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The Church was without a pastor until the fall of 1839, when Elder Alexander Smith accepted a call and remained until the spring of 1842.
In 1842, Elder Johnson Howard became the pastor, and remained two years.
In April, 1844, Elder Watrous, of Connecticut, labored for a season with the Church. During the summer and fall of this year the Church was supplied by Rev. E. H. Bailey. In the spring of 1845, the Church recalled Elder Smith, who re- mained one year and a half. Elder Smith was succeeded by Elder Lewis Sellick, who remained with the Church three years. He resigned the pastorate in 1849, and was succeeded by Elder A. T. Chaplin. Elder Chaplin closed his labors with the Church in April 1852. He was succeeded in June by Elder Isaac N. Hill, who resigned in August, 1854.
From August, 1854, to June, 1855, the Church was without a pastor. The Rev. N. Carpenter supplied for a season. Elder C. B. Post was next called to the pastorate, and remained seven years .* He was succeeded by W. James, a licentiate, who was soon after ordained as a pastor of the Church. From 1864 to 1867 the pastorate was filled by Elder W. Ferris. Elder Ferris lost his voice and was compelled to resign. He was soon followed by Rev. Richard Harris, who resigned the pastor- ate in September, 1869. During his services the church was remodeled at an expense of about $3,000. In December, 1869, the pulpit was sup- plied for a season by a minister from Philadelphia.
Early in 1870, George Balcum, an evangelist, held a series of meetings. He was followed in July by
Rev. Silas Ilsley, who labored until November 1, 1875. Rev. James M. Bruce was the next pastor, remaining five years. The present pastor is Rev. John B. Nain, who entered upon the duties of the pastorate December 1, 1881.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Dover Plains, was organized in 1852. The board of trustees consisted of the following persons : William H. Belding, Darius B. Tallman, William McKoy, William Sands, Samuel H. Tompkins, J. P. H. Tallman, James G. DeForest, David L. Belding, Darius Tallman. The erection of the church was begun and completed under the pastorate of Rev. William Ostrander in 1853, at a cost of $5,500. The Church then numbered about forty persons. The present number is about one hundred. A con- venient parsonage, costing $2,500, is owned by the church, and the entire property is free from debt. The present board of trustees consists of A. J. Ketcham, A. H. Dutcher, H. D. Hufcut, William Soule, Robert M. Glasson, J. M. Waldron, and J. G. Sherman. The present pastor is Rev. M. R. Lent, who began his labors here in April, 1881. The succession of pastors has been as follows :- Rev. William Ostrander, * 1852-'53.
Rev. George W. Knapp,. . 1854-55-
Rev. Daniel Currie, . 1856-'57.
Rev. E. Ashton, . 1858.
Rev. George W. Knapp, . 1860-'61.
Rev. Thomas Carter, . 1862-'63.
Rev. A. C. Gallahue, 1865-'66.
Rev. A. P. Lyon, . 1867-'68.
Rev. J. W. Macomber, 1869-'70.
Rev. S. J. Mccutcheon, 1871-'73.
Rev. R. M. Roberts,
1874-'76.
Rev. N. H. Bangs, .
1877-'78.
Rev. Silas Fitch, 1879-'80.
Rev. M. R. Lent, . 1881.
The Roman Catholic Church was organized about 1859. The first pastor was Rev. Charles Slevin, under whose pastorate the church edifice was erected in the winter of 1859-'60. This par- ish formerly consisted of what are now the parishes of Amenia, Dover and Brewsters. This church was the first built between Croton Falls, on the south, to Pine Plains, on the north. Among the early members were Terrence Connell, Patrick Whalen, Michael Maher, Patrick Wetheral, and Jeremiah Whalen. The present attendance is between three and four hundred. The pastorate of Father Slevin extended over a period of three years.
* He died in 1875.
