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Orr, Robert, the first of the name, was a resident in now Milan, "North East Precinct," in 1769, and David about the same time, and Hugh in 1774. The Orr farm was just this side of now Smith Ferris. David de- ceased in 1803, leaving sons David, Matthew, Watson and William. A daughter married Benjamin Toms, who has descendants bearing his name, but none of the name Orr are in the town.
Pine Tree. See him on Pine Street, page 37. He and his brothers were the earliest settlers in the town, immigrants from an unknown land. They were here when the Wappinger and Mohican made their outline survey and placed boundaries to his respective hunting grounds. To the pine tree the Indian was ever reverent. He esteemed him as his own kin, and he longed to be buried under his branches. This pine tree is
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about the last of his race on " the pine plains," and has lingered to mark the site where the Mohican who hunted in these forests of hill and valley buried their dead. Beneath or near this tree were buried the last Mohican chief of the clan in this vicinity. Children of nature only could have se- lected so beautiful a place for quiet, lengthy rest. As buried they are sitting in their graves looking eastward over their beloved valley nearly an hundred feet below-it is significant that the location precludes the build- ing of any obstruction to this landscape view-where now as then, only in diminished volume, goes on their favorite Shacameco, the fishing stream for eels. Beyond the valley are smooth and rougher hills in mingled heiglits, varied in shadings as near and more remote, and further still are Takhanicks, of Indian name, greater and grander than all. In their dis- tance they meet the sky. These chiefs there sleeping have their backs to their fishing Stissing lakes, and Stissing Mountain, and the distant pinna- cled heights of Katterskill, for these and all else to the setting sun are to them as nought. They are waiting for the rising sun. Over them stands this old pine tree, their monument, not of cold granite for that belongs to white man. For these forest Indian men a kind and unforgetting Provi- dence has kept the woodman's ax away, and preserved this native pine for their memorial tree. Dwarfed and broken in its branches it still is green perennial, emblem of eternal life. In the warm breath of spring and early summer, in the midsummer's sun at "raging noon," in thunder storm and Tempest, in the brown ripeness of the mellow autumn, in win- ter's storm to spring again it is the same unchanged in its memorial mis- sion, and as the winds play upon its tunaful leaves, it sings requiems in minor tones of the deceased red men at its feet, and of its own brothers all long since gone. His departure too will come. "Dead like a pine stump," said the Greeks when one had no descendants. No sprout will ever come from this old Pine Tree.
Phillips, a portrait painter, although not a resident of Pine Plains, yet was in this vicinity earlier and later than 1820, and painted many por- traits in families residing in Stanford, Pine Plains, Northeast, Amenia, Connecticut and Massachusetts. These are in existence, are considered good and have stood the test of time in color. He painted one of Nelson De Lavergne, and a man said to me "it looks more natural than Nels does himself." In 1844 he painted a banner with Polk and Dallas life size, for the campaign, which received favorable comment. He was a native of Massachusetts, Berkshire County, where he was born April 24, 1788. He married. 1st, Laura Brockway, of Rensselaer Co., N. Y., had three sons and one daughter. Married, 2d, Jane Ann Caulkins. of Northeast, had three daughters and one son. He deceased in Curtisville, Berkshire Co., Mass., in July, 1866.
Pinney, Ambrose L., came from Albany and settled at Lafayette- ville, a tailor. He studied law, and was contemporaneous in practice with
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Otis E. Bowman He lived at Lafayette about twenty years, moved to Red Hook, and from thence to New York where he deceased.
Pugsley, William, Mary and Edward are the earliest I mention. William married Catharine Bockee, sister of Jacob the father of "Judge " Abraham Bockee. Mary married Benjamin Carpenter, father of Daniel, Morgan, Platt and Hannah. Edward married Mary Lapham, daughter of Solon Lapham.
