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Mr. Hartwell remained in this store until about 1842, when Mr. Win- chell retired from merchandising in the old red store on the Morgan cor- ner, and Mr. Hartwell moved into the store building Mr. Winchell had va- cated. At this time David Dykeman became partner, the firm being Hart-
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well & Dykeman. The next year, December 20, 1843, Niles Hartwell de- ceased and about a year later Mr. Dykeman deceased. Mr. Hartwell and family were members of the Baptist church, and their breaking up was a great loss to the church and community.
Holbrook, Nicholas, came to Pine Plains as clerk for Hoffman & Winchell in 1810 or '11, and remained one year. June 2, 1819, he entered a store for himself on the southeast corner at Pulvers Corners, under a lease from Peter W. Pulver, at an annual rental of one hundred and twenty- five dollars. Mr. Holbrook had advanced forty dollars on this year's rent March 16, previous. This store building had been a store and tavern at the now Mulford Wheeler corners, and kept by Jonas Myers. He was suc- ceeded by his sons, by his first marriage, James and Jonas. They were succeeded by Peter Johns who had married Elizabeth Conklin, daughter of Eleazer Conklin. Johns later emigrated to West Stockbridge, where he de- ceased. Richard Messenger succeeded, and then Mr. Holbrook for a short time, when, in the early spring of 1819, Peter W. Pulver purchased the building and moved it to Pulvers Corners for Mr. Holbrook, and had it ready for occupancy June first, according to a written contract between Pulver and Holbrook. According to the contract Mr. Holbrook had the annual option of the store for five years. He remained there to and in- cluding 1826. In 1827 he moved to North East Center where he continued merchandising until his decease. A door handle was on his store there stamped "N. H. 1827." made by Austin Stocking, a blacksmith at Pulvers Corners. His wife was Rachel Deuell, daughter of Jonathan Deuell, and sister to Samuel Deuell of Pine Plains. They had two children, Newton and Rachel. Newton for many recent years was a merchant at Lithgow, where he deceased and has descendants. Rachel, the daughter, highly esteemed, is still living (1897). Eliakim Lapham and his son John Harris Lapham succeeded Holbrook in the store at Pulvers Corners.
Hammond, Henry R., see p. 296. Was supervisor in 1841 and 1843. Hoag, Charles, son of John and Mercy Hoag, of the town of Wash- ington, Duchess County, came to Pine Plains in 1798. His wife was Bet- sey Denton, daughter of James and Deborah Denton. Their children were Anna, John, James, Henry, Phebe, Ezra, Benjamin, Deborah and Mary. Ezra married Roxana, daughter of Joshua Culver, of Pine Plains, and is the only one of the family having descendants in this vicinity. John has descendants bearing the name living in Clinton, in this county, and Anna, who married Harris Smith, has descendants living in Pokeepsie. For bi- ography of Charles Hoag see page 161.
Hoag, Robert, was a son of Isaiah Hoag and Dorothy Green, who were early residents of the town of Dover in the neighborhood of "Titus' Store." Isaiah was born in 1757, deceased 1819. His wife was born in 1760, deceased in 1827. They had thirteen children of whom Robert was one, born October 10. 1790, and Tripp was another, born October 10, 1794.
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Tripp Hoag was well known in this town sixty years ago as an accom- plished carpenter workman, and as a landlord at the now Ketterer Hotel.