* The laxness with which the records of this church have been kept, renders it difficult to learn with entire accuracy, either the facts relating to its earlier history or the succession of pastors. This list was given partly from memory, and may be imperfect as to dates, but it is doubtless accu- rate as to names The names of both Mr. Knapp and Mr. Lyman are given for 1854-'55.
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After him came the Rev. John Orsenigo, four years, Rev. P. W. Tandy, eight years, and Rev. M. J. McSwiggan, the present incumbent, who has been in charge four years, and whose residence is at Pawling.
CHESTNUT RIDGE.
Three miles west of Dover Plains, on an eleva- tion known as Chestnut Ridge, is another Metho- dist Church, which was organized some years pre- vious to 1849. The Church edifice was erected in that year. Among the early members were Robt. Van Wyck and wife, James McCord and wife, Catharine Shears (now White), George Van Wyck and wife, Mariette Hustus, Catharine Tompkins Isaac Benson. The pastors, as a rule, have minis- tered to this Church from Verbank and Dover Plains.
Chestnut Ridge is also the home of Benson J. Lossing,* the historian, who owns here an excel- lent farm of some three hundred and fifty acres. From his dwelling a fine view is obtained of the mountain ranges of Ulster, Orange, Greene and Sullivan Counties, and of portions of Con- necticut. Mr. Lossing has here, in a fire- proof library, some five thousand volumes chiefly upon historical and biographical subjects, though he has many of a miscellaneous character. Among the latter is a fine copy of Ovid's " Metamorphoses," translated in Virginia by Edwin Sandys, (the first book ever made in this country,) and bearing the autograph of Miles Stan- dish, 1643. His cabinet of curiosities, composed chiefly of historical relics, is an attractive one to the antiquary. Among these are a portion of Mrs. Washington's wedding-dress; a piece of a curtain brought over in the May Flower; a piece of the flag of Fort Sumter; a cane made of the wood of Perry's flag-ship, in the battle of Lake Erie; and, probably, the only photograph copy extant of President Lincoln's original Emancipation Procla- mation.
Mr. Lossing is a native of Beekman, born Feb. 12, 1813. At an early age he was left an orphan and was compelled to rely upon his own resources. A dweller in a rural district, he naturally gravitated to farm work, doing for a year or so such labor as a boy was capable of performing. At the age of thirteen he went to Poughkeepsie to learn the trade of a watch-maker, and in 1833 entered into part- nership in that business with his former employer. But the mind of Mr. Lossing was bent in a differ-
ent direction. He had early imbibed a taste for literature, a taste gleaned from stolen interviews with a scanty stock of books ; and in 1835, he be- came part owner of the Poughkeepsie Telegraph, and entered upon his career as a literary man. "Once a newspaper man, always a newspaper man," reads an old maxim of the printing office, but Mr. Lossing was destined for a higher walk in literature than the editing of daily news. The next year, in company with E. B. Killey, he began the publication of a semi-monthly paper, more in uni- son with his tastes. This was the Poughkeepsie Casket, in the management of which he first essayed the art of wood engraving, in order to illustrate his work, and in which art he afterwards achieved an eminent success.
In 1838, he beame the editor of the Family Magazine, the first illustrated work of that kind ever published in this country, and which was en- tirely under his literary and artistic supervision. His first historical venture was " An Outline His- tory of the Fine Arts," in 1840-'41. His next work, "Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-six ; or, The War for Independence," was written in 1846- '47. From that time his life work lay before him. He had found his niche, and most successfully has he filled it. The works on which his fame chiefly rests are the "Field-book of the Revolution" and "Our Country." The former was published in series by Harper & Bros., from June 1, 1850, to December, 1852, and had an extensive sale. The latter, a household history of the United States, for all readers, was published later, and still retains an enviable popularity. Mr. Lossing has written over thirty works, historical and biographical, besides numerous articles for magazines and other periodi- cals, in which his pencil did equal duty with his pen.
