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The German Presbyterian Church, located at Jeffersonville, was organized with forty members, in 1842, by Rev. --- Sans, who was its first pastor, as German Evangelical, and was received in the Presbyterian Synod in 1855. Their house of worship was erected in 1846; and will seat 180 persons. The present pastor is Adolph Rahn; the present number of mem- bers, seventy ; and the value of Church property, $2,800.t
The Saint George (German Catholic,) Church, located at Jef- fersonville, was organized by Rev. - Ranfeisen, in 1843, with thirty members. Its first pastor was Father Roesh. At pres- ent its pulpit is supplied by a New York missionary. They erected their house of worship in 1860, at a cost of $1,000. It will seat 300 persons. The present membership is eighty ; and the value of the Church property, $2,000.
The First Presbyterian Church of Collikoon, located at Youngsville, was organized May 7, 1844, with eleven members. The first house of worship was erected in 1846; the present one, which will seat 200 persons, in 1860, at a cost of $1,000. The estimated value of Church property is 82,000. Rev. John Mole was its first pastor ; at present its pulpit is vacant. It has forty members.
The Reformed Church, of Callicoon, was organized Jan. 31, 1856, by Revs. ---- Ten Eyck and - Bentley, and Elder A. B. Preston, with twenty-two members. Rev. T. Hones was the first pastor. The Church edifice occupied by this society was erected in 1854, at an expense of about 8700; and will seat about 200 persons. The property of the Church is valued at
* French, in his Gazetteer of the State of New York, p. 644, states that Rev. Mr. McClary, pastor of the Associate Reformed Church of Bethel, was the first preacher ; while James E. Quinlan, In his History of Sullivan Co., extracts from which appear in the Local Record, of March !, 120. stiris that Deacon Owens, also a Presbyterian. who lived at the mouth of the C'allicoon, is entitled to the honor which this office confers. Speaking of Descor Oweos. Quinlan says : " He beld religious service ouce a mouth at the house of Edward Wood, and was paid one dollar and twenty-five cette for each srrinon, or fftees dollars per year ! We believe there was no direct road to his etation at Woit's. He innst have performed the journey through the forest. guided by marked trees. In the winter, when the snow was deep and the thermometer several degrees below zero, the trip was very toilsome and hazardous. But he mes with a kind and warm reception, and had guileless and willing hearers, who received the Gospel as be preached it, with gladness. His salary was small ; but he was not governed by the rule "pour pay, poor preaching.' His hearers rewarded him according to their tuesns, and he was more anxious to win souls than dollars. He Isid the foundation for a religions society of that neighborhood which can reward it's cheesy more liberally than die tar heaters. " The dret church of Callicoon was between John Royce's and R. C. Mary's About the year Isnd, a nisfority of the congregation finding Youngsville a more Ce.tra point, bad their services continued ju that village."
+The frrt Presbyterian Church, erected in Jeffersonville in 1845, was, we are fu- formed, blown down before it was fairly completed, and the present church was Lot built notli two or three years afterwards.
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about $1,200. Rev. Wm. Elteride is the present pastor. Nearly all its members were born and brought up in Germany.
The German M. E. Church, located at Callicoon Center, was organized in 1866, by Rev. - Klink, its first pastor, with six members. The Church edifice, which will seat 150 persons, was erected in 1868, at a cost of $1,000. The Church property is at present valued at $1,100. The present pastor is Rev. Wm. Schlitter; and the membership, eight.
The M. E. Church, located at North Branch, was organized with thirty members, in Aug. 1861, by Rev. Wm. A. Hughson, who was the first pastor. The Church edifice, which will seat 250 persons, was erected in 1869, at a cost of $2,000, which is the present value of Church property. There are fifteen mem- bers, and Rev. Wm. Coombs is the pastor. :
COCHECTON* was formed from Bethel, March 25, 1828. Delaware was taken off March 1, 1869. It is situated upon the bank of the Delaware, in the west part of the County. Ridges of hills, with narrow valleys between, cover the entire surface of the town. The principal stream is Ten Mile River, which has its rise in this town, by several smaller streams and ponds. Mitchell Pond in the north, Perry Pond in the south and Lake Huntington in the center, are the principal sheets of water. The former gives rise to a small stream which flows west into the Delaware. A large part of the surface is still covered with forests, principally of hemlock and pine. The soil is composed of clay and red slate, and is best adapted to pastur- age. The streams and ponds abound with fish. The N. Y. & Erie R. R., extends along the western border.
