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James Stoutenburgh, son of William, owned a farm on a road now closed, northeast of Union Corners. He was married three times, first 31 December, 1782, to Mary Moss; and had: Polly, married James Culver. Mar- garet. He married a second, 30 December, 1790, Hannah Marshall, and had Richard, born 9 July, 1791 (married, and had Richard and John T. B.); Hannah ("Nancy "), born 23 August, 1792; Herman; Marshall, died in Poughkeepsie, 19 August, 1849, aged fifty- seven, leaving children. He married (third) Comfort Bell, by whom he had one child, Eliza- beth, married John Hendricks. In his will, 19
May, proved 25 June, 1807, he names wife Comfort, and all the above children. "The widow Comfort Stoutenburgh" survived her husband many years, residing on the home- stead.
Abraham W. Stoutenburgh, son of William, married Margaret, daughter of James Van Vleck and Anna Stoutenburgh. Children: James; Margaret, married Tunis, son of William W. Stoutenburgh; William, born 23 March, 1783; Ann; Harmon; Elizabeth, born 7 March, 1789; Catharine, Maria, born 5 September, 1790; Abraham, born 25 August, 1791; Mary, born IO December, 1797. Abraham W. Stouten- burgh lived in the town of Clinton. On May I, 1795, Ebenezer Mott, of Stanford, and Mary, his wife, conveyed 211 acres in Clinton to Abraham Stoutenburgh, of Clinton, and Mar- garet, his wife, "it being the homestead farm their mother, Ann Van Vleck, possessed and resided on at the time of her decease."
William W. Stoutenburgh, son of William, died 19 August, 1829, aged seventy years. He had from his father a farm and mills a mile east of Union Corners. He married 28 Janu- ary, 1783. Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Conk- lin and Catalyntje Van Benschoten, born 14 May, 1766, died 7 November, 1835. Children: William W., Jr., married Maria De Groff, and left a family. Isaac, born 12 February, 1786, not married. Catalyntje, born 22 December, 1789. Maria, born 9 January, 1792, died 28 May, 1884, aged ninety-two, married John E. De Groff, who died 20 September, 1846, aged fifty-nine. Jacob Van Benschoten, born 25 June, 1794, died 18 May, 1879, married Hes- ter Travis, who died 14 May, 1883, aged eighty-five. Tunis married Margaret, daugh- ter, of Abraham W. Stoutenburgh. Sarah, bori1 13 May, 1798, married-Mosher, and re- moved to "the West," died in fall of 1848. Susan C., born 29 May, 1800, died 23 June, 1889. married John A. De Groff, who died 2 February, 1876, in his eighty-first year. Ann Eliza, born 1804, died 29 November, 1822, aged eighteen years, three months. Henry, killed in 1841, by being thrown from a wagon; not married. Elias Van Benschoten, born 14 March, 1810; married II March, 1835, Huldah Swartwout.
Tobias W. Stoutenburgh, son of William, had the north part of the homestead of his father, 121 acres, at Union Corners, and other lands. In 1820 he advertised this property for sale. He sold not long after and removed,
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with a part of his family, to Phelps, Ontario Co., N. Y. He married Mary Hill. Children: Barbara, born 29 June, 1792, married James Hall, of Stanford. George, of New York, married three times. William, of New York, married and left a family. Mary Van Vleck " Maria " ), born 4 November, 1797, never married. Abraham, removed to Texas, never married. John T., born 21 September, 1799, married Mary Van Wagner, 3 December, 1823. Sarah, born 19 September, 1801, mar- ried Peter Reese. Isaac married Miss Reese. Jane married Benjamin Prichard, son of James Prichard. Cornelia Mott removed to Phelps, Ontario county, had six children. Eliphalet, born 15 October, 1811 (living, 1897), of Phelps, Ontario Co., N. Y., married Clemen- tine Knapp, and has a family.
