Co., N. Y., 1319, Farmer and Carpenter; P. 0., Chatham Village. Clarissa Murdock, danghwr of Jonathan and Lucrotia (Casey) Murdock, h. J. D. Shufelt, son of David and Sophia (Harder) Shufelt, b. Columbia Co., X. Y., Columbia Co., X. Y. 1706, Resident; P. O.. Xew Lebanon. 1827 Paper Mauufoctiirer; P. (J., Cbuthaiu Village. Thomas Mott, son of Thomas and Rhmla (MoaUer) Mott. U. Colnmbia Co.. James T. Shufelt, son of John P. and Maria (Harder) Shufelt. b. Columbia Co., X. Y., 1818, Farmer; P. 0 , West Lebanoti. . , , „ X. Y., 1813, Physicbin and Surgeon; P. 0., Chatham Village. H. D. simp.son,8ou of James aud Harriet (KIrao) Simpson, b. Coluralna Co., The Missesbodv, S.Columbia and B. Peahoily,Co.. X.T.. daughters Residents; of Bi-nj.P.O., andXew JuliaLebanon (Bostwick) Pea- X. Y., 1820, Manufacturer and Whuieeale Dealer iu Gloves and .Mittens; J. E. Rowley, son of Judiih and Civiah (Hatch) Rowley, h. Colnmbia Co., X. Y.. P. 0., Chatham Villago. 18"4 Fiirmor; P. 0., Xew Lebanon Springs. Charles Smith, son of John and Elizabeth Smith, i.. In England.s 1851, Marble Joseph K.'Royce, son of Ini and Lucy Aun (King) Royce, b. Columbia Co.. Dealer; P. 0., Cliatham Village. X Y 18'7 Farmer; P. 0., Xew Lebanon Springs. Chester J. Seymour, son of John .and Mercy F. (Ashley) Seymour, b. Columbia Heury'.A.rtoyce.'s'm of Ira and Lucy Ann giving) Royce, b. Colnmbia Co., Co., X. Y., IS-ll, Dealer iu Hats, Caps, and Gents' Furnisliing Goods; X. Y., ISIW, Farmer; P. 0., Xew Lol.anon Springs. P. 0., Cliutham Villago. C. H. Spencer, sun uf Allen and Lucy (Hruiul) Spencer, b. Columbia Co.,X. Y., L. A. Tyler, son of Miues ami Eliwi (Alger) Tyler, b. Albany Co., X. Y., s. 1870, 1^25 Fiirniev; P. 0., Xew Lebanon. ^lerchunt; P.O.. Chatham Village. \Vm.3lienuan. son of Abner and Ellziibetli (Xi.rt.mi Sherman, b. Cohinilna E. M. Tlionms. son of William and Ei.iina (llalsey) Thomas, b. Columbia Co., Co., X. Y., 1815, Farnior ulcceased); P. 0., Xew Lebanon. X. v., 1812, Itolired C.irjieiiter aud Joiner; P. C., Chatham \ lllage. F- 444 HISTOKY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. Siiaan M. Snvder, danght^r of Nicli Irs uod Snganna Snyder, Ij. ColnznbiR Co., James Rawling, eon of John and Fraiicoe Bawling, b. Cornwall Co., Eiiglumi. K. Y., 1821, KeoldtfiiT; I'. 0., M'est l^ebanun. 8.185(), Faraier; P. O., Canaan Four Corners. R. !Scotl,ion of Wm. B. and Lovina (Haigbt) Scott, b. Coliirobiii Co., Cyrus T. Siiiitli, bod of KninktiD and Polly (Ford)Smith, b. C-oiumbin Co., N K. Y'., 182.'i, Farmer; P. O., Ciinaan Four Comers. 1R31, Fanner; P. 0., East Cimtbniu. ' Samuel J. Tildon, son of Elam ami Pi.lly Y'. (.lones) Tildeii, b. Columbia Co., Hunting Sberrill, bod of Isaac and Mary (Martin) Slierril), b. Dntchesa Co, N. Y., 1814, Lawyer; P. 0., 15 Grauiercy Park, New Y'ork City. N. Y., 8.1839, Farmer; P. 0., Ci«na.ati. Henry A. Tildeii, son of Elarn and Polly Y.