According to the census of 1870, the town then had a popula- tion of 1,480, most of whom are engaged in lumbering and tanning. The town has, according to the Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors for 1871, an area of 22,993 acres.
During the year ending Sept. 30, 1871, the town contained nine school districts. and employed nine teachers. The num- ber of children of school age was 630; the number attending school, 437; the average attendance, 175; and, the value of school houses and sites, $3,015.
COCHECTON (p. v.) is beautifully situated on the east bank of the Delaware, and on the N. Y. & Erie R. R., and is the western terminus of the Newburgh & Cochecton Turnpike. It contains one church, (Presbyterian,) two hotels, (one of them is a Temperance House) several stores, one wagon shop,
*Pronounced Co-shek-fun. It was originally called Cush-u-un-tunk, or low grounds.
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one blacksmith shop, one shoe shop, thirty-seven dwellings and 250 inhabitants. Old Cochecton Village, where the settlement of the town first commenced, is diminishing in importance since the location of the depot on the Erie R. R. at what is now called Cochecton Village, and from which it is distant about one mile. It contains two stores, one hotel, one shoe shop, a cabi- net shop, several small shops representing various industries, fifteen dwellings and about ninety inhabitants.
Delaware Lodge, No. 561, of F. d: A. M., at Cochecton, was in- stituted in 1864, by Joseph E. Chaffee of Binghamton .*
The Adelphi Lodge, No. 240, I. O. of G. T., at Cochecton Depot, was organized Aug, 20, 1870, through the efforts of E. A. Wheeler. At its organization it had seventeen members ; it now has forty-seven. The lodge is in a flourishing condi- tion.
Cochecton Center, (p. o.) formerly known as Stevensburgh, is located south-east of the center, six miles south-east of Co- checton, and contains a tannery, blacksmith shop, one store, a school house, a shoe shop, a wagon shop and about fifteen dwell- ings. The tannery is owned by Horton Knapp & Co., and was built by F. A. Stephens in 1850. It employs thirty men, con- sumes anunally 5,000 cords of bark and tans about 40,000 sides of sole leather.
FOSTERDALE, { (p. o.) located near the north-east corner, on the Newburgh and Cochecton Turnpike, six miles east of Cochecton, contains one store, two hotels, one blacksmith shop, one wagon shop, one tannery, one shoe shop, a school house, ten dwellings, and about fifty inhabitants. The tannery was built by Paul Seelig, in 1860. Its dimensions are thirty by fifty feet.
Settlements were begun on the Delaware prior to the Revo- Intion, but were broken up. The pioneer settler was N. Mitchell, who located near Cochecton Village. Oliver Calkin came in from Springfield, Conn., at an early day. He pur- chased three thousand acres of land and began a settlement. He subsequently sold one-fourth of this tract to Nathan Mitchell, and another fourth to John and Elias Conklin. Calkin was drowned at the head of Big Pine flat, in the Delaware River, in 1782. Among the early settlers were
" The prevent oferty are : Char. E. Fresch, W. M .; Mark Appley, S. W. ; Win. W. Applav. J. W. : Hard Brexit. Fracasser ; LAroy Bonesteel, Secretary ; J. M. Sayer. S D: Lander Bin.esteri. J. D. ; Rv. I Coderwood, Chaplain ; W. V. Irvine, HIP- Mal ; Wm. L. Hnefer, Orasul ; N. c. Skinner. S. M. C. : Christian Graze, J. M. C .; David Tyler, Tiler. Regular meetings are held the first and third Fridays in each month.
t This place derives Its came from Jesse M. Foster, who settled here In 1670, and kept a hotel.
