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Jonathan Elmer was the pastor of the church at Florida, and a brother of Dr. Nathaniel Elmer, men- tioned in the assessment-roll of twenty years later. The name Alson is the Allison of later times, several families of whom were in the west part of Warwick.
Capt. John Wisner, the enrolling officer, lived at Mount Eve. Henry Wisner was about three miles from Warwick village, towards Sugar Loaf. Adam Wisner was doubtless a relative.
George Carr was a settler at Amity. Matthew Howell was in the southern part of what is now Goshen.
Peter Clous (Clowes) was a delegate to the first Provincial Convention, April 20, 1775. Just why his name appears in this list for the south part of War- wick is not clear, as he is supposed to have lived north of Goshen village.
To further show the settlement of Warwick we have the aid of the assessment-roll of Goshen for 1775 (mentioned in several other towns), the last one made ont under the authority of the crown. There were then ten assessment districts. Among these, District No. 2 included a section of the present town of War- wick, extending north and south from below Florida
* Peter Clowes was one of the proprietors of the town of Goshen.
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HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY, NEW YORK.
at some point to Amity, taking in also the Bellvale neighborhood and the settlements in the vicinity of what is now New Milford and the village of War- wick. This statement does not define the exact boundaries. The loss of the early precinct records of Goshen prevents giving any official outline of the district; but the description locates it with consider- able degree of accuracy. Mr. Nathaniel Vail, of Goshen, has given this list special study, and the loca- tion of District No. 2, as well as that of the others, is upon his authority ; but it is also sustained by a com- parison of names in old papers and in many other ways. The assessor was John Hathorn. In all this re- gion the names of signers to the Revolutionary Arti- cles of Association are also preserved, as shown else- where, but the assessment-roll is much more complete. Every family, without exception, must be mentioned, and from the small amount of property, in many cases single men with only personal property of little value must have also been enrolled. This last suggestion may account for the fact that the list shows a greater population in 1775 than might at first thought appear possible .*
ASSESSMENT-ROLL, SEPTEMBER, 1775.
District No. 2 .- John Hathorn, Assessor.
NameB.
Estimate of
Names.
of
Property. £ s. d.
£ s. d.
William Landoa .....
3 10 10
John Benedict.
3 14 8
Archibald Arnietrong ...
3 10 9 Isaac Abbey.
0 0 10
Peter Cooley ..
6 13 9 Benjamin Cooley
3
1
5 Joseph Wilson. 5
= Martin King.
0 9
O
Wm. McKane (Irish)
9
Joseph Bailey
5 11 9
Thomas Johnson.
3 15
3
Elijah Finton
0 3
1
Darius Hanban
1 10
3 John Hazen.
4
Albert Wisner
0 :
3
4
0 0
Abraham Alyea.
9
Jacob Smith ..
0
John Wandell
11
9
Thomas Sayer
10 2 0
Daniel Hultz
5
G
6
Gland Boatman.
2
Cornelius Jones.
1
7
5
Thomas Sayer, Jr.
21 12 8
Isaac Jones.
0
G
Thomas Bennett
6
Isaac Jolinson ..
9
3
Matthew Bennett ...
1 12 6
Daniel Benedict.
0 19
G
John Wheeler.
6
O
Nathan Grey
5 12
6
Nathan Sayer
3
James Benedict, Sr ..
8
0
Thomas De Kay
1
0 +
Anthony Finn.
17
Thomas Sayer (shoenikr)
0 1
Daniel Bort, Jr
3
=
James Mitchell.
4
Timothy Wood.
6 13
9
Abraham Bennett
3 13
Benjamin Burt.
6
Abraham Bennett, Jr ...
1 12
Thomas Burt
6
=
Joshua Morehouse ..
2
9
Jacob Wansor
4 1G
2 *John Seeley
2 13
6
Peter Clows
9
3
Ephraim Bennett, Jr
10 5
Richard Johnson
5 19
3
John Beckis
0
9
Richard Kerr. 5
9
Benjamin Brundage.
6
£ 8. d.
£ s. d.
George Howell
1
3
James Jackson.
0 1 6
David Howell
9
9
Joseph Chilson ...
2 2 3
Oliver Bailey ...
0
5
0 Thomas Goldsmith.
4 15 9
Nomiah Bailey,
0
3
0 Roe Chilson
0
6
Phineas Parshall
0
Joseplı Todd.
