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(37.) John MacCauley, the father of these children, was an active mer- chant, trader and hotel keeper in Newburgh after the war of the Revolu- tion. [See Eager's Hist. Orange Co., p. 178.]
(37a.) Son of Moses Kimball by his second wife.
(38.) Father of Moses, Thomas and other children who have honorable record in the history of the town, He was a carpenter and builder.
(39.) James C. Clark was the first professional barber, haircutter, wig- maker, etc., in Newburgh. He was noted for his excentric character, but was not the less an honorable and successful man in his business. His son Theodore, named above, was a compositor; his son George died at Rhinebeck, was a printer and editor. His daughter Eliza married and died elsewhere.
(40.) Rev. Samuel Fowler was a native of Newburgh and one of the earliest converts here to Methodism. He entered the ministry in 1793, and in 1820 was the first stationed pastor of the First M. E. Church, now Trinity.
(41.) Samuel Fowler and Charlotte Purdy Fowler were father and mother of Rev. Samuel Fowler. It was at their residence in Middlehope that Methodism was cradled in Newburgh.
(42.) A notice in the Political Index of Jan. 7, 1824, states that Mrs. Col- lins was a native of New Jersey, but for many years a resident of New- burgh and among its first settlers; that her relations were very extensive, " she having arrived at the title of great-great-grandparent." She was de- prived of sight and hearing for several years before her death.
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(43.) In 1795, John Da Sylva came to Marlborough with Mr. John Joseph Alexis Robert, a French gentleman, who had for some years resided in the island of San Domingo, and at the outbreak of the insurrection of the slaves, fied to New York with his household slaves. Robert and Da Sylva opened a store at Marlborough, where they carried on business in such merchandise as was at that day commonly kept in country stores. The firm was dissolved by the death of Mr. Da Sylva in March, 1806. Mr. Robert remained in this country until the year 1814, when he returned with his family to France. (J. W. F.)
(44.) A descendant of William Bradford, second Governor of Plymouth Colony and signer of the Mayflower conpact.
(45.) David W. Bate-place of burial uncertain-died March 17, 1859, at 72, but presumed to have been in the plot marked by the gravestones of Sarah Isaacs Rogers. He was a native of Shawangunk, Ulster County, and son of James Bate, A. D. Q., of the army of the Revolution. He was brigadier-major in the war of 1812, and was severely wounded in action Oct. 27, 1813. He was admitted to the bar of Orange County in 1811, entered in partnership with William Ross, and later was senior member of the firm of Bate & McKissock. He was supervisor for several terms, and was elected County Judge in 1847, serving with great credit to him- self and his profession. His first wife was Harriet M. Isaacs, who was (presumably) buried in the same plot. His second wife was a Mrs. Pol- hamus. He left no children.
(46.) Evidently a child of Mary and Peter C. DeWint.
(47.) Harry Caldwell was postmaster at Newburgh 1799-1802.
(48.) William Hoyle was a tailor and clothier; father of Mark C. and Raphael Hoyle and Mrs. D. G. Leonard. He was a substantial member of St. George's Church.
(49.) Raphael Hoyle was a landscape and portrait painter of no little talent. Some of his paintings survive, among other a favorite view of New- burgh.
(50.) The sign of the cross or the letters I. H. S. on this and many other monuments indicates a member of the R. C. Church, which had no burial ground here at the time.
(51.) An early settler at Middlehope, who gave to the town several use- ful and honorable descendants, among others Gilbert Holmes.
(52.) David Miller was son of Johannes Miller of Montgomery. James too was son of David, and Mrs. Decker was his sister. The family is now represented in Newburgh by Hon. James W. Miller.
(53.) A very respectable family of whom no representatives remain in Newburgh. Derric Ammerman was Quatermaster in the Revolution for many years, later was master of the packet sloop Siren, sailing between Newburgh and New York. His wife was a Belknap.
(54.) Capt. Charles Halstead died on board the barge Minisink, of which he was master, from disease of the heart.
(55.) Father of William G. Gillespie, noted later.
