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Jordan, Josephus Dunham, a lawyer, was born in Hillsdale, Colum- bia County, N. Y. He read law in the office of Judge Peck, Hudson, N. Y., was licensed as an attorney of the Supreme Court October 30, 1835, diploma signed by John Savige, Chief Justice, and as counsellor in the same court May 13, 1842, at the City Hall, New York, diploma signed by Judge Nelson, and in the same year, licensed as solicitor in Chancery by James Van Der Poel, vice chancellor at Albany. He came to Pine Plains in May, 1836, and practiced law until 1846, when he retired from the pro- fession and went to farming, living in the dwelling on the now Frank Eno farm south of the village, but his farm was only a portion of that farm as now. His wife was Elisabeth Knickerbocker. Mr. Burnap Jordan, now living about a mile south of the village, is his son, who married, 1st, Miss Elizabeth Harris, a granddaughter of Col. Israel Harris. They have de- scendants. He married, 2d, Miss Myra Harris, half sister to his first wife, and are living (1897) on one of the Israel Harris homestead farms.
Johnston, Charles, a lawyer, came to Pine Plains in 1815. He was brought up by his uncle, Daniel Johnston, of Salisbury, Conn. Samuel his brother at one time had a store at Spencers Corners in North East, and later moved to Pokeepsie and was captain of a freight boat running from the foot of Main Street to New York. He married a Miss Ketcham, daugh- ter of the hotel keeper at the foot of Main Street. They had a daughter who married an Ellsworth. Samuel Johnston deceased in Pokeepsie. Daniel Johnston above, of Salisbury, married Mary Waterman, and her sister married Charles Loveland, all of Salisbury, Connecticut. Charles. Johnston Esq., above, married Eliza Bostwick daughter of Benjamin R. Bostwick of Pine Plains. He moved to Pokeepsie in 1832, and continued his profession there until his decease.
Kenyon, Elisha, was a resident of Pine Plains as early as 1814 near which year he married "Latchie" Knickerbocker, daughter of Benjamin Knickerbocker. He owned a farm two and a half miles south-east of
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Pine Plains in 1822 and later, which was owned afterwards by Mr. Samuel Deuell. Kenyon had children Catharine, Maria, Henrietta, Peter, Ben- jamin, Harriet and Julia. Catharine married Mortimer Winans and emigrated west, was living in 1887. Maria married Pulver ("Dick") Hiserodt. She deceased in Pine Plains. A daughter of hers married Mr. Harman Pulver and has descendants. Henrietta Kenyon married Wil- liam Rockefeller.
Ketchum-Ketcham, Edward, of Ipswich, Mass., 1635, is said to have been the first of the name in America. He had three sons, Edward of Stratford, John of Huntington, and Samuel. Edward had a daughter Rebecca who married Thomas Taylor of Norwalk, Conn., 1678, and Joseph (1st in this lineage) supposed to be a son of Edward, was a land holder there in that year. April 3, 1679, he married Mercy, daughter of Deacon Henry Tindall of New Haven, Conn., born Dec. 18, 1658. They had three children, Nathaniel born January 23, 1680, Sarah, and Joseph- 2d, born 1716-18, and deceased after 1793. March 8, 1749, Joseph 2d mar- ried Elisabeth, daughter of Gideon Huributt, son of Thomas, son of Thomas, son of Thomas a Lieutenant in a company that garrisoned the Fort at Saybrook, Conn., in the Pequot War. He was wounded by the Indians in 1637 and it is said on one occasion his life was saved by the wife of a Sachen.