4
0
6 Jolın Ilowell
2
9
Peter Bogart
2 17
0
James Paralıall.
1
4
0
Eliphalet Wood
17
0
Henry Dobbins.
10
Cornelius Decker.
2 14 6
James Robinson.
0
6
0 Gilbert llowell
9
0
Sammel Harmon
1 19
James McKeen.
4
6
Michael Brooks
I
0 John Bigger
16
0
9 W'm. Lewis.
14
3 Robert McLane.
0
8
Ezekiel Smith
0
2
3
6
Sarah Horton, widow,
1 17 0
Benjamin Demarest.
1 14 6
Gamaliel Truesdale
0 12 3
Peter Barlow.
0
2
3 Peter Demarest.
0
1
David Howell, Jr ..
2 15 0 Henry Clark
Abraham Chandler.
4 18
6
John Robinson ..
5
1
6
John Courter.
0 11 9
Nathaniel Ketcham
11
2
1
Peter Courter, Jr.
3
Oliver Heady ..
0
G
Hezekiah Schofield ..
6 4 6
Daniel Whitney 9
4
5
Samuel Lobdels
9 13 5
Samuel Vance
6 15 1 Ariantea Vandevoort.
4 10 0
* It is evident, too, that there are names here of those who lived beyond the present limits of Warwick.
Names.
Estimate of Property. £ s. d.
Names.
Estimate of Property .
Jonathan Knapp (War- wick)
Thomas Wisner.
5 0 1
Samuel Clintock
0 2
U
Jesse Finch
Daniel Burt, Sr.
21
0
G Jacob Bontar
0 19
6
Samnel Filsall.
7 18
6 Daniel Sayre.
- 10 9
John Edsall
2 17
5 John Vance ..
3 10
4
David McCamly.
8
3
=
Thomas Wiggioe.
6
0
Margaret Case ..
0)
9
G
James Armstrong
1 19 0
Elizabeth Owens
0
7
Lawrence Decker ..
0
3
Barnabas Monroe.
1
x
7 Garret Decker
0 0
6
Cato Dean.
3
3
3 William Patterson
0 13 0
George Dean
2
11
1 Frederick Shultz ..
0
Ilugh Lord ..
0
1
Brice Rickey ..
0 14 0
George Vance.
0
8
0
10
0
John Blaine
5 12 0
James Ellis
1 11 0
Jacob Wandell.
4
1
Thomas Welling.
24
0
John Simpson ..
3 3
4
Charles Beardsley ...
14 12
1
Samuel Simpson
1 10
0
Jonathan Lockwood.
0 14
9
John Sutton
4
19 11
Joseph Tompkins.
6
llenry Winfield.
3 10 10
Augustine Rogers.
5 19
5
Bill De Kay
1
6
0 Joho Bogart.
9 14 4
John Decker
6 Charles Wiggins.
0
6
4
William Blaine. 12 G
3 Jolın Price
0 6 0
The paper is indorsed :
" Within is a list of my assessment of all the iohabitants within my district.
"Given under my hand in the month of September in the year 1775. " JOHN HATHORN."+
The town of Warwick appears to include another of the assessment districts of Goshen Precinct, viz. : Distriet No. 5, John Wood, assessor. It is described by Mr. Nathaniel Vail, of Goshen, sustained by other authority, as comprising the territory in the vicinity of Wickham's Pond, including Bellvale Valley. The boundaries between this and the other Warwick dis- trict are not very clear from this testimony, as Bell- vale is thus mentioned in each ; but the Bellvale neighborhood was of considerable extent, and may have been divided by the line of the assessment dis- tricts. As already mentioned, there is a larger list of names for 1775 than might be thought correct for that early date, more than a century ago. But the popu- lation of Orange County was of considerable numbers previous to the Revolution, and this assessment-roll is of unquestioned authority :
District No. 5 .- JOHN WOOD, Assessor.
Nadies.
Estimate of Property.
Names.
Estimate of Property.
David Kerr
5 17
9
James Brown
0
John Duncan
5 18
0 Thomas Barr.
0
9
Robert Finn
S 15
7 Enos Silsbee.
3 12
6
Israel Sammous.
8
6
John Rickey
2 00
Lewis Sayre
1 10
3
Jonathan Rockwell
Peter Edsall
9
5
David Sanford
2
Jadies Benedict, Jr.
