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Bowles, William J., colored ; enl. 1804.
Balf, William C., 98th Regt .; enl. 1864; also in 3d Regt., Co. B; enl. May 14, 1861. Baird, Ira H., enl. Aug. 1864.
Chambers, John, Co. G, 124th Regt .; enl. Aug. 17, 1862; died April 23, 1864.
Cooper, Chas. G., Co. G, 124th Regt .; en1. Aug. 18, 1862 ; Third Corpe; pro. to Vet. Res. Corps.
Cressy, Chas. T., lieut. Co. A, 124th Regt .; enl. Ang. 18, 1862; died of dis- ease June 14, 1864.
Coleman, George W., 124th Regt .; enl. Aug. 23, 1862 ; killed at Chancel- lorsville.
Caldwell, William, 2d Cav. ; enl. Ang. 28, 1862; discharged.
Carr, Solomon, 124th Regt .; enl. Sept. 2, 1862. Carroll, Denmis, 168th Regt .; enl. Oct. 7, 1862.
Carr, David, 166th Regt .; enl. Oct. 7, 1862.
Cole, Joel, 166th Regt .; enl. Oct. 7, 1862. Conkling, Peter R., 166th Regt .; enl. Oct. 7, 1862. Conkling, Martin C., 166th Regt. ; enl. Oct. 7, 1862. Coleman, George S., 166th Regt .; en1. Oct. 7, 1862. Cloyd, James C., 87th Regt .; wounded at Fair Oaks; discharged. Cloyd, David C., lieut. 87th Regt .; died at New Windsor.
Cypher, Ilenry L., 56th Regt .; enl. October, 1861.
Cook, Francis, 168th Regt. Curtis, Robert, 168th Regt. Craig, Robert C., 168th Regt. Courter, David L., 87thi Regt .; enl. October, 1861. Cary, Josephi N., 124th Regt .; enl. 1864. Carey, William, 124th Regt .; enl. 1864. Coukling, Edward, 15th Art .; enl. 1864. Conkling, James, 15th Art .; enl. Jan. 19, 1864.
Cameron, Wm. Il., 2d Bat .; enl. Jan. 18, 1864. Cherry, Sylvanus P'., enl. Jan. 18, 1864. Clearwater, Wru. B., enl. Jan. 18, 1864. Crouse, Wm. II., 7th Bat .; enl. Jan. 18, 1864.
DeGroat, Nelson, 124tl: Regt .; enl. Ang. 22, 1862; died at New Windsor while on furlough.
DeGroat, Iliram W., 124th Regt. ; enl. Ang. 31, 1862; trans. to 93d. Davy, Jolin James, 2d Cav .; enl. Aug. 26, 1862. Davy, George W., 2d Cav .; enl. Aug. 29, 1862. Dickson, Francis, Co. I, 124th Regt. ; enl. Sept. 5, 1862; trans. to 93d. Downing, Charlee, Co. E, 124th Regt. ; enl. Sept. 2, 1862 ; served full term. Davis, Charles, 2d Cav .; enl. Oct. 7, 1862. Dougherty, Robert, 2d Cav .; enl. Oct. 6, 1862. Dourn, James, 2d Cav .; enl. Oct. 13, 1862. Duzenberry, Zenophen, 124th Regt .; enl. Ang. 22, 1×62. Dutcher, Timothy, Mozart. Doitline, Jolin, 98th Regt .; enl. 1864; also in 168th, 1862. Doty, Ezra, 98th Regt .; enl. 1864. Diamond, Chas., 20th Cav .; enl. 1864. Derwin. Joseph S., 20th Cav. enl. 1864. Decker, Garret, 124th Regt .; enl. 1864. Davis, John, enl. Oct. 25, 1861.
Edwards, Charles, Co. 1, 124th Regt .; enl. Aug. 19, 1862; killed at Gettys- burg.
Ensign, Charles A., Co. I, 124th Regt ; enl. Aug. 19, 1862.