About 1812 Robert married Phebe Pugsley, daughter of William Pugs- ley, and moved to a farm in Ghent, Columbia county, where his eldest daughter, Mary Annette was born, who subsequently was the wife of Elias Titus, a manufacturer of woolen goods at his factory, eight or nine miles from Pokeepsie. In 1816 Mr. Hoag came to now Pine Plains town and settled on the now John Righter farm on the Clarke land northwest of the Hoffman Mills, where he lived until the spring of 1833, his brother Harvey succeeding him. Here his children Frances Eliza, William Pugsley, Jane, Catharine and Edward were born. Dr. Hoag. of Millerton, is a son of William P., above, and Frances E. is the wife of Edmund P. Carpenter, of Amenia. In 1820, on this farm, Mr. Hoag received a certificate for grow ing the largest amount of corn on one acre in the county, of which this is a copy :
" This is to certify that Robt. Hoag of the Town of North East, has this day exhibited to the DUCHESS COUNTY SOCIETY for promoting AGRI- CULTURE and DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES, the best acre of Indian Corn being one hundred and twenty-eight bushels and twenty-five quarts, for which he has received the Society's Premium, being a piece of Plate worth Twenty Dollars. May this evidence of merit stimulate him and his neighbors to excel at the ensuing anniversary.
November 3, 1820.
WILLIAM BROOM, Secretary.
ISAAC SMITH, President,
The bottom of the certificate has an engraving of an agricultural dis- play of cattle, sheep, a small foot spinning wheel, and harvesting with sickles. In the middle stands George Washington leaning on his plow handles, surrounded by a wreath, from the top of which floats the motto, Venerate The Plough.
Mr. Hoag moved from this farm and settled on the farm north of Smithfield church about 1834, now owned by Mr. Isaac S. Carpenter. There his wife deceased in 1859. Some years later, his family being broken and scattered, he made his home with his daughter, Mrs. E. P. Carpenter, south of The City corners, Amenia, where he deceased August 7, 1881, in his 91st year.
Hicks, families of Pine Plains are descendants of Robert, who came to America from England in the ship Fortune, which landed at Plymouth, Mass., in 1621. He was a leather dresser in Bermondesey Street, South- work, London. His father, James Hicks, was lineally descended from Elias Hicks, who was kinghted by Edward the Black Prince, son of Ed- ward III, at the great battle of Poitiers, September 19, 1356, for capturing a set of colors from the French. Margaret, wife of Robert Hicks, came to America a year later, on the ship Ann, and with her husband settled in Duxbury, Mass. John, one of their sons, settled on Long Island about 1642, and was prominent later as a leading man in the early settlement of Flushing. He was the lineral ancestor of the families in this town, down
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to Benjamin, the sixth generation, each having a large family. Com- mencing with Robert, Ist, the line is Robert, John, Thomas, Jacob, Joseph, Benjamin. The mother of Benjamin was Catharine Filkins, the second wife of Joseph. Benjamin married Deborah Doty, and with other brothers bought a large tract of land about the middle of the last century on the west side of Stissing Mountain (then in Little Nine Partners) and the settle- ment was called "Hicks Hill." The children of Benjamin and Deborah Doty and their marriages were, Elias married Charlotte (Lotty) Rowe; Amy married Nathan Case; Sarah married Frederick Couse, Elisabeth married Samuel Wilbur; Joseph married Lucy Germond; Benjamin mar- ried Hannah Couse; David married Mary Gildersleeve; Deborah married Lewis Torry ; Anna married Peter Moore. Of these Benjamin succeeded to the paternal homestead on Hicks Hill, (his father built the old house) where his children were born. They were Samuel I., Uri, George, Anna, Edward, Zayde Ann, Asa, Catharine, Elisabeth, Perry and Benjamin. Descendants from some of these are now living in the town and elsewhere. Samuel I., above, in January, 1841, married Eliza Ann Link and succeeded to the homestead, where in 1878 he built a commodious dwelling on an eminence near the old house his grandfather had built over a century before. Here his wife deceased March 4, 1894, aged 73, and he March 8, 1894, aged 79. They had a life of industry, competence and good cheer, and a friendly welcome for all. He held many offices of trust in Pine Plains in which town he lived. He had six children, four sons and two daughters. Willard, one of the sons, lives near the old homestead and is owner of a portion of the ancestral acres. Uri Hicks, brother to Samuel I .. has always been a resident of the town, and is now living about three miles west of the village.