Ketchum, Joseph 2d, and Elisabeth Hurlbutt had eleven children, Joseph, Jr., 3d, born 1754, Hezekiah, Elisabeth, wife of Elisha Colver, Jr., of North East Precinct, Lydia, wife of Major Albert Chapman, Noah, Daniel, Amos, Silvia, wife of Jonathan Lane, Joel, Sarah, and James who was born 1774. . Joseph Ketchum, 2d, was a resident of Oblong, owning part of Lot 79. near now Millerton, April 10, 1772, at which date John Hurlbutt also of Oblong gave him a bill of sale of seventy-eight acres of wheat to secure the sum of "forty pounds" paid him by said Joseph Ketchum. October 12th the same year Hurlbutt gave him another bill of sale of "all the wheat he has sowed on said Ketchum's land, one yoke of oxen, one mare colt, one white faced cow, three swine, a certain piece of corn on said Ketchum's ground, one iron bound cart and iron shod slay, two(plows and irons, one ox yoke, two ox chains, two pair horse traces of iron, and three horse clevices." In June or July 1775, Joseph Ketchum 2d procured signers in now Millerton section of North East, to the revolution- ary "Association" and on his list is found his own name and his two sons Hezekiah and Joseph, Jr. (See p. 42.) Noah, another son of Joseph, 2d, deceased in Duchess County, 1788. Amos, another son of Joseph 2d, mar- ried Arabella, daughter of Jonathan Landon and Isabella Graham of Pine Plains (See Graham, Isabella, Lineage). Had sons Hiram and Morris, rsssibly other children. They have descendants. None of the Ketchum
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name appear in the town records much later. May 12, 1763, Epenetus Ketchum has an ear mark recorded in the town book "which is a slit in the end of the left Eare," and was recorded by Elisha Colver, Sen .. one of His Majesty's Justices.
Knickerbocker .- There have been many families of this name in this town and vicinity for a century and a half. Harman Jansen Knick- erbocker born in Friesland, Holland, who came to America about 1670 and settled at Fort Orange, Albany, is said to have been the American ancestor. His wife was Elisabeth Van De Bogart whom he married in Albany. They had five sons and two daughters born in order named: Harman, Lawrence, Cornelius, Jane, Evert, Pieter and Cornelia, who married John Vosburgh, who with some of the Knickerbocker brothers at Sundry times from 1704 to 1723 purchased lands of Peter Schuyler lying in his patent in Red Hook around Tivoli and Madalin and settled there. The Vosburgs and Knicker- bockers of that vicinity are their descendants. Harman of the above brothers drifted to the lower Oblong valley and settled on the late Joseph Belden farm near the border of Amenia and Dover where he deceased in 1805, aged 93, and was buried in the family burial yard near the Belden residence. The Beekman Knickerbockers are said to be his descendants. In 1711 he deeded lands in south part of Amenia to Cornelius Knicker- bocker who later, in 1743, was living in Salisbury, Conn., on a farm which in 1748 he exchanged with Capt. John Sprague on Gay street north of Sharon near a pond, which was called "Knickerbocker's Pond." He de- ceased there 1776 aged eighty-four. Lawrence of the above brothers had a son Peter who married Margaret Bain and settled near Mount Ross. He had sons Philip, Lawrence, Peter, Benjamin, James, John, Hugh and daughters Elisabeth and Margaret. Margaret married Hugh Rhea, a prominent man in his time in old North East. Benjamin of the above brothers had a son Benjamin who was the father of Henry B. Knicker- bocker a successful farmer now living about three miles east of the village. Hugh, another brother, married Rachel Stickle and had sons, Peter, John, Valentine, Hugh, Frederick, Benjamin, William, Henry and daughters Elisabeth, Mary, Margaret, Nancy and Adaline, thirteen in all. Man'y are the descendants of this family in name and by marriage by other naznes. James another brother above married Maria Dennis and are the parents of the late Jonas Knickerbocker of the village, (See cut p. 159). He was for many years a partner with Col. Silas Harris in the manufacture of the Harris scythes (see Harris Scythes) and after the decease of Col. Harris continued the business above for about two years. He then built & store building at the Duchess Railroad Depot, now occupied by John Hedges, and kept hardware principally. He retired from the store in 1886, and from active business having in his life time accumulated a competence
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His wife was Miss Jane C. Drake, daughter of Samuel Drake of Amenia. She deceased March 9, 1895, and he deceased March 10, 1896, aged eighty_ two, each at the home in Pine Plains. A daughter and a son are now living in the parental dwelling.