Ellis, A. Van Horne, col., 124th Regt .; ent. Aug. 1862; also iu 71-t Regt., 1861 ; killed at Gettysburg. Ellsworth, Frank, 7th Bat .; en1. 1804. Ennis, Michael, 7th Art .; enl. 1864.
Fitzgibbons, Patrick, 7th Art .; enl. Sept. 3, 1864.
Fuller. Alex. D., 7th Art .; enl. Sept. 3, 1864.
Foot, Horatio, 47th Mass. Regt.
Faulkner, Matthew, 15th Art .; enl. Jun. 18, 1864.
Fuller, Alex. D., 63d Inf .; enl. 1864 ; also in 7th Bat., 1861.
Fairchild, Andrew, 63d Inf .: enl. 1864.
Frohlick, Rudolph, enl. 1864.
Fuller, Charles, enl. 1864.
Gardner, Daniel S., Co. C, 124th Regt. ; enl. Aug. 20, 1862; wounded May 3, 1863, and in the hospital until December ; served full term. Glen, Edward, 124th Regt .; enl. Sept. 2, 1862.
Gerow, Charles N., 2d Cav .; eul. Ang. 29, 1862.
Garrison, John W., 166th Regt .; enl. Oct. 14, 1862.
Garrison, David, 166th Regt .; enl. Oct. 14, 1862.
Goetchins, Isaac N., Co. A, 124th ; wounded slightly at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863.
Graham, William, 2d Cavalry.
Gage, Eli, Co. K, 87th Regt .; enl. Oct. 3, 1861.
Greely, Cyrus D., 7th Bat .; enl. 1864. Humphries, George Il., enl. 1864.
Humphries, Joseph, 63d Regt .; enl. 1864.
Iliggins, Benjamin F., 21 C'av .; enl. Sept. 9. 1862.
Hider, William H., 2d Cav .; eul. Sept. 24, 1862.
Hovercamp, Jacob, 166th Regt .; enl. Oct. 14, 1862.
Harris, George, 2d Cav .; enl. 1864.
Hughs, John H., 56th Regt. ; enl. 1864.
Howe, Ira F., enl. 1864.
Howard, James E., 7th Bat. ; en1. 1864.
Jennings, Daniel C., 124th Regt. ; enl. Ang. 14, 1862.
Jennings, Thomas, 166th Regt .; enl. Oct. 14, 1862.
Jones, William, 2d Cav .; enl. Oct. 20, 1862.
Jolinson, George B., 2d Art .; enl. 1864.
Johnson, Thomas, enl. 1864.
King, William H., 2d Cav. ; enl. Sept. 11, 1862.
Kelly, Nathaniel, 2d Cav .; enl. Sept. 24, 1862.
Kirk, Charles H., 168th Regt.
Kirk, David, 168th Regt.
Krampf, Henry, 15th Art .; enl. 1864.
Kane, Thomas D., 56th Regt. ; enl. 1864.
Kemp, James II., 7th Art. ; enl. Jan. 16, 1864 ; must. ont July 31, 1865.
Kirkwood, Andrew, 6th Cav .; enl. Jan. 16, 1864.
Kelly, Marcus, Col'd; enl. Jan. 16, 1864.
Leahy, Patrick, 168th Regt .; eul. Oct. 23, 1862.
Latham, Samuel D., 124th Regt .; enl. Aug. 18, 1862.
La Fountain, John, 2d Cav .; enl. Aug. 14, 1862.
Leut, Ilenry, 56th Regt .; enl. 1861.
Lent, James, 56th Regt. ; enl. 1861.
Lynch, William, 15th Cav .; enl. 1864.
Maxwell, Robert, 2d Cav.
Morgan, George, 124th Regt .; enl. Sept. 2, 1862.
Mabie, Jeremiah, 168th Regt .; enl. Oct. 17, 1862. Manly, John, 2d Cav .; enl. Oct. 22, 1862.
Miller, Charles, 2d Cav. ; enl. Sept. 30, 1862.
Malone, John, 168th Regt.
Morrow, Frank, 124th Regt.
