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The principal body of water is Lake Charlotte, some- times called Coby's pond, after a man who once lived on its shore, which lies near the centre of the north border of the town. It lies in the form of a bent arm, with the elbow to the west. It occupies some one hundred and fifty acres,
has an average depth of about twelve feet, and is said to be very deep in some places, it being asserted that it has been sounded to a depth of five hundred feet without find- ing bottom. The shores of the lake are gently sloping, and generally cultivated to the water's edge. The inner angle of the lake is, however, occupied by a heavily-wooded hill that rises in an easy slope from the water and attains a height of several hundred feet. This lake was named after a slave of Robert S. Livingston, who was his housekeeper at a house he built on the shore of the lake. The outlet of the lake is at the outer angle. It flows south for a mile and then takes a westerly course through the town to Liv- ingston, and, after running a course of about eight miles, empties into Roeloff Jansen's Kill. The banks of this stream are low and flat for the first four miles of its course, and after that are steep and rocky. Roeloff Jansen's Kill, the principal stream, enters the town near the centre of its east line, and runs a rather tortuous course of some five and a half miles, in a south westerly direction, passing into Pine Plains near Mount Ross. It again bends to the northward about a mile west of Jackson's Corners, and becomes the southern boundary until it enters the town of Livingston. The banks of this stream are generally steep and sometimes rocky, and its course is quite rapid, affording several good mill-seats.
Gallatin was formerly a part of the Livingston manor. This town was first settled in the latter part of the seven- teenth century by emigrants from Holland and Germany. We are unable to give much of a sketch of this earliest settlement, and in giving the names of early settlers we
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refer to the carliest of whom any record or tradition is in existence. These first settlers followed the course of the streams, and selected their farms as far as possible in the intervals and flats. Probably the first inhabitant of the town was a man by. the name of Hans Dings, who, as tradition says, came here nearly two centuries ago. As is indicated by his name, he was a Hollander, and upon his arrival in this country decided to take up his residence upon some part of the Livingston manor. Following the course of the kill to find a good location, he at last came to an Indian wigwam standing in a lovely glade, and .stopped there to rest and refresh himself after his toilsome journey. The Indian seemed very friendly, and finally invited Dings to come to that point and make a settlement. Returning to the manor-house, Dings related his adventures, and Liv- ingston sent a messenger to bring the Indian to him. A consultation was then held, which resulted in the drawing up of a lease satisfactory to all parties, and Dings imme- diately entered upon his possessions and eut a boundary line around them. Here the Dings family lived through several generations, until finally the proprietor of the manor suspecting that the farm boundaries included more land than the lease called for, caused it to be resurveyed, and thus ent off a pareel of land on which was sitnated a fine mill-privilege. This incensed the occupant of the farm, and he sold out his lease to Livingston, and removed to Pennsylvania. On the farm he there occupied, one of the most valuable coal mines in the State was afterwards dis- covered. The Dings farm remained in the possession of the Livingstons until it was sold to John G. Silvernail. His son, Egbert Silvernail, now owns and occupies it. It originally consisted of three hundred and sixty acres. The house occupied by the Dings family was built of very heavy timbers, some of them being twenty inches square, and stood on the south side of the road, directly opposite the present dwelling. It was a long house, and stood with its side to the road. It was torn down some time during the first quarter of the present century. When it was being demolished, several old documents were found in secure hiding-places. Most of these were written in Dutch, but a few of them were in English. One of the latter was an artiele of indenture, by which a young girl, an emigrant, was bound out as an apprentice by a Captain Hazard to pay her passage-money by a service of six years.
Some years ago, while grading for the foundations of a building, a number of human skeletons were discovered a few rods east of the site of the old house. One of them was that of a man who must have been over seven feet in height, a veritable giant. It is supposed that this was an Indian burial-place. Other relies of the aborigines who once inhabited this territory, in the shape of spear and arrow-heads, have frequently been discovered. Mr. Silver- nail has a spear-head made of flint now in his possession.