7
11
6
John Sanford.
4
William Clark
1
3
9
Peter Smith
0
8
2
8
Isaac Alyea
7
8
Ezra Sanford ..
3 13 3
Colvin Bradner
1 12
3
Joseph Patterson
3
3
12 6
5 10
Jobn Holbert
12
=
Anthony Brayman 5
Richard Masters
0 11
6
Daniel Benjamin
0 14 9 0
John Minthorn.
4
9
9
Abraham Vanduzer
0 18
Barnabas Horton, Sugar Loaf
3 4
0 Joseph Jewell.
1
9
€
Zavan Horton ..
0 19 G Wn1. Burdolf.
5
9
0
+ John Ilathorn was, at this time, captain of the Warwick company of militia. Ile subsequently became colonel of the Warwick regiment, and in thie capacity commanded in the battle of Minisiok. Further notice will be found in civil list, General Ilistory.
1
9
2
7 3 Jolin Bailey ...
5 9
11
Israel Wood
5
Paulus Hopper
2
Nathaniel Minthoro
Cornelius Voorhis.
Hezekiah Schofield, Jr. 1 11
Jacob Voorhis
0
6
£ s. d.
4 00 0
1 3 9 Abel Gale.
1 17 0
9 11 9 Anthony Yelverton.
0 13 6
Francis Baird ....
William Wisner. 3 12
6
Cornelius Bontar
0 18 9
Bourds Jacocks 9
3 Ephraim Bennet, Sr
0
4
6
Richard Edsall, Esq.
13 6
9
8
Peter Alyea ...
0 14 0
5
8
U
5
0
7
Nathaniel Finch
4 12 3 Jonathan Silsbee.
0
10 9
9 3
3
9
10 0 Hngh Fulton.
5
0
1
0 9
10
3 6
6
Anthony Clerk
Estimate
Property.
0
John Hathorn
8
567
WARWICK.
Names.
Estimate of
Names.
of
Property. £ s. d.
£ 8. d.
Abner Wood.
4
6
0
Jacobus Larue.
1 14 0
Jacobus Demarest.
5
2
0
Jacobus Burdolf
10 4
0
Jacobus Deniarest (2).
8
1
3
Eleanor Vandusen ..
0
2 0
Wm. Currey ..
7
0
Capt. Henry Wisner.
8 11
3 Joseph Correy
1
1
3
War. Wisner.
1
4
0 Benjamin Currey
1
16
9
Potter Fous.
0
1
6
3
1
6
John Feagles, Sr
2
7
6
Joel Cross
Matthew McConnell
2
4
0
3
3
Reuben Ilall
3
1
3
0
C
Andrew Miller.
6 12
0
David Jones
8
0
James Miller
4
7
Andrew Plantin
8 Mary Allison.
0
2
0
District No. 9 .- JOHN MCCAMLY, Assessor, September, 1775.
Estimate
Names.
Names.
Estimate of Property.
Joseph Totten.
3 8
3
James Benjamin, Jr. ....
5 2 7
John Poppino, Sr.
4
4
8
James Firmu
3 18 1
W'm. Carr, Jr.
0
9
6
Capt. John Wisner.
8 13 9
4 John Wisner, Jr.
8
6
1
W'm. Carr, Sr. 5 4
6 John Ellisou
4 16 0
David Armstrong ...
6 15
9 Wmn. Clark
2 10 10
W'al. Armstrong, Sr ..
8 10
8 John Simington.
2
1
0
5 14
0 James Benjamin, Sr.
5
1
3
4
0
Benjamin Thompson
3 7
90 6
John Sweagles
4
8
9 Rev. Amzi Lewis
4
3
Gerard Decker.
3 14
7 Richard Baylies ..
8 13 6
Joshua Wicks
2 11
3 Daniel Baylies
4
2
6 3
5
1
Phineas Tompkins.
0
3
James Arsbill.
6
Jolin Brown ..
(1 Richard Clark
0 16 6
James Mosier
2
8
3
George Thompson, Sr
0
6
0
Timothy Halstead
0
g
Dr. Nathaniel Elmer
8
2
6
John Rioan
0
1
John Borland.
0
6
John Munger.
C
Noah Holley, Jr.