Lillie. James, son of David, a farmer of Litchfield, Conn., came to Pine Plains in 1813, and entered the law office of Stephen Eno as a student and clerk. Not long after coming here he married Clara Couch, daughter of John Couch (see lineage) a sister to the wife of Justus Booth who came to Pine Plains in 1809. Mr. Lillie after his marriage moved to Canaan, Conn., lived there two or three years, then returned to Pine Plains and lived in a small house on the site of the now Charles Wilber dwelling, where he deceased in 1838. His children were Helen, Joanna, and John Whitfield. Joanna married Hiram Wheeler of Pine Plains, John Whit- field went to Pokeepsie, was a merchant and deceased in 1881. Helen married Rufus White, a harness maker at Pine Plains. He was born in Milan, worked at his trade with William Wooden of Pine Plains, and com- menced on his own account as successor to Isaac Hammond in the build- ing on the now Charles Morgan corner, and later in a building west of the now Opera House which he occupied for about five years, then went to Milan where later he deceased. His wife deceased in 1892, and they have descendants. Mr. Leonard F. Requa, of the "Insulated Wire Co.," of New York, married a daughter.
Lewis. Israel, Daniel and Jonathan, three brothers, the first of the name in this vicinity settled in northern Stanford about 1765. Israel and Daniel purchased lands in the Great Nine Partners, containing nearly all of the respective farms of the late Phineas K. Sackett, and the late Ezra B. Hoag and the now Judge Barnard farm at Attlebury Station. Is- rael lived on the Phineas K. Sackett farm, and he and his family are said to have been buried in the old cemetery east of the Sackett Corners. Their headstones are gone excepting one there 1880 to Daniel I. Lewis. Daniel, one of the three brothers, lived on the now Judge Barnard farm at Attle- bury.
Lewis, Israel, his children, Israel, Benjamin, George, Daniel I., Jemima, one other daughter who married John Rowe of Milan. George married a Miss Wooley, and each deceased of the epidemic of 1812. Israel never married. Benjamin never married, was executor to the estate of his brother George. He deceased about 1814. Jemima married Henry Stew- art, a weaver. They had a daughter Catherine who deceased in 1795, at the age of ten years. Her father deceased in 1820, aged 72, and the mother in 1826, aged 59. The three were buried in the old cemetery east of Sackett Corners.
Lewis, Daniel, his children, Daniel, Jonathan, Phebe and Hannah. Phebe married Isaac Smith, Esq., of Federal Square, son of Judge Isaac. Hannah was the second wife of Gilbert Thorne, of Stissing, (his first wife
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was Cynthia Mead.) Daniel married Ruth Mabbett and lived on the now Judge Barnard farm, near Attlebury. Tradition says his father built the house there for him. His wife was of a wealthy family. Her mother lived and deceased there, and a sister Susan lived also with them. He de- ceased in 1845, aged 71, and Ruth his widow deceased in 1854, aged 76. The father Danied deceased in 1798, aged 75, and the three were buried in the Smith cemetery at Federal Store. This Daniel Lewis, Jr., had several children, of whom a daughter Elizabeth was the wife of Benjamin Hoag, son of Charles Hoag, of Pine Plains.