Morton, George C., lient. 2d Cav.
Morton, Charles E., lient. 21 Cav.
McMahon, Francis, Co. G, 124th Regt .; enl. Sept. 5, 1862; wounded at Jones' Cross-Roads, Nov. 22, 1863.
McCullongh, Hamilton, 2d Cav.
McCartney, John, 168th Regt.
McIntyre, Martin V .. lieut. 7th I. Bat.
Many, Mortimer, 36th Regt.
McMahan, Michael, 56th Regt.
Mahan, James, 20th Conn. Morrow, Stephen, 2d Cav. Murphy, Martin V., 2d Mounted Rifles; enl. 1864.
Matthew, James, 7th Bat .; enl. 1864. Mackay, Edward, 15th Cav .; enl. 1864.
Milliken, James, 15th Art .; enl. 1864.
McCornell, Andrew J., enl. 1864. Murphy, John, enl. 1864.
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Morehead, Samuel, 7th Bat. ; enl. 1864.
Newell, Jacob, 1G6th Regt .; enl. Oct. 7, 1862.
Owen, William R, Co. C, 124th Regt ; enl. Aug. 14, 1862; shot through breast at Spottsylvania May 12, 1864; died of wounds May 14, 1864. Oney, Edward, 124th Regt. ; enl. Ang. 19, 1862.
O'Hara, Daniel, Co. C, 124th Regt .; erl. Ang. 16, 1862; wounded severely at Chancellorsville; trans, to Vet. Res. Corps; died of wounds Oct. 28, 1863.
Overton, John B, 21 Mt. R .; enl. 1864.
Oakley, Wm. S., enl. August, 1864.
Parker, Charles H., 20 Cav. ; enl. Oct. 10, 1862.
Pierce, Bowen, 166th Regt .; enl. Oct. 7, 1862.
l'ike, George, 301 N. Y .; enl. 1861.
Pires, Wesley, 3d Art .; enl. 1861.
Price, Arthur C., 56th Regt .; en). 1861.
Pierce, Edmund .A., 166th Regt. ; enl. 1862.
l'ost, Beverly, 7th Art. ; enl. Jan. 17, 1864.
l'asswater, Thos. E., 56th Regt .; enl. 1864.
Quiun, Edward, 56th Regt .; enl. 1861.
Ryan. James, 124th Regt. ; enl. Aug. 16, 1862.
Robinson, John II., 2d Cav .; enl. Ang. 26, 1862.
Rodgers, Edgar, 2d Cav .; enl. Ang. 10, 1862.
Rake, Isaac, 168th Regt ; enl. Ang. 10, 1862.
Root, George O., 1G6th Regt. ; enl. Aug. 10, 1862.
Ruot, James, 87th liegt.
Riley, Thomas, Co. K, 87th Regt. : en). Oct. 3, 1861.
Hoe, Edward P., 20 Cav .; enl. 1862.
Roach, James, Ist Eng .; enl. 1864.
Roselle, James, enl. 1864.
Reid, William, 5th Bat. : enl. 1864.
Simmons, Charles, enl. Ang. 24, 1862 ; not on roll by that name.
B. Franklin Clark
250
David Goldsmith
Thomas Morton.
250
Thomas Wiley.
George A. Dennistoo.
100
William F. Scott.
50
Stalter, Peter T., Co. E, 124th Regt. ; eul. Ang. 27, 1862; disch, at Waslı- ingtonville Nov. 3, 1862.
Stalter, Abraham, Co. G, 124th Regt .; enl. Ang. 14, 1862; wounded at Chancellorsville ; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps.
Shaw, Rodman, 166th Regt .; enl. Oct. 5, 1862.
Smith, James H., Mozart ; enl. 1861.
Smith, Abraham, 7th Ind. Bat .; enl. 1861.
Seaman, Charles, Co. HI, 124th Regt. ; enl. Aug. 26, 1862 ; killed at Chan- cellorsville May 3, 1863.
Smith, William, 168th Regt .; enl. 1862.
Smith, John, 16Sth Regt. ; enl. 1862.