"Hoffman, Hanrick," son of a Palatine, is the town ancestor of the name, and settled in North East Precinct, in the now town of Pine Plains, previous to 1768. His wife was Sybil Magdalena Yonkhonce, written also Yonghaus, born in 1722. He was born in 1719. They were communicants at the Round Top church at Bethel from its first recorded communion, June 4, 1763, continuously to its last recorded communion, May 20, 1787, with scarcely an absence, and were sponsors to many baptisms in this church. He had three sons, Henry, Matthias and Anthony, and a daugh- ter who married a Tallmage, who lived in Scatacook, had children, and · later emigrated to Ohio where the family became prominent. About two years after his last communion he deceased, February 4, 1789, in his 70th year.and she July 26, 1805, aged 83. They were buried in Round Top Ceme- tery west of the road opposite the old church, and a marble head-stone, in good preservation, now stands at the head of their respective graves. It was fitting they should be buried near the altar, where they had so long been wont to offer sacrifice.
Hoffman, Henry, Esquire, son of Hanrick, above, was born January
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6, 1761, and from his manhood to the close of his business life, no man in Pine Plains, contemporaneous, had so many business connections with different enterprises all at the same time. In 1784 he was possessed of the George Barton farm near Ancram Lead Mines, where, about 1803, he com- menced merchandising, Aaron E. Winchell being the store manager. He had previously started a blacksmith shop there, under the management of Luther Stebbins, which in June, 1803, hammer and tongs and all was moved to the Hoffman Mill property, about a mile north of Pine Plains village, which he and his brother Matthias had jointly purchased in 1801. Matthias was owner of a portion of the George Barton farm, and May 2, 1807, Henry purchased his interest in the Hoffman Mill property, and also his interest in the Barton farm, and moved to the Hoffman Mills, in 1807 or '8, where in 1812 he built the large farm dwelling and barn there, the barn having been repaired. In 1817, he purchased the woolen factory at "Separate," and his son-in-law, Walter Dorchester, was a partner. In 1820 he purchased the Mount Ross Mill property, and his son Henry, Jr., and son-in-law, Jeremiah Conklin, were managers and lived there. In 1826 he purchased the lease of Ebenezer Dibblee, deceased, of the George Clarke farm, and put a store on the now opera house corner, which was later occupied by Niles Hartwell, but Mr. Hoffman was not a partner. (See Niles Hartwell Lineage.) He was a partner with Aaron E. Winchell in the store on the Charles Morgan corner from the time of his coming there, in 1810, or '11, to their dissolution, August 1, 1819.
In these manifold business enterprises his fidelity to his church (Lutheran) meanwhile was unclouded. He was a member of Round Top Society, where his father was, his first communion being on Pinkster fast Sunday, May 19, 1782, and when in 1815 the "Union Meeting House" of Pine Plains as a union of four denominations was built, he stood to the front and almost alone to preserve the Lutheran interest which he princi- pally maintained until near his decease. (See Presbyterian Church p. 166.) He deceased at his home, at Hoffman Mills, 1840 aged 80. He married Catharine Vetterlee (erroneous Featherly) and their children were: Mar- garet, married Rowland Sweet of Copake; Caty, Alanor married Walter Dorchester, Henry married Almira Culver, daughter of Joshua Culver; Polly married Jeremiah Conklin; Betsey married George Barton; Laura married Artemus Sackett; Anthony married a daughter of Dr. Leonard Barton. There are many descendants by these marriages near by and far away.
Hoffman, Anthony, son of the above, succeeded to the Hoffman Mill property and was for many years a prominent man in the town. He deceased on the homestead. Has no descendants bearing the name.
Hoffman, Henry, Jun., son of Henry above, married as above. Settled first at the Mount Ross Mills, later on the farm near Bethel, known
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as the Isaac Halleck farm, where he deceased. Has descendants living in this vicinity, Mrs. Mary Bryan and family near Shacameco Station, being of this branch.
Hoffman, Matthias-"Tice"-brother to Henry Hoffman, Esquire, above, first settled on the "Barton farm" near Ancram Lead Mines, with or near his brother Henry. He came from thence to the Hoffman Mills, in 1801, and from thence in 1807, or near that to the Ten Eyck farm, two miles south-west of Pine Plains, where he deceased. His wife was Anna Maria Strever. Had children Henry, Maria, Magdalena, possibly others.
