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THE BUILDING OF THE FIRST STONE CHURCH
The next list of this nature that we have at New Paltz is the names of those who built the first stone church in 1720 which is found in the French records of the church as follows: Sam- uel Bevier, Louis Bevier, Jr., Abraham Doyo, Christian Doyo, Henry Doyo, Abraham DuBois, Solomon DuBois, Louis Du- Bois, Jr., Daniel DuBois, Philip DuBois, Andre LeFevre, Isaac LeFevre, Jean LeFevre, Mary Hasbrouck (widow of Abra- ham the Patentee), Jacob Hasbrouck, Joseph Hasbrouck, Hugh Freer, Abraham Freer, Jacob Freer, Elias Un.
The last named, who is the ancestor of the Ean family, is the only person not of the Patentee families who assisted in building the church. Abraham DuBois was the only one of the Patentees living in 1720. Abm. DuBois long survived his associates and lived until 1731.
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FREEHOLDERS IN 1728
The next list in point of time is found in the Documentary History of New York, page 971, and contains the names of all the freeholders in the precinct in 1728, as follows: Samuel Bevier, Christian Deyou, Hendrick Deyou, Peter Deyou, Solo- mon Hasbrouck, Jacob Hasbrouck, Daniel Hasbrouck, Hugo Freer, Hugo Freer, Jr., Isaac Freer, Jacob Freer, Lewis Du- Bois, Jr., Solomon DuBois, Abraham DuBois, Daniel DuBois, John LeFevre, Andries LeFevre, Isaac LeFevre, John Terpen- ing, Dirck Terpening, Augustus Vandemark, Nicholas Roosa, Peter Low, Garrit Keetaltas, Roloff Eltinge, Esq.
NEW PALTZ TAX PAYERS IN 1728
The following list of New Paltz taxpayers in 1728 is in the county clerk's office at Kingston :
Elsie Djou [widow of Abraham] £ 23
Christian Djou 30
Hendricus Djou 30
Peter Djou 19
Jacob Deyo [Jacobus ?] .
I
Moses Deyo I
Solomon Hasbrouck 42
Daniel Hasbrouck 62
Jacob Hasbrouck 92
Andries LeFevre 40
Jan LeFevre 52
Isaac LeFevre 3I
Hugo Freer 69
Jacob Freer 6
Hugo Freer, Jr I2
Jonas Frere I
Widow of Elias Ean. . 20
Peter Low 5
Solomon DuBois 69
Louis DuBois 67
Abraham DuBois 193
Daniel DuBois 99
Abraham Clearwater I
Jan Terpenning IO
Samuel Bevier 95
Louis Bevier 26.
August Vandemark 2
Anthony Westbrook 7
Roelif Elting, Esq. IO
Nicholas Roosa I3
Mattys Slecht IO
Col. Jacob Rutson (non- resident ) 5
Garret Keeteltas 5
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LIST OF SLAVEHOLDERS IN 1755
The next list of property holders of any kind that we find is a list of slaveholders in 1755 in the Documentary History of New York. Samuel Bevier, Philip Bevier, Jacobus Bevier, Abm. Bevier, Christian Doyo, Abm. Doyo, Peter Doyo, Jr., Sarah Hasbrouck (widow of Solomon), Benjamin Hasbrouck (Wallkill), Daniel Hasbrouck, Jacob Hasbrouck, Lewis Du- Bois, Solomon DuBois, Benj. DuBois, Hendricus DuBois, Simon DuBois, Hugo Freer, Isaac Freer, Mary LeFevre (widow of Isaac), Petronella LeFevre (widow of Simon), Nathaniel LeFevre, Abm. LeFevre, Andrics LeFevre, Abm. Hardenburgh, Geesje Ean (widow of Jan), Anetje Vande- mark, Noah Eltinge, Capt. Josiah Eltinge.
Abm. Hardenburgh and Solomon DuBois each owned 7 slaves, Simon DuBois 6 and others a less number. The list shows that in 1755 all the sons of the Patentees were dead except Solomon and Louis DuBois, Jr., Samuel Bevier, Daniel and Jacob Hasbrouck.