(56.) A refugee from Ireland for participating in the rebellion of 1798; founder of the Universal store, later conducted by his sons, John and James S. Brown.
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(57.) One of the principal projectors of the Newburgh and Cochecton turnpike, and to which he gave his life by disease contracted in its con- struction.
(58.) John Lawson, of the firm of Wear & Lawson, dealers in hardware, whose children lie by his side, of whom John Knox Lawson was a young man of especial activity in public affairs and in the Fire Department, of which he was Chief Engineer 1855-6. Joseph Lawson died in service in the 165th Regiment.
(59.) Robert Gardner followed several occupations at different times- clerk. storekeeper, captain of a sloop, painter, etc .; was connected with the Fire Department, captain of a company in the war of 1812, and altogether a respected and useful man. Dr. James M. Gardner, Cicero and Lewis W. were his sons,
(60.) Sybel Burr, second wife of Robert Gardner.
(61.) Dr. Hedges was noted in the religious discussions of his day. It is erroneously asserted of him that he died of visitation of God for partici- pation in the administration of the Holy Sacrament to a dog. His death was from a nervous fit, to which he was subject.
(62.) Few men whose resting place is marked in the cemetery have a more worthy life record than Matthew du Bois, grandson of the Huguenot immigrant at New Paltz; was engaged in sloop freighting in New Windsor; was in Col. McClaughry's Regiment in action at Fort Montgomery Oct. 6, 1777; gave two sons to the Revolutionary army; member of the Legislature. and filled several local official trusts.
(63.) Daughter of Peter Welling of New Windsor.
(64.) Mother and son. Mr. Sleight was a lawyer and respected for many virtues.
(65.) Capt. Lander was father of Tobias D. Lander, dealer in clocks, watches, etc. The latter removed to and died in New York.
(66.) Sister of Daniel Farrington.
(67.) Brother-in-law of Daniel Farrington and his associate in the paint- ing business.
(68.) Graduate of Rutgers, 1829; studied in Edinburg under Rev. Thomas Chalmers, and in Glasgow under Dr. Thomas Dick; licensed in 1833 by the presbytery of Aberdeen, Scotland; ordained in 1834 in N. Y .; was pastor in Philadelphia 1834-36, and in Newburgh 1836-47; also Professor in Biblical literature in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in New- burgh; Professor of Latin at Princeton 1847-53, again Professor in the Seminary at Newburgh 1853-5. 1860-3 Professor of English language and literature in Rutgers. Chaplain and Professor of moral philosophy at West Point 1871-1881. Author of numerous sermons and pamphlets and contri- bútor to current literature. (R. E.)
(69.) For a number of years Street Commissioner and Chief Engineer of the Fire Department.
(70.) Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Noyes were daughters of John Bevridge.
(71.) Father of Daniel and Ebenezer Ward Farrington.
(72.) This interesting family is now represented by William S. Libby, late of the firm of Hilton & Libby, successors to Alexander Stewart, mer- chant of N. Y.
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(73.) Mrs. Van Kleek was daughter of Robert Boyd, of New Windsor, a gun maker in the war of the Revolution. The late Robert Boyd Van Kleek was a son. Dr. Van Kleek was of Poughkeepsie stock, noted in the Revolution. He was, as his monument states, an excellent man and an able physician. In this grave is buried Ellen Van Kleek, who died at White Plains, N. Y., April 16, 1898, Æ 80 years.
(74.) Jonathan and Aaron Noyes were brothers, and sons of Jonathan Noyes, who settled here after or at the close of the war of the Revolution. A sister of Jonathan and Aaron married David, son of Samuel Weed, and became the mother of Jonathan Noyes Weed, President of the Quassaick National Bank.
(75. Daughter of Aaron and Hannah Noyes.
(76.) Aaron Noyes established and conducted for several years a brick- yard at the foot of Renwick Street. He was quite active in local affairs and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the village, 1831, '32, '33. '35, '36.