In the northwest part of the town the first settlers were the families of two men named Coon and Wheeler. They were brothers-in-law and commeneed a clearing together, a short distance east of the present site of the Methodist church. After the clearing was completed they divided the land into equal portions and proceeded to build their houses. Wheeler's house stood near the site of Mr. Henry Young-
hance's residence, and Coon's was near the present residence of Mr. William Pulver. Both of these men enlisted in the American army and served in the Revolution. Wheeler returned after the close of the war and became a resident, but Coon was killed in the war. His widow afterwards married Hendrick Younghance, and he retained the lease, which was passed down from one generation to another until about 1860, when the title to the soil was purchased by Henry Younghance (a grandson of Hendrick Younghance), who at present owns the lands first owned by Wheeler and Coon.
Hendrick Hoysradt was an early settler on the farmi now occupied by Egbert Silvernail, on the east side of the creek. He was one of the first members of the " Vedder" church, and always punctual and regular in his attendance on the services. flowever, when it was thought best to hold the services, at least a portion of the time, for the benefit of the English-speaking inhabitants, he rather demurred, and only attended when the sermon to be delivered was given in the German language. At one time the pastor, in order to give to all the benefit of his discourse, translated the discourse into English, and after preaching awhile in German, stopped and gave the English version, and then proceeded through the sermon in the same way. The moment the last elause of the German discourse was uttered, Hoysradt left his seat and stalked gloomily from the church without waiting to hear it translated.
Matthew George settled on the place now occupied by Hiram Wheeler. He kept a blacksmith-shop there, and also did something in the line of selling liquor.
The place now owned by Andrew Coons was first settled by his grandfather, Andris Coons. That of S. P. Ham by John Harris. That of Caleb Wolcott by Christian Duntz. That of Michael Rowe by Heinrich Shook, who is said to have been a fat and rosy Dutchman, whose chief occupation was trying to keep on the shady side of the house during the hot days of summer, and endeavoring in winter to secure an equable distribution of the heat of the fire to every portion of his body.
John Nicholas Duff was the name of the man who first settled on and cleared the farm now owned by Henry Sil- vernail.
Cornelins Miller was the first settler on the farm now occupied by Jacob and Adam Fingar, and Frederick Fiu- gar was the first on that occupied by William Fingar, who is one of his descendants.
Oliver Griswold was the first settler in the northeast part of the town, about five miles north of Gallatinville. Nicholas Miller settled in Gallatin, a little south of Aneram village, on the place which still bears his name. Jobu Kil- more, on the Kilmore place, and Peter Johnson were also early settlers.
ORGANIZATION.
This town was formed from Aneram, March 27, 1830, by running a north and south line across the town near the centre. It was named Gallatin in honor of Hon. Albert Gallatin, who was secretary of the treasury of the United States in 1801-13. When the town of Livingston was divided, in 1803, the part which was afterwards called An-
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cram was named Gallatin. This was changed, in 1814, to Ancram, and when the division of 1830 occurred the name of Gallatin was revived and assumed by the new town. The first town-meeting was held in the following April, and we append a copy of the record :
" At n town-meeting held, agrcenble to law, at the House of John P. Killmer, in the Town of Gallatin, on the Sixth Day of April, 1830, when the following persons were Elected to office, and the following regulations were adopted, viz. : John S. Harris was chosen moderator of the day ; Abraham F. Miller, supervisor ; Marks Piesler, town clerk ; John A. Hoysradt, Jacob Teal, Jr., and William 1. Coon, as- sessors ; John L. Duntzs, Cornelius Vanbenschoten, and John R. Loomis, commissioners of highways; George Rowc, Joh D. Tanner, and Adam Hoysradt, commissioners of schools; Isaac T. Loomis, Robert N. Van Deusen, and Henry Younghause, inspectors of schools; John P. Killmer, Philip H. Mink, and Lodawick Snyder, overseers of the poor; Job D. Tanner, justice of the pence ; James H. Miller, collector ; James H. Miller, John Smith, John A. Smith, and Humphrey Crary, constables ; Duncan Thompson, poundmas- ter; Andris Colpough, inspector and senler of weights and mens- ures. (Then follows a list of thirty overseers of highways, and the usual restrictions npon the running at large of animals.)
