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WAWAYANDA.
1. SITUATION, BOUNDARIES, AREA, TITLE,
Wind And* is an interior town, lying in the west - orn part of the county. Its outline is something of an irregular triangle, and, like that of other towns in the vicinity, difficult to be accurately stated by the cardinal points of the compass. It is bounded north by Mount Hope and Wallkill, east by Goshen, south by Warwick and Minisink, west by Minisink and Greenville. The area of the town, as stated in the last supervisors' report, is 19,982 acres. The total as- sessed valuation of the town was $11,650, and the tax collected on that basis 20166.70. The territory of the town is a part of the Wawayanda Patent, and individual titles should be capable of being traced back to the original grant.
II. NATURAL FEATURES.
The town is an irregular triangle, with the north line constituting the base. The Wallkill forms the southeast boundary, and Rutger's Creek the south- west, except for the northwest part, where the terri- tory of the town extends beyond the creek. The sur- face of the town is rolling, and it is mostly drained by streams flowing south and southwesterly to Runt- ger's Creek, or east and southeast to the Wallkill. Various excellent water-privileges exist upon these streams, some of which were brought into me at an carly day, as well as in later years.
In the southeast there is a range of hills nearly parallel to the Wallkill River, and there are other high lands in the northwest. The highest hill is in the northwest part, and bears the name of logre, from Joghem, who is said to have been the last Indian in this section of the country, one of the grantors of the lands, and whose cabin stood on the south side of the hill. The Drowned Lands occupy quite a portion of the southeast part of the town, on the angle between the Wallkill and Rutger's Creek. A large portion of them have been reclaimed.
Round Fond is a beautiful sheet of water situated in the south part of the town. Its name is emphat- ically correct. It is about one mile in circumference. very clear and deep. It has no visible ontlet.
III .- EARLY SETTLEMENT.
It is not perhaps easy to determine the first settler within the limits of this town.
As early as 1738 the population of Goshen Precinct was 1017. This would probably equal only about. 160 or 170 families. This was for the whole territory from the Hudson to the Shawangunk Mountains, and beyond in the lower neighborhood of Deerpark. But there is a statement of the population of Mini-ink of the same dato, giving the total as 339. or about 60 families, so that perhaps the "lower neighborhood" was not included in the statement for Goshen.
It is probable that at the date above mentioned (1738) the population was in the vicinity of Port ,Jer- vis, Goshen, along the Hudson, and a few near the New Jersey line, in the vicinity of what is now known as I'nionville.
It is safe to date the general settlement of Wawa- vanda as during the Revolution or at its close, though a few families were on this territory carlier.
The following notices of various families comprise about all the material respecting carly settlement which can now he obtained from books or from the recollection of the older people now living as to the traditions related to them by their fathers. The generation that opened up these forests for culti- vation has passed away, and the historian can no longer obtain his facts from " first hands," but must cull them from other sources, either of record or of tradition.
In further showing the names of the families ro- siding in what is now the town of Wawayanda just before the Revolutionary war, we are fortunately able to give the assessment-roll of this section, made out for district No. 10 in the old precinct of Gioshen, the last one, probably, made under provincial authority,- September, 1775. Distriet No. 10, with James Little assessor, undoubtedly comprised most of the town of Wawayanda, perhaps extending eastward across the Wallkill, and including a portion of the present ter- ritory of Goshen, also extending westward to include any settlers in the north or northeast portions of Greenville. It is true there was another district (No. 6), of which Joshua Davis was the assessor, but it ix evident that the assessor did not reside in his own distriet in every instance. The name of Joshua Davis is found in the roll of No. 10. A comparison of the names with those of other records shows that Joshua Davis' district was mostly the present town of Mini- sink, and there we have given No. 6. District No. 10 was the rich Dolsentown neighborhood, with con- siderable territory added, as shown above.
" For an explanation of the meaning of the name, xee general chapter on Geographical Nomenclature.