(77.) Mr. Gazeley was for twenty-three years editor and publisher of the Political Index, the leading newspaper of Newburgh prior to 1829. His wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Carter, is said to be buried by his side. He has no descendants in Newburglı.
(78.) Near this stone are said to be buried the bodies of Edward and his wife Susan Wier, and their two children, John Carlisle and Emily Wier. They all died in N. Y. and were brought here for burial.
(79.) A descendant in the 5th generation of Louis DuBois, the Huguenot settler at New Paltz. He was Brigadier-General of Artillery for many years, a miller and manufacturer at West Newburgh, and at all times an active, honorable and useful citizen.
(80.) Son of James Reeve, of L. I .; father of Selah, Christopher, Chas. F. V., William, George, and Eliza, who married Hon. John W. Brown. For nearly a century one of the active business families of Newburgh.
(81.) Brother of Gen. Nathaniel.
(82.) See No. 443, III. To the south of this monument is buried the body of Mrs. Julia Reed, daughter of the late C. F. V. Reeve.
(83.) For many years a manufacturer of and dealer in leather in New- burgh.
(84.) Dr. Alexander Clinton, son of Charles and great-grandson of Col. Charles, of Little Britain. He removed to N. Y. City, where he died.
(85.) Son-in-law of Capt. Robert Gourlay. His body was brought here from New Jersey.
(86.) Capt. Robert Gourlay, 46th U. S. Infantry, War of 1812. His wife, Maria DeWitt, was daughter of Chas. Clinton, grandson of Col. Chas. Clin- ton. of Little Britain. His father was Dr. Robert Gourlay, an early physi- cian who emigrated from Ireland and located in Little Britain. Prior to entering the army Capt. Gourlay conducted mercantile business in New- burgh.
(87.) Mrs. Fisk was daughter of Baltus Van Kleek, of Poughkeepsie, and sister of Dr. Baltus Van Kleek, of Newburgh.
(88.) One of the ablest of the early lawyers of Newburgh; U. S. District Attorney for Southern District of New York; an active member and foun-
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der of St. George's Church, on its reorganization. He has no living descen- dants, his entire family are buried around him, with the exception of his son James, died Pensacola, Florida.
(89.) Daughter of Jonathan Fisk. Theodore, her brother, a lawyer of ability is without monument.
(90.) Thomas McKissock was eminent as a lawyer and as a member of Congress. He has no representative surviving him in Newburgh. Mrs. Mc- Kissock was daughter of Joseph Belknap, and sister of James Belknap and Mrs. Eli Hasbrouck.
(91.) Mr. Belknap was one of the most worthy and respectable citizens of Newburgh. He was in the field in the war of 1812 as first sergeant of Capt. W. H. Falls' company of infantry; was appointer Adjutant in 1812, and held the commission until the close of the was in 1817; was Captain of the Bell Button Company, of which John W. Brown was Ensign in 1821-22; was Brigade Inspector; later Chief Engineer of Fire Department; in 1843-48 Postmaster, and held several official stations. His wife, Clarisa Ring, was sister of Thomas C. Ring.
(92.) Aaron Belknap was a lawyer and for eighteen years Postmaster at Newburgh.
(93.) Henry Leavenworth, born in New Haven, Conn., 10 Dec., 1783, died in Cross Timbers, Indian Ter., 21 July, 1834. Capt., Maj., Lieut. Col. and Col. in the war of 1812. Breveted Lieut. Col. for distinguished service at the battle of Chippewa, U. C., for meritorious service at Niagara U. C. where he was wounded, and Brig. Gen'l in 1824, for " ten years faithful service in one grade."
(94.) Son of Col. Jonathan Hasbrouck, the builder of Washington's Headquarters. His wife was Hannah, daughter of David Birdsall.
(95.) Son of Isaac Hasbrouck and father of Eli Hasbrouck.
(96.) Dr. David Fowler came to Newburgh after the war of the Revolu- tion, locating first near Marlborough, but later holding the family residence on Liberty Street. He was highly esteemed in his profession and was es- pecially active in refounding St. George's Episcopal Church. Gilbert Ogden Fowler, his son, was a lawyer, member of Assembly, Judge of County Court and Court of Common Pleas, Major General of militia, etc., and died while President of the Highland Bank of Newburgh.