" It wns voted at said Mecting that the collector's fees shall be Three cents on a Dellar.
" MARKS PIESTER, Town Clerk."
We append a full list of the most prominent town officers from the organization to the present time :
TOWN OFFICERS FROM 1830 TO 1878.
Supervisors.
Town Clerks.
1830. Abraham F. Miller. Marks Piester. 1831. John Coons. =
1832. Henry Younghance. Adam Hoysradt.
1833. Philip II. Mink.
46 Peter Bathrick.
1834. John Coons.
Henry P. Mink.
William F. Smith.
1835. Adam Hoysradt.
1836.
Marks Piester.
John Van Tassel. Samuel W. Coons.
1837. Lodowick Snyder.
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1838. 44 Ambrose Smith.
William F. Smith.
1839. Abraham F. Miller. Chris. Hoysradt.
Themas Scutt, Jr.
1840. Walter Hutchings.
1841.
$6
Henry P. Mink. John S. Fulton.
Peter Jacoby. Edward Loomis. Jacob Feller.
1844. John S. Fulton.
Eli Loomis.
Henry Lavey.
1845. Jacob F. Suydam.
$6
Isaac T. Loomis.
1847. Eli Loomis.
Adam Duntz. Thomas Duntz.
1848. "
James Wentworth.
H.W.Van BenschotenJohn E. Phelps.
1850. Milton Smith.
= John Knickerbocker.
1851. John H. Duntz.
1852. John S. Fulton.
Philip Shook.
Edward 1. Weaver. Philip B. Kipp.
1853. =
1854. Charles Hinsdale.
H.W.Van Benschoten Benjamin Snyder.
1855.
John Lasher. Adam I. Duntz.
1856. HI. Van Benschoten.
=
Marks Piester.
Thomas T. Scutt.
1858. Henry Strever.
John Gray.
Peter A. Wheeler. Jacob Hood. William Snyder.
1860. II. Van Benschoten. Daniel O. Smith.
186]. Isaac Smith.
William H. Miller. Joseph A. Wenver.
1862.
1863. Jacob II. Duntz.
1864.
1865.
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Tobias Moon.
1866.
=
16 HI. Van Benschoten.
1867. Isaac Smith.
William Fingar, Jr. Stephen Kellerhouse.
1868. Henry Younghance.
1869. =
Eli Weaver.
John Knickerbocker. John Miller.
Hiram Wheeler.
Supervisore. 1871. Jacob II. Duntz.
Town Clerks. Collectors.
H. A. Vao Valken- Eghert Fingar. burgh.
1872. 4 =
John F. Mngley.
1873. R. Younghance.
John M. Felts. Philip A. Stall.
1874. “
John H. Duntz, Jr.
1875. Wm. II. Soyder.
Norman Weaver. William Shook.
1876. Jacob Il. Duntz.
= Horace Coons.
1877.
.6
Millard Rockefeller. H. M. Rockefeller. =
John H. Ingles.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1830. Jeb D. Tanner.
1854. Alexander Stall.
1831. John Coons.
1855. Philip Feltz.
George Rowc.
1856. Henry Younghance.
1832. Philip HI. Mink.
Lodowick Snyder.
1833. Walter Hutchings. Henry Younghance.
1857. Adam II. Duntz.
1834. Lodowick Snyder.
1835. John Coons.
1836. David G. Scott,
1858. William R. Smith.
1837. Walter Hutchings.
John E. Phillips.
Adam Hoysradt. Henry P. Mink.
1860. Abram Lyle. George White.
1838. John Coons.
1839. William F. Smith.
1840. Ilenry P. Mink.
1841. William W. Smith. Isaac Miller.
1862. Robert Younghance. Philip Feltz.
1842. William I. Stall.
1863. Philip Feltz.
John L. Duntz. 1864. Abram Lyle.
