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Neelytown was settled at an early date. Wm. Eager, some time about 1728-29, purchased a tract and located upon it, a part of which remained in the hands of his descendants of the fourth generation.
The Neelys, Booths, and others were in the neigh- borhood either then or soon after, as shown above and in the church records below. Neelytown is a fine body of land and well adapted to grass and grain. Through the central portion of the settlement runs the Beaverdam Creek. Along this are the natural meadows, extending in one unbroken glade from just south of the Goodwill meeting-house at the north down to Campbell Hall on the south, and from the Wallkill on the west to the line of New Windsor on the east.
A general statement of early settlers on this terri- tory would include Little John Neely, Grandy John Neely, Charles Booth (his sons Charles and George), Wm. Eager (his sons William and Thomas), James Houston, Patrick Barber, John Blake, Alexander Tremble, James McCobb, Robert Monell, Teunis Van Orsdell, Gideon Pelton, Robert Sutter, Rev. Robert Annan, James McBride, William Jackson, James Jackson, Dr. Chas. Clinton, Col. John Nicholson, James Barkley.
It was this community which, in 1765, established the Neelytown Church. A former writer describes this church and relates various anecdotes, as follows, together with items concerning some of the settlers :
" In old times, when churches were few and the population sparse, a congregation covered a large extent of territory. Within the recollec- tion of the writer, Messrs Shaw, McWilliams, Mrs. Wilson, and others, from Scotchtown; Messrs. Wood and Youngs, from Little Britain; Moses Bull, William Bull, James Bull, Robert Hall and his sister Miss Miriam, Youmans, Jolın Wilkin, Robert Wilkin, and others, from Wallkill, were in regular attendance at this church, besides a large number of those who formed the congregation of Graham's Church in the now town of Craw- ford. We shall never forget the Sabbath-day appearance of Robert Hall, his sister Miriam, and colored servant-woman. They usually came in a & cart, driven by Miriam. A certain form and order indicating no-
tions of rank and superiority were clearly observed in the manner of these people. In the cart, drawa by a horse which spent the day in go- ing to and returning from kirk, first sat Miriam, hohling the lines in one hand and driving with the other, cutting and hurrying on, but making little progress by the hour. Next, and straight behind her, sat Robert, dull and stupid as a piece of carved wood, and in greater dread of Miriam's tongue than the horse was of her gud. Third, and last in the row, sat the African servant, clean and respectful, the very image of sub- mission and obedience, who would not speak unless hidden by her mis- tress, if her poor life depended apon the act. When they arrived, cart unloaded and horse secured, the same order of precedeace in the line of march to the church-door was systematically taken up and rigidly en- forced. We have seen this a hundred times and never saw it otherwise. 'The return from church was conducted in the same invariable order. The whole affair was novel and truly ridiculous in the eyes of young re- publicans, aml between the three, the next and obedient African shared the largest respect of the people. Pence to the memory of Miriam ! for, though hard and cruel in all her exactions, self-willed, dictatorial, and bigoted, but rigid in the discharge of Christian daties, by her last will, she established and founded the Ed scholarship in the theological semi- nary at Princeton.
" This old Scotch lady that would be, in despite of public opinion, was always in trouble with Mr. William Wilson, a neighbor and countryman of hers. They used to fight, quarrel, and come to blows, in which Miriam frequently had the best of it. Mr. Wilson, perhaps in respect to hier sex and frailty, had forborne to use his powers to the extent he was cap- able of, but at last concluded there was no virtue in longer forbearance. One day they met on the highway, and after the exchange of & few sharp long shot, by way of preparation, came to blows. Mr. Wilson threw her down and intentionally broke her arm, and there the battle ended. Miriam sued him at the law, which frightened hiai lest it might take bis farm to pay the damages. Ile proposed to leave it to men ; the prop- osition was accepted, and early one morning Mr. Wilson called ou the writer's father to get him to act as one of the men. He stated his case, and ended by saying ' that he and Mrs. Hall had agreed to leave the decision of the matter to Capt. Trimble and Squire Eager, and trouble no honest people with it, and he would be much obliged if he would serve him.' This compliment iasured u compliance."
When the Eager family came they found Mr. Neely on the farm afterwards owned and occupied by Mrs. Mary Trimble and Mr. Charles Booth, at the north end of the Tamarack Swamp, beside a beautiful spring of clear water. The Booths were English, the Neelys and Eagers, Irish.
The first stock the Eager family owned in their new residence was two heifer calves, to support which through the winter they went over to the Tamarack Swamp, some two miles off, in the vicinity of Mr. Booth, at the proper season, and cut the long grass which grew there for fodder, which, in the winter, they drew home on a hand-sled with the aid of snow-shoes. Their first house was a log one, and situated in the orchard west of the tanyard owned in modern times by Mr. James Peck. The second was of stone. This was built before the Revolution. The land was culti- vated for a year or two with the hoe and spade, as they had no horses or oxen ; a plow could not have been used if they had one. Wheat was the first, and, for many years the principal, crop. Rye was not raised by the family till after 1800. The land, till then, would produce as much wheat as rye, and one was twice the value of the other. The quantity of grain raised exceeded home consumption, and was carried to market. The market-places were either at the village of New Windsor or John Ellison's mill, after- wards Major Morton's. When grain was first taken to either of those places, the usual mode was to load
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three horses with bags, ride one and lead two. Re- An examination of the names will show that the great turning home, the two were turned loose to follow the majority were certainly on that territory and probably rider. The usual price of wheat was fifty cents.