Lewis, Jonathan, physician so called, but never practiced as a pro- fession, married a Miss Groesbeck, a family of high standing. He in 1776, and possibly earlier, was a merchant in North East Precinct, probably in the old log store west of the village, later occupied by Ebenezer Dibblee. In 1769 he sold corn to Morris Graham. When the war of the revolution came he took the English side, was called a tory, and emigrated to Nova Scotia. At the close of the war be returned, but taunt and reproach and the defeat of the tories, caused him to commit suicide by hanging himself in the garret of the old log store. (See Dibblee Booth house, p. 315.) This was about 1783. Colonel Morris Graham, who had been an officer in the seven years' war for American freedom, was a personal friend of "Doctor" Lewis, and assisted in taking down the body. Where he was buried is unknown to me. His children were, Jonathan G. (Groesbeck), Hannah, Polly, and one other daughter who married General Obadiah Germond. She with her husband emigrated to Chenango County, N. Y., and had sev- eral children. She committed suicide on a certain Sunday by hanging herself in an apple tree. Jonathan G. was a clerk for Judge Smith in the Federal Store at the Square, where he deceased suddenly in 1810, aged 35, and was buried in the Smith cemetery there. It was said he committed suicide. Polly married -? Sutherland. Hannah married, 1st, Ebenezer Husted, son of Major Ebenenezer Husted, and lived in Washington town or Verbank, Duchess County, had three children, Gertrude, Eben and Lewis. She married, 2d, Isaac Huntting, of Stanford. After his decease in 1829 she moved to Pittsford, Monroe County, N. Y., whither her daugh- ter Gertrude had previously emigrated, where she deceased in 1855.
Landon, Jonathan. The Landons appear on Long Island. In Feb- ruary 1668, one Thomas Landon, of Hempstead, received six pounds as bounty "In killing half a dozzen wolves." Whether or not he was the American ancestor is unknown to me. Jonathan Landon above, has lin- eage from Nathan from Herfordshire, England, who in 1686 owned lands in Southhold, Long Island. He deceased at Southhold March 9, 1718, aged 54. His wife Hannah deceased there in 1701, aged 30. They had three sons, Nathan, James and Samuel. Nathan had the homestead, but later it came to his brother Samuel, who was born May 20, 1699, and in 1720 married Bethiah, daughter of Henry Tuthill, of Southhold. The Tut-
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hills were of the earliest settlers of Southhold, and of Enghish descent. John Tuthill, 1st, was a magistrate, and a man of much prominence in the early history of Southhold. The blood of Kings and Wells are also mixed in the above families in Southhold of Colonial days.
Samuel Landon was a Justice of the Peace there from 1764 to 1775 and a Judge in the Court of Common Pleas, and in public councils was associated with Hugh Gelston, William Smith and others of like repute. Samuel Landon and Bethiah Tuthill had six sons and four daughters. David and Jonathan, two of the younger brothers, were twins, and were born in the ancestral Landon homestead in Southhold, October 30, 1743. Jonathan came to North East Precinct probably at the solicitation of the Grahams and Morrises, Landon being then a resident of Westchester County, in 1773, and in that year surveyed and subdivided Lots 48 and 49 of the James Graham estate to the respective heirs. (See Graham Lineage p. 348.) He had married Isabella Graham, a daughter of James Graham, one or two years previous, so by marriage he was one of the heirs. He was elected clerk of the Precinct in 1776, and the revolutionary war breaking out that year, enterprise and improvements were brought to a stand still. The Grahams and their kin in this vicinity were ardent patriots. Landon en tered the service, was Lieutenant Colonel, member of Committee of Safety, member of the Provincial Congress, in 1775-6-7, state senator in 1779, and a committee-man on nearly every public question of the times. He was a member of the convention from Duchess County that adopted the constitu- tion, attending the same from the day it was reported by the select com- mittee until its adoption, that is, from March 6 to April 20, 1777, and voted yes. Lewis Graham held the same position from Westchester County. The war over, he was prominent in the civil duties and organizations of the town, was the leading justice of the peace many years subsequent to 1782, (Note-I have his docket,) and an attorney in the courts at Pokeepsie. He built a house and barn on the portion of the James Graham estate which came to his wife Isabella, which is now the farm and residence of Robert Thomas, near the village, one of his descendants. The barn is there now, the house is gone. His marriage license bears date December 11, 1771. (See Graham, Isabella Lineage p. 347.) Mr. Landon deceased at his home 1815, and was buried in the family burial ground near the old dwelling. He has no headstone. His widow, Isabella Graham Landon, deceased in 1828.