Adam Heysradt.
1865. Andrew Burger.
1843. John I. Clark.
1866. Franklin Hoysradt.
Lodowick Snyder. Isaac Miller.
1867. Philip Feltz. Edward I. Weaver.
1844. Philip Shook.
1868. Edward I. Weaver.
1845. Philip Feltz. William Fingar.
1846. William F. Smith,
1847. James Ingles. Isaac T. Loomis.
1872. Edward I. Weaver.
1848. Philip Shoek. Frederick F. Smith.
1849. Isaac Miller. Walter Hutchings,
1874. William Fingar, Jr.
1850. Philip Feltz.
1875. Philip Feltz. Herman V. Lyle.
1851. Mosher Spaulding. William F. Smith.
1876. John E. Philips.
1852. John Scott.
1877. William H. Snyder. Edward I. Weaver.
Ahram Lyle.
1878. John Scism.
The town subscribed for four hundred and fifty shares of the proposed Rhinebeck and Connecticut railroad, and issued ninety town bonds of the amount of $500 each, and paid them to the president of the company, Edward Martin, Oct. 27, 1874, in payment of the subscription. The road was built through this town in the summer of 1874, and it has about five and two-elevenths miles of track lying within its limits. Mount Ross station (named after an English- man named Ross, who settled near it at an early day, erro- neously mentioned in the Gazetteer as being in the neigh- borhood of Gallatinville), just beyond the town line, in Dutchess county. Gallatinville, Jackson's Corners, and Elizaville (near Union Corners), are the stations in and ad- jacent to this town.
At a meeting of the board of town auditors, held Feb. 8, 1875, it was resolved to issue another series of bonds, to the amount of $25,000, payable (after seven years) $2000 annually.
The town-meetings are usually held either at Gallatin-
1870. Wm. W. Hinsdale.
Collectors. James H. Miller. John Norwood.
William F. Smith.
1869. Jacob Edleman.
1870. Martin Washburn. 1871. Philip Feltz.
Franklin Hoysradt.
1842. Abram Lyle.
1843. =
1849. Jacob F. Suydam.
William Wheeler. Fite Jacoby.
Robert Van Deusen.
1857.
1859.
Norman Magley. Benjamin Snyder.
Norman Weaver. Wilson Smith.
William H. Snyder. William C. Wheeler.
1873. William H. Snyder.
1853. Isaac Miller.
Abraham Carle.
1846.
1861. Andrew Burger. Philip Feltz.
Charles II. Lown.
Abram Lyle. Silas B. Myers.
1859. Ebenezer Smith,
1878. =
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ville or Weaver Hollow, but sometimes at other places. The town is divided into two election districts, the polling- places being located at Gallatinville and Weaver Hollow.
The villages of this town are small, scarcely deserving more than the name of hamlets.
GALLATINVILLE,
which is the largest, lies on Roeloff Jansen's Kill, in the eastern part of the town. It is a station on the Rhinebeck and Connecticut railroad, twenty miles northeast from Rhine- beck, and contains two stores, one hotel, a grist-mill, a plaster-mill, two wagon and blacksmith-shops, and about a dozen dwellings. The first store on the south side of the creek was kept by Adam Hoysradt, some fifty or sixty years ago. The first school in this neighborhood now re- membered was kept by an Irishman, named Nicholas Conroe, in a log school-house which stood near the site of the present red school-house, in district No. 7, a mile south of the vil- lage. Gallatinville has a post-office.
WEAVER HOLLOW
is situated on the outlet of Lake Charlotte, in the north- west part of the town. It is built mostly on the south side of the creek on a high bank, and contains one store and hotel, a grist-mill, plaster-mill, saw-mill, distillery, a black- smith-shop, and half a dozen houses. Henry P. and Philip H. Mink were the first residents, and the place was called " Mink Hollow" for a long time, after them. The pro- prietor of the manor built the first saw-mill on " Dove creek" (the outlet of Lake Charlotte) for their use. Philip Mink also kept a store there. After several years the prop- erty was purchased by Peter and Joseph Weaver, and the place became " Weaver Hollow," though it is at present sometimes called "Snyderville" and " West Gallatin." " Weaver Hollow" is the more common name. The nearest post-office is Livingston.