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John Hallock, ancestor of families of that name in this section of country, came from England before the Revolutionary war and settled at Mattatuck, 12. 1. At the commencement of the war he was doing mili- fary duty on the island, and left it when it was esp- tured by the English. He then removed to Oxford, in Orange County, and was in the military service some time in the Highlands. His brother Daniel was acting as his substitute at the capture of Fort Mont- gomery in 1777, and narrowly escaped being taken prisoner. In 178% be purchased 200 acres of land just south of the present village of Ridgebury. The land extended west, and included the site of what has been known as Brookfield. He gave the lot upon which the Old-School Baptist church of that place was erected. It is said that when he built his house, finding himself short of nails he traded off' a new hat for one of less value, and with the difference was able to buy the nails needed.
John Hallock, Jr., son of John ( 1), was a man of ability, and very quick-witted, with a fond of perpet- ual good humor. These qualities brought him before the public, and he was elected to offices of various grades in the old town of Minisink before the division, -justice of the peace, town clerk, supervisor, twice a member of the Legislature, and also a member of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses. His former residence is the place in late years of Randall Stevens, of Ridgebury.
His son, Dr. Dewitt C. Hallock, inherited a large share of his father's talents. He was town clerk of
Minisink for two or three years, and after the forma- tion of Wawayanda was supervisor of this town for 1852 and 1858. He was a good surveyor, and ladd an extensive medical practice. He was also noted for extraordinary powers as a violinist, exceeding, it was Haimed, any player in the State.
Rev. Richard Denton was born in Yorkshire, Eng- land, in 1586 ; graduated at Cambridge, 1623, and set- Hled as minister of Coley Chapel, in Halifax, England ; but in consequence of the restrictions placed upon the independents and non-conformants, emigrated to Bos- I'm with Governor Winthrop in 1630. He preached in Watertown, Mass., and subsequently at Wothers- fell and Stamford, Conn. In 1644 he emigrated with a portion of his congregation and commenced the sol- tlement of Hempstead, 1. 1 .; returned to England, and died in 1662, aged seventy-six years, Ilis sons were Richard, Sammel, Daniel, Nathaniel, and John. Nathaniel and Daniel removed to Jamaican in 1056, and were instrumental in settling the place. Daniel in 1670 published the first history of the colony of New York, John removed to Orange County, and is the immediate ancestor of those of that name here, James, his sont, had four sons,-Amos, John, William, and Thomas. William and John settled in Orange County, but William returned to Long Island, Hear Benver Pond, and died there. John located on the old Carpenter farm in the village of Gioshen, Ile had three wives and fourteen children. His first wife was lane Fisher, of Long Island ; the second, Eliza- beth Wisner, daughter of Henry Wisner, Esq .; the third. Mary Gale, daughter of Hezekiah Gale, who lived near what is now called Lagrange.
One of the daughters of Thomas married Jason Wilkin, who resided at the place last named. Cath- aring, a daughter of Samuel, of Long Island, married Jacob Mills, Esq., of Wallkill, and had twelve chil- dren, one of whom, William Wickham Mills, married the only daughter of Wickham Denton, of Long Island.
Mr. Richard Carpenter was an early settler at this location, and owned 100 acres. He lived in a log cabin on the hill, made potash, and farmed it a little. After him the farm was owned by Elisha Eldridge, from New England, who was the first man who kept a store and set up a tavern at the place. This was about the commencement of the Revolution.
Before the French and Indian war, in 1756, Isane Polsen came from Fishkill, Duchess Co., and settled there, at what has long been known as Polsentown. He purchased 700 acres, which was afterwards owned by Theophilus Dolsen, James Post, James Aldridge, and Mr. Swezey. Delsen was a millwright, and mar- ried Polly Huzzy, of an English family in New Jersey, and died in 1795. His children were James and Isane ; James married Phobe Mecker. Their children were James, Asa, Samuel, Polly, and Abby,-all of whom are dead but Samuel, who is eighty-two years of age. Isane never married. This family is Dutch, and very
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old in the State. There is a family tradition that the first male ehild born in New Amsterdam (New York) was a Dolsen.
On the farm of Asa Dolsen, the grandfather of Sam- nel, there was a block-house, erected as a protection against the Indians in the French war of 1756. Dol- sen lived first in a log house, loop-holed for musketry, and afterwards and before the war built a stone house, into which the inhabitants used to flee for safety as well as into the block-house.
Daniel Cooley settled on 100 acres adjoining Isaac Dolsen at about the same time Dolsen located.