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Nicholas Conklin and --- Tyler at Cochecton. Job Jones taught the first school, near Cochecton ; Maj. Ebenezer Taylor kept the first tavern and store, at Cochecton ; and Mitchell Conklin built the first saw mill, on Mitchell's Pond Brook. The first town meeting was held at the house of Stephen W. Gidney, in the village of Cochecton, March 3, 1829 .*
Though the settlements in this town commenced prior to the Revolution, they were so meager that the influence and im- pressions of that period, so far as they concern it, are of little historic moment. Not so, however, was its participation in the war of the Rebellion.t
* At this meeting it was " Resolved that this town will elect three Assessors, two Constables, one Collector, four fence viewers."
The following named persons were elected to the offices designated : James C. Curtis, Supervisor : Moses Calkin, Town Clerk ; Nathan Moutthroot, Alfred Nearing and Moses Calkin, Areensors ; John Hill, James Ross and David Young, Commissioners of Ilighitays ; Squire Maren, Bezsleel Calkin and Clark Brown, Commissioners of Comn- mon Schools ; Chas. Wipple. John F. Avery snd Wm. Brown. Inspectors of Common Schools; Stephen Mitchell and George Hill, Overseers of the Poor ; Stephen W. Cidney and George filll, Constables ; Stephen W. Gidney, Collector.
It was further " Resolved that the Town have no pound" ; " that Hogs shall not be free commoners "; " that $150 be raised for the use of the Poor for the ensuing year "; "that this Town of Cochecton Recompence the Justices of the Peace of said Town for the maintenance of Jack Verplank"; "that twice the amount of school monies received in the Town for the benefit of Common Schools, be raised for the ensuing year"; "that seventy-five dollars be raised for the use of Highways in seid Town for the ensuing year "; "that the next aunnal Town Meeting be held at Stephen W. Gid- vey'a, by a vote of 31 to 16". The last resolution is of interest in that it gives an ap- proximste idea of the number of voters in the town at that time, when it comprised both of the present towns of Cochecion and Delaware. The above are extracts from the Town Records.
From the Town Records we make the following extracts pertaining to that period. The following is a list of names of officers who entered the service from this town :
"Rockwill Tyler, Col. 56th Regt. N. Y. Infantry ; enlisted in 1861.
"W'm. K. Joscelyn, Capt. Co. H., 56th Regt. N. Y. Infantry ; enlisted in 1861.
" Wm. B. Baird. let Lieut.
"James Hannon, Lient.
"L. M. Botsford, Capt. ..
" W. T. Calkins, "R. S. Gaylord. 1at Lient. .4
TOth Regt. ..
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"Cbas. R. Roger,
"A. H. Bush. Cept.
143rd 4.
"W. T. Embler, 2d Lient. 143rd 56th ..
"C. C. Wanty. Jet Lient.
The following is a list of the casualties among the men who enlleted in this town, 88 appears in the Town Records:
" Charles Lakins, died of disease In hospital at Philadelphia, Pa., and buried there.
"Henry Brooks, died in Regimental hospital of disease, July 27, 1665, at Newbury, S. C., where his remains were interred.
"Nicholas Elbert, died of disease, In hospital et Indianapolis, Ind., May 7, 1585.
"John Henry Mason, dird at Laurel Station, Ang. S., 1565, and was buried there.
"George Lacey, died Nov. 21, 1:53, at Nashville, Tenn., at which place he is buried.
" Edward Bloomfield, died of disease in hospital, at ----- , Feb. 14, -, and is buried there.
** John G. Rosa, died of disesse Nov. 3, 1863, at Stephenson, Ala., where he is haried. " Marcus Maltby, died of typhoid fever, March 20, 1503, at West Point, Va., where he la buried.