(97.) Near this stone is buried the body of Julia Gray, wife of Thomas Estabrook, died April 9, 1831, aged 42 years.
(98.) 'The disaster to the packet cloop " Neptune," was the most terrible that ever occurred on the Hudson. Some twenty-five or thirty lives were lost. The body of the boy was brought to Newburgh. The mother rests by its side.
(99.) No Stone marks this grave. Its occupant was daughter of Geo. W. and Hannah Wright. She was active in musical circles for a number of years.
(100.) Samuel Wright was the brother of William B. Wright, Judge of. the Court of Appeals, and of Geo. W. Wright. He was a ship carpenter by trade.
(101.) Joseph French kept the Steamboat Hotel, on Second Street. It was in his parlors that St. George's Church was reorganized by Rev. John Brown.
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(102.) Robert Lawson was a grocer and for many terms member of the Board of Trustees of the village. Herman, Robert and George Lawson were sons. No surviving descendants remain here. Near this grave are buried the bodies of Samuel Parmenter, who died June 29, 1841, aged 50 years; his wife, Eliza Crane, who died Sept. 14, 1849. Charles J., their son, who died in 1826, aged about three years, and Susan E. C., their daughter, who died in 1856, aged 26 years. Mr. Parmenter was a school teacher, editor of the Newburgh Gazette, mathematician, statistician and surveyor. Brigadier- General Stephen C. Parmenter was his son.
(103.) To the south of this stone is buried the body of Flora Delzel, wife of John Watson, born in Scotland, died in Newburgh, 1830. To the north of this stone are buried Eliza, aged 5 mo .; Ada, aged 8 years, 2 mo., and George William, aged 2 mo .; children of John and Eliza Proudfoot. Also, Ann Houseman, wife of John Houseman, died 1871, and Mary Jane House- man, died March, 1876, aged 61 years.
(104.) An active man in his day and generation, and a man of ability. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the village and its President. He has no descendants residing here.
(105.) Thomas Phillips, Jr., was a builder. The late Mrs. Jolin II. Sanxay, who married second, John R. Gorham, was a daughter. Seely was the name of Mrs. Phillips second husband. She was a Gardner.
(106.) Son of William Belknap, who was a brother of Capt. Samuel Belk- nap, noted later. He was a Lieutenant in Col. Livingston's 4th N. Y. Con- tinental Regiment; served during the war, and is still represented in the Society of the Cincinnati, of which he was a member.
(106a.) Mrs. Riggs was sister of Capt. Samuel Belknap.
(107.) The part of the inscription enclosed in brackets has become illegi- ble. It is restored from a copy made some years ago. Deceased was brotli- er of Lieut. William Belknap, Isaac and Jamies Belknap, who removed from Woburn, Mass., and located in Newburgh in 1749. The late Genl. Wil- liam Goldsmith Belknap, U. S. A., and his son, the late William Belknap, Secty. of War, are among his descendants. For the military services of Samuel Belknap, see " Mass. Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War," Vol. II, p. 907.
(108.) The Merritts, Purdys and Fowlers were allied families and set- iers, on the Harrison Patent (now Marlborough), prior to the war of the Revolution. The founders of the Newburgh branch of the Merritts was George, whose eldest was George, No. 19.
(109.) The Gidneys were descendants of the founders of the settlement still bearing the name of Gidneytown.
(110.) The Dentons of Newburgh were descendants of Rev. Daniel Deil- ton, of L. I., the writer of the first English History of the State of N. Y.
(111.) Leonard and Jacob Carpenter were the owners of the Newburgh and Fishkill Ferry (1802), and of the dock property occupied by the Rams- dell Estate. Their store was a low frame building on the site now occu- pied by the United States Hotel.