(Jones) Tildcu, b. Columbia Co., Bev. Geo. W. Wamer, eon of Charles E. and Sarah (Perkins) Warner, b. Cule- N. Y., 1821, Cliemi-'t; P. 0., New Lebanon. donia Co., Vt., s. 1868, Minister of Goepel; P. O., Canaan F George T. Powell,son of Townsenrt and Coihorine (Macy) Powell, b. Dutchese Abram W. Vnn Hocson, son of Wm. and Gertrude (Van Volkenburg) Van Co., K. Y., 1843, Horticulturist; P. 0., Ghent. Hoeeen, b. Kimlerhook, N.Y, Feb 17,1807, Manufacturer; P. O^Stnyve- Hosea B. Parsons, son of Jobez and Lydia (Dirge) Parsons, b. Colnmbia Co^ sant Falls. S. T., 1817, Fanner; P. 0., Clialhuni. Stephen H. Wendover. son of John Thompeon and Cynthia (Van Slyke) Wend- Dllaway F. Philip, son of Peter, Jr., and Sarah (Fowler) Philip, b. Columbia over, b. Stuyvesant, N. Y., July 29.1831, Farmer; P. 0., Stuyvesant. Co.. N. Y., 18U1, Farnisr; P. O., Stockport. John II. Rivenburgh, son of Jacob M. and Charlotte (Tipple) Riveobn^h, b. Columbia Co^ N. Y.. Hardware Merchant; P. 0., Ghent. Cornelius Shnfelt, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Miller) ShufelC, b. Columbia Co., N. Y.. 1796, Farmer; P.0., Chatham. GREENPORT. Franklin Snyder, son of Henty T. and Helen (Fredenbiirgh) Snyder, b.Colum bia Co., N. Y., 1832, Fanner; P. 0., Ghent. Richard Becker, son of Tunis and Maria (Gardner) Becker, b. Columbia Co., Jacob StuppiebcBD, sou of Jncob U. and Eliza (Croot) Stiipplobeen, b. Columbia N. Y., 1822, Farmer; P.0., Uiimplireyville. Co., N. T., 1841, Geoend Merchant; P. 0., Ghent. William Brocksbatik, sou of Matthew and Mary Ann (Dir.kson) Brocksbnnk, Jacob H.Stupplelieen, eon of George A. and Christina (Kittle) Stnpplebeen, b. b. England, 1805, s. 1832, Nurseryman and Florist; P. 0., Hudson. Columbia Co., Y., 1834, Farmer; P. 0., Ghent. John W.Cooii.mn of John H..and Margaret I Miller) Coon, b. Columbia Co., Charles E. Smith, »n of John R. and Silva (Sheldon) Smith, b. Columbia Co., N. Y., 1831, Farmer and Snpervisor; P. 0., Hudson. N. Y., 1830, Keeper Columbia County Almshoiisa; P. 0., Ghent. Philo Couso,"on of Bonj. and Catharine (Shiillz) Couse, b. Columbia Co., N.T, Jacob Shaver, son of John I., Jr., and EUr.iibetli (Chism) Shaver, b. Columbia 1826, Fanner; P. 0., Hudson. Co, N. y,1815, Merchant; P. 0., Ghent, John Hall, son of Isaac and Abigail (Richardson) Hall, b. England, a. 1830, Wm.Smith, son of Leonard and Mary (I'olts) Smith, b. Columbia Co., N. Y, Glue Manufacturer; P. 0.,Undson. 1820, Farmer and Muiiufiicturer; P. 0., Mellenville. Mrs. Michael J. Hollenbeck, daughter of Francis F.and Percles (Wright)Sols- George T. Snyder, son of Henry T. and Helen (Freedcnbiirgh) Snyder, b. Co bury, b. Greene Co., N. Y., a. 1844 ; P. 0., Hudson. lumbia Co., N. Y., 1836, Farmer and Supervisor; P. 0., Glient. Lorenzo Uiggin", son of Saml. aud Ellziiboth B.