Mac Donald, John, at Shacameco lead mines in revolutionary war, (see p. 79,) was a descendant of the family of Mac Donalds, who took part in the rebellion under the Stewarts, and were in the battle at Culloden. The coat of arms is a sea, a ship and a bloody hand. Flora Mac Donald, the ancestor of John above, was one of the brothers at the battle of Culloden, and at the battle of Prestonpans where he was wounded. He was a supporter of the House of Stewarts. John, above,
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came to this country near 1775, landed in New York and soon after went to Kingston, built a house which was soon after burned with all his papers, among them his genealogy and papers pertaining to his estate in Scotland. He was an Earl and his wife was Arabella Mac Gregor. Ann, his daughter, was five years old when he came to America. He moved from Kingston to the Shacameco lead mines, working them under the direction of the committee of "Lead, Sulphur and Flint." He moved from thence to Ulster county. His daughter Ann, later, was the instructor of Judge Smith's children at the Square, and later took a lively interest in the management of the Johnson Smith farm near Lithgow. I have no knowledge of the decease of John Mac Donald. An old cemetery near the Andrus Rowe Corners is the " Mac Donald cemetery " where some of his descendants were buried. It has been badly mutilated by some of this family and some headstones misplaced or gone. Susan and Ann Mac Donald, some years since living at Lithgow, were his grand-daughters.
Massey, William, (see cut, p. 127,) is son of James, who came to Pine Plains in 1854 and lived there until 1894, when he moved to Red Hook, where he is now (1897) living. William took to photography and opened a gallery in Pine Plains in 1890, and has attained to eminence in this art. With two or three exceptions the cuts in this volumn are made from his photographs, many of them taken from portraits and many others copied from daguerreotypes and old work of that sort. He has a wife and lives in the village.
Mead, Nathaniel, was an early settler in now Milan, then North East Precinct. He was a descendant of the sixth son of John Mead 2d, one of the earliest settlers at Horse Neck, now Greenwich, Conn. His wife was Martha - - ? He held many offices in the Precinct organiza- tion and later when a town. His children living in 1798 were Hannah, Semantha, Richard, Sarah, John, Elizabeth and Walter.
Mead. Walter, settled in Pine Plains, was a cabinet maker, built a shop on the west part of now Elizabeth Bostwick dwelling lot, which later in 1830 was moved by Electus B. Chamberlain, his successor, to South Street and set next north of Cole's drug store, where it is now, the oldest in appearance of any building in the village. The old clapboards are on. It has always been used for cabinet work, the late Henry Engelkee being its last occupant and is now part of his estate. The old shop was 16x38, and when first built it was used for Methodist meetings, he being one of the members of the first class organization in the town. (See Methodist church, p. 197.) He was an accomplished workman, made long clock frames and other kinds of furniture now to be found in old homesteads. He moved from here to Cairo, Greene county, N. Y., in 1827, where later he deceased. He married Miss Elizabeth Winans, and they had several children. One child only, a daughter, is now living in Cleveland, Ohio, over eighty years old. He has descendants living in the town.
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Myers, Jonas, Lieut., born 1746, was a Palatine and on coming to "North East" settled on the now Mulford Wheeler Corners near Pulvers Corners, where he kept tavern and a store in a yellow building standing on the site of the now wagon house on the west corner. He had two sons by his first wife-James and Jonas, who succeeded to the property at the decease of the father in 1807. Jonas Myers' second wife was Esther Conk- lin, eldest daughter of Eleazer Conklin and Temperance Huntting, who had settled on the now Barret farm in 1781. (See Conklin, Eleazer, Lineage, p. 324.) By this marriage there were four children, Henry C., (Conklin) John, Mary and Esther. Mary married Peter Knickerbocker. Esther married Jacob Strever.