Isaac Stoutenburgh, son of William, was born 17 December, 1767, and baptized at Poughkeepsie 14 February, 1768; his sponsors being Johannes Eman and Catharina Van Deu- sen, widow of his uncle Isaac Van Vleck. He inherited the homestead of his father, with the stone house before mentioned. He was a prominent man in his day, in town and Church affairs. He died i November, 1859, aged ninety-two. Ile married 29 September, 1791, Elsie, daughter of John P. Schryver and Elea- nor Van Benschoten, baptized at Rhinebeck, 15 August, 1773, died 6 July, 1845, aged seventy-two. Children: William I., born 5 September, 1792, died 21 September, 1859, unmarried. John Schryver, born 7 November, 1794, died 15 March, 1874, married Maria, daughter of John Albertson, who died 22 Sep- tember. 1865, in her sixty-fifth year, and had John Albert, counsellor at law, of Hyde Park and New York, born 6 September, 1820, died 11 April, 1887; James De Cantillon, counsel- lor at law (now of Washington, D. C.); Susan Caroline, died 1864, aged thirty-five, married Col. Orrin Travis; Willet E. (now of Wash- ington ; Walter H. (also of Washington); Isaac, died 1841, aged three years; and Mary, married Abram Hyatt, of Sing Sing. Cathar- ine De Cantillon, born 25 May, 1797, died 13 May, 1858, unmarried. Richard De Cantillon (twin), born 25 May, 1797, died 24 May, 1875. married ( first Eliza Sophia Sleight, of Fishkill, and (second, Eliza, daughter of Alexander Mc- Clellan. By the latter he had Isaac, of San Francisco, deceased; George Washington, of Chicago, died 1884; and Catharine Eliza, who married Edgar Van Kleeck, of Poughkeepsie.
R. D. C. Stoutenburgh was long a merchant in Poughkeepsie. Eleanor, born 20 December, 1800, died 25 September, 1876; married Rich- ard Lewis Prichard, son of James Prichard, and Cornelia Mott, born 1 August, 1804. died 22, November, 1882. His commission as captain in the 84th Regiment was signed by Gov. Marcy, 5 August, 1837. Richard L. and Eleanor Prichard had three children: Isaac De- Cantillon Prichard, late one of the Associate Judges of Dutchess county, who died 9 Feb- ruary, 1894; JAMES L. PRICHARD, M. D., of Hyde Park, and Elsie Cornelia Prichard. James C. died 20 June, 1815, aged thirteen. Tobias I., born 29 January, 1806, died 25 Oc- tober, 1888; married Maria, daughter of Isaac Albertson, and settled in the town of Pleasant Valley. Children: Sarah C. married Albert J. Budd, and Mary married Dr. Merritt Dutcher, of Owego, N. Y. Mary Elsie, born 17 July, 1809, died 16 January, 1833; married Jacob T. Sleight. Henry Cuyler, born I Au- gust, 1812, living 1897, of Poughkeepsie; mar- ried Amelia, sister of Col. Orrin Travis, and has Mary, Edward, Walter, Juliet, Anne and Henry. Caroline, born 23 June, 1815, dicd 20 June, 1829, aged fourteen. William I., son of Isaac Stoutenburgh, served in the war of 1812, being then about twenty years of age. For his services he had a pension, in later years, and a grant of land. A home- made blanket with the date " 1812 " woven in it, and which he had with him at Harlem Heights, is still preserved by a niece.
Anna Stoutenburgh, daughter of Jacobus, married June, 1755, Jacobus (James) Van- Vleck, son of Abraham Van Vleck, of New York, and Maria Kip, baptized in New York 18 Septemher, 1720. She inherited lands in the town of Clinton, near her brother Peter, and died there before 1795, leaving two chil- dren, viz .: Mary, wife of Ebenezer Mott, of Stanford, Margaret, wife of Abraham, son of the first William Stoutenburgh. The husband of Anna died before 1772. "Ebenezer Mott, Esq." died January 9, 1813, aged sixty-two. Mary, his wife, died December 2, 1840, aged eighty-two.