UNION CORNERS,
formerly called " Harrison's Corners" and " Pleasant Vale," in the southeast part of Livingston, lies partly in this town. The post-office there is " Elizaville."
JACKSON'S CORNERS,
a small village in Dutchess county, lies partly in this town.
There are two churches in this town, one of them of the Reformed Protestant Dutch denomination, the other a Methodist Episcopal church. Their histories follow under appropriate headings.
CEMETERIES.
There are two cemeteries in Gallatin, and there have been several private burial-grounds, most of which have become obliterated. Many of the people go to Ancram and Pine Plains to bury their dead.
Probably the oldest of the burial-grounds is that near Mr. E. Silvernail's, known as
THE DINGS BURYING-GROUND.
Most of the stones erected there were of slate, and were rudely engraved, often with but the initial letters of the name of the person whose grave they marked. Even
these have in many cases been obliterated by the effacing finger of Time. The oldest date now to be seen is " 1782," on a stone marked " A. D.," and the most ancient readable inscription is the following, which marks the resting-place of a son of Peter Dennis, viz. :
" In memory of William Dinnies, Son of Petries and Mary Din- nies, who departed this life Sept. the 2d, 1799, Aged 19 years & 3 months."
The largest cemetery is the one at the " Vedder church," which contains about three acres of ground and some twelve hundred graves. The ground is on a gently-rolling lot, in which the church is built. The oldest graves date back to 1770, although without doubt many burials took place there at an earlier date. One of these oldest inscriptions reads,-
" Katrinna, Weib von Johannes Ham, IS ge Storben Sep 14, I770 Im 27: Jahr Iher Alther."
Another commemorates " Doct. Elijah Adams, a patriot and soldier of the Revolution," who died in 1837, at the age of eighty-three years.
A fine monument standing at the west of the church bears the following inscriptions, which explain themselves. On the west side,-
" Rev. Herman Vedder. Died June 29th, 1873, In the 96th year of his age. ' I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.' "
And on the south face,-
" Rev. Herman Vedder Served as Pastor of this church fil years. ' Servant nf God, well done : Rest from thy loved employ ; The battle fonght, the victory won, Enter thy Master's joy.'"
The cemetery at the West Gallatin Methodist Episcopal church is a small one, and contains but a few graves, none of them antedating the century.
REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH IN GALLATIN.
The earliest record relates to the baptism of infants, and is dated 1748. Probably the organization was effected at about that time, under the ministrations of Rev. J. Frey- moet.
The first name or title of this church was that of " Stis- sick" (probably "Stissing," from the mountain at the south), the second that of " Ancram," before the town was divided in 1830 ; and for many years, in its old age, it has borne the fresh and verdant name of "the Greenbush Church." It is popularly known as the " Vedder" church, after its long- time pastor, Rev. H. Vedder.
The earlier church edifice was a square frame structure with a square or " hip" roof, and stood nearly south from
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the prescut site and a few rods distant. Its pulpit was of the barrel shape then in vogne, and furnished with a huge sounding-board. In 1823 this building was condemned, and the present one built, it being finished and dedicated in February, 1824. The sermon on that occasion was preached by the pastor, from Psalm xxii., first verse : " I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord." In 1872 a pipe-organ was placed in the church at a cost of $1650, exclusive of the cost of building an arched room in the rear of the church to receive it. The year following, 1873, extensive changes were made in the interior arrangements at a large outlay. In 1874 the parsonage was repaired at a cost of $1800.
The pastors have been, in order of their service, Revs. J. Freymoet, - Lansing, Harman Vedder, F. M. Bogardus, und Dewitt B. Wyckoff, the present pastor. Rev. IIerman Vedder served as pastor from 1803 until 1864. He was a graduate of Union College, in the class of 1799, and died in the parsonage of this church in 1873. For a time, during the Revolution, Rev. Dr. J. H. Livingston supplied the pulpit.