Snell, David II., 87th Regt. ; enl. Oct. 21, 1861.
Schneider, Victor, 98th Regt .; enl. 1864.
Storms, William, enl. 1864.
Snyder, Alexander, enl. 1864.
Simons, Lyman N., enl. 1864.
Simons, Daniel J., enl. 1864.
Sager, Morris, 630 Regt .; eul. 1864.
Smith, John II., 7th Bat. ; enl. 1864.
Sniffen, William, 5Gth Regt .; enl. 1864.
Tilton, Jadies D, Co. C, 124th Regt. ; enl. Aug. 14, 1862; supposed killed at Chancellorsville May 3, 1803.
Tuttle, Abraham, Co. M, 71st Regt .; enl. 1861.
Topping. Jacob, Duryea's Zonaves: enl. 1861.
Verplank, Wm. A .; lient. Co. E, 124th Regt. ; enl. Ang. 19, 1862; disch. Sept. 15, 1863.
Van Horn, Thomas, 26th U. S. Col'd Regt .; enl. 1864.
Van Gordon, William P., 7th Bat .; enl. 1864.
Ward, George V., 168th Regt. ; enl. Oct. 7, 1862.
Wise, Albert, Co. C, 124th Regt .; enl. 1862; woundedl at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863; sick from June 7 to July 6, 1863; must, ont with regt.
Wilson, Robert, Jr., 7th Ind. Bat .; enl. October, 1861.
Wood, Wm. B., 166th Regt. ; enl. Oct. 7, 1862.
Wilbert, Charles, 98th Regt .; en). I×64.
Wilbert, Lonis, 98th Regt .; en]. 1864.
Walton, John H., 15th Art .; enl. Jan. 19, 1864.
Youmans, George, 7th Art .; en]. 1864.
PRINCIPALS AND SUBSTITUTES. September and August, 1864.
Burnet, Charles F., supplied Andrew Cohner, three years. Burnet, Robert R., supplied Martin Holland, three years. Cooper, Shadrack V., supplied James R. Conner, three years. Chandler, Daniel C., supplied James Bennett, three years.
Caldwell, John R., supplied Robert Ellison, three years.
Caldwell, John N., supplied John Thew, three years.
Caldwell, Charles, supplied Robert Cox, three years. Denniston, William Y., supplied Jacob Reeder, three years.
Denniston, Luther, supplied M. Vassler, three years. Fulton, Thomas J., Jr., supplied Thomas King, three years. Humphries, George C., supplied Charles Schmidt, three years.
Jones, John, supplied John Lelan, three years.
Jones, Charles, supplied Peter O. Graves, three years.
Miller, James II., supplied John Kelly, three years.
Miller, James V. K., supplied John Griffin, three years.
Oakley, Lucas, supplied Francis Brown, three years.
Scott, William F., supplied William Schroeder, three years.
Smith, Charles, supplied] -, three years.
Terwilliger, Granville C., supplied Isaac Schrompff, three years.
Van Cleft, Lewis A., supplied Joho Peters, three years.
Walsh, John H., supplied Horton Murray, three years. Wood, David F., supplied Edward Lee, three years.
Call of Der. 19, 1864.
Derbyshire, John, supplied Anton Mager, three years. Upright, Benjamin, supplied James Moffit, three years.
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
To promote enlistments in 1862 a subscription was raised amounting to $4620. The subscribers were:
Philip Verplank .. $500
250
James W. Morrison.
25
J. De Witt Walsb. 250
Francis Wygant
50
John D. Van Buren .. . 250
George Arnott
D. (. Brown.
25 10 20 10
Peter Rue
100
William Maxwell.
20
Thomas J. Fulton.
100
John Cromwell
Ezra P. Thompson.
160
John D. Vail
10 25 10
Samuel L. Denniston. 100 William Conser.
David C. Chandler. 100
100
Joseph Kelly.
25
Wilham H. Miller 100
.Joseph B. Burnet .. 100 William R. Weed.