Jacobus Stoutenburgh, Jr., son of Jacobus, married 23 June, 1764. Josina, daughter of John Teller, of Teller's Point, and Aeltje (Alida ) Vermilye. He lived in the stone house at the Lower Corners, which he inherited, to- gether with a considerable farm adjoining. At the close of the Revolution he purchased
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the confiscated estate of Christian Bergh, which joined his own on the south, and which Mr. Bergh had intended for the portion of his daughter, Maria Barbara, wife of Martin Dob, who built the stone house, still standing, east of the road. Children: James l. (Captain). born February 1, 1767, married (first) 3 March, 1793, Catharine E., daughter of Rich- ard Snediker, of Spacken Kill, in the town of Poughkeepsie, who died 4 August, 1815, aged forty; and (second), 15 April, 1824, Sarah Patchen. He inherited part of the late Bergh estate, and built the first part of the house afterward the residence of the late Daniel S. Miller; but soon sold the property. He was an active man. and made many changes during his life. Alida, born 19 April, 1769; married, first, 13 October, 1794. Dr. Hiram Walker ( who settled at Hyde Park, but died early), and, second, Walton Street, of Coxsackie. Margaret, born 26 December, 1771; married, first, John L., son of Luke Stoutenburgh, and. second, John I. Teller, son of John Teller and Margaret Stoutenburgh. John I., baptized 24 May, 1774, died 18 March, 1822; married Sarah Griffin, of Lyme, Conn., and had Margaret, born 1797, died 6 March, 1802, and Sarah Catharine, born 8 February, 1807, died 14 March, 1888: married William B. Platt, of Rhinebeck. The homestead of John 1. Stoutenburgh was on the east side of the road, at the Lower Corners, on the property now owned by Mrs. Calista Jones. The house stood until after 1850. Luke 1., born 28 Jan- uary, 1779; married Elizabeth Catharine, daughter of Anthony A. Hoffinan and Eliza- beth Snediker, and niece of his brother James' wife. They had. Josina, married Storm Truesdell, of Coxsackie; Walton Street, of Coxsackie, who died about 1872; Edgar, died 29 July, 1811, aged one year four months; Richard Anthony, born August, 1816, and Cortland Augustus, born January, 1820. Luke I. Stoutenburgh lived in the house late the residence of his father. In later years this became the property of John I. Teller; and after having had several owners, and a long list of tenants, was finally destroyed by an in- cendiary fire, on the night of August 6, 1864. Then for some years it formed a picturesque ruin.
John Stoutenburgh, son of the first Ja- cobus, married by license dated 25 November, 1773, Catharine, daughter of John Teller and Aeltje Vermilye, who died 27 August,
ISO5, in her seven-sixth year. They had no children. He had from his father, besides other property, valuable mill privileges on Crumelbow creek. He was one of the chief founders of the Reformed Dutch Church of Hyde Park, and one of its first officers. He died at Hyde Park, 21 February, 1808, in his seventy-ninth year. In his will, dated 3 Jan- uary. 1807, after directing a wall five feet high to be built around the family burying ground (it still stands), and freeing his slaves, to whom he gave legacies, he distributed a considerable estate among his heirs. who were his surviving sister, Margaret Teller, and his nephews and nieces.
Peter Stoutenburgh, son of the first Jacobus, was settled on a tract of land (it is said 1,600 acres) in "Great Lot No. 1," in the northwestern part of the town of Clinton. He married Rachel Van Steenburgh. Chil- dren: James P., married and had John. James P., Jr., Joseph, Mary, Rachel, Margaret and Sarah. Tobias P., baptized, Pough- keepsie, 17 November, 1765. William P., married 5 June, 1803, Elizabeth, daughter of Maj. John Pawling, and had Alfred and Julia. Peter P., who married and had William T .. Peter P., Margaret, Maria Affie, Catharine and Sarah. Luke P. Benjamin. Rachel P. Margaret married Row, and had Mark, Catharine, Margaret, Rachel. and "W. P. Row," who married Rachel, daughter of James L. Stoutenburgh. John, born 22 Oc- tober, 1768, baptized, Poughkeepsie.