Pugsley, William, and Catharine Bockee. had children William, Phebe, Edward, Abraham, Walter. Sanmel and Mary. Mary never mar- ried. William married Deborah Mathison, no children. Edward (Dr.) married Penelope Sharp, lived in Ghent Columbia County, deceased there. Had children Caroline, Alida, Eugene, Edward. Abraham, brother to Ed- ward (Dr.) above, married Semantha Reynolds, daughter of Stephen Rey- nolds. Had children Mary and a daughter who married -? Ridgway, and a son Cornelius. Walter (Dr.) brother to Edward (Dr.) married, 1st, -? had children Abraham, Henry. Married 2d, -? had children Wal- terina, Fred. Walter (Dr.) the father lived at one time just south of Smith- field. Moved from thence to Pokeepsie. Phebe, sister to Edward (Dr.) above, married Robert Hoag, had children Annette, Frances, William, Jane, Catharine, Edward.
Pugsley, Edward, brother to William and Mary, first mentioned, married Mary Lapham, daughter of Solon Lapham, had children VanAllen, Benjamin, Cornelius, Jacob, Theodore, Elisabeth, Maria and Margaret. Mar. garet never married. Van Allen married Semantha PerLee, daughter Gen. Edmund Per Lee, had children. Benjamin married Maria Tabor, daugh- ter of Noah Tabor and Hannah Carpenter, a daughter of Benjamin Carpen- ter, had children. Cornelius married Nancy Perry, sister to Dr. Jno. Perry, at one time a physician in Pine Plains, had children. Jacob married Mary Ketchum, daughter of Job Ketchum, of Dover. He lived at Separate, had children. Elisabeth married Allen Thompson and lived in Pine Plains, had children. Maria married Colonel Silas Harris, of Pine Plains, had chil- dren. Besides these families of Pugsley there was a Stephen Pugsley who lived on the " Shannon farm " west of the Square. Had children, a daughter Elisabeth married Jesse Thompson, a prominent man in "North East Precinct." (See Jesse Thompson lineage.)
Patterson, Charles, was in Pine Plains in 1826, from Mount Wash- ington township, Mass. He was son of Levi, son of Charles who emigrated from New Fairfield, Conn .. to Mount Washington, in 1722. and was one of the proprietors who obtained a tract of land in that township from the Massachusetts colony. His wife was Martha Hall. His father's name was Andrew, whose wife was a Miss Lathrop, and he had a brother Andrew. Charles bought forty acres in Mount Washington of Samnel Dibble, or Dibblee, a relative of Ebenezer Dibblee. Charles Patterson, Sr., had sons Levi and Lathrop. Lathrop emigrated to Ohio. Levi lived in Mount
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Washington, married -? had children Charles, Eliza, Maria, Helen, Martha. Charles (in this lineage) married Lonisa Mead, of Pine Plains. She deceased in Sharon, Connecticut, and was buried in Pine Plains. He deceased later in Ontario County, N. Y., was buried in Pine Plains. They have descendants. Edward L., a son, has been for a long time con- nected with the passenger department of the "Big 4" line. He resides in Cleveland, Ohio. Of the sisters of Charles, above, Eliza married Origen Lampson, of Mount Washington. She deceased there, and he emigrated to Ohio. Maria married Killeon Whitbeck, of Mount Washington, and each deceased of cholera in the fall of 1849 Had children Orrin, Henry, Jane, Helen. Augusta, Angeline, Martha. The Whitbeck homestead is now in the family. Helen Patterson married James Woodworth, of Mount Riga. Maria never married.