2 13
Michael Daly
2 16
0 Josiah Holley, Sr
7 16 C
Henry Randall
7. 15
0 George Wood
4 12 5 16 0
Jonas Wood
3 13
1 IIenry Lyon ..
0
4 6
John Poppiao, Jr ..
IO
Thomas Osburn.
0 9 10
George Decker
0
2
3 Isaac Jennings,
5
8
Nathaniel Roe. Jr.
4
3
7 Jamies Mcwane, Jr.
6
Cornelius Demarest
4
8
Isaac Brooks ...
0 10 0
W'in. McKane.
) 14 9
John Sayre ....
10
1
3
Thomas Jackson.
10
9
10 Jonas Roe, Sr.
13 14 2°
Andrew Wood.
3
4 10
Capt. Nathaniel Roe.
6 13
0-
Dr. Daniel Wood
3 15
0 Jonas Roe, Jr.
2
0
9
Mary Wood
0
8
0
Adamı Wisner
0
4
1
Annanius Whiteman
4
4
6 Seeley Smith.
5
7
6
David Devore ..
1 6
John Konkling
0 14 5
Aaron Dock worth 7
1 10
2 Richard Bailey 0
Increase Holley ..
5 11 7
Richard Ketchudi. 3 9
Charles Knapp.
5
8
1
John Smith
1 14 G
Joshua Knapp
3 17
2 15 S
John Coldolan.
2 19
5 15 11
Zebulon Jayne,
5
2
5
Noah llolley
14 7
3 14 1
Moses Monroe
D
8
3
1 18
Christian Snedaker
0 10
G
2
6
Robert Longwell
2
6
Samuel Cornell
7
James Wright.
3
9
William Holly
12
8
3
Herman Rowley
0 18 6
Matthias Snook.
3 19
6 Oak. Bloom.
2
3
Daniel Burr.
2
CC Constant Leonard,
0
(
1
4 7
George Rankins
2 14 6
0
5
1
George Luckey
3 13
6
Henry Decker
0
Wessel Smith
2 15
8
William Tuthill.
0
0 Robert Boyd
0
1
William Green.
1
8 Isaac Dolson
4 1 11
George Bucanan ..
0 18 8
Benjamin Davis.
7 10 6
Noah Carpenter.
1 0
0
3
8
Samuel Brunson
18 10 S
Daniel Carn
2
3
William Ferguson.
0
5
John Martin
2
4
3
5
Jonathan Tompkins
0
7
Peter Post
1
0
Anthony Carr
Daniel Bailey
1
1
6
Jabez Lewis
0 15
0
Caleb Smith, Mount
3 3
2
John Stratton
2 13 3
Samuel Lewis,
4
6
Daniel Stratton.
1 12 1
William Ramsey.
1
6
8
Elias Smith.
4 3 10
John Bloom ..
3
7
5
Joseph Smith
1
1
0
William Lettamore 1 3
G
Sinon Ray.
6
1
Philip McConnelly. 0 2
Amos Bennett 4
2 David Utter.
0 0)
8
Abraham Cortright 1 17 10
Ebenezer Owen. 6 13 S
Thomas Farrier.
Ilenrich Johnston 1 15
Jolin Grey,
3 8 II | Andrew Johnston .. 0 2 5
" The above is a true list of the assessment of my District, takon this month of September, 1775. EBENEZER OWEN."
Names.
Estimate of
Property. € s. d.
£ s. d.
Sammel Knapp
7 14 7
Elias Taylor.
2 11 7
Daniel Holley
0
2
1 Jeremiah Curtis,
8 1
9
Lewis Eastwood,
5
3
John Kennedy.
9
3
Samuel Seeley.
0 11
6 John McCamly
4 13 2
JOHN MCCAMLY." " The above is a true list of the assessment of my district taken in the month of September, 1775.
We add a few notes upon several of the names mentioned in these rolls, but the subject grows so voluminous that we are obliged to abbreviate it for this volume. By giving the lists in full we furnish to all the descendants a clue by which they can trace their ancestors' families and their location to any ex- tent desired.