VALUE OF THE PRECINCT OF NEW PALTZ IN 1765
We copy from a collection warrant dated at Kingston, Au- gust 27, 1765, the list given below of the estimated value of the real and personal estates of the precinct of New Paltz. The warrant was signed by "Dirck Wynkoop, Jr., John Du- mond, Charles Dewit, Elias Depuy, Abraham Hardenburgh, Johannis H. Jansen and John Wandle-Supervisors elected and chosen for the several towns, manor and precincts of Ulster county." It was issued to raise money, pursuant to an Act to raise £52,000 for paying 1,715 men to be employed in an expedition against the French fort at Crown Point and against the Indians; and to raise £100,000 for paying the ex-
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penses of 2,600 for the invasion of Canada; and also to raise £100,000 and £60,000 for like purposes under other Acts. One hundred and thirteen pounds, three shillings eight pence and one-fifth of a farthing was the amount to be collected from the precinct of New Paltz. This precinct then included the pres- ent town of New Paltz, the whole of Lloyd and parts of the towns of Rosendale, Esopus and Gardiner.
The warrant directed that after the tax was collected it should be lodged in the hands of Col. Abraham Hasbrouck, county treasurer, retaining the fees.
In 1765 there were only six Townships in the entire county, viz .: Kingston, Marbletown, Hurley, Rochester, Shawangunk and New Paltz.
Dirck Wynkoop, Jr., represented Kingston; Abraham Har- denburgh, New Paltz; Johannes H. Jansen, Shawangunk; Elias Depuy, Rochester. The remaining three Supervisors, viz .: John Dumond, Ch. Dewitt and John Wandle must have represented the towns of Hurley and Marbletown and a pre- cinct or manor not yet organized into a Township.
An estimate or list of all the estates real and personal of all the freeholders and inhabitants of the precinct of New Paltz in 1765 :
NAMES. VALUE.
Peter Dujou £3I SI
John Terwilliger ... 14 2
Abraham Harden-
burgh
65 I6
Abraham Hasbrouck
(for his farm) ... 71 3
Benjamin DuBois ..
29 IO
Hendricus Dubois .. 55 IO Johannis Dujou, Jr .. 4 IO Philip Dubois 8 O Solomon Low 3 IO
Cornelius Dubois 65 I2 Jonas Frere 25 O
NAMES. VALUE.
Johannis Dujou £9so
Petrus Low 7 0
Abraham Bevier 50 2
Gerret Frere 7 5
Jacobus Bevier IO 0
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NAMES. VALUE.
NAMES. VALUE.
Christopher Dujou .. . £15 SI2
Abraham Vandemark.£ 9 s I
Christiaen Dujou, Jr.
I
5
Moses Dujou 7 0
Jacobus Hasbrouck. . I3 2
Johannis Frere 15
8
Lewis Bevier 19 2
Nathaniel Lefever
..
23 O
Hugo Frere I
5
Jacob Frere I2 O
Hugo Frere, Jr.
I6
I6
Benjamin Dujou ..
I6
O
David Akker .
I2
The estate of Mary-
nus Van Aken. 2
IO
Andries Lefever . . .
27
I2
Daniel Lefever
I7
O
Samuel Schoonmaker
I
O
Petrus Schoonmaker.
I
O
Petrus Lefever 2I I2
Johannis Lefever 24
I2
Catholinitie
Bevier
Abraham Een I8
I7 (widow) I IO
O
George Stover
I
I6
Jacob Hasbrouck, Jr. 65
0
Frederick Hyms
4
O
Abraham Dujou ... 50 0 Joseph Griffen 3
Matthew Lefever .
I I8
Simon Du Bois . 42
O
Jonathan Terwilliger. 16
Isaac Frere
I4
2
Marritie Dubois (widow) . 4
O
Josiah Eltinge 66
I5
Roloff J. Eltinge. .. I 3
Abraham Eltinge 3 · I2 nen I I3
Petronella Lefever .. 5 O Abraham Donaldson. I7 14 Michael De Vou. .
Andries Lefever, Jr. 14 O
3
0 Winetie Hasbrouck .. 48 5
Robert Hurs 5 Johannis M. Low ... 6
David Auchmoody .. 5
I2
Benjamin I. Frere ... IO IO Petrus Hasbrouck .. 12 I6 John Hasbrouck I2 IO
Benjamin Frere 8
4
Catholinetie Lefever.
3
O
Noah Eltinge
49
5
Dominie Monriches
Geotschius
I
8
Lewis Dubois
17
15
Abraham LeFever
2I
IO
Nathaniel Dubois 23
Joseph Terwilliger .. 6 IO
IO
Joseph Frere
3
IO
Petrus Van Wagenen
8
IO
Abraham Van Wage-
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NAMES. VALUE.