David Cooley also located on 200 acres in the vicin- ity about the same time. During the French war the Indians came and killed a man in Dolsen's meadow by the name of Owens, and he then removed to Go- shen, where he stayed till the war was over. The Indians did not come in great numbers to this settle- ment, but only a few at a time, who secreted them- selves in the woods of the neighborhood, and as opportunity served sallied out to rob and to murder. On one occasion three of them chased a man, who ran and erept under the weeds and brush at the root of a tree which had been blown down; the Indians eame, stood upon the tree, looked all around, yelling most savagely, but fortunately did not find him. In old times it was customary to build ovens to bake in in the vicinity of the house, and at the time we speak of a woman in the family of Mr. Cooley was engaged in baking, when some Indians passing at the time shot her while going from the oven to the house. On the farm of Mr. Samuel Dolsen there was an Indian settlement in the meadow near his residence, and their burying-ground was on the dry land in the vicinity. The graves were shallow : a plow passing over them would tear up their bones. At the settle- ment of the place the Indians had an apple-orchard, one of the trees of which is still standing, and bears a large sour apple.
Isaac Finch located 100 aeres in this vicinity. Monhagan Creek ran through it, and he built the first flour- and saw-mill that were erected at the set- tlement. Corwin's factory is on this stream, and it enters the Wallkill below George Phillips'.
Just before the Revolution, about 1773, Gilbert Walsworth located a tract of land at Grahamsville when there was not a log house from Shawangunk Mountain to Dolsentown. Abraham Harden, Richard Jones, and Henry Devoe were also early settlers. Harden married a Dolsen. The Grahams, from whom the place takes its name, came in afterwards. The family is Irish, and the individuals of the name residing there industrious men and capital farmers.
Daniel, born March 21, 1767 ; Samuel, born June 2, 1769; Phineas, born July 5, 1771 ; Sarah, born April 11, 1773; Jane, born Dec. 23, 1775.
William Fullerton, Jr., died Feb. 21, 1817, aged fifty-one years. ITis children were William, Daniel, Stephen W., and Elizabeth. Stephen W. Fullerton married Esther Stephens, daughter of Holloway Stephens. Their children were Daniel. Elizabeth, William, Mary, Holloway S., Stephen W., Peter P., Benjamin S., John H., Elsay T., Esther I., and Francis E. William and Stephen W. are lawyers in New York.
Mary Whittaker, the wife of William Fullerton, Jr., as previously remarked, was born April 20, 1766, and died about 1844 at an advanced age. She was the daughter of Benjamin Whittaker, who lived on > the farm subsequently owned by Roswell Mead, Esq. He removed to Susquehanna two or three years be- fore Wyoming was taken by the Indians in 1778. At that time Mary was about twelve years old. Be- fore the attack, the settlers went into the fort which had been erected there. The occupants could not hold it against the assault, and agreed to surrender under the promise of being protected and saved. No sooner had the Indians entered than they commenced a general massacre, and very few escaped. Mary and her father were in the fort, and both were saved. Brant took her by the hair of the head and held her up by one hand and painted her face with red paint with the other, and then let her go, telling her "that was the mark of safety." When the fort was sur- rendered the Indians flocked in, the settlers laid down their arms, and the women and children fled and huddled themselves into one corner in expecta- tion of instant death. John Finch, a little boy, the son of John Finch, of stouter heart than some others, laughed at the odd and grotesque appearance of the Indians, and one raised his tomahawk to strike him down. Brant saw the motion of the Indian, seized and ordered him not to injure the boy. Mr. Whit- taker returned back to Minisink, and settled on the farm afterwards owned by Abraham Bennett, but after peace was established removed and located at the Cookhonse, on the Delaware. Mary in the mean time married Mr. Fullerton and remained in the town.