Margaret Stoutenburgh, daughter of the first Jacobus, married 8 October, 1764. John Teller, born 1741, son of John Teller and Aeltje Vermilye. Children, all baptized at Poughkeepsie: John 1., born 16 November, 1765, married Margaret, daughter of Jacobus Stoutenburgh, Jr., and widow of John L. Stoutenburgh; had a son, the late William Teller, of Rhinebeck, father of Mrs. Engene Wells. James, born 2 July, 1768, married, and had John, Morris and Margaret. Tobias, born 27 January. 1772, died 19 October, 1854, of Red Hook; married Paulina and had B. Franklin, Monroe and Margaret. William, born 29 December, 1775, married, and had Jacobus and Tobias. Most of the family of John Teller and Aeltje Vermilye came early to what is now the town of Hyde Park. Their chief residence was at " Teller's Hill," on the " Fourth Water Lot," where the large mansion of the family stood until
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1830. Of the brothers, James died without issue; Luke left a large family, and John mar- ried as above stated; while Dr. Abraham Teller, who died in 1803, aged fifty-nine, was, perhaps, about the earliest settled physician in the neighborhood.
Luke Stoutenburgh, youngest son of the first Jacobus, married, first, 2 August, 1762, Rachel, daughter of John Teller and Aeltje Vermilye, by whom he had eight children. He married, second, 24 November, 1782, Mary Van Vleck, widow of Henry Minthorne, who survived him. To Luke he gave that portion of his estate lying between the lands given to Tobias and William; the creek bounding it on the north, while on the south were the lands of Jacobus, Jr. An abstract of title says this deed of gift was made in 1758, and confirmed by will. Luke died before 1789, and in 1791 his farm was divided by commissioners into forty-two lots, and apportioned among the heirs; two lots, comprising the mansion and its environs, being left undivided. It was this division, and the establishment of a Church that decided the site of the village, now Hyde Park; some of the smaller lots being soon disposed of. Luke lived in the stone house built by him, or his father, on the brow of the hill at the end of an avenue of cherry trees leading from the Post road. Some say Jacobus, himself, lived in this house in his later years. The avenue became a thoroughfare to the "Upper", or "DeCantillon's Landing;" the road curving around the north side of the house and thence down the hill; and in 1791 lots were laid out along it. It is now known as Market street. The house was fully equal to the one at the Lower Corners, and perhaps a little larger. It
was visible from the river, and in 1777 the British vessels, passing up to burn Kingston, fired on it. Several cannon balls were after- ward found, and are still preserved in the town. In 1872 this house, long in a neglected condition, was taken down in order to straighten the road.
Luke Stoutenburgh and Rachel Teller had: James L., died 16 December, 1831, aged sixty- seven years, eight months, nineteen days; mar- ried Sarah Morris, who died 15 March, 1846, aged seventy-one years, nine months, eleven days. John L., baptized I February, 1767, died 1 December, 1794; married Margaret, daughter of Jacobus Stoutenburgh, Jr .; had one child, John, died 15 September, 1797. aged three years; and his widow married John
I. Teller. Luke L., born 28 January, 1770; never married. Tobias L., born 2 September, 1772; died March 27, 1846; married Esther Rogers. William L., born 10 September, 1775, died in Brooklyn 22 January, 1864; married Mary Juliet Dutton. Peter L., born
married Pamela - --- , removed to New York. Margaret, born 27 February, 1779. died 28 August, 1835, married 18 January, 1797, Richard Teller, son of Luke Teller, and Sarah Snediker, born 28 July, 1775; and had Catharine, Eleanor and Margaret, all died un- married, and the late Col. Richard Teller ( born 1822) of New York. Eleanor married Samuel Van Vleck, of Pittston, Rensselaer, Co., N. Y., and had Mary and Catharine.
James L. Stoutenburgh, son of Luke, owned the farm lying north of the road, and next east of Union Corners. He and his wife, Sarah Morris, had eleven children, as follows ( Bible record): Catharine, born 2 December, 1793. Rachel I., born 29 May, 1796; married W. P. Row. Margaret I., born 28 April, 1798. John, born 29 April, 1800, died 15 December 1800. Eleanor C., born 21 Feb- ruary, 1802. William I., born 12 June, 1804. Tobias M., born 2 August, 1806, died in Poughkeepsie, 23 October, 1884, married (first) Mary L. Van Wagner, who died 20 Au- gust, 1845, aged thirty-five; and (second) Serena Velie, who survived him. He had a large collection of family documents, parch- ments and papers, which he left to a nephew, son of the Rev. Luke. Sarah Mary Juliet, born 14 August, 1808. Richard T., born 21 December, 1810. James, born 18 October, 1812; died young. Luke, born 29 December, 1815; the Rev. Luke 1. Stoutenburgh, of Schooley's Mountain, N. J., who died in Wash- ton, 1). C., 13 March, 1891, leaving a family.