Of equable temperament, Mr. Lossing ac- complishes his work calmly and judiciously, without the spasmodic outbursts characteristic of writers of the nervous type. In personal appearance he is a man of medium height, rather heavily built, with kindly features, and with a complexion slightly in- clined to ruddiness. He is still actively engaged in literary work, and has in process of completion some important works.
The Quaker meeting house on Chestnut Ridge was built before the Revolution, and was formerly filled with worshippers every Sabbath, That class of people have disappeared from the Ridge, and the meeting house is now in ruins. In the posses- sion of Mr. Lossing is one of the stoves used for heating that edifice,-a common box-stove, for
* To whom we are indebted for a kindly interest in this work as well as for information courteously given.
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wood, -- which bears the date of 1767. That was probably about the date of the erection of the building.
DOVER FURNACE.
To the south of Dover Plains, on the Harlem Railroad, lies the station of Dover Furnace. Here are located the works of the South Boston Iron Company, established in February, 1881. The buildings of the company were erected in the summer of 1881, and the principal business done here is the manufacture of iron for government cannons.
The only merchants are Preston & Coyle, who have been engaged in business here since April, 1881.
SOUTH DOVER.
The hamlet of South Dover lies in the southern part of the town, on the Harlem Railroad. The depot at this point is known as Wing's Station, and the settlement here consists of the station, one hotel, two stores, postoffice and a few dwellings.
The postoffice was established here about 1852. The present postmaster is Jackson A. Whitely, appointed some seven years ago. The merchants are Chapman & Wing, in business here three years, and whose store was built in 1850; Ebenezer H. Sturges, stoves and tinware, in business here six years. He had previously been in business in Weebutook six years, and in South Dover, proper, three years.
The hotel at Wings was built in 1858 by John Cornwell, who died in 1864. It is now conducted by" Mrs. Cornwell.
The only physician in this section of the town is Dr. Charles Landon Fletcher, who came here in November, 1881. Dr. Fletcher is a native of Milton, Vt., born in 1851. He graduated from the University of Vermont, at Burlington, in 1873.
South Dover proper lies to the east of the station some two miles. This is also a hamlet of but few inhabitants, and is quite picturesquely located. The postoffice was established here about 1828, and the first postmaster is said to have been Mott Titus. The present postmaster is William A. Sheldon, who has held the office some twenty-four years. He is also the proprietor of a grist mill here. The only merchant is George T. Ross, who has been in business here twenty-eight years. He had previously been engaged in business at Wee- butook six years.
Major Ross, grandfather to George T., was one
of the prominent men in his day, and a gentleman of the old school.
Weebutook, or, as it is often spelled, Weebo- tuck, is a small settlement about three miles dis- tant from this place. The merchant there is Wm. C. Camp, who is also the postmaster, appointed in January, 1881. There is also a grist mill at that place, E. A. Preston, proprietor.
Jacob Harrington, it is said, was about the first settler in the locality of South Dover. A house which he built, had in it a stone marked 1763. In that year his wife died, whose tombstone yet stands in the cemetery. His house was torn down some thirty-five years ago, and the residence of the late Alfred Wing * stands on its site. The Wings, the Prestons, the Rosses and Sheldons were also early settlers here, and the Deuels were pioneer settlers in the hollow which bears the family name.
South Dover has two churches, the Baptist and Methodist Episcopal. The society of the latter denomination was organized some years previous to 1855 ; but there exists no records to show the precise date of its origin or to shed light upon its progress. The church edifice was erected in 1855.
For some years the society worshipped in the Union church, which stood where the Baptist church now stands. The succession of pastors, previous to 1854, is unknown. From that date to 1881 the following ministers have presided over the church :-
Rev. J. Croft 1854.
Rev. A. Hunt. 1855-'56.
Rev. L. M. Knapp + 1857
Rev. M. M. Curtis. 1858-'59.
Rev. J. H. Hawkshurst 1860-'61.
Rev. A. N. Mulnix 1862-'63.
Rev. W. H. Evans
1864-'65.
Rev. J. Edmonds.