NAMES. VALUE.
Thomas Woolsey £ 5$5
Oliver Gray £ SIO
Israel Koole
2
I
Phelick Ransom 2 I7
Alexander Mackey .. . I 2
James Turtle I 17
John Woolsey
5
Peter Koleman
6
James Wheeler 2 7
James Hurta 14
Murry Lester 16
Abm. Dujou, for the
Valuntine Parkus 2
16
estate where his son
Ebenezer Gilbert 5
0
Daniel lives on 5 O
Jacob DuBois 15 0
8 James Hue I O
6
Richard Monion
Michael Palmiter . .
I3
Hendrick Wasemiller
4
Anthony Yarnton .
I 18
Petrus Vandemerk .. . IO
Abraham Brister 3
6 Daniel Frere I I2
Johannis Presslar I I5 ChristiaenAchtmoemy I O
Jadediah Dean I 8
Simon Crandle
I 0
William Ellsworth .. .
I2 Total value .. .£1,354 s18
This assessment roll is valuable, not only as showing who were taxpayers and the amount of each assessment in 1765, but it is still more useful because with the aid of some cor- roborating evidence, we are able to determine where nearly all of the larger taxpayers lived
It is evident that the assessor in making out the roll com- menced at the south bonds of the precinct as it then was at what is now Tuthill and continued on the west side of the Wallkill until reaching the north bounds of the Patent at Mud
Nathaniel Wyard . 0 I
Abraham Hass . 15
Lewis Pontinear I 0
Robert Sergeant I I2
Joseph Coddington .. 4 O
Daniel Dujou 2 7
Ebenezer Parkus I 4
Livelet Hubble 3
Christiaen Dujou I I2
Martinus Bakeman. . Moses Nap
I 0
William Frere I 6
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Hook; then crossing the Wallkill returned to the village on the east side of the stream and then passed on south to the Plains and Kettelboro; thence east to Jenkintown and the Freer patent, and finally picked up the small taxpayers along the Hudson River and elsewhere.
As far as the Huguenot names on the roll are concerned it must be remembered that in this list we are dealing with the grandsons of the Patentees.
Commencing with the first name on the list, Peter Deyo is the son of Hendricus and lived at Tuthill where he had de- scndants living until modern times. Peter and his son had a patent for land in Shawangunk.
Abraham Hardenburgh, who was Supervisor and one of the heaviest taxpayers lived in a stone house, recently tumbled into ruins, just below Tuthill. Here the family had a large tract of land. Abraham Hardenburgh's grandsons Abraham and Jacob were the last of the name to occupy the land of their ancestors, Abraham living in the fine, old brick house near the Guilford church and Jacob on the old homestead, where Crines Jenkins who married Jacob's daughter Rachel afterward lived.
Abraham Hasbrouck who comes next and is assessed for the heaviest amount is Col. Abraham Hasbrouck of Kingston. This farm at Guilford is still owned in the family. Col. Abraham Hasbrouck was probably the most prominent man in the county in his day.
Hendricus and Cornelius DuBois are brothers, sons of Solo- mon. Philip is Hendricus' son. Hendricus lived on the Capt. Jacob M. DuBois place of our day, Cornelius a short distance south of where Capt. W. H. D. Blake now lives, Philip kept a public house at Libertyville. Cornelius and Hendricus were men of large means and influential in the community as their descendants are at the present day.
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Abraham and Jacobus Bevier are brothers, sons of Samuel and grandsons of Louis the Patentee. Abraham lived just south of Butterville. His wife was Margatet, daughter of Roelif Eltinge, the first of the name at New Paltz. Their son Abraham moved to Chenango county.
Benjamin DuBois was the first of the name near Springtown and his descendants still reside there and until recently a little further north. Benjamin is the son of Daniel and grandson of Isaac the Patentee.
Jonas Freer is the son of Hugo, senior, and grandson of the Patentee. Jonas lived at Kline Bontecoe on what is now the R. V. N. Beaver place. His descendants reside in various places in this vicinity. Garret Freer is the nephew of Jonas and son of Hugo, jun. of Bontecoe.
Christopher Deyo lived at Springtown. He is the brother of Peter and Johanes, whose names have appeared on the list and of Benjamin, whose name comes later. Christopher is. the ancestor of Rev. Paul T. Deyo.
Moses Deyo is the son of Christian and grandson of Pierre the Patentee. He and his son Christian, Jr. reside where their descendants have since lived and near where James E. and Matthew Deyo now reside.