(Buckley) Higgins, b. Colum Walter V. Ten Broeck, son of Wm.and Margaret (Becker) Tou Broeck, b. Co bia Co., N. Y., 1814, Farmer; P. 0., Hudson. lumbia Co., N. Y,1817, Farmer; P.0, Mellenville. Derrick Hollenbeck,son of JLathias and Surah (Plasi) Hollenbeck,b. Columbia Stephen Van Valkenbnrgh, son of Bartholomew and Juno (Sklnkle) Van Vul- Co., N. Y., 18;t5, Farmer; P. 0., Hudson. konburgb, b. Columbia Co., K. Y., 1332, Farmer and Excise Commis Ambrose Hollenbeck,son of George and Christina Hollenbeck,b. Colnmbia Co., sioner; P. 0., Stockport. N. Y., 1840, Farmer; P. 0., Hudson. Abrum Vosburgh, son of Wm.P. and Maria (Frodenbnrgh) Voshurgh, b. Co John W. Kipp, son of John P. and Caroline (Smith) Kipp, b. Columbia Co., lumbia Co, K. Y., 182.8, Farmer; P. 0., Ghent. N. Y.. 18:13, Farmer; P. O., Hudson. Isaac Van Volkenburgh, son of James C. and Catharine (Emerick) Van Val- Philip H. Lambert, son of Andrew G. and Eliza Maria (Fraileigh) Lambert, b. kenburgh, b. Columbia Co., N. Y., 1831, County School Commimioner; Duichess Co., 1828, s. 1848, Farmer; P. 0., Hudson. P.O.,Ghent. Daniel H. Link, son of Wm. H. and Martha M. (Jackson) Link, b. Columbia John Winyard.son of Wm.and Mary(Fonn) Wlnyard,b. England,1816. a.1836, Co., N. Y., 1850, Farmer; P. 0., Hudson. Fanner; P. 0., Ghent. Matthew Marshall, son of Glinting and Ellzahclh (Conkling) Marshall, b. Co Michael I. Wallermire, son of Jacob aiftl Margaret (Brogue) Waltermiro, b. lumbia (Jo., N. Y., 1830, Carriage Manufacturer end Blacksmith ; P. 0., Columbia Co., X. Y., I7i)0, Famter; P. 0., Ghent. Humphreyvilte. Tobias Wnltermlre, son of Michael I. and Maria (Harder) Wallermire, b. Co Neal JIcNeill,"on of N.-al and Mollie (Marhews) McNeill, b. Ireland, 1806, s. lumbia Co., K. T., 1824, Carpenter; P. U., Ghent. 1826, Fanner; P. O., Hudson. Robert McKinstry.son of John and Elizabeth (Smitli) McKinstry.b. Columbia Co., N. Y., 1812, Horticulturist and Fruit-Groner; P. 0., Hudson. Gilbert Plasa, son of John Emerick H. and Sarah (Vannamber) Pluss, b. Co lumbia Co., N. Y., 1826, Farmer; P. 0.. Hudson. Mrs. Peter Van Deusen, daughter of Walter T. and Elizabeth (McKlnetry) STOCKPORT. Livingston, b. Columbia Co., N. Y.; P. 0., Hudson. John W. Van Deusen, son of Wm.and Anna (Elmendorf) Van Densen, b.(Jo- James A. Hover, son of Jacob and Anna (Ostraniler) Hover, h. Columbia Co., liimbia Co., N. Y., 1822. Farmer; P. 0., Hudson. N. v., 1832, Maiiiifacinrer Cotton Goods; P. 0., Stockimrt. Wm. J. Wtswiill, son of Saml. and Mary (Latham) Wiswall, b. Columbia Co., Abndiam Martin, son of Tlmmiis I. anil Atina (Thomas) Martin, b. Dntchess N. Y., 1801. Retired Steamboat Captain; P. 0., Hudson. Co., N. v., 1804, s. 1824, Farmer and Carpenter; P. 0., StotWvllle. Boasman PlilHp, son of Peter ami Ciiibarine (Bossman) Ptiilip, b. Columbia Co., K. Y., 18;i9, Miller and Machinist; P. 0., Stock|>ort. Jeremiiih Biindell, son of Isaac and Hannah (Scott) Rnnilell, b. Albany, N. T., HILLSDALE. 8.1867, Farmer; P. 0., Stockport Eeniwelaer Beynol.U, son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Gillette) Reynolds, U. Co Cliarles M. Bell, son of James and Lllllas (Thompson) Bell, b. Livingston Co., lumbia Co., N. Y,1807, Inventor and Manufacturer Empire Loom; P.O., N. v., 8.1861, Altomey-at-Law; P.O., Hlllsdaie. Stockport J. n. Buckeley,son of Oliver aud Sophia (Foot) Buckeley, b. New London Co., Jacob W. Kussmnn, son of Nicholas and Catharine (Boyce) Rossman, b. Colum Ct., s. 1840, Merchant; P. 0., Hillsdale. bia Co., N. Y., 1819, Paper Manufacturer; P. 0., Stockport. Geo. M. Bullock, son of Mtyor M.and Samh A.