Hedges, Josiah, son of Daniel Hedges and Jerusha Huntting, of East Hampton, L. I., was the first of the name in the town. His sister, Jeru- sha, was the first wife of Isaiah Dibble, who lived on the now Samuel Tan- ner farm, near Bethel. Josiah Hedges in 1803 married Elisabeth (Betsey) Dibble, sister to Isaiah. In 1810 he settled on the "Hedges farm," near Mount Ross, where he deceased in 1843. His widow deceased there in 1851. They had two children, Mary Elisabeth and Lewis D. Mary married Isaac Smith, of Pine Plains. He deceased on the Hedges farm in 1844, and she lived there until 1890, then moved to near Silvernail's Station, Colum- bia County, where she deceased in 1890. She has many descendants.
Hedges, Lewis D., son of Josiah above, was a popular and successful merchant and highly esteemed citizen at Pine Plains for many years, and deceased there in 1859. He married Miss Mary Pulver, daughter of An- dreas Pulver. She is living, 1897, in the village, and they have descend- ants.
Hedges, William, a prominent man and farmer in the town, wife, Plebe Gifford, is son of Daniel Hedges, another branch of the name. He lives near Mount Ross and has descendants. John Hedges, now a mer- chant in the village, is a son of his.
Huestead, Ebenezer, (modern orthography Husted) of Huguenot ancestry, was the first of the name in this locality. The Husteds settled in now Stanford which town was taken from Washington in 1793, and in 1798 and '99, Joseph, Asher, Ananias, Ebenezer, Jethro, Reuben, Caleb, Nichio- las and Matthew, each a Husted, lived in Stanford. Of these Ebenezer is the only one to my knowing of the lineage I am tracing. Ebenezer Hues- tead, above, came from Horseneck, Fairfield County, Conn. There were many settlers there by that name, Angell Heusted being one of the "27 Proprietors of 1672." Ebenezer purchased a farm of Isaac Thorne in 1750 on Lot 26, Great Nine Partners, then in the Precinct of "Crom Elbow," later Charlotte Precinct, and later still the town of Washington. In his will of 1785 he mentions two sons, Ebenezer and Silas, and two daughters, Mary and Hannah.
Husted, Major Ebenezer, son of above, married a Miss Germond, modern Germain, and in 1766 bought a tract of two hundred acres, now the south part of the original Mrs. Juckett farm in Stanford, of James
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Winans and Sarah his wife, all the parties then living in "Charlotte Pre- cinct." The next year, 1767, he bought eighty -seven acres of James Smith and Dorus his wife, all of "Charlotte Precinct." This tract is supposed to be the north part of the original farm of Mrs. Juckett, now owned by Smith Sackett. This Ebenezer and wife, and the parents of his wife, were buried at " the City," now Smithfield, on the west side of the road, where was once a burial ground. There are no traces now of their graves. In his will made in 1810 he calls himself "Ebenezer Husted the Sixth." James G. Husted and Samuel Husted, his grandsons, and Judge Jesse Thompson were executors. His children were Peter, Ebenezer E., Germond and two daughters Sarah and Deborah.