It would seem that some escaped the Indian mas- saere at Wyoming to encounter the same danger from the same quarter at Minisink the ensning year. When the Indians invaded Minisink in 1779 under Brant they scoured the settlement, destroyed all the property of a movable character, burnt the houses, and mnr- dered all who came in their way. Among others they visited the premises of Mr. Whittaker, and the in- an old potato-hole in which there was some straw covered with boards. The Indians searching around came and stood on the boards and so near her that she could have touched their feet with her hand, but
Stephen W. Fullerton was the son of William Ful- ' mates fled elsewhere for safety. Mary hid herself in lerton and Mary Whittaker. The father of William was also William, who was the first settler of the name in the town. He came from Dublin, Ireland, and died in 1786. He married Sarah Cooley, and their children were William, born March 3, 1765; | they did not suspect her or any one to be hid there,
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and she escaped. Mary at all times in after-life en- tertained the most cordial hatred for the Indians, and could not, down to her death, converse about them without being greatly excited. She had seen what they achieved at Wyoming and Minisink, and the horrid spectacles were deeply engraven upon her young and sensitive mind, so that no lapse of time could efface them.
Benjamin Dunning came to Ridgebury in 1809 from Wallkill, where he was born. He is the son of John Dunning, and the grandson of Jacob, one of the first settlers in the town of Goshen, in west division. The family is English. Early settlers at and near this locality were Benjamin Howell, James Hulse, John Dunken, Benjamin Smith, Isaac Decker, Jona- than Bailey, Richard Hulse, John Hallock, Sr., Na- thaniel Bailey, Israel Hallock, Moses Overton, Noyes Wickham, Richard Ellison, and Charles Durling. John Dunkeu was killed at the battle of Minisink.
William Stickney was the earliest known ancestor of the family in this country. He settled at Rowley, Mass., about 1639.
One of the name held a colonel's commission in the army of the Revolution, and was at the.battle of Bennington, under Gen. Stark.
A descendant, Eliphalet Stickney (son of Dr. James Stickney, of Newburgh), was an early resident of Wawayanda. He married a daughter of John How-
ell, Sr. They had eight children,-Erastus, Charles, , tled there temporarily. The deed to the farm which
John, Benjamin, William, Julia, Harriet, and Char- lotte. Erastus married a daughter of Prentice Allyn, of Sullivan County. He served in various civil offices in the town of Minisink before its division, and was a member of the Assembly of 1857. He resides at Slate IIill. One brother, B. M. Stickney, resides in Sodus, Wayne Co., N. Y.
Charles E. Stickney, of Slate Hill, author of a his- tory of the Minisink region, is a son of Erastus. To | cultivated fields, hill-slopes and valleys, with the vil- him we are indebted for many valuable suggestions in the preparation of the chapters upon several of the towns of the county, and considerable material has been drawn from his interesting work.
Daniel Dunning was living near Ridgebury about 1790,-a descendant, it is presumed, of Benjamin Dunning. Richard Ellison lived on the place now owned by William D. Hunt.
Roswell Mead removed to this town from New England. He purchased the Festus A. Webb farm, of which Richard Wood had been an earlier owner. Mr. Mead married a daughter of Reuben Cash, and left six children. He beld the office of supervisor and various other town offices in the old town of Minisink, and was a member of the New York Legis- lature in 1842.
Two sons are well-known citizens of later times,- William H. and Renben C.
vicinity was a dense forest, and the only road from there to Ridgebury was a narrow path among the brush. He removed to near Ridgebury, and for a time kept a public-house on the premises owned in Jate years by Gilbert H. Budd. In 1800 he resided on the farm that descended to his son, Thomas T. Durland. Other sons were Daniel Durland and Stewart T. Durland, of Greenville, and Addison Dur- land, of Minisink.
Phineas Howell came from Suffolk Co., L. I., and settled at Brookfield in 1778. He died in 1814, and was buried in the old Baptist graveyard adjoining his farm.
Richard Wood having settled in the neighborhood about the same time, both built saw-mills upon the stream from which the village takes its name.
Peter Holbert, Sr., is mentioned as a prominent citizen in early records. Ile was a member of the New York Legislature in 1812. His son, Peter Hol- ·bert, Jr., married a daughter of William Robertson.
Jonathan Bailey, who was born June 28, 1745, at Southold, L. I., came to Orange County during the Revolutionary war. He had been a soldier during the earlier years of the war. He was with Gen. Washington at the battle of Long Island, retreated with him across the river, and was probably at the battle of White Plains.