(Rodman) Bullock, U. Columbia Frank H. Stott son of Jonathan and Julia (Bennett)Stott b. Columbia Co., Co., N. Y., 18:iO, Liiiiiborraan; P. 0., HiHsdalo. N. Y., 18:12, Woolen Maniifactiiier; P. 0., StotlSTilie. Owen BIgsby, son of Aaron and Julia(Duncan) Bigsliy, b. Colnmbia Co., N.Yh Wm. n. Toby, Jr., sou of Wm. H.and Carolino i Wild) Toby, b. Columbia Co., 18:10, Retired Commission Merchant; P. 0, Hillsdale. N. T., 1830, Fanner; P. 0., Stiiyvcsanc Falls. Storting Burton, son of Henry and Eliza (Doane) Burtoo, b. Columbia Co., Vroomnn Van Rensselaer, son 'if Henry P. and Jane (Fort) Van Bensselaer, b. N. Y., 1836, Farmer; P. 0., Hillsdale. Columbia tk)., N. Y., 1828, Merchant; P. 0., Stotlsvlllu. Major M. Bullock, s OnoD rullur, »on of Samuel Z,. and Sally (Jones) Fuller, b. Otscpo Co., K. Y., J. M. Eiles, son of Harvey and Bebecca (Clark) Nilea, b. Columbia Co., E. Y, 8.1845, Produce and Comoilssiuii Merchant; P. 0., lllllBdale. 1815, Farmer; P. 0., Sitencertowii. Lorenzo Gilhert, eon of Geo. and Martha (Palmer) Gilbert,Columbia Co.,K.T., Henry C. Pierson. son of Charles E. and Marietta (Hiilsry) Piersou, b. Colum 18SJ, Farmer and Teacher; P. 0.. llilledale. bia Co.. N. Y', 1845, Fanner attd Si)|H.Tvisor; P. (j, Ciiulbani Village. Eebert House, son of Ikiijamin and I'olly (Slevei) House, b. Columbia Co., Will. G. Paliiier, sou of Ira and Leali 'Green) Palmer, b. Uoiumbia Co., E. Y., N. Y., 1831, Fanner; P. 0., HiilHdule. 1841, Merchant; P.O., Spencertown. Peter 1). ilolleiibeck, eon of Matthuw and Snrali (Plos") Hullcnbeck, L. Colum Tliomas SIocuiu, sun of Samuel and Pbu'be (Temage) Slocum, b. Dutcbess Co, bia Co., K. T„ 1830, Farmer; P.0., liilledala. K. Y'., 1810, s. 1838, Farmer; P. 0., Sjieiicertown. John Q. Johnson, eon of Quiucy and Abigail (Cook) Johneon, b. Columbia Co., H. L. Smith, sou of Jercmjab and Mary (Beale) Smith, b. Columbia Co, E. Y, Y., I82U, Farmer; P. 0., llilbdale. 1827, Farmer; P.O., Spencertowu. S. W. Jotiei, eon of M'm, M. and Parmelia (Patrir) Jones, b. Columbia Co., Wm. Sweet, son of Wanton and Sardinia (Worthinglon) Sweet,b. Jefferson Co., K. Y., 1848, Farmer; P.0^ Cruryville. E. Y'., 8.183;S, Famtor; P. 0, Bed Bock. Abraham I. Jordan, son of John and Sarah (Allen) Jonlaii, b. Columbia Co., K. Y., 1807, Bctired Farmer; P. 0., Martindale. Grorrenor A. Kiiox, eon of Geo. and Sarah (Bullock) Knox, b. Columbia Co., N. Y'., 1830, Freighter; P.0^ llIllBdale. Austin Uorey, Ron of Steven S. and Aseuath (Sawyer) Morey, b. Albany Co., COPAKE. K. Y.. B. 1822, Farmer; P. O., HilUdale. M'm. A. Miillery, son of .Ansoii U. and Sarah A. (Sawyer) Mullcry, b. Troy, I. and A. Anderson, sons of Henry and Anna M. Anderson, b. Columbia Co,, E. y, 1S19 and 1631, Fiirniers; P. 0, Copake. N. !■., 6.1851, Farmer; P. 0., Craryville. Zenas Burch, s