Pulver, modern, old records say Polver, Bolver. There are many families of the name in the town. Peter W. and his son Wandel jointly in 1772, purchased three hundred and fifty acres at Pulvers Corners. He had children Andreas, Wandel, John, Catharine, Katriney (Gertrude ?) Christina, Elisabeth. Andreas, the son, was a resident of the town, pre- vious to the purchase of the farm by his father Peter and Wandel his son, at Pulvers Corners in 1772. January 24, 1771, he had children Andreas and Gertrude baptised at the "Round Top " church at Bethel, and lived at the time on the now Harman Pulver farm at the brook east of the Righter farm. He emigrated to North Chatham, deceased and was buried there. His wife was buried in the Knickerbocker cemetery. Her maiden name was Link. They had daughters Susannah, Caty, Gertrude, Mary, Eva, Lena, and sons Peter, Wandel, Nicholas and Andreas. Nicholas succeeded to the farm, and lived there until his decease in 1850. His wife was Mary (Polly) Parks. She deceased in 1856. They had sons and daughters. An- dreas, a son who married Margaret Thomas, a daughter of Beriah Thomas, kept the hotel now Stissing House from 1825 to 1832, where and when he deceased. He had three daughters, Mary, Frances and Cornelia. Mary married Lewis D. Hedges, has descendants. She, a widow, lives (1897) in Pine Plains. Frances married Henry Myers, has descendants, deceased in May, 1897, and Cornelia married Egbert Van Wagner, has descendants and is living (1897). There are many branches of the Pulver family in the town. They were Palatines and church people. " Wandel Polver," possi- bly the American Palatine ancestor, was one of four on behalf of the Ger- man Reformers, to complete the sale and division of the first Palatine church in Rhinebeck in 1729. (See p. 152.) They have been from that time to the present, generally of this creed, and estimable men and women re- spectively in civic and domestic life.
Peck, Richard, (page 227,) lawyer, son of Henry Peck, of Stanford, came to Pine Plains in 1840, established a law office and was a resident of the town until his decease December 18th, 1878. In politics he was an ar-
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dent whig, and later a republican and took an active part in town mat- ters. He deceased a bachelor leaving a comfortable estate. He built a. fine dwelling now owned by his sister, Mrs. Jane Smith, who with her daughter Frances now lives there, and in its surroundings of leaf and flower is the most attractive home in the village.
Righter, William-Richter (German)- was the first of the name in Pine Plains. He settled on the Righter corners about one and a half miles. east of the village. (See cut of the old house p. 95.) He came from Red Hook, was a descendant of the Palatine emigration, 1710-13. He married Miss -? Cole, had children Elisabeth, Catharine, Maria, William, John. Each married, some emigrated, and others settled near by. John married Hannah Harris, daughter of John Harris, the scythe manufacturer, and succeded to the homestead, where he deceased. He was prominent in the councils of the town. He had several children, one of whom, John, succeeded to the Righter homestead, and now lives there. He married Miss Caroline Rider, of Stanford, and they have descendants.
Reynolds, Israel Dr., son of Stephen, of the " City," now Smithfield, Duchess County, appears on the records in 1795. and was a resident with his family in 1798. See page 301, and following, for more of him. He was a physician but never engaged in active practice after he came to Pine Plains, then North East. The following is a copy of his certificate as phy- sician, on file in Pokeepsie :
DUTCHESS COUNTY, } STATE OF NEW YORK, S
I, Isaac Bloom, one of the Judges of said county, do, pursu- ant of the directions of a Statute entitled " an act to regulate Physic and Surgery in this State " passed the 23d day of March, 1797, certify that. rsrael Reynolds of the town of North East, in Dutchess County, has pro- duced satisfactory evidence to me by the oath of Stephen Reynolds of the town of Amenia, in said County that he the said Israel Reynolds has piac- ticed phsyic and surgery within this state for more than two years pre- ceeding the first day of October, 1797. Given under my hand and seal this. 13th day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety·seven.
ISAAC BLOOM.
This is to certify that the above is a true copy of the certifiate remain- ing on file in the clerks office of Dutchess County, Oct, 24, 1797. TEUNIS TAPPIN, Dept. C. Clerk.
Dr. Reynolds introduced the mail route in Pine Plains (see Post Routes. and Mail Routes p. 301) and was innkeeper at the Stissing House from 1806 to 1823, inclusive. He deceased at Pine Plains March 28, 1824, aged 51. His wife was Deborah Dorr, who deceased a widow June 6, 1850, aged 79. They had several children. A daughter Eliza married Hiram Wilson, who for many years was a resident of Pine Plains. Israel R. Wilson, of Amenia, is a son of Hiram. There are many other descendants of Dr. Israel Reynolds in this vicinity.