Jacobus Hasbrouck is the son of Solomon. He probably owned the Simon L. DuBois farm. At any rate his son Ben- jamin owned it and gave a life estate in it to his son.
We have now come to the Freer settlement at Mud Hook and Bontecoe. Hugo jun. is the son of Hugo, sen., Jacob is his cousin. Hugo, John and Benjamin are Hugo, jun.'s sons.
The assessor having crossed the Wallkill, at what is now Perrine's Bridge, is coming southward on the east side of the stream.
Benjamin Deyo, who is the ancestor of the Bontocoe Deyos,
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occupies the house of his father Hendricus, which is known as the Abm. W. Deyo farm in our day.
The three LeFevres, Daniel, Petrus and Johannes, are sons of Isaac, the first of the name at Bontecoe.
Abraham Ean is the son of Jan and grandson of Elias. His farm, which is still owned in the family joined the LeFevre estate on the south as it does, to-day.
Here the assessor makes a break and inserts the name of Nathaniel DuBois, who built the first mill at Libertyville and is the son of Jonathan and grandson of Louis, jun.
Right here should come the names of Petrus and John Has- brouck, sons of Solomon, which do not appear on the roll until a little later. Petrus owned and occupied what is now the Walsh house at Middletown and John the old stone house of his father, a short distance south, which tumbled into ruins about 1870.
We are now back to the village.
Jacob Hasbrouck, Jr. built at a later date the house where his greatgrandson Abm. M. Hasbrouck now lives, but in 1765 he was living and quite certainly keeping a store in what is now the Memorial House.
Abraham Deyo (2) lived in the homestead in this village, which passed from one Abraham to another and is now owned by Abm. Deyo Brodhead.
Simon DuBois is the son of Daniel and grandson of Isaac the Patentee. He occupied the house now owned by his de- scendants, Mary DuBois Berry's daughters, which has always been in the family and is the oldest house in the village. Maritje (widow) who is assessed for a small amount is Simon's mother.
Josiah Eltinge owned and occupied the house still called the "Eltinge Homestead," and Roelif J. and Abraham are his
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sons. Here Roelif J. kept a store in Revolutionary times. Abraham afterward lived in the house about a mile north of the village, which has ever since been in the family and where his great grandson S. L. F. Elting now lives.
Andries LeFevre, Jr., who is the last of that line of LeFevres, lived with his mother Petronella in the old homestead, since torn down, in the north part of the present church yard.
Winetie Hasbrouck is the widow of Daniel, son of Abraham the Patentee. She lived with her six sons directly across the street from the present church building and the house is still owned in the family.
Johannes M. Low lived in the house which had come to him from his father-in-law Hugo Freer, Sn. and this is still stand- ing, being the most northern of the old stone houses on the street.
The next two names on the list, Abraham Vandemark and Benj. I. Freer, we can not place.
The next name, Lewis Bevier, puzzles us; as there was no person of the name at New Paltz. Possibly the Bevier home- stead in this village had not yet been bought by Josiah Eltinge and belonged to Louis Bevier of Marbletown or Louis of Wawarsing.
Nathaniel LeFevre lived on the Plains in the house of his father Jean. His mother Carolintje and his son Matthew, who afterward occupied the place, are assessed for small amounts.
Noah Elting is the brother of Josiah. He lived on the estate where his father Roelif had lived in his old age and where Edmund Eltinge lived in our day.
Dominie Moriches Goetchius was the minister of the churches at New Paltz and Shawangunk from 1760 to 1771, living at Shawangunk, where he died in 1771.
Lewis DuBois is the Capt. Lewis J. DuBois of Revolutionary
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times. His house, a frame building, is still standing, south of the Libertyville ford on the east side of the Wallkill and lately owned by his descendant, Henry L. DuBois.
Abram and Andries LeFevre are brothers and the pioneers at Kettleboro.
The assessor now turns east. The two Terwilligers, Joseph and Jonathan, lived we think on the Plattekill, east of Jenkin- town.
Isaac and Joseph Freer owned the next farm on the north. This is the Freer patent and some part still owned in the family.
Petrus Van Wagenen is the ancestor of all the Van Wage- nens in New Paltz. He lived in a stone house, lately standing but not occupied, about a mile north of Put Corners.
Abraham Donaldson probably lived at Elmore's Corners, as the Donaldson family located there at an early date.
David and Christian Auchmoody are sons of Jeems Auch- moody, the first of the name at New Paltz.