Myers, Henry C., son of Jonas, in 1834 married Margaret, widow of Andreas Pulver, then in the hotel, now Stissing House, at Pine Plains. (See cut of him, p. 171, and hotels, p. 292.) There were two daughters by this marriage-Elizabeth and Margaret, who married respectively Benja- min Rysdorf and Ebenezer Husted. Each have descendants. Mr. Myers was a popular landlord, industrious and enterprising, and accumulated a good property. While keeping the hotel he purchased the now Sydney Smith farm one and a half miles south of the village, where he deceased in 1868, having retired from the hotel in 1867.
Myers, Henry, son of John, married Frances Pulver, daughter of Andreas Pulver. He was a successful cattle broker several years in New York and in the early '60's purchased the farm at Halcyon Lake, where he lived until his decease a few years since. His widow and daughter Mary lived there until the sudden decease of Mrs. Myers in May, 1897, leaving the daughter sole proprietor.
Myers, William, wagon maker, came to Pine Plains in the 1840's, had a shop west of Stissing House on the site of the now tin shop. He had several children, his sons John and Walter T., succeeding to the business and continued it until the "Factory Wagon " supplanted the wagon made at the country wagon shop. The two brothers then en- gaged in "undertaking," succeeding Henry Englekee. They are now (1897 ) in that business and Walter T. has a furniture and household furnishing store.
Northrup, Elijah B., was son of George and Anna Booth, of Newtown, Conn., son of Captain Jonathan and Ruth Booth, of Old Milford, Conn., son of Lieut. John and Mary Porter, of Milford, son of Jeremiah, of Milford, son of Joseph from Yorkshire, England, one of the first settlers in Milford in 1639. George Northrup, father of Elijah B., married 1st, Mary Kimberly in 1782, and had three children, Jonathan, Anna and Phebe. He married 2d, Annna Booth, daughter of Richard Booth. They had children, Booth, Elijah Booth, Ziba, Nicholas, Phebe and Lucy A. Parents and children all born in Newtown, Conn. Elijah B. came to Pine Plains in 1815, probably at the suggestion of Justus Booth, who was
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one of the Newtown or Milford Booths. Mr. Northrup was a carpenter and on his coming engaged to build the "Union meeting house." Possibly he came for that purpose. He introduced the system of "the square rule " in framing. The timbers for the frame of the church were donated in the trees which were felled and hewn in the forest and framed where they had fallen, after the manner of building Solomon's temple. It was a new departure in carpenter work, and when the sticks from the sundry forests were brought together, the several pieces fitted in their respective places according to the design of master mechanic Northrup. He completed the building, and the finish and work inside were deemed worthy of great praise. Soon after his coming here he married Joanna Couch, a daughter of John Couch and Rhoda Bennett, who was a sister to the wife of Justus Booth. Their children, all born in Pine Plains and in the order named, were Jane E., Lucy Ann, Harriet, Frances, Charles Booth and Mary Emma. These lived to over adult age. Three infants were buried in Pine Plains. Mr. Northrup and all his family were upright, consistent Christians, members of the Presbyterian church society which was organized in 1837 in the meeting house he had built, and he was its first ruling elder which office he held many years. This family and the other branches of the Couch family (see John Couch Lineage p. 322) were great supports to Mr. Sayre in the early years of his ministry here. They were not wealthy but workers and true, and ever had a warm side for their pastor. Mr. Northrup was a very busy man in his own business, never idle. His children were industrious, honorable and self supporting. The family lived in the now Charles Wilber cottage which Mr. Northrup originally built, and has since been repaired. They left Pine Plains many years since, some of the children married and settled in Newark, N. J., where possibly some descendants are now living. Mr. Northrup moved there and deceased June 29, 1860, aged 69. He was buried in Bridgeport, Conn. He was of small stature, about 5 ft. 7. sanguine, nervous tempera- ment, quick in action and of great endurance, a sort of steel wire constitu- tlon, yet too light in structure to stand the continuons strain.
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