Reynolds, Caleb from "Horse Neck," Fairfield County, Conn.,
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where many of the name lived, came to Pine Plains, then North East, in 1773, and settled on the hill north of the Phineas Carman Mills. He married Sarah Brown, a grand-daughter of James Winans, had children Abraham, David, Daniel, Nathaniel, Isaac, John, Caleb, Anna Rhuama, Phebe, Clara. There are many descendants. Nathaniel was the last resident of these brothers on a portion of the ancestral acres. One of his sons, Alfred, is now living on the homestead. Caleb Reynolds at his decease owned about five hundred acres in one farm. His stock ear mark was a "happenny under the left ear," and recorded May 11, 1773.
Rudd, Charles, (See p.121.) son of Reuben, son of Bezaleel, who was a First Lieutenant (p. 49) in the 6th Regiment of Continentals, N. Y., in the revolutionary war, came to Pine Plains in the '40s, and later in 1850 settled on the farm where he now lives about two miles northwest of the village. He married Frances Falk, a descendant of Isaac Smith, Esq., of Pine Plains. They had children, sons and daughters, some have married and have de- scendants living in the town. Mrs. Rudd deceased September 7, 1895, in her 67th year. Mr. Rudd's residence is in the town of Gallatin, Columbia County, and he has been active and influential in the government of that town. He is industrious, social: generous, decisive, has been a successful farmer, does his own thinking and governs himself accordingly. .
Rowe, Johannes, known as Moravian John "Rau," was the first of the name in the town. In 1740 he lived on the south part of the Steger, now Sackett, farm. His son John settled in now Milan, and is the ances- tor of the name years since numerous in that town. Descendants of his emigrated to Columbia County, near Niverville and live there now. . Jo- hannes Rowe, Sr., later emigrated to Amenia, where he deceased in 1768.
Rowe, Michael, said to have been a brother of Johannes, was an early settler in the south part of the town, and was the ancestor of the many families of two and three generations living fifty years ago in the south- east part of the town and in the town of Northeast adjoining. Only two or three are living now in that vicinity bearing the name, and they live in Northeast, and Walter Rowe and one other are all of the name in Pine Plains of this branch. A genealogy of all the families for sixty years back would make a large volume.
Stewart, Richard, James, William and Henry, were the original im- migrants from England. James and William were the ancestors of the name in Stanford, Milan and Pine Plains.
Stewart, James, had sons William. John and James, and three daughters, one of whom married - ? Ruggles, another married -"? Dunning, the third daughter married, name unknown. He was captain of the third company in the 5th Regimentals, of which Lewis Dubois was Colonel. Capt. Stewart was mustered in Nov. 21, 1776, and remained in the service to January, 1781. William Bentley was a private in his com- pany. Mustered Dec. 28, 1776. Deceased July 25, 1777.
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Stewart, William, had sons John, Richard, William, Henry (Col.) James and Andrew. Had a daughter who married Dr. Uri Judd, and an- other daughter who married -? Hermance. William, of the above sons, had two daughters, one married Colonel Gilbert Bently, the other mar- ried William Eno, of Pine Plains Henry W. (Colonel) of the above broth- ers married Phebe Sherrill, had sons Sherrill, William, Edward, Henry and Huntting. Had daughters: Julia married -? Rowe; Jane never mar- ried; Eliza married -? Bushnell, had a daughter Henrietta who was well known in this vicinity and later in New York city as an accomplished lady.