100 Thomas Still ..
Franklin Mulliner, Jr
100 William F. Cooper
Alexander Elliott.
100 David D. C. Wood.
100 Daniel Moores
25
John B. Kernochan
100
Enelid Mulliner.
50
Mrs. Arietta Nicoll ... 50 Daniel A. Shnart
50
The money was expended through a committee composed of George A. Denniston, John B. Kerno- chan, John D. Van Buren, and J. De Witt Walsh, the latter acting as treasurer. The sum of $4320 was paid for bounties and incidental expenses, and $300 returned to the subscribers pro rata.
In January and February, 1864, the town paid 82150 for bounties, and in December of the same year $19,750. Recapitulated the figures are :
Sulscription of 1862 $4,320
Bonaties, 1864. 21,900
$26,220
Refunded by the State .. 15,000
Net expenditure, exclusive of county bounty tax .... $11,220
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
CHARLES CLINTON AND HIS DESCENDANTS.
While many of the early settlers of New Windsor were of superior character and had many honored sons, there were none more so than Charles Clinton, through whose descendants the name of Little Britain
10 25
Selah W. Strong ..
G. C. Terwilliger.
25
Franklin Mulliner ...
400
Alfred Deaniston.
Maria MeKnight
200
Thomas Denniston.
25
James Patten
100
John Buchanan
25
Stafford, John J., Co. E, 124th Regt .; enl. Aug. 21, 1862; disch. March 23, 1×63, at hospital.
E. B. Nicoll ... 100
Mary E. Miller.
Lewis Van Cleft.
10 IO 50
James Shaw.
John R. Caldwell. $50
Erastus Ide.
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has been made familiar to students of history in all parts of the nation. While by birth a native of Ire- land, by blood Charles Clinton was English and Scotch,-on his paternal side a descendant of Henry Clinton, second Earl of Lincoln, on his maternal a descendant of a Scottish lady. With a company of relatives and neighbors in the county Longford, Ire- land. he sailed for America in May, 1729, and founded his permanent home in Little Britain in 1731. IIe was well educated, and became a leading man in the province. He was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, which office he filled with ability. In addition to his duties in this capacity, he became one of the most reliable surveyors in the country. He served in the French and Indian war of 1759-63; aided in the erection of churches and schools, in opening roads, clearing lands, and in advancing the cause of civilization ; and above all gave to his sons not only an education which fitted them for any post of duty, but one on which was indelibly impressed a lofty patriotism, a hatred of tyranny, and a devotion to the cause of civil and religious liberty. He died at Little Britain, Nov. 19, 1773, in his eighty-third year.
His children were Catharine, James, Mary (the two latter died at sea), Alexander, Charles, James, and George. Alexander and Charles were physicians, and have been noticed in another part of this work, as has also George, the war Governor of the Revolu- tion. James was a man of different type from his brother George. He shrank from political life, al- though political honors were his, preferring duty as a civilian-soldier. At the age of twenty he served as ensign, under his father, in the French and Indian war, and fought by his side in the taking of Fort Frontenac, now Kingston, in Canada. In 1763 he had command of the forces raised to resist the invasion of the counties of Orange and Ulster by the Indians, and when the war of the Revolution broke out he received one of the first military appointments from Congress, and soon rose to the rank of major-general. During the war he was in charge of the Northern De- partment, with his headquarters at Albany, and led an expedition against the Iroquois Indians, in which he distinguished himself as an engineer by cutting a road from the Mohawk to Lake Otsego, and in dam- ming up the outlet of the lake so as to float boats over the bars of the upper Susquehanna. He took part in the siege of Yorktown, and after the war retired to his farm in Little Britain, where he resumed his occu- pation as a surveyor. At the urgent solicitation of his friends he became a member of Assembly, and of the convention which ratified the constitution of the United States. He was also a member of the conven- tion of 1804, called to amend the Constitution of the State. In all these positions he showed marked abil- ity. On the 12th of December, 1812, at the age of seventy-five years, he died where he was born, be- loved by all who knew him, a brave, accomplished, and unambitious patriot and soldier.