1866-'67.
Rev. J. Birch . 1868-'70.
Rev. B. M. Genung 1871-'73.
Rev. J. Birch .
1874-75.
Rev. J. Elliot
1876-'77.
Rev. D. Gibson 1878-'So.
Rev. R. Decker 188 г.
The First Baptist Church of Dover was organ- ized in 1757, and is the oldest church in the town.
At the meeting of the Philadelphia Baptist Asso- ciation, held October 4th and 6th, 1757, it was resolved :-
"In answer to a request from a number of in- habitants in Beekmans Precinct, Duchess County, N. Y. Government; agreed that our brethren, Mr. Miller and Mr. William Marsh visit them, and give
* Who died November 3, 1880.
+ George W. Knapp?
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the petitioners such direction and assistance as they shall judge convenient."
Accordingly, on the 9th of November, 1757, Mr. Marsh visited South Dover, and explained to the people of the Baptist persuasion, who met with him, the nature of a covenant, to which, "in the most solemn manner," a number subscribed, and were by him constituted into a church. On the first of December, 1757, Ebenezer Cole was chos- en as clerk of the church. On the 4th of January, 1758, Samuel Waldo was chosen as pastor, and was ordained May 25th by Elders Marsh and Wil- lard. At a conference meeting held September 3, 1758, it was voted to build a meeting house thirty by forty feet. To see to the accomplishment of this work, Pelitiah Ward, Manasseh Martin, Benja- min Seeley, Ebenezer Cole and Eliab Wilcox were appointed a Building Cominittee. That building was for many years the only place of worship in the town of Dover.
September 15, 1764, the church licensed Daniel Bronson as a local exhorter. In that same month ten members were dismissed to form a church in the upper part of the Oblong.
June 10, 1775, Agrippa Martin was licensed as an exhorter.
From 1757 to 1794, during the pastorate of Elder Waldo, there were about 250 members ad- ded by letter and baptism.
Feb. 15, 1794, it was voted that a call to preach be extended to Elder Freeman Hopkins.
November 10, 1802, Elder Detherick was or- dained pastor over the church.
April 10, 1813, it was voted that Elder Elisha Booth serve as pastor one half of the time and Elder Foss the other half.
From 1833 to 1840, Elders Job Foss, Daniel Baldwin, Elijah Baldwin and Nehemiah Johnson are mentioned as having served the church with acceptance. On the 17th of April, 1840, a com- mittee reported the engagement for one year of Elder Elijah Baldwin. April 13th, 1844, Elder Johnson Howard became pastor over the church.
In 1849 Elder John Warren became the pastor for a season. In August, 1854, Elder T. W. Jones became the pastor. Previous to this time (about 1833), the old meeting-house was abandoned. A new Meeting-House Society was formed, and a subscription of many names was obtained to buy a new lot and to erect a new building. The trustees were none of them to be members of any church. In the deed and the subscription there were reser-
vations in regard to the use of the house and the perversions of the property to any other use.
For more than twenty years this house was used alternately by the Baptists and Methodists. In 1854 it was decided to sell the property at auction, the purchaser to be bound by the old reservations. On the 16th of September, of that year, the Bap- tists purchased the exclusive right and privilege of the house and lot. A new subscription paper was circulated to repair and enlarge the building, which was done the following summer at an expense of $4,564.74. This sum was given by about sixty subscribers, the largest amount being $599. The house was dedicated free of debt on Saturday, September 22, 1855. The dedicatory service was conducted by Elder Armitage, of New York. In October following, William G. Hoben was called to the pastoral charge.
On the 4th of May, 1856, a parsonage was pur- chased at a cost of $1,000. Elder Hendrickson became the pastor February 1, 1858. In 1860, the membership had increased to 124. Elder William P. Decker assumed the pastoral charge July 27, 1862. In March, 1873, Rev. Isaac N. Hill be- came the pastor, removing from there to his pres- ent charge in Clinton, N. J., in October, 1881.