Stevenson. Nathaniel, (wife Content) was the first of the name in the town. In 1792 he was a resident of "Pawling Precinct, in Dutchess County." January 6, 1798, he was a resident of Beekman, and on that date purchased of Joseph Winter, an attorney at law in New York city, 376 acres in "North East," which later was known as the "Stevenson farm." It was part of the original Morris Graham farm including the "Stone House" about two miles south of the village. (See cut of the house p. 52.) His children were James, Thomas, Joshua, William, Salmon, Job, Sophia and Patience. The father deceased in 1801, and Content his wife about 1804. Jnmes and Thomas then managed the farm down to 1810. The fulling mill at Mount Ross had a biil against James in 1804 for cloth dressing amounting to $5.31, and one against Thomas in 1807 for similar work of 1 pound and 3 pence. In 1808 the saw mill at Mount Ross had a bill against Thomas for sawing felloe plank 20 shillings, and in same year bill for cloth dressing 2 pounds and 11 shillings. In 1810 the farm came into the ownership of Salmon and William by the foreclosure of a mortgage at the time of purchase which had come to Isaiah Dibble. The family except Job, made this their home, however, until 1819, when Job who had been absent returned and purchased William's interest. In 1821 William emi- grated to Canada. Six weeks after he left Job and Salmon sold the farm to Andreas Hoysradt. William settled in Canada, where in 1824 he mar- ried Jane Anderson, and deceased there a hotel keeper in 1838, leaving a widow and four children. His widow deceased in April, 1893. William, one of the children, now (1897) lives in Denver, Colorado, and is engaged · in mining and insurance. Job Stevenson, one of the sons above, married Hannah Gilbert, daughter of Timothy Gilbert. of Amenia, in January, 1823, and in May following commenced housekeeping in the Fyler Dibblee- Wilson dwelling, now the residence of Walter T. Myers. Here his eld- est son Reuben was born in 1824, who is now well preserved and living in Philadelphia. Job his father kept the now Ketterer Hotel in 1827-8, when he moved to a farm near Stissing known as the " Palmer farm." Later he emigrated west and deceased in Chicago in January, 1856, the result of a fall, his head striking the pavement or flagging. His wife had deceased August 11, 1850, and was buried in the Collins Cemetery near Colemans
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Station. Salmon, Sophia and Patience cmigrated to Claverack, Columbia, County, after the family breakup, and took a hotel. Sophia married George Emerick, of that place, December 14, 1825, and soon after went to house keeping. Salmon later had a store in Ghent, and I know nothing of him later. Patience, when last known of was living in the southern central part of this state.
Smith, Isaac, Esquire, and Tammy Mead his wife came from Horse Neck, now Greenwich, Conn., about 1765 and it is said settled on the Sackett-Steger farm in the south part of the town. He deceased about 1821 and was buried in the cemetery, now almost unknown, east of Attle- bury Corners, in the north part of Stanford. His wife was buried there also. He had a sister, Rachel Smith, who married Ezra Thompson, of the Federal Square. He lived where Mr. Hood now lives and it was there in 1767 his son, Smith Thompson, was born, who graduated at Princton Col- lege 1788, studied law with Chancellor Kent and was District Attorney in the middle district of New York in 1801, Judge of the New York Supreme Court 1802-14, Chief Justice 1814-18, Secretary of the Navy under Presi- dent Monroe 1818-23 and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1823 to his death, at Pokeepsie, December 18, 1824. Ezra Thompson was superintendent of the work of John McDonald at the lead mines at Shaca- meco in 1776, in conjunction with Jonathan Landon, by appointment of the committee of "Lead, Sulphur and Flint." (See pages 80, 81, 82, 83.) He was a delagate to the convention in Po'keepsie to adopt the constitu- tion and did not vote. The branch of the Thompson tree from which he came were positively English in their opinions, and the majority of them took no active part in the cause of the American revolution. Ezra Thompson was very deliberate and slow of speech, a general characteris- tic of the early race of the Stanford Thompsons. See Ezra Thompson lineage.