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The limits of this sketch will not permit a reference to the children of James and George specifically, but we may not pass the name of DeWitt Clinton, the third son of James, who was born March 2, 1769. He entered publie life as the private secretary of his uncle ; became at an early age member of Assembly and then a senator; member of the Council of Ap- pointment ; mayor of the city of New York for sev- eral years ; member of the Canal Board; Governor of the State for two terms; a candidate for President against Madison, and invited by Adams to be Minister to England. The statute-book is filled with aets of a publie nature originated by him, and while in the Court of Errors he gave the leading opinions, and es- tablished legal principles which have remained un- changed. Taken all in all, he was one of the most eminent and useful citizens this country has ever produced.
The Clintons, as a family, have been unsurpassed in our history. The Adams' only can boast of so long a line of great and useful men.
JOIIN R. CALDWELL.
The family of this name were early residents of county Antrim, Ireland, and held an honorable place ' in that section. The coat of arms consists of three wells (cold wells), whence the name is said to have been derived. John Caldwell, grandfather of our subject, operated a large bleachery in county Antrim at the breaking out of the Irish rebellion. Richard, his son, and father of our subject, when a young man participated in the rebellion, was arrested and incar- cerated in the same cell with Robert Emmet, tried and convicted of high treason, and sentenced to be executed with Emmet. At the last moment he was saved by Lord Cornwallis, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and sent to America. Being possessed of some means, he settled at Salisbury Mills, Orange Co., operated a flaxseed oil-mill and engaged in trade. He married Maria, daughter of John Chandler, an early merchant of Blooming-Grove and a stanch patriot during the Revolutionary struggle in America. His father and brother also emigrated from Ireland and settled in Blooming-Grove, where the family is still represented. Richard entered the United States service during the war of 1812-15, and served as a captain in the Twenty-fifth Regiment of infantry. He died from exposure during the military operations in northern New York, on Nov. 22, 1812, at the early age of thirty-five years, and is buried in the village of Champlain, in this State. His wife died Jan. 23, 1877, aged eighty-eight years and six months. Of the two children, John R. Caldwell is the only sur- vivor. His sister Mary became the wife of Dr. Mar- eus Sears, of Blooming-Grove.
John R. Caldwell was born at Salisbury Mills, July 12, 1810. When but two years of age his father died, and he went to live with his grandfather, John
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Chandler, of Blooming-Grove, who died when he was but five. His early education was obtained at the common schools of Blooming-Grove. Subsequently he enjoyed three years of careful academie training at St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., of which his unele, Rev. Dr. Rafferty, was president. When about
John R.Goldwell
sixteen years of age he entered the counting-house of his uncle, John Caldwell, commission merchant, in New York, where he remained two years. He then returned to Blooming-Grove, and entered upon the life of a farmer on the old Chandler homestead. In the fall of 1831 he purchased two hundred acres of łand in the town of New Windsor of the Ellison : estate, where he has since continued to reside. By careful agricultural operations he has much enhanced the value of the property, cleared it of stones and brush, and added other substantial improvements, including two residences, both of which are in use, one built in 1832, and the other in 1855. For fifty years he has been one of the most substantial and rep- resentative of the farmers of New Windsor, foremost in every good work, enterprising and progressive, and in the enjoyment of the respeet and esteem of his friends and neighbors. For the past twenty years he has left the management of his farm largely to his sons, and devoted himself to travel and the manage- ment of important business interests for others in the West Indies and in the Southern States. Hisspecialty in farming has been the production and shipment of milk. He has taken no active interest in public affairs, but lived a retired, modest, and unostentatious
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life. His home is one of the handsomest in New Windsor, and the grounds tastefully laid out, present- ing a pleasing and attractive appearance. Mr. Cald- well is a prompt contributor to the worthy enterprises of his day, a man of integrity and moral worth, the adviser and counselor of many people, and a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Newburgh. He married on Sept. 13, 1831, Ruth, daughter of John Nicoll, of New Windsor, and has three sons,-Wil- liam and John N. Caldwell are farming on the old homestead in New Windsor; Charles Caldwell is city surveyor of Newburgh.