(112.) Edmund and Chancy Griswold were masters of sloops engaged in the transportation of freight and passengers between Newburgh and New York. Edmund was especially conspicuous in the organization of the Newburgh Fire Department in 1797.
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(113.) Progenitors of the Newburgh families of Gibb. Eleanor, David and Samuel were dealers in clothing, corner of Smith and Fourth Streets in 183S.
(114.) Jonathan and Jane (Linderman) Carter were the father and mother of the late Enoch Carter.
(115.) Mary, wife of Adolph De Grove, was sister of Enoch Carter, whose son Jonathan was the father of Enoch Carter of more recent years. Noting her death the Political Index remarks, "Few persons have sus- tained a long life so carefully and unreproachably. Mrs. De Grove was almost the last of that class of exalted females which adorned the society of our village in former years." Mr. De Grove was an active "son of liberty " in N. Y. City in the early years of the Revolution, and on its occu- pation by the British forces was compelled to find safety in removal, leav- ing his property there to be confiscated by the enemies of the cause he had espoused.
(116.) David, Phineas, Silas and Edward Howell were descendants of Ed- ward Howell, an immigrant from England (1639), who settled at Southamp- ton, L. I. They came to Newburgh during or soon after the war of the Revolution. Little is known of them beyond the fact that they were active and honorable citizens. Phineas was the first tanner in the then village, and was one of the Trustees of the Fire Department in 1797, also one of the Trustees of the Glebe (1794), and Treasurer of that body in the erection of the Newburgh Academy. He disappears from record in 1797. David was a merchant and trader; kept a store on the N. W. corner of Water and Second Streets. He was the father of Benoni H. Howell, noted later.
(117.) Mrs. Bowman was a lady of marked character. Her husband, Phineas Bowman, whose remains are said to be interred beside her, was a Major in the Mass. Line in the war of the Revolution; a lawyer of dis- tinguished ability, and as a member of the Legislature secured the pas- sage of the Act organizing the present county of Orange, 1797-8. For ser- vices in Mass. see Mass. soldiers and sailors in the Revolutionary war. Vol. II, p. 352.
(118.) By the side of this grave are buried Thomas Theall and his two grandchildren. Thomas Theall was son of Isaac Theall.
(119.) Mr. Cooley was a lawyer and a Justice of the Peace.
(120.) Mark McIntyre, the father, was buried beside his daughter. He died Aug. 11, 1831. The Newburgh Telegraph of Aug. 25, 1831, says, "He was a worthy and estimable man."
(121.) Luther Halsey, Sr., was Principal of the Newburgh Academy in 1813, and served until 1820, when he was succeeded by liis son, John T. Halsey. Rev. Luther Halsey, Jr., was Pastor of the Blooming-Grove Church 1815-25, and left there to accept a Professorship in Nassau Hali. He died at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1880.
(122.) Alex. Gilcrist was a pump and block maker at the corner of Ann and Liberty Streets, and a very worthy man.
(123.) Levi P. Dodge was son of William P. Dodge, who was son of Reuben Dodge, a Lieutenant in the Mass. Line in the army of the Revolu- tion. John P. and William Foster Dodge were sons of Levi P. and Sarah Jane Foster Dodge, the latter, daughter of Elnathan Foster and his wife, Ruth Tarbell. William Foster Dodge was in service in the war of the Rebellion. His brother John P. was killed at Fredericksburgh. There
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were other branches of the family, notably Levi Dodge, a Lieutenant in the New Hampshire Line, who with his brother William settled here after the war of the Revolution. He was a large holder of real estate, President of the Bank of Newburgh, etc. He is said to have been buried in this cemetery without monument, at his own request.