In 1746, Daniel Burt, the father of Hon. James Burt, came from Connecticut and located upon the farm owned in later years by Thomas and Edward L. Welling. There he remained in the depths of the forest for four years, when his relatives came from Connecticut, and after a long and tedious search found him buried in the wild woods. They assured him he could never get along in such a new country, and persuaded him to return with them, which he did. He sold out to Thomas Welling, the grand- father of Thomas and Edward L. Welling, and moved back to Connecticut. There he was not satis- fied to remain, returned in 1760, and made an effort to re-purchase his old farm of Mr. Welling; but in
1 0
1
Wol. Allison Crissey (?) ..
1
0)
0 Sammel Jayne ..
5 16
9
Abraham Dolkin
5 14
8 Timothy Clark
Isaac Dulsoo.
0 16
1 George Carr
Jolın Gardinier.
1
Samuel Wells.
6
9
1
Nicholas Dean.
5
5
1
James Forest.
2 0
John Hawes.
0 14
G
Nathaniel Suttoo.
0
6
7
John Ilopper.
4 6
G
Wm. Wickhanı, for >I
1
0
Peter Burdolf.
3 14
0
Capt. Horton's estate. 1
Peter Burris.
5 10 0
" The above is a true list of the District taken by die September, 1775. " JOHN WOOD."
Assessment District No. 8, of this same roll of 1775 (Ebenezer Owen, assessor), was evidently the southwestern, or ntore correctly, perhaps, tlie western portion of the present town of Warwick, the neighborhood of Mount Eve, Amity to Pine Island, and to the New Jersey line, consisting in all of quite a portion of the fertile 17,000-acre tract.
District No. 8 .- EBENEZER OWEN, Isse880".
Estimate of
Names.
1 10
0
Phehe Jennings.
0
9
0
6
0
Joha Wood.
6
3
Abel Scott
0
4
Jamies Howell
3
7
0
3
8
0
Jesse Owens ..
3
17
Stephen Lewis ...
8 15
6
Hugh Dobbin.
2
8
9
Obarliah Sayre ..
0 12 6
Jabez Finch
0
0
Thomas Eagles.
6 17
0 Jacobus Larue.
3 15
6
W'm. Carby.
0
6
2 Ilenry Burdolf. 0
6
Richard Haycock
0
2
0
Joshua Hallock G 10
7 3
Isaac Walker
1
2 17 0
Samuel Rayner
4 17
4
Edwin Newberry.
1
1 14
John Babcock
1 Wm. Wickham
18 12 1
Coonrad Gunter.
2 14
John Armstrong.
1 16
0
Juliana Smith, widow
0
2
6
Jacob, Feagles ..
18
John Newberry.
Property. £ s. d.
£ s. d.
Joel Miller.
9 3 John Poppiao (3d) 3
Elisha Doall
Anthony Swartwood
19
Win. Armstrong, Jr.
Samuel Burdolf.
- Burdolf.
0
Andrew Micks (?). 1 12 =
Capt. Daniel Dentoo and )
2 19
Daniel Van Horn. 2 18 G
Solomon Smith
16C 1
Timothy Beers
1 5
6 Isaac Wynins ..
5
0 James Williams
0
Joseph Nanney
8
Jacob Vanderroof.
Jolin Luckey
5 8
John Mclaughlin.
3
5
4
0
2
Samuel Burnett
2 17
5
Thomas Morgan,
9
IIngh Mcwhorter ..
2 15
9
Israel Smith
0 10
0
William McChier.
0 10
John Mc Whorter.
1
7
9
Jacob, Goble
2
5
3
1
Eave ...
G Margaret Armstrong
3
9
District No. 9 comprised evidently the southern portion of the present town of Goshen, the Florida neighborhood of Warwick, and southward to the vicinity of Mount Eve, where, as already shown, an- other district commenced. This district included an extensive portion of the valuable Drowned Lands, rich, fertile, and attractive to the early settlers. Ac- cording to this list seventy or more families were then living in this section. John McCamly was the as- sessor.
Estimate
Property.
Ilenry Burdolf.
1 12 9
9 2
Henry Ellet.
4
3
Moses Knapp
8
Abigail Burr.
5 David Rogers.
Property.
0
9
8
Peter Demarest
11
2 13
568
HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY, NEW YORK.
consequence of a disagreement about the price of a horse, which was to be a part of the consideration, the bargain fell through, and Burt purchased at Bell- vale, on Long-Ilouse Creek. This was a valuable property, as it contained a fine water-power, upon which he erected a flour- and saw-mill. The mill was overshot, there being 30 feet fall in 30 rods. Exten- sive milling and other mechanical works have con- tinued to be conducted there. This location Daniel Burt exchanged for a farm near the village of War- wick, the one now owned by his grandson, James Burt.