Most of the other names are for small amounts. Some of them we recognize as the ancestors of people in Highland and vicinity : Devoe, Mackey, Palmatier, Pressler, Wisemiller.
Phelick Ransom lived at Highland and was afterward a captain in the Revolutionary army.
Jacob DuBois lived near Tuthill and had in 1757 pur- chased a tract lying on both sides of the Wallkill includ- ing the island at Tuthill. His son' Isaac kept his home- stead and his son Jacob lived where Gardiner village now is. His old home was a short distance south of Kingston. He was probably the son of Isaac DuBois who was of Kings- ton and his wife Neiltje Rose, as they had a son Jacob, bap- tised in. 1733. Isaac was the son of Jacob of Hurley, who was one of the seven sons of Louis the Patentee.
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Joseph Coddington was the village schoolmaster in those days.
Daniel Deyo lived a short distance north of what is now Ireland Corners and is the ancestor of that branch of the Deyo family. Daniel's father Abm. who resided in this village, still owned the farm in 1765.
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CHAPTER XI
THE CONTRACT OF 1744
In this contract the owners of the patent, 24 in all, bind themselves each to the other for fifteen years to pay all assess- ments made by the twelve men for expenses in defending the claim of title of any owner. The document is in English and is here transcribed verbatim et literatim.
Articles of agreement Indented had made concluded and agreed upon This Twenty Third Day of may In the Seven- teenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George The Second by the Grace of God of Great Brittain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith &c. annoq, Domini 1744 Between The Persons Whose names are hereunder Written and Seals affixed and Who Executed The Same In Due form of Law. Whereas Edmund Andross Esq. Seigneur of Sans- maraz Lieut. and Governour Generall under his Royal High- ness James Duke of York and Albany etc. of all his Terri- tories In America. By his Letters Patent bearing Date The Twenty Ninth Day of September In the Year of our Lord 1677 Did Give Ratifye Confirm and Grant, Conformable To an Indian purchase From The Indian Propriators unto Lewis DuBois and Partners (That is to say) Christian Duyow Abra- ham Hasbroucq Andries Lefever, Jean Hasbroucq, Pierre Duyo, - Laurens Beveir, Anthony Crespell, Abraham Dubois, Hugo
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Frere, Isaac Dubois & Simon Lefever Their heirs and assigns All That Certain piece of Land Lyeing on The South Side of the Rondout Creek or Kill Beginning From the High Hills Called Moggonck and Now known by The name of The High Point on The mountains commonly called the Paltz point From Thence Stretching South East Near The Great River To a Certain Point or hook Called The Juffrous Hoocke Lyeing In The Long Reach named by the Indians Magatramis Being a Little Distance To the Northward from the Place where the Late Dwelling House of Denis Raelje Deceased stood where it is Fixed by Virtue of a warrant By Cadwallader Colden Esq. To him Directed as Surveyor General For the Province of New York, Then North up along The River to an Island In a Crooked Elbow, In The beginning of The Land Reach Called Little Esopus Island and by the Indians Raphoes Then West on the High Hills To a place Called Waratahaes and Tawarataque and known by The name of Northwest bounds being at the North End of The mountain and Severall marks There made, and soe along The Said High Hills South west To Moggonck or The High Point aforesaid To Hold unto The Said Lewis Dubois and Partners Their heirs and assigns Forever, And Whereas We The Subscribers who Have here- unto Set our hands and affixed our Seals being owners and In- terested In The aforesaid Pattent or Tract of Land and In order To Keep and Prepare The Said Tract of Land unto us and our heirs and assigns Forever, From being Incroached upon by any Person or Persons Whatsoever we Shall Each of us and Every one of us, or our heirs Exs. admin. and assigns advance And Disburs So much money To make a Common Stock To Defend The before Recited Tract of Land, and Every one Shall but advance or Disburse So much money according to The Share proportion or Interest he or She hath in Said Tract
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of Land and so according To a Greater and Lesser Quantity So In proportion And Whereas When Such money or moneys Shall be or must be Disbursed or advanced as often as It Shall Happen, To and for the Defence of before Recited Patent If it Should happen To be Disputed by any one of us or our heirs and Assigns Whether It is Requisite and necessary for any Such Sum or Sums of money To be Disbursed, It Shall (and It Is hereby agreed To and between The said Parties) That it must be Determined Then by the Twelve men or The Major Part of Them Who are annually Chosen by the Inhabitants of aforesaid Patent on the First Tuesday in April by Virtue of an Instrument In writing bearing Date The Twenty first Day of April annoq. Domini 1728 Reference being Thereunto had may more fully and at Large appear || And That the True Intent and meaning of the Present Articles be no ways Frus- trated, it is hereby Further Covenanted, Concluded, Granted and agreed upon by and between The Said Parties That Whereas union is the Strength of all Copartnerships for their own Generall and Respective advantage and Safety they Doe oblidge themselves their heirs and assigns, to defend Joyntly the Whole tract above mentioned and to Stand In mutuall de- fence of Each other Lot or Lots farm and Farms against all Incroachment and Pretences of Right to the Same for Ever From any Person or Persons Whatsoever For Fifteen whole and Consecutive years From the Date of these Presents And Now For the True Performance of all and Singular the pres- ent articles and every one of them, The Parties to these pres- ents Doe hereby bind Each one to each other and their heirs Execs. and adms. Respectively In the Penall Sum of Two Hun- dred Pounds Currant Lawfull money of the province of New York Payable by the nonperformers To the others || In Witness whereof the parties to these present articles have Respectively
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Set their hands and affixed their Seals the Day and year above written.