" Henry J Lest, died of disease. July 1, 1363, at Hampton, where his body Is buried.' "Gilbert Appley, died of dlaende, January 2, 1964, in hospital at Lookout Valley, where he is buried.
" Benjamin Boules, died May 27. 1865.
"John Stahl, died of discase at Nashville, and is buried there.
"John Elfry, died In Feb. 1864, at Nashville, Tenn, and is buried there.
" Peter Eiffy, died Dec. 20, 1803, at Atkine, where he is probably buried.
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The Cochecton Presbyterian Church, located at Cochecton Village, is the only church in the town. It was organized with fifteen members, by Rev. Charles Cummings, D. D., in 1812, and though it had no settled pastor until Rev. John Mole assumed that office in 1845, its pulpit was supplied by Rev. George K. McEwen as early as 1840; in which year it erected its house of worship, which will seat from 250 to 300 persons, at a cost of 81,800. The value of Church property is now from §2,500 to $3,000. Its present pastor is Rev. Theron Brittain ; and its membership, eighty. Since its organization to March 9, 1872, two hundred and one names have been enrolled on its list of members. Miss Prudence Irvine, who joined in 1821, is still a member .*
DELAWARE was formed from Cochecton, March 1, 1869. It is situated upon the bank of the Delaware, which forms its western boundary, in the west part of the County, a little north of the center, and, according to the report of the Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors in 1871, has an area of 20,293 acres. Its surface is uneven, being broken by steep ridges and narrow ravines. The principal streams are the Cal- licoont and its branches. This stream enters the town near the north-east corner, and, flowing in a south-west direction
" Philip Mack, who was missing In action at Social Creek, Ga., Nov. 20, 1864, and Is said to be dead.
" Cornelius Lee, died in hospital ou Morris I-land.
" Horace Hurst, died at hospital la Washington, D. C., in 1969.
" John W. Saymund, died in hospital, of disease, Dec. 9, 1861, near which place be is buried.
" Thomas D. Ross, was killed by accident on the Erie R. R., at Deposit, N. Y., sud buried at Callicoon Depot.
"Charles Lovett, died June 1. 1506, from the effects of an accidental shot received while on picket, May 17, 194, and buried in town of Thompson, Sullivan Co., N. Y.
" Thomas Crosby, died In Nrw ureaue, Sept. 22, 1864. of injuries received from being thrown from bis, borse. Ward 19, Barrack Hospital. He is buried in New Orleans.
" George Keesler. dird at Estimbury, in Nov. 1864.
" Rankart Roof wa* * hot bef re Petersburgh. Jan. 18, 1864.
" Win. Eryan, was taken prisoner at New Market, Va., May 13 or 14, 1864, and died st Andersonvilir. Sopl. 3. 1 M44. " Chas. F. Cook. dh def typhoid fever while home on sick furlough, Aug. 16. 1361. and was buried it Jefersonvlile, sallivan Co., N. Y."
* The following natied persons have served in its pulpit :
Rev. G. K MiRwen .1840-1.
1:12-3.
Jaun Moc 1645-7.
Win. Howtic. .1951.
.. Geo K. MenDet 1A52-3.
1-53-3.
1×60-3.
1561 -.
+ The act erecting the town of Delaware was passed Nov. 13, 1868, and took effect Marco, 1, 193.
+ For a fuller description of the Callicoon, seehistory of the town of Callicoon, pages 119-120.
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until it nearly touches the center of the south border, diverges, and pursues a north-west direction, leaving the town and emptying into the Delaware near the center of the west border. The North Branch of the Callicoon enters the town near the center of the north line, and, pursuing a south-west direction, empties into the main branch about one and one-fourth miles from its confluence with the Delaware. The month of the Callicoon is 777 feet above tide. This town has suffered to some extent from the freshets which have visited the Callicoon. A correspondent writing from Callicoon Depot, says, in regard to the freshet of 1855, in the North Branch :
"The mill dams of Lewis & Quick, on the North Branch, were swept away. Mills much damaged and great loss of lumber. Horton Curtis & Co.'s mill is all swept away, together with the dam. Their leather factory had a narrow escape. Win. H. Curtis has lost a large amount of lumber in the log. The boom in the dam broke and his logs were allow- ed to pass over and thence into the river without the aid of a steersman."