James McBride, the grandfather of Gen. John Mc- Bride, of Hamptonburgh, and Mr. White, the grand- father of Maj. John White, of Wallkill, well-known citizens of later times, were passengers on board the same vessel with William Eager. Capt. James Mc- Bride, of the Revolution, married the daughter of William Eager, son of the first settler. These families arrived in 1728.
We have mentioned that Charles Booth was an early settler at Neelytown. He had two sons, Charles and George, each of whom married a daughter of William and Sarah Bull, early settlers in the town of Goshen. Mr. Booth purchased 1000 acres and located it. The spot occupied by his first house, at the north end of the Tamarack Swamp, was in later years ocenpied by Mr. William Conning, of Scoteli descent, who married in the family.
Charles continued to reside during his life on the spot selected by his father. Capt. William Jackson, of the Revolution, father of Capt. William Jackson, of Neelytown, and Dr. Samuel Jackson, of the navy, married a daughter of Charles Booth. George, the other son, made a new location on the original pur- chase, and built a house on the farm owned by Wil- liam Booth, of a former generation, just east of the thread of woods separating the lands subsequently owned by Mrs. George Conning from the Booth estate, and about the fourth of a mile southwest from the former residence of William Booth. The largest part of this 1000 acres was held by the Booth family for a long series of years. At an early period in the history of the town Mr. George Booth was an active member of the community, and we find his name on the records as early as 1770, discharging the office of a justice of the peace. The Booth family emigrated first to Long Island, and from there to this town.
The enrollment of the freeholders of Shawangunk of 1728, already given in the General History, has considerable value in determining early settlement, though it relates partly to territory beyond the limits of the present town of Montgomery, and may not be a full list of settlers, as there may have been a number living here who were not " freeholders," and, as shown in the General History, the list was prepared for the special purpose of obtaining a jury. The names of persons upon that list who are known to have been in Montgomery were Abraham Schutt, Hendrick New- kirk, Hendrick Krans, Edward Gatehouse, David Galatian, Henry Wileman, John McNeal, Jeronimus Mingus, Christoffel Moul, Samuel Neely, Israel Rogers, John Neely, Alexander Neely, Col. Cortlandt.
The roll of a military company in Wall-a-kill, 1738, given in the General History, is a valuable record of the population at that time. There was then no pre- einet of Wallkill. "Wall-a-kill" was simply the early settlements in the present town of Montgomery.
all were. It is the arms-bearing population from | sixteen to sixty.
The story of early settlement thus traced for various parts of the town might be enlarged upon to an in- definite extent. It must, however, be kept within reasonable limits in a single volume devoted to the entire county.
The following names appear on the town record, including Crawford, from 1768 to 1778 :
Cadwallader Colden.
Nicholas Davis.
Samuel McColm.
Johu Milligan.
Patrick Barber. Johannes W. Youngblood.
Henry Patterson.
Arthur McKing.
James White.
Sam'l Smith.
George Smith. Dr. Chas. Clinton.
Thomas Bull.
James Gillespie.
Alexander Trimble.
Hans Nip.
Jolin Robinson.
Jacob Sinsahangh.
Archibald McCurdy.
Sam' Miller.
Charles Booth, Jr.
W'DI. Miller.
George Booth.
W'm. Comfort.
William Cox.
Aunt Grover.
Thomas Baty.
Cobus Johnson.
James Galatian.
Little John Neely.
Hans Jerry Smith.
David Jagger.
Andrew Walker.
George Smith.
Jacob Crist.
Wm. Moore.
James McCobb.
W'in. Mickles.
George Monell.
Sam'l Rainey.
Barney Roe.
James Houston. .
Jonathan Webb.
Cornelius Slott.
David Current.
Stuffle Monl.
Jacob Crans.
Andreas Trempour.
James Crawford.
Wm. McBurney.
Hans Jerry Tice.
George Clark.
Nathaniel Ilill.
David Mingus.
Daniel Butterfield.
James McMunn.
John McNeal.
Thomas Neely.
W'nı. Faulkner.
William Eager.
John Milliken.
Zachariah Codington.
Edward McNeal.
Thomas McKee.
Jacob Linderman.
Wmn. Wilkins.
John Tate.
Johanes Decker.
James Wilkins.
Philip Milspaugh.
Francis Newman.
Jonathan Low.
John Dubois.
John Robinson.
Jolın Miller.
Joseph Crawford.
Henry Newkirk.
Jacob Low.
Henricus Van Keuren.
James Duglass.
Adam Newkirk.
James Hunter.
James McCobb.
Peter Bodine.
Nathaniel Wells.
Thomas Peacock.
Win. Dean.
Jacob Newkirk.
Matthew Seely. >
Jerry Kimbark.