On the Welling farm there was an Indian settlement called Miscotucky. They had an orchard of apple- trees, some of which were standing in a meadow down to a comparatively modern period.
Hon. James Burt was born at Bellvale, Oct. 25, 1760, the youngest of ten children. The various and important offices held by him from time to time, through the course of a long life, are evidence of the high esteem in which he was held by his intelligent fellow-citizens. He was a member of the Assembly several years, a member of the State Senate for twelve, and three times an elector of President and Vice- President .*
During the Revolutionary war Mr. Burt, though young at its commencement, was a very active Whig, and vigilant in defending his neighborhood against the secret and open attacks of the Tories. We relate one instance among many others. A man by the name of Johnston, who had been an English sea-cap- tain, lived in a stone house in the village of Warwick. The house then belonged to Mr. William Wisner. Johnston was a silversmith and followed that business at the time. Supposing him in possession of money and other valuable property, his house was attacked one rainy night by eleven Tories, some of whom be- longed in that vicinity. Two sisters and two negro boys were living with him at the time. The robbers broke into the house, and Johnston, while defending himself most manfully, received a cut in the shoulder from a sword, which wholly disabled him. One of the negro boys and a Mr. Coe had been out eeling that night, and just at this time were returning home. As they approached the house, the Tories saw them, and thinking the settlers were coming upon them, de- camped, taking with them all the valuables of the house, and among them a very valuable sword. At this time young Burt was a lieutenant in a military company commanded by Capt. Minthorn, and his brother, Daniel Burt, Jr., came over from the village to inform him of the affair, and to direct him to warn out his company forthwith to go in pursuit of the robbers. It was dark, and rained in torrents. He started to go as far as Bellvale, and while going through the woods on the side of the hill in front of his house he heard three distinct snapping of guns.
He drew up his musket to fire, though he saw no one; but instantly thinking if he did he might be seen by the tlash of his own gun and be shot down by the robbers, refrained and passed on. Having warned out his neighbors Joshua Carpenter, Nathaniel Ketchanı, Daniel Jayne, Philip, Samuel, and Azariah Ketcham, Benjamin Whitney, and a few others, they started in pursuit. In the morning they found some Continen- tal troops down in the mountains, who went with them. The company took down one side of the moun- tain and the soldiers the other, who came suddenly upon the robbers while together eating in the woods, fired upon them and killed five of the eleven. Here they found many of the stolen articles and Johnston's sword. The six fled, but one of them was shot through the leg, taken, and put in jail. The five con- tinned to flee down towards New Jersey, hotly pur- sued by all, who turned out to help capture the Tory robbers. Three of the five were killed during the chase, and two only of the eleven thus far escaped. The two found their way to Hackensack, and there they stole a pair of horses, were pursued again, and one was shot and killed, the other wounded.
While young Burt was in pursuit of the robbers he told his company that on the night he started to warn them out he heard three distinet snaps of guns in the woods near his house, but they laughed at him and said that he was afraid and imagined that the robbers were about to shoot him, and made themselves quite merry at his expense. When they returned, it was thought advisable to search the woods in question, when, to the great satisfaction of Sergt. Burt, they found at the place described by him that the robbers had been there sitting on a log, and left there many small articles which they had stolen from Johnston, and with which they did not wish to be encumbered. The guns of the robbers did not go off in consequence of the priming having been dampened by the'rain, as was supposed.
During the war Burt served under Col. Hathorn, who commanded at the battle of Minisink, and was stationed at Fishkill when the war closed. On re- turning home the troops had to cross the river in an old Continental scow. It was crowded with horses, troopers, and soldiers. Before they got half over, she leaked so fast that they had to bail her out with their hats to keep her from sinking. They had but one oar, and the water being quite rough, they made out to get her ashore at New Windsor.
Extract from family record of Daniel Burt, giving his children : Phebe, born July 15, 1738, married Daniel Lobdell; Daniel, born Oct. 20, 1740, married Martha Bradner; Martha, born April 3, 1743, mar- ried Daniel Whitney; Hannah, born May 24, 1745, married James Benjamin ; Ruth, born July 3, 1747, married Edy Newbury ; Lydia, born May 1, 1750, married Daniel Sayer; Sarah, born Dec. 15, 1752, married Joshua Carpenter; Esther, born May 17, 1755, married Benjamin Coleman; Ann, born Jan.