his (s.) Antho Slecht (s.)
Matthys x Van Keuren
(s.) Jan Slecht (s.)
mark (s.) Antoney Crespell (s.)
Hend. Sleight his
(s.) Issac x Frere (s.) mark
(s.) Jacob hasbrouck (s.)
(s.) Isaac Le Fevre (s.)
(s.) Aenrei dieo (s.) his
(s.) Hugo x Frere Jun (s.) mark
(s.) Jacob Frere (s.)
(s.) Jonas Frere (s.)
(s.) Louis bevier (s.)
(s.) Johannes Crespell (s.) Roeloff Eltinge (s.) Yean le Fevre (s.) Abraham doian (s.) Daniel Dubois (s.) Samuel Bevier (s.) Josia Eltinge (s.)
daniel hasbroecq (s.)
johannis maty jun (s.) his John T Terpenning (s.) mark Solomons hasbrouq (s.)
Sealed and Delivered In presence of us
Abraham Van Der Merkan A Hasbrouck 36
memorandum anthony Sleght Jan Sleght, anthony Crespell, Johannis Crespel, Mathias Van Keuren and Hendricus Sleght have signed Sealed and Deliv- erec this within Instrument In presence of us
Jacob Hasbrouck Junr. A Hasbrouck.
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CIVIL GOVERNMENT
In its civil government New Paltz at an early period in- cluded not only the entire southeastern portion of Ulster county as it is at present, but a considerable portion of Orange county likewise. From page 23 of Ruttenber's History of Orange county we quote: "Immediately north of Murderer's Creek there was no civil organization until the advent of the Pala- tines in 1709, when the precinct of the Highlands was erected and attached to New Paltz. The boundaries of the precinct are not stated but the order is understood to have applied more especially to the territory extending from New Paltz to Murderer's Creek, in which district the Palatines of Quassaick were then the principal settlers. At the same time or soon after the constitution of the precinct of the Highlands, and evidently by order of the court the precincts of Maghagh- branch and Shawangunk were constituted, the latter attached to New Paltz. As in the case of the precinct of the High lands no boundaries are given, but from deeds, tax rolls and other papers of record it is clear that the present towns of Montgomery, Crawford and Wallkill were embraced in the limits of the precinct. Under this limited organization the territory which these precincts covered remained until 1743, when by act of Dec. 17 three full precincts, having all the officers of towns and exercising all their duties were estab- lished by act of the Assembly."
NEIGHBORHOODS ANNEXED TO NEW PALTZ
The precinct of the Highlands was bounded on the west by the precincts of Wallkill, Shawangunk and the " neighbor- hoods annexed to New Paltz." These neighborhoods were the Louis DuBois patent, the Guilford patent, the Thomas
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Garland patent at Kettleborough and Ireland Corners and the Hugo Freer patent of 1200 acres on a portion of which Zach. Freer lived. The territory of these " neighborhoods annexed to New Paltz " is thus described: " Guilford and several other patents, from the south bounds of New Paltz to the north bounds of Shawangunk precinct and from the foot of the high mountains eastward to the east line of the patent granted to Thomas Garland and by the south and east by the land granted to Hugh Freer and others and to the eastward by an east line from the said Hugh Freer's bounds to the bounds of the town of New Paltz."
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