On the 11th of April, 1880, Edward S. Merwin was licensed to preach, and in July of that year he was engaged to preside over the church.
DOVER IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.
In the war of the Rebellion, Dover contributed liberally both in money and in men; but owing to what should be termed an inexcusable lack of in- terest in matters pertaining to those who directly figured in that eventful period, no records have been kept of the men who enlisted for and from the town, and periled their lives for the general good. A harsh measure of censure for such neg- lect might appear unjust, as applied to one partic- ular locality, inasmuch as many other towns were as culpably derelict.
The lapse of sixteen years has rendered it almost impossible to obtain in many towns anything like a perfect record of the men who entered the service during that war. Thus it is that-in Dover and in towns similarly negligent, we are compelled to rely on information derived from the veterans of the war, and from citizens who were conversant with the transactions of those days. The information thus derived must be more or less imperfect, but it is given with the laudable desire to preserve from the oblivion which a decade more must bring,
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the names of some who participated in that event- ful struggle. For the following record relating to Dover we are indebted to Horace D. Hufcut, Esq., Joshua Rodgers and Alvah Brown-the two latter being veterans of the war.
150th Regiment .- Co. E .- Captain, Andris Brant ; First Lieut., Obed Wheeler ;* Second Lieut., Perry W. Chapman ; Second Sergt., Joshua H. Rodgers; Fifth Sergt., Philip Brant ; First Corporal, William P. Humeston ; Second Corporal, James L. Draper ; Third Corporal, Lon. V. Leach ; Fourth Corporal, George D. Schermerhorn ; Fifth Corporal, De Witt Thomas ; Sixth Corporal, Oscar Feroe ; Musicians, Charles W. Leonard, George Toffey ; Wagoner, T. J. Burt ; Privates, George Burroughs, Lawrence Burhans, George Burhans, Alvah Brown, George Brown, Jacob Benson, John Case, (Q. M. S.,) George Cooper, Samuel Clements, (Q. M. S.,) Gilbert J. Dutcher, Henry Duncan, (discharged,) William Duncan, Heman Ellsworth, Patrick Garland, Michael Gilligan, Joshua Leonard, Judd Murphy (killed at Gettys- burg), James McGrath (drowned in New York Harbor), Daniel Roe, Matthew Rasell, Sheridan L. Rodgers (wounded and died from effects), Henry Spencer, George D. Sage, William D. Stowe, Alfred Sherman, Henry Sloan, Arthur Sloan, John Tallman, Nelson Tallady, William Toffey, George Wilcox (re-enlisted in Regulars), Denman Whaley, Benjamin Watts.t
128th Regiment .- Co. B .- Thomas N. Dutcher, First Lieutenant ; Charles Humeston, Third Ser- geant ; Gilbert J. Kniffin, First Corporal ; Chand- ler McCarty, Sixth Corporal; Ransom A. White, Eighth Corporal ; Privates -- Isaac O. Mitchell, Mer- ritt Humeston, Cary Wilcox, Herman Bucking- ham, Charles Smith, Leroy Lineberg, Edward Lineberg, Charles Records, James Brant, Edward Mulhaine, (Co. D,) Cornelius Ireland, (Co. F,) George Coles, (Co. F,) Theron Jones, (Co. F.)
Scattering .- Robert Watts, (died in the service, ) William Leonard, Silas B. Stage, (died in the ser- vice,) Joseph Stage, George Stage, (died in the service,) Henry Lee, LaFayette Dennis, David Cooper, Zachariah Burris, Albert Burris, Jacob Filleo, (98th Regt.,) Michael O'Niel, Daniel Bree, (150th Regt.,) Thomas Redding, (150th Regt.,) Haviland Hammond, (16th Heavy Art., ) James M. Hewitt, James Dingee, (16th Heavy Art., killed,) John H. Shaddick, Smith McCord, Herman Wheeler, Andrew Johnson, James Ross, William
Driggs, John Striker, Thomas Anderson, Samuel Lewis, Geo. W. Howard, Stephen Decker, Robert Williams, (colored,) Alonzo Leach, (150th Regt.,) William Hall, (150 Regt.,) Silas Howard, David Howard, Matthew Roswell, Roger Moran, (69th Regt.,) William Jackson, George Marshall ( 150tlı Regt.)