Tobias L. Stoutenburgh, son of Luke, be- came the owner of the homestead of his fa- ther, and lived there until his removal to New York. He represented his district in the Leg- islature, in 1807-8. In 1813 he built the first store in the village, on the corner of Albany and Market streets, and conducted business there, as a merchant, for several years. About 1830 he removed to New York, where he be- came a " public weigher and measurer, " and continued to reside there, until his death. Hc married 28 November, 1812, Esther, daughter of Capt. Jeremiah Rogers and Mary Jones. Capt. Rogers [for whose ancestry refer to the N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Record,
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1884-1885] owned the estate, on the Post road, next south of Teller's Hill, where he died in 1810, and is buried, with several of his family, on the place. Mrs. Esther Stoutenburgh died in New York 28 July, 1842, aged sixty-two. Children: Elizabeth, born 20 November, 1813, died 11 August, 1893; married 8 Febru- ary, 1837, Richard Aurelius Tebault, of South Carolina. and had two children, who died young. Mary, born 9 April, 1815, died 1 June, 1865; not married. Edmund Jones married Mary Lowry, who died 16 December, 1847, aged thirty; no surviving issue. Margaret died 9 September, 1844, aged twenty-six; married Thomas Rudd Lowry, of New York. Cornelia Jones, born 6 April, 1821, died 9 July, 1848; married J. Warren Rogers.
William L. Stoutenburgh, son of Luke, lived many years on the Post road, just north of the village, and near the Stoutenburgh bury- ing ground; but removed to New York, and engaged in business. He married 1 1 October, 1807, Mary Juliet, daughter of Capt. Titus Dutton, a soldier of the Revolution. She died on Staten Island, 24 November, 1861. Chil-
dren: William Tobias, died in New York, 28 October, 1884, aged seventy-three, leaving four children. He was twice married. Mary Elizabeth died [ June, 1891, aged seventy- nine; married Rev. Robert A. Quin (of the Re- formed Dutch Church), chaplain of the Sail- ors' Snug Harbor, Staten Island, and had a family. Peter Augustus, M. D., settled at Oyster Bay, L. 1. ; he died of blood poisoning, caught from a sick horse. Thomas De Witt, born 23 March, 1818, died 12 November, 1855. Anna, born 23 February, 1820, died 29 March, 1845; married Edwin Sturges. Richard Tel- ler, born 20 May, 1822; married . Ferdi- nand Vanderveer, baptized 27 March, 1824. Martha Catharine, baptized 30 March, 1826, died 10 October, 1844.
Peter L. Stoutenburgh, son of Luke, had, by Pamela, his wife: Wright, Joseph, Mary, Sarah, David, Jacob, Samuel and James.
M ARTIN W. PAINE, a leading business man of Millerton, Dutchess county, the proprietor of the well-known feed store and of the Benedict Mills, was born in the same lo- cality June 12, 1841, in the house now occu- pied by Mr. Hotchkiss. His father, Platt A. Paine, was one of the most prominent citizens
of the town of Northeast, and a farmer by occupation.
Mr. Paine's early life was that of the aver- age country boy, his time being spent in the healthful exercise of "doing up the chores," and in attending the district schools of Spen- cers Corners and Millerton. After leaving school he remained with his father for a year, and then engaged in farming on his own ac- count, spending four years near Boston Cor- ners and five on the Paine farm, just below the old family homestead. In 1870 he pur- chased the Benedict Mills, which he has ever since conducted, together with a small farm adjoining them. He has done a large custom business in milling, and dealt extensively in flour, and in 1893 opened a flour and feed store in Millerton, which is the principal estab- lishment of the kind in that vicinity. His en- prises have all been successful, and he has ac- cumulated a fine property.