Ilusted. Peter, son of Major Ebenezer married Polly Smith daughter of Isaac Smith Esquire. (See cut p. 182.) They had children Leonard, Cornelius, Derrick, Walter, Harry, Susan, Clarissa, Sarah and Mary. These, parents and children, were a prominent family in Pine Plains in the early years of this century. Leonard married Sally Couch, Cornelius married Phebe Waters, Derrick never married, Walter never married, Harry married Susan Williams of Penn Yan, N. Y., settled there, Susan married 1st Smith Barlow, 2d Seth Harris (had two daughters Susan and Mary). Clarissa married Dr. Cornelius Allerton, Sarah "the belle of Pine Plains" married Samuel Stevens, (emigrated to Penn Yan.) Mary married Charles Couch. The married of the above have descendants. Peter, son of Cornelius above, now about eighty years old, is the only one living in the town bearing the name of Peter Husted and Polly Smith. Peter the ancestor purchased the "Husted property" in Hammertown of Cornelius C. Elmen- dorph in 1796, and started the tannery there known later as the Cornelius and Peter Husted tannery. Joshua Culver commenced work there about 1800 and later was a partner with Cornelius Husted. Peter Husted owned also a large tract of land north of Church street in the village including the cemetery. Further mention is made of him elsewhere in this volume. He deceased in 1808 at the Husted residence in Hammertown in his 47th year, and his widow Polly in Pine Plains in 1825, in her 64th year. Cor- nelius Husted their son mentioned above was for many years a prominent man in this town. He had sons Peter, Walter and Henry, and a daughter Julia. Peter and Walter have decendants living in the town, and the daughter Julia was the mother of Mrs. Slingerland and brother and sister.
Husted. Ebenezer E., son of Major Ebenezer married Hannah Lewis, daughter of Jonathan Lewis and settled in Washington or Verbank Duchess County. They had three children Lewis, Daniel and Gertrude. The husband deceased and his widow later was the second wife of Isaac Huntting. No children by this marriage.
Ilusted, Germond, son of Major Ebenezer married Polly Adsitt, had children James G., Samuel, Isaac, Germond, Maria and Deborah. The sons married and have descendants. Sarah Husted, daughter of Major
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Ebenezer, married George Brownell, and Deboralı, her sister, married David Sutherland and settled near Chatham Center, Columbia County. They had several children.
Husted, Captain Silas, brother to Major Ebenezer above, settled on the James W. Smith (now Bathrick) farm, the old house standing near the farm dwelling there now. The farm contained 422 acres, on Lot 10, in Little Nine Partners, which he had purchased in 1769 of Susannah Reid, attorney for John Reid, a "Lieutenant Colonel in His Majesty's Forty Second Regiment of foot," for $600. This was before the revolutionary war, in which Silas was a captain and his brother Ebenezer a major. In 1807 Silas Husted and wife Sarah sold this farm of 422 acres to Jonathan and Jacob Husted, two of his sons, for $12,500. Jonathan married Mary Cummins, and Jacob married Susan De Lavergne. In addition to these two sons Captain Silas had children Joseph, Ebenezer, Silas and Hannah. After selling out here it is said he settled on a farm on the Duchess turn- pike near Pleasant Valley. This family of Husted, from the first settler Ebenezer, were noble men, resolute, positive, and companionable, and highly esteemed.
Wedding, James, father of Bishop Elijah Hedding, a Methodist. See Methodist Church, page 197.
( Huntting, Isaac Mulford, son of Edward, son of Rev. Nathaniel, pas- tor of the Presbyterian church at East Hampton, L. I., fifty years, son of John, son of John who emigrated from Suffolk Co,, England, in 1638, and settled in Dedham, Mass., was the first of the name in Duchess County. He came from East Hampton in 1783, and settled near the north town line of now Stanford, on the farm of the late Dr. Isaac M. Huntting, who was his great grandson, the farm having continuously been in the family name to the present time (1897). (Note-the name has been written with one and two t's, the Rev. Nathaniel Huntting using two, and his grandson. Isaac Mulford, the first of the name here, using the same ) His wife was Ruth Stratton, of East Hampton. Each deceased on the Stanford home farm in 1812. Their son Isaac (see cut p. 177 and his homestead p. 106) and Eliza- beth Knapp were the parents of the Stanford and northern Duchess fami- lies of the name, well known in the first half of the century. The sons having descendants were Samuel, Edward, John Thompson and Morgan.