When his time was out he came to Goshen and set-
he bought at Ridgebury bears date March 4, 1777. It was undoubtedly about that date that he settled there. His wife was Keturah Dunning, a widow. Her maiden name is supposed to have been Jackson. The old homestead has remained in the family from that time to the present, and is now the residence of Benjamin F. Bailey, a grandson of the pioneer. It is a beautiful situation, overlooking a wide extent of lage of Middletown in the distance,-a far different view from that which met the pioneer when he first settled here, and when there was only one house on the road between Denton and Ridgebury.
The children of Jonathan Bailey were an only son, Jonathan Bailey, Jr., born Ang. 29, 1784, and three daughters,-Mrs. Braddock Decker, Mrs. Samuel Par- rott, and Mrs. Nathan Parrott.
Jonathan Bailey, Jr., was a man of prominence, a major in the militia during the war of 1812-15, sta- tioned for a time under Gen. Belknap, of Newburgh, at Harlem Heights, and one of the committee who gathered up the remains upon the battle-field of Min- isink and brought them to Goshen for interment. The children of Jonathan Bailey, Jr., were Benjamin F. Bailey, now residing upon the old homestead, and three daughters, - Mrs. Gilbert F. Monden, Mrs. Richard A. Elmer, and Mrs. James T. W. Coulter.
Charles Durland emigrated to this town some time | Jonathan Bailey, the pioneer, had one brother, Na- thaniel, who also came to Orange County about the previous to 1800. He first settled near Bushville, in the present town of Greenville, when the whole | same time, and also settled in what is now Wawa-
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yanda. His homestead was the place now owned by Nathaniel Bailey. Among his children, well known to the elder citizens of this neighborhood, were Na- thaniel, Benjamin, Columbus, Barcas, and Wick- ham W.
Benjamin F. Bailey had excellent opportunities of knowing the particulars of the battle of Minisink. His father was thirty years of age at the death of the grandfather (Feb. 17, 1814), and of course had heard the matter repeatedly talked over. Benjamin F. Bailey himself was born March 15, 1814, and remem- bers clearly the family traditions of his boyhood.
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Samuel Tooker was an early surveyor in this section of country. He married a daughter of James Finch, Sr., of Mount Hope. He died in 1811. His son, Charles Tooker, settled near Brookfield, and left two sons, James H. Tooker and Samuel S. Tooker. A daughter of Samuel Tooker married James F. Vail. Mr. Tooker was not only a surveyor, but a teacher, and taught for several years in New Windsor, Go- shen, and elsewhere. His homestead in Wawayanda was the present McBride place, upon which he located about 1790.
Samuel Reed, Sr., was in the town at an early date. His widow lived to an advanced age, dying about 1867. She distinctly remembered seeing the people go to the Minisink battle in 1779. Three of her neighbors met under an apple-tree for that purpose, and though very small she recalled the parting scene very plainly. Two of the three perished in the battle.
Joshua Davis, Sr., was an early settler, having located some time previous to 1775 on the farm owned in later years by Col. William C. Carpenter, about a mile and a half south of Brookfield. The stone dwelling-house on this place was built about 1787. Mr. Davis was the driver of the first vehicle on wheels that ever passed over the road from Goshen through Ridgebury. This was a rude two-wheeled ox-cart, and was no doubt considered a great innova- tion by the few settlers in these parts, the road then being a mere path. He left four daughters and two sons, Joshua and James. One of the daughters mar- ried Richard Ferguson, whose father was an early settler of this section, and built the mills at Gardner- ville subsequently owned by C. W. Fowler. The old homestead with its venerable stone house is now owned by James Smith. The mason-work upon the house was done by Charles Durland, father of Thos. T. Durland of the present time.
Noyes Wickham was an early settler near Ridge- bury, at least he was residing there in 1800. He was probably connected to the Wickham families farther east in this county.
Reuben Cash was an early pioneer in this section, and frequently mentioned in the old annals. He was , a survivor of the Wyoming massacre of 1778. He eseaped with his mother, she leading him by the hand through the wilderness to Minisink. He married a
daughter of John Howell, Sr., and had nine children. One of his daughters married Roswell Mead; another, Samuel Vail, Sr .; a third, John E. S. Gardner; a fourth, Parmenas Horton. The old homestead de- scended to the son, Meritt H. Cash. He was a noted physician, and held many civil offices in the old town of Minisink. (Ante, p. 170.)
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