Notwithstanding the close attention re- quired by his business, Mr. Paine has found time for reading, and is well informed upon the questions of the day. Politically, he is a strong Republican, but he does not take an . active share in party work, although in many progressive movements in his neighborhood he has been among the chief promoters. He married Miss Emily Eggleston, daughter of Nicholas D. Eggleston, and both are promi- nent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They have had three children: Berk- ley, a resident of Buchanan, Va .; Grace A., who married D. C. Dakin, of Millerton; and Fred L., an enterprising young blacksmith in Millerton.
H IRAM GEDDINGS STEVENS (de- ceased ). The subject of this memoir, formerly a prominent agriculturist of the town of Dover, Dutchess county, was a worthy rep- resentative of two of the oldest and best-known families.
His father, the late Hon. David W. Stevens, was a man of fine ability and wide influence. His first wife, our subject's mother, was Nancy A. Geddings, daughter of Hon. Gamaliel B. Geddings, of Sherman, Conn., and for some years after their marriage le re- sided at her father's farm there, taking mean- time a leading part in local affairs. In 1846 he represented that district in the Legislature of Connecticut. Later he moved to a farm in
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South Dover, Dutchess county, and identified himself with the best interests of that locality, helping in many public movements, and espe- cially in the work of building up the Bap- tist Church of South Dover. Mrs. Nancy Stevens died at Palmyra, Ohio, March 18. 1858, and April 18, 1860, he married Mrs Lydia Ann Camp, a lady of exemplary Chris- tian character, the widow of the late William T. Camp, and daughter of Jonathan and Philo- mela Geddings. She survives him and resides in South Dover, where his death occurred No- vember 16, 1868. There were the following children by the first marriage, whose dates of birth are given: Orrin, 1821, who married Phoebe A. Wheeler; Eunice, 1823, Mrs. Jona- than A. Geddings; Hiram, 1826, who died in 1833; Gamaliel, 1829, who married Julia Dutcher; Frances, 1832, Mrs. Emery Cole; Sarah. 1834. Mrs. James H. Martin; Hiram G., May 29, 1839, the subject of this sketch.
The Geddings family is well known in dif- ferent parts of the United States, its members playing an honorable and often a distinguished part in their various lines of life. Hon. Gam- aliel Baldwin Geddings, our subject's maternal grandfather, was born at Sherman, Conn., Oc- tober 6, 1766. He was an extensive land holder in the Geddings district, and possessed great political influence, serving as constable and justice of the peace for about twenty years, and as a member of the Legislature in 1805, 1812 and 1813. On November 24, 1790, he married Miss Tabitha Eunice Barnes, daugh- ter of Stephen and Ann (Phinney) Barnes. They had five children: Harriet, born Sep- tember 9, 1791, died in Palmyra, Ohio, March 8, 1876; Solomon, born October 5, 1793, died in 1838; Hiram, born September 14, 1795, married Miss Rebecca Geddings; Nancy A., born May 30. 1798, was the mother of our subject; and Sally M., born February 23, 1800, married David W. Stevens. Gamaliel B. Ged- dings removed to Palmyra, Ohio, in 1845, and died there at an advanced age.
Mr. Stevens was born at the old homestead in South Dover, and in his youth received an excellent education. He was married March 3. 1863, to Miss Ann Elizabeth Camp, daugh- ter of William T. and Lydia A. (Geddings) Camp, and settled upon a farm near Wings Station, where he lived a peaceful and happy life until death called him February 21, 1893. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Stevens: Florence Bell, July 26, 1864;
THOMAS HOWARD, January 9, 1873, and Nan- nie May. November 19, 1874, now the wife of George Tabor, of South Dover. The elder daughter, Florence, died May 25. 1871, at the age of seven, and her death was deeply felt by the entire family, but especially by her father, who was led by it to seek consolation in com- munion with the only Friend who can bring lasting peace to the afflicted, and although he never made a public profession of faith he be- came a consistent follower of Christ, and took the Golden Rule for the law of his life. His stern integrity, which commanded the respect of alf who knew him, was combined with a kindly sympathy for others that won the affectionate regard of his more intimate ac- quaintanees, and his death was mourned throughout the community. His son, Thomas H. Stevens, is one of the most intelligent young men of South Dover, and is already noted for possessing the admirable character- istics of his ancestry.
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