ERASMUS DARWIN DRURY.
His grandparents were William and Eunice ( Holt) Drury, early residents of Worcester, Mass., where the former was a prominent business man, serving in the Legislature of the State. Dr. John Waldo Drury, his father, was born in Worcester, Mass., on Oct. 21, 1791. He received careful academic instruction, and subsequently entered upon the study of medicine, at- tending lectures at the Vermont Medical College, Castleton, Vt., from which institution he was gradu- ated with the degree of doctor of medicine. When only nineteen years of age he entered the United States army as a private soldier, and served during the war of 1812-15, participating in the battle of Plattsburgh, and in the other operations of the Ameri- ean forces in northern New York. In August, 1818, he located in the town of New Windsor, Orange Co., where he entered upon the practice of his profession, and where he passed the remainder of a long and ac- tive life. He enjoyed a large practice, was recognized as a skillful and successful physician, a superior sur- geon, and held in the community in which he dwelt a prominent and representative place. He resided on the old Parshall homestead, but adhered closely to the demands of his profession in preference to farming pursuits. He died Oct. 8, 1847.
Dr. Drury was married on Jan. 2, 1822, to Jemima, daughter of Moses and Rnth (Miller) Parshall, with which family he began to reside when he first located in New Windsor. The children of the union were two in number, viz .: Erasmus Darwin Drury, the subject of this memoir, and Mary A. Drury, born Nov. 26, 1825. She married Robert Finley, of New Wind- sor, Oct. 18, 1848, and died May 3, 1863, leaving four children, namely, Moses D., Loanna F., Eura E., and Robert D. Finley, all of whom reside on a portion of the old Parshall tract.
The Parshall family is one of the oldest in the town of New Windsor. The ancestor of the family in this county was Israel Parshall, who was driven from France with the Huguenots after the Edict of Nantes. He located at the east end of Long Island, at a point then called Black River, where he passed his life and is buried. Jonathan Parshall, his son, purchased six hundred and seven acres of land belonging to the
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Markham tract in 1737. He paid for the land in in- stallments, and did not receive the deed for it until 1753. For a time Jonathan Parshall occupied bis purchase, but after the death of his wife he removed to Pittsburgh, Pa., where he died. He deeded his New Windsor estate to his two sons, Jonathan and David, both of whom passed their lives on the property. Jonathan married Jemima Terry, and had four sons and a daughter, of whom Moses was the third child. He also lived and died on the old homestead.
Mrs. Jemima Drury, his daughter, was born Jan. 6, 1806, and is the last representative of the family living on the Parshall homestead. She occupies a portion of the home tract, and is a well-preserved, intelligent, and interesting old lady. Her grandchildren, the children of E. Darwin Drury and of Robert Finley, are the sixth generation of the representatives of the Parshall family who have occupied the ancestral glebes of their forefathers.
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E. D. Drury was born on the old home tract in New Windsor on Jan. 28, 1823. He received an excellent education at the high school in Newburgh, and at the Montgomery Academy, and devoted his life to the pursuit of husbandry in New Windsor, tilling the same soil that several generations of his maternal an- cestors cultivated. Ilis life was not a long one, but he manifested during his career characteristics that endeared him to many, and which made him justly popular in the community in which he dwelt. He was of a modest, retiring temperament, devoted to work and to the performance of domestic duties,-one who avoided public life, and who stood in the front rank of the successful farmers of his section. He was a warm supporter of church and kindred institutions, liberal and progressive in his views, and a member of the Goodwill Presbyterian Church of Montgomery. He died suddenly on Dec. 25, 1872. His wife wa's Mary E. Finley, to whom he was united on Nov. 20, 1845. She died Sept. 30, 1869. The children were Lamira, Charles W., John James, George W., and Frank. Charles W. Drury died on March 12, 1878. The remaining children are living at the old family seat, the sons already taking a place among the suc- cessful farmers of the town.
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