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27, 1758, married Gideon Scott ; James, born Oet. 25, 1760, married Abigail Coe.
Mrs. Daniel Burt died Jan. 10, 1810, aged ninety- four years. At her death she had several hundred descendants.
The farm owned by Daniel Finch, and afterwards by Capt. John Jayne, situate on Long Ridge, on the road from Florida to Warwick, on the western part of the Van Horne tract, was located before 1762, and that road was then a public highway. Francis Arm- strong and Joseph Bailey resided in that vicinity.
When Daniel Burt returned to the county in 1760, Daniel Whitney came with him, married his sister and located .* An individual by the name of David Benjamin was located upon the side of the mountain on the land afterwards owned by James Burt.
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Benjamin Burt, a brother of Daniel, came into the town about that time, and settled on the farm after- wards owned by Belden Burt.
John Vanee was early in the town, and lived near Judge Wheeler, on the farm subsequently owned by John P'elton.
Mr. David McCamley, the ancestor of those of that name, settled about 1760, and built the mill James Wheeler owned in later years.
Philip Keteham located about half-way between Warwick and Bellvale.
Jonathan Knapp settled on the farm owned in modern times by the MeGee family.
John and William Blain purchased the lands pos- sessed in later years by Samuel Blain, Robert and Henry Pelton.
Thomas DeKay was an early settler, and Maj. J. Wheeler and Joel Wood afterwards occupied the same property, as already noted.
Charles Beardsley lived in the village of Warwick, and owned the lands now covered by the village.
The first settlers in the present village of Warwick were Daniel Burt, Jr., in 1765, Franeis Baird, aud William Wisner, who lived where the Messrs. Well- ing afterwards kept a public inn.
The family of Jeffrey Wisner, Esq., were early set- tlers in this and in the town of Wallkill. They were connected by marriage with the old family of Phif- lips, and contributed their part in various ways to clear up the country and sustain her during the war of the Revolution. The members of this family were strong-minded, sensible, and enterprising, and well caleulated to settle a new country and infuse strength and energy into its early institutions.
The Jeffrey Wisner place is very elevated on the east side and almost upon the crown of a long ridge which runs north and south, and overlooks all the eastern part of the town. The village of Warwick, with its rolling glades clad in deepest verdure, and the Wawayanda gracefully sweeping her course to the south, lie directly at its feet. In the distance
are seen the Warwick Mountains, encircling the south- eastern portion of the town, and, as it were, barring out all approach to New Jersey ; and to diversify the beautiful prospect, Sugar-Loaf Mountain at the north lifts up her forest-erowned head and almost shakes her verdant loeks. The spot looks as if it had been tenanted for ages, and has the calm and stately ap- pearance of dignity and wealth.
William Armstrong was an early settler. The family is Scotch, though it came here, like many of the early settlers, from Ireland, he being one of the company of Clinton immigrants in 1729, though then a minor. He had several children, among whom were Robert, William, John, Archibald, Eliz- abeth Borland, and Polly Jackson. He settled very early in this town, so that his children were princi- pally grown up before the Revolution. The family tradition is that his wife was a descendant of Bishop Lattimer.
Robert Armstrong, his son, was born 1754, and married Rachel Smith, born 1768. Their children were Julia, born Aug. 1, 1788, and married John Roe ; Jasper, born April 20, 1790, and married Sarah Coe ; Robert G., born July 18, 1793, and married Sarah A. L. Lewis; George W., born March 7, 1796, and mar- ried Fanny Wheeler ; Maria, born Sept. 18, 1798, not married ; Harriet, born July 12, 1801, and married John Smith and Calvin Sawyer; John C., born April 15, 1803, never married ; Rachel, born July 15, 1805, and married Poladore Seward; and Sally S., who married Ira Brown. His biography is contained in the following notice of his death published at the time. It will be seen that he was one of the first members of Assembly from old Orange County after the Revolution, and we have been told that he did not know that he was running for office or was even a candidate till he went to the polls. People are not so ignorant of their worth and pretensions at this day. At the battle of Minisink he acted as aid to Gen. Hathorn, who commanded.
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