Isaac Smith, Esquire, and Tammy Mead had children, Tammy, Polly, Isaac, Reuben, Morris, William and Silas, who lived to an adult age. Tammy married David Winans; Polly married Peter Husted, (see cut of her p. 182) and each had large families. Isaac married Hannah Suther- land and settled near the south border of now Gallatin, about three miles north of Pine Plains village. They had several children, some of whom have descendants now in the town. Reuben married Nancy Case and settled on the Sheldon-Strever farm in the south part of the town, of which he was the owner at his decease. They had one daughter, Phebe, who married John T. Huntting and their two daughters married and have de- scendants now living in Pine Plains village. William married -? Silas never married.
Smith, James (" Judge") and wife, Dorus, brother of Isaac Smith, Esquire, about 1760-65 lived on the Isaac Huntting homestead in north Stanford, and it is said built the original house there. See marriage of his two sons, James and Henry, in Peter Smith lineage. He was called a tory.
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Smith, Daniel and two brothers came from England about 1638 and settled in Connecticut. In 1672 Daniel was one of the "27 Proprietors" of Horse Neck, now Greenwich, Fairfield Co .. Conn. He had sons, Daniel, Moses, Nathan, Reuben, Benjamin, Ezra, Caleb and a daughter Ruth. It is said these had large families. Nathan in an engagement with Indians had his leg broken, and resting against a tree he killed three Indians before being massacred.
Smith, Benjamin, of the above brothers was prominent in the revolutionary war. He had children Peter, David, Jonah, Solomon Deborah, Mary, possibly others.
Smith, Peter, son of Benjamin above, married Sarah Winans, a daughter of James Winans, the first settler of the Winans name in this vicinity. They came from Horse Neck about 1770. They had children, Peter, Anna, Sarah, Zady, Polly, Susan, Charlotte, James W., Daniel, Walter, Seymour and David. Peter deceased a bachelor. Anna married James Smith, son of Judge James above, a brother of Isaac Smith, Esq., above noticed. Charlotte married Henry Smith, son of Judge James above and brother to the husband of Anna; had five boys. Sarah married William Wilber, had children, Dr. Benjamin S., Matilda, Sarah, Theron. Zady married Joseph Thompson, had children. Polly (Mary) married 1st, Nathan Finch, had two daughters and a son; married 2d, Robert Wilber, had sons and daughters, moved to Indiana. Susan deceased unmarried. James W. married Sarah Canfield, of New Milford, Conn., lived in south part of the town, had sons Isaac C., Leander, Mortimer, Sarah, Thomas, Benjamin. Daniel married Cynthia Barlow. Walter married Sarah Wil- ber, sister to William Wilber; had children, Louisa, Daniel, Cornelius, Peter, Ephriam, Sarah, Ruth. Seymour never married, was the founder of Seymour Smith Academy, Pine Plains. (See cut of him p. 263.) David never married. Peter Smith, the father, deceased November 16, 1820. Sarah his wife deceased October 3, 1801. Her daughter Sarah, Mrs. Wil- liam Wilber, wrote this epitaph in kind commemoration :
'Tis one most dear lies buried here. A mother, wife and friend, Affliction sore she calmly bore, Till God her life did end. His name she praised, and death he smiled To see his conquest won, His sting was lost-she sank to rest With anthems on her tongue.
[NOTE-Tradition says she deceased singing a hymn. ]
Smith, Johantise-Hontise Tise-was one of the earliest settlers in the town. In 1741, on the twentieth of October, he purchased a tract of land of Captain Richard Sackett and his sons Richard and John. (See p. 21). He could not hold this purchase, but later settled on the now (1897) Phenix N. Deuel home farm. He was one of the grantees to the Round
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Top Church (Bethel) property. He deceased on his farm 1823, leaving descendants, and was buried in Round Top cemetery.
Smith, George, a farmer, lived near the Phineas Carman Mills in the 1840's and '50s. A daughter of his married William Carman, father of Isaac P., supervisor of the town several terms.
Smith, Aaron, a farmer, had a daughter who married Matthias Thompson, has a descendant, Smith Thompson, now a farmer.
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