The present membership is about one hundred and forty. A glance at the records from 1748 to 1752 shows that the families of Knickerbocker, Wheeler (then spelled Wieler), Williams, Snyder, Killmer, Silbernail, Wiltsie, and Iallen- beck had representatives here at that extremely early day.
The territory over which this church once held jurisdic- tion is now occupied by no less than fourteen churches, of several different denominations, but the mother church still stands, a bright and shining light among them all.
WEST GALLATIN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHI.
During the pastorate of Rev. Thomas Ellis at West Taghkanic, a class was formed at Weaver Hollow, in Gal- latin, consisting of the following persons, viz., John L., An- gelina, Abigail E., Catharine, Eli, aud Delia Duntz; Peter J., John E., and Rachael Phillips ; Levina Benton ; Philip R. Wagoner ; Deborah, Henry, Robert, and Catharine Younghance ; Catharine M. Kellerhouse ; David and Eliza- betls Cole; Jane Stott; Jeremiah P. Decker; John Law- rence ; William J. Dykeman ; and David Ham. The year in which this class was formed is not definitely known, but it was probably in 1857.
· In 1858 the first and present church was erected by Henry Younghance, and, together with the church lot, in- eluding about au acre of ground, by him presented to the society. It was built by Captain Hezekiah Smith, of Hud- son, and is a frame building, painted brown. Its first cost was about $7000. It was dedicated by Rev. Joseph B. Wakeley, in October, 1858. Nothing more than incidental repairs have been made since then, and the church is now in rather poor condition. It is valued at about $3000. It stands on a gentle elevation, on the south side of the road, about a mile east of Weaver Hollow.
The first officers of the church were Henry Younghance, John E. Phillips, Eli Duntz, John Leonard, trustees ; Henry Younghance, steward; Andrew Lawrence, class-leader. Rev. Joseph Elliott was the first pastor, and he has been succeeded by the following in their regular order, viz., Revs. William S. Boughton, Edward Ashton, J. W. Ma-
comber, Henry H. Birkins, Abram Davis, Aaron Coons, J. Chester Hoyt, H. C. Masten, William Green, N. H. Bangs, and Charles Gorse, the present incumbent, who is now serv- ing his second year in this charge, which includes at present Jackson Corners, Union Corners, and West Gallatin. A portion of the time this charge has been attached to the one at West Taghkanic.
The present membership consists of some thirty or forty persons. The present officers are Friend Smith, Henry Rockefeller, Henry Younghance, trustees ; Henry Young- hance, Marks Duntz, John E. Phillips, stewards; Henry Rockefeller, class-leader. The first Sabbath-school was organized about May 1, 1857, with Henry Younghance as superintendent. The present superintendent is Marks Duntz, with Elizabeth Duntz as assistant. The school has an average attendance of about twenty, and has a library of forty or fifty volumes.
MANUFACTURING INTERESTS,
The manufacturing interests of Gallatin are rather small in number and importance. The first of these is the
GRIST AND FLOURINO MILL
of Hoysradt A. Van Valkenburgh, at Gallatinville. This mill was built by the Livingstons, for John C. Schultz, one of their tenants. The first owner of the property after the Livingstons was Abram F. Miller, who also kept a store. The mill has since been owned by, William W. Hoysradt, William H. Chadwick, Peter Wheeler, Henry W. Van Ben- schoten, Mabey & Van Benschoten, and by the present owner. Its dimensions are forty by sixty-five feet, and it is fitted up with three runs of stones, two for flour and one for plaster and feed. Its capacity for grinding is one hundred and fifty bushels of rye every twelve hours. Its power is derived from three central-discharge water-wheels of four feet diameter and ten horse-power each. The water is pro- cured from the Rocloff Jansen's Kill, and the head and fall is eleven feet. Considerable flour is shipped to New York, and a good deal of custom grinding is done.
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