Huntting, Samuel, married Miss Jerusha Dibble, of Pine Plains, and lived on the ancestral Huntting homestead farm on Stanford north border line, where he deceased in 1876. His widow deceased in Pine Plains 1886. They had three sons-no daughters-Isaac Mulford, Lewis Dibblee and Richard. Isaac M. married Miss Sarah S. Rundall, of Amenia, was a phy- sician, and deceased on the original Huntting homestead farm in 1893. His widow deceased at Amenia 1895. Buried at Amenia. No descendants. Lewis D. (see cut p. 255) married Miss Anna M. Lockwood, had sons Samuel and Nathaniel. They were prominent and successful brokers in
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Wall Street, N. Y., until their decease a few years since. Richard, the youngest brother, emigrated to England, married and settled in London, where they now (1897) reside. He has two sons and two daughters all living there.
Huntting, Edward, (see cut p. 143,) married Miss Amanda Winans of Pine Plains, emigrated in 1819 to "Chatham Four Corners," now Chatham, Columbia County, and settled on the present Lou Payne residence as it is, the farm then including the now Chatham Cemetery and the west part of the now village, the old house standing near the site of the present Payne dwelling. Here his three daughters and son Isaac were born. In 1829 he removed with his family to Pine Plains and settled on the " Edward Huntt- ing farm," where he deceased in 1884, his wife having deceased in 1873. Isaac his son above is the author, writer and compiler of this history. He has now in manuscript a genealogy and biography of the Hunttings of Duchess County. (See cut of him p. 364.)
Huntting. John Thompson, married Miss Phebe Smith, of Pine Plains, and settled on a farm on the north bounds of Stanford, now the home of Mulford Conklin, where he deceased 1830, leaving two daughters, who are now (1897) living in Pine Plains. Each married and have descendants living in the village. The husband of each has deceased.
Huntting, Morgan, (see cut p. 251,) married Miss Julia Barton, daughter of Dr. Leonard Barton of Stanford, settled first on a farm near Chatham Center, Columbia County, later in 1829 on the Isaac Huntting homestead farm (p. 106), later on the now Judge Barnard farm near McIntyre Station, on the P. & E. R. R., and from thence, in the fall of 1849, with six children and wife, emigrated to the town of Courtland, Kent County, Michigan, and settled on a farm, where he deceased in 1868 and his widow in 1881. He has descendants living in that part of the state.
[The following from the Amenia Times of May 15, 1897, is inserted at this point as part of the Israel Harris lineage: "In the old Amenia cemetery, opposite the homestead of Charles Morgan, rest the remains of the great-grandfather, great - grandmother, great - aunt and great- uncle of the late A. Bronson Alcott - "the Sage of Concord " -per- haps even better known as the father of the gifted Louisa of " Little Men" and "Little Women" fame. On March 28, 1728, Cap- tain John Bronson (spelled Brownson in the cemetery) married Com- fort Baldwin, daughter of William Baldwin, of Stratford, Conn. They lived in Northbury (now Plymouth), Conn., until 1759, when they removed to Nine Partners, N. Y., and Captain John became a Baptist deacon. Among the seven children of this couple were a John, Jr., and a Chloe. who became the wife of Colonel Barker, and these are buried near Deacon John and his wife, Comfort. Another son, a Captain Amos, settled on the homestead his father left in Northbury, and a daughter of Amos, named Anna, became the mother of Amos Bronson Alcott.]
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Hiserodt-Hoysradt, (oldest records write Hiserout,) are of Pal- atine ancestry, and were of the earliest settlers in the town bounds and ad- jacent towns in Columbia County, whither they emigrated after the " break up " of the Hudson River Palatine settlement. They settled principally in the valley of the Roloef Jansen Creek. There are many descendants of these early families and by marriage are allied to many families in the town. Henry I. Hiserodt in the early years of the century was proprie- tor of the northeast part of the now Slingerland farm, and a prominent man. Henry H. Hiserodt, previous to 1800 and for many years subse- quent, lived on the farm on the George Clarke land north-west of Hoff- man Mills, now owned by John Righter. These christian names have been perpetuated for many generations. A genealogy of the name, and connections by marriage, of the past and present residents of the town, would make a large volume.
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