Pike Pond,* in the south-east corner, is the only considerable sheet of water in the town. Much of the surface is still covered with forests, especially along the margin of the Dela- ware. But these are gradually disappearing as new accessions to its population are made. The soil is mostly a gravelly loam, and best adapted to pasturage. Lumbering and tanning form the leading branches of industry.
In 1870, as appears from the census of that year, the popu- lation of the town was 1,998.
During the year ending Sept. 30, 1871, the town contained nine school districts, and employed ton teachers. The number of children of school age was 848; the number attending school, 657; the average attendance, 303; and the value of school houses and sites, 85,081.
CALLICOON DEPOT, (p. v.) situated on the Delaware River, near the mouth of Callicoon Creek, is a station on the Erie R. R., and contains two churches, (Catholic and Methodist,) four stores in which general merchandise is sold, four groceries, three hotels, three blacksmith shops, one cabinet shop, a jewelry store and news room, a feed store, a school house, about thirty dwellings and about 150 inhabitants. A circular saw mill, located here and owned by Riley, Appley & Co., was started about May 1, ISTO, and has facilities for sawing two million feet of lumber per annum.
The Callicoon Depot Academy, of which J. J. Silk is prin- cipal, was founded in 18:0, and is sufficiently commodious to
* This pond doubtless derives its name from the abundance of pike which its waters contained at an early day, and which the early settlers were wont to substitute for pork, when the latter article in their larder became exhausted. Deer are still quite numerous in its vicinity, eleven having been killed during the winter of 1871-2. I
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accommodate two hundred students. It has two apartments for seating pupils, and two recitation rooms; all of which are fitted with a view to the comfort and convenience of both teachers and pupils. It employs three teachers; and the average number of pupils in daily attendance has been one hundred and four.
PIKE POND, (p. v.) situated near the south-east corner, and the outlet of Pike Pond, from which it derives its name, con- tains one church, (M. E.) one store, one tannery, one grist mill, one wagon shop, one blacksmith shop, one shoe shop, two saw mills. one hotel, twenty-five dwellings and about 125 inhabitants. The tannery is owned by Gideon Wales. It em- ploys thirty men, consumes annually 3,000 cords of bark, and tans 30,000 sides per annum.
BEECH WOOD (p.o.) is located a little north-east of the center of the town.
FALLS MILL (p. o.) is located on the Callicoon, near the south line.
HORTONVILLE is a small village, situated on the North Branch of the Callicoon, about two miles from Callicoon Depot, from which place it receives its mail.
The Hortonville Carriage. Factory and Blacksmithing Works, located hore, give employment to six men. They are owned by Messrs. Gardner, Osterbont & Co., who are doing a flourishing business. The tannery at this place, owned by Henry Gardner, and run by Geo. W. Darby, employs eight persons, annually consumes about 1,000 cords of bark, and tans about 10,000 sides.
Settlements were made in this town prior to the Revolution, but they were dispersed by the marauding and hostile Indians during that period. Joseph Ross, who is believed to have been the first settler, movedthere from Somerset Co., New Jersey, about 1:68, and settled on the farm now owned by Alfred Tyler. During the Revolutionary war he extended a generous hospitality toward the Indians, but the latter mistrusted him, and from certain indications which led him to believe that unless he removed to a less exposed section of the country he would soon share the fate of most of the isolated settlers along the Delaware, who had fallen victims to the rapacity or brutal butchery of the h stil. Indhms, he was admonished to leave the perila which surrounded him in his new home and repair to a safer locality. Accordingly one night after the Indians had disappeared. he quietly buried his goods and started with his family, in a pine canoe down the Delaware to the mouth of the
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Neversink, near Port Jervis. From there he proceeded to Deer- park, Orange Co., where troops were stationed. When he returned to his farm his buildings were in ruins, but the things he had buried he found as he left them.