CHAPTER XLIII.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF WAPPINGER.
W APPINGER, though the youngest and smallest town in the County, is, indus- trially, and in point of population and wealth, one of the most important ; and, although its historic importance is mainly reflective, it is connected with some of the earliest and most interesting episodes in the County's history. It derives its name from the beautiful and useful stream which defines the major portion of its western boundary.
It was erected from Fishkill, May 20, 1875, and the act thus defines its boundaries :-
" All that part of the town of Fishkill, in the County of Dutchess, situated, lying and being north of a line beginning at a point on the easterly shore of the Hudson River, distant two hundred feet northerly from the residence of Thomas Al- dridge, and running from thence easterly in a straight line to a point in the center of the public highway leading from Fishkill to Hopewell two hundred feet northerly from the homestead of Lebbeus Chorlock, and running from thence in a straight line due east to the westerly bank of Sprout Creek, is hereby erected into a separate and new town, to be hereafter known and distinguished by the name of 'Wappinger.'
It lies upon the west border of the County, south of the center, and is bounded on the north by LaGrange, on the south by Fishkill, on the east by Sprout Creek, and on the west by Wappingers Creek and the Hudson River.
The surface is a high rolling ridge, separating the valleys of Wappingers and Sprout creeks, with a general inclination toward the northwest. The highest point is Mt. Hope, a half-mile south of Myers Corners, which attains an altitude of 1,000 feet above tide. Its summit affords a beautiful and extended view of the surrounding country ; and a beacon was erected upon it by the Coast Survey, to serve as a point in the triangulation of the Hudson River Valley. A series of bluffs ex- tend along the river from 150 to 200 feet in height. The interior streams, all of which are small, and have their origin in the southern and eastern parts
* Returned as Captain.
This list is from the company's roll, and is therefore correct, as is also that of the 128th Regt. following.
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of the town, flow in a northwesterly direction to Wappingers Creek. They afford a limited water- power.
Next to Fishkill, Wappinger is the most popu- lous town in the County. In 1880, when the first official enumeration of the town was made, it had a population of 4,966.
Its area, as stated in the report of the Com- mittee on Equalization, published in the Pro- ceedings of the Board of Supervisors in 1880, is 16,001 acres ; but in the report of the same committee, presented to the Board of Supervi- sors Dec. 19, 1881, it is said to be 15,887 acres ; while the total equalized value of real and personal property in the town is said to be $1,642,518, which is exceeded by only five other towns in the County.
The town is wholly underlaid by the rocks of the Hudson River group, and the soil is composed of the detritus of these rocks, intermixed with allu- vion, in which clay is a predominant element on the river border, and is manufactured into brick a half-mile below Carthage Landing, near the south line of the town. The value of the soil for agri- cultural purposes is sufficiently indicated by the fact that only four other towns in the County sur- pass it in the equalized value of real property per acre.
The Hudson River Railroad passes through the west border of the town and has a station at Low Point, (Carthage Landing ;) while the Newburgh, Duchess & Connecticut, and the New York & New England railroads cross the south-east corner of the town, the latter road using the track of the former.
There are six common and one union free school districts in the town. The number of children of school age residing therein Sept. 30, 1881, was 1,585, of whom 1,025 attended school, the average attendance during the year being 732.468. The number of licensed teachers employed at the same time during the year was six males and nine females.
There were 1,000 volumes in the district libraries, valued at $300. There were one brick and six frame schoolhouses in the town, which, with their sites, comprising three acres, valued at $2,700, were valued at $14,700. The assessed value of taxable property in the districts was $1,- 432,000.
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