(124.) Mrs. Carter and her mother died the same day of yellow fever, said to have been the first and only cases of that disease that ever occurred in Newburgh. John Anderson, the husband and father, was a merchant and forwarder, with dock and store on the southwest corner of what is now Third and Front Street, and sailed the sloop "Eliza." During the war of the Revolution he was an enlisted " boatman" on the Hudson, and engaged with his sloop in the transportation of continental stores, etc. His children by his wife Mary Smith were Elizabeth (Mrs. Carter), John, Jr., and Benjamin. John, Jr., married Mary Woodward, and Benjamin married Mary, daughter of Phineas Bowman. John, Jr., married (second) Charity Woodward and had several children. He was a man of standing and reputation, and was President of the Village in 1802. He removed to Hoboken in 1803-4, and died in New York Feb. 10, 1840, aged "78 years 9 months and 8 days." Frederick Roostback Anderson, of New York, was son by his second wife. The late Hiram Anderson, dealer in carpets, 99 Bowery, was grandson-son of his son, John Anderson, Jr. Several pages could be written about John Anderson without telling in full the incidents in his long and useful life.
(125.) Son of Benj. Smith, who was the son of James Smith, who pur- chased in 1749 the farm now covered by the City of Newburgh between First and South Streets, whereon he laid out the township of Washington. It was at the house of the father that Steuben Lodge of F. & A. M. held its communications.
(126.) Second wife of Jonathan Carter. She left issue, one child, Eliza- beth, who became the wife of Ward M. Gazlay.
(127.) This the fourth Mrs. Foster was Ruth Tarbell. Mr. Foster was a native of L. I. It was at his house that the first " class" of the M. E. Church was organized in Newburgh in 1789.
(128.) Nathaniel P. Emmet was a baker. Lieutenant in the Village Guards.
(129.) Son of Daniel Niven, as distinguished from Daniel Niven, Jr., the latter the father of Thornton M. Niven and nephew of Daniel Niven. George was the grandfather of the late Mrs. Chancey Depew of N. Y. He was a lawyer.
(130.) Daniel Niven was a native of Scotland. He served in the army of the Revolution as Captain of Engineers, and became a member of the "Society of the Cincinnati." He located in Newburgh after the disband- ment of the army and engaged in milling at West Newburgh, and in farm ing. He had sons, George W. and Charles. The former noted above and the latter at one time Sheriff of the County.
(131.) Jason Rogers came from New London, Conn., in 1785 or 'S6, and en- gaged in ship building. The first horse-boat on the Newburgh Ferry, the Moses Rogers, was built by him in 1816. Lieut .- Col. Jason Rogers, of Louisville, Ky., was his oldest son, and was in service in the war with Mexico. Capt. James Rogers was in the U. S. Navy. The entire family was remarkable for solidity of character and patriotic citizenship, the father himself being a soldier in the ranks at Fort Trumbull when New
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London was sacked by the British forces under Benedict Arnold. The family has no representative now living in Newburgh.
(132.) Mother of the late Thomas McAlles.
(133.) Gen. John McLean lived in what is now sometimes called "the Wyckoff place," junction of Montgomery and Water Streets. His father was an early settler in what is now Blooming-Grove. His daughter mar- ried William Ross, the noted lawyer and politician of Newburgh in the early part of the current century.
(134.) A descendant of Richard Albertson, who was one of the number to whom the second charter of the Glebe was issued in 1752.
(135.) Henry Veltman was a mason. The mason work of the old First M. E. Church on Second Street was executed by him.
(136.) Son of Capt. Samuel Belknap, already noted. He was at one time engaged in the freighting business.
(137.) John E. Parmalee was a merchant in Water Street. His wife was daughter of William H. Smith. Mrs. Jed Horton is a daughter. Remains removed since above was written; now in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
(138.) Daniel Smith was engaged in the freighting business from Balm- ville from 1804-1820.
(139.) Daughter of Philip Freneau, a poet of the Revolutionary era.
(140.) At one time cashier of the Bank of Newburgh. His son, Peter Freneau Hunn, was a lawyer, surveyor, Justice of the Peace, etc.
List of Unmarked Graves.
[This list does by no means include all the graves which are unmarked, but those only which have been reported to the compiler. Several unmark- ed graves are noted in connection with monuments.]
ARCHER, SARAH ELIZA, wife of Rev. William Archer, who was some time Pastor of a Wesleyan Methodist Church in Newburgh.
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