Among the early settlers were David. Young, at Big Island ;* and John Ross, at Callicoon Creek. Charles Layton moved into the town from Somerset Co., New Jersey, in 1796, and located on the Callicoon, on a farm afterwards owned by Geo. P. Garyhart. John Layton, son of Charles, was born the fol- lowing year, and is now living. The first saw mill was built in 1815, by Edward G. Griswold, near the mouth of the Callicoon, where Appley's mill now stands. The second mill was built at Pike Pond, by Nathan Moulthrop. About fifteen years later the first regular grist mill was built at Pike Pond, by Wm. Bonesteel. There was, however, a " little tub mill" built near where Appley's mill stands, but it was only a temporary affair.t
The Methodists seem to have been first to initiate an organ- ized religious movement, and to crystallize their religious con- victions by the erection of an edifice in which to conduct their devotional exercises.
The M. E. Church, located at Pike Pond, was organized by Rev. John Davy, who was its first pastor, but in what year is not known, though doubtless prior to 1850, as in that year its house of worship, which will seat 130 persons, was erected, ata cost of $1,400. Its present pastor is J. W. Banta. The Church property is valued at $1,500.
The Reformed Church, located at Jeffersonville, was organized with twenty-four members, by Rev. Mr. Wolf, who was its first pastor, in 1854, in which year its house of worship, which will seat two hundred persons, was erected. It has ninety mem- bers; and Wm. Eldridge is the pastor. The Church property is valued at $2,000.
The First M. E. Church, located at Callicoon Depot, was or- ganized with twenty-five members, by Rev. Wm A. Hughson, the first pastor, in 1861. The first church edifice, was erected the same year; the present one, which will seat three hundred persons, was erected in 1871, at a cost of 82,950. Rev. Wm. Coombs is the present pastor; and the membership, twenty. The value of the Church property is $3,000.
The Holy Cross Church, (Catholic) located at Callicoon De- pot. was organized with one hundred members, by Rev. J. Nilan, its first and present pastor, in 1869, in which year the
"At Bl .; Ieland, about two miles below Callicoon Depot, was an extensive Indian Furial place, of which traces are occasionally plowed up at the present day.
tFor military statistics, see history of Cochecton, which then comprised Delaware.
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church edifice, erected, and formerly occupied by the Method- ists, which will seat two hundred persons, was purchased from that Society for $2,000. There are now one hundred and twenty members. The Church property is valued at $2,500.
FALLSBURGII was formed from Thompson and Neversink, March 9, 1826 .* It derives its name from the fall? in Neversink River, at Fallsburgh Village. Its surface is hill, and rolling. It is drained by the Neversink and its branches. Sheldrake Pond, (named from the wild ducks that formerly frequented its waters,) Smith, Hill and Brown Ponds in the west, and East Pond in the east, are the principal bodies of water. The soil is a gravelly loam. The people are chiefly engaged in lumbering and dairying.t
This town has an area of 44,089 acres, 20,270 of which, ac- cording to the census of 1805, were improved, and 23,819, un- improved.
The population in 1870 was 3,211. During the year ending Sept. 30, 1871, the town contained twenty-one school district ... and employed eighteen teachers. The number of children of school age was 1,305, the number attending school, 959; the average attendance, 399; and the value of school houses and sites, 85,367.
FALLSBURGH (p. v.) is situated on the Neversink, seven and one-half miles north from Monticello, about the center of the town. It contains one church, (M. E.) two stores, a grist mill. (with two runs of stones, which capacitate it to grind 200 bushels of grain per day,) two saw mills, the Fallsburgh Ligh: Carriage and Sleigh Manufactory, (Jas. B. Gardner, proprietor.) one hotel, (Temperance,) one cigar manufactory, two black smith shops, one harness shop, one district, and one select school, and about 130 inhabitants .;
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