Ned Hopper.
Thomas Clineman.
Benj. Booth.
Robert Milligan.
Sam'l Watkins.
Philip Moul.
John McNeal.
Peter Hill.
David Harmon.
James Rainey.
Nicholas Holtslander.
John Lackey.
John McCreary.
Robert Cross ..
John Crans.
James Rea.
Abraham Colwell.
Samuel White.
Christian Mingus.
John Comfort.
Helemus Weller.
Robert Dill,
Nathaniel Ilill.
Grandy John Neely.
Ilendrick Terwilliger.
William Bodine.
Johannes Weller.
William Crist.
Robert Monell.
Henry Neely.
John McClean.
Sammuel Harris.
Petrus Crans.
Jeremiah Fitzgerald.
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James McCord.
Edward Burns,
Hugh Milligan.
Matice Felter. James Barkley. Johannes Moul. Jacob Crist.
James Jackson,
Andrew Thompson.
Jonathan Sorith.
Arthur Parks,
James Eager.
Jolın Davidson,
Jolio Colter.
Win. Watson.
Martin Tice.
James McKee.
William Still.
David Crawford.
Daniel Snider.
Christian Rockafeller.
John Gillespie.
Henry Savage.
Abraham Dickerson.
John Archy,
Adam Beamer.
Moses Philips.
Jacob Bodine.
David Moore, Jolin MeGarrah.
Christian Crist.
Kia Gale.
Wm, Ilill.
John Youngs.
John Yonag.
John Blake,
Mattias Shulp.
Stevans Crist.
James Milligan.
Hugh Milligan.
Dr. Smith.
Doet, Hill. John Booth.
Robert Thompson.
Johannes Snider.
Win. Simerall,
John Comfort.
David Smith.
Henry Neely.
Joseph Honston,
Andrew Graham,
James Mc Bride.
George Kimbark. Joseph Watkins.
Tennis Van Arsdel.
Ilenry Snider.
Cromas Weller.
Benj. Hains.
Adam Sinsabaugh.
Wm. Neely.
llans Weller.
Hendrick Newkirk.
Jason Wilkin.
James Mc Bride.
John Constable.
James Ward.
James Monell, Jr.
John Hill.
Wo, Jackson.
Henry Crist,
Ilans Sease.
Jacob Crist.
Robert Hunter.
Jacob Milspanglı.
Robert Kidd.
From this historical review, it appears that the eastern portion, extending from the west line of New Windsor to the Wallkill, was originally settled almost entirely by Scotch-Irish ; that the valley of the Wall- kill was settled by emigrants from Holland and Germany; and that the western portion, extending from Comfort's Hills, west of the Wallkill, to the Sha- wangunk Kill, embracing the town of Crawford, was jointly settled by Irishmen and Dutchmen. Though, at the original settlement of the town, large districts were in possession of the Dutch and Germans, yet those languages were never taught in the public or private schools, except in two instances. There was one at the foot of the hill cast of the brick church, and another at Hans Youngblood's for some years. The consequence was those languages soon ran out, and though kept up by use in the family circle, in the pulpit, and conversations of aged persons, they literally expired, without an effort to preserve them, in the second and third generations. Among the Germans and their first descendants it was very common to send to Philadelphia for almanacs printed in their language. They were a little prejudiced on the point, and credited a statement found in them about all the matters and things usually contained in such books,
even down to the wind and weather, with an easier faith than if the same were found elsewhere.
In the following special family notes we are in- debted to the works of Eager and Dickson.
Johannes Miller emigrated to this country from Germany as carly perhaps as 1720. He remained at New York for a time, then removed to Esopus, Ulster Co. From there he came to the precinct of Shawan- gunk, in the neighborhood of the Schoonmakers and the Bruyns. He engaged in weaving, and finally mar- ried Jemima Schoonmaker, a daughter of Cornelius Schoonmaker. He whiled his lonely way on horseback along the valleys and hills which skirted the Wallkill, and entered the town of Montgomery. Here, from in- spection, he was satisfied he had found lands upon which he could live by honest industry. He returned, laden with good fortune and high hopes, with a saddle of fat venison behind him, to relate the adventures of a week and the rich discoveries he had made.
When the time came to be ready and off, some of the friends and neighbors in Ulster, who were op- posed to their removal, refused to assist in conveying them to their new location, but said they would be ready at all times to move them back. The removal, however, proceeded, and was conducted on horseback, as they had neither sideboard nor piano-forte to trans- port. Without accident they arrived at the land of promise, and deposited their rude and scanty articles of housekeeping in a shanty constructed of two crotches, a pole thereon, and other timbers reaching from that and resting upon the ground. In this open hut they resided a whole year. The situation was airy and cool in summer and winter, upon the crown of the hill upon the bank of the Wallkill, on the road from Montgomery to Goshen, and afterwards occupied by the old square stone house taken down a few years since by his grandson, Mr. William Miller. At the foot of the hill is one of the most glorious springs that ever gushed from the earth.
In settling on this spot they planted their shanty directly in the vicinity of the natives, and side by side the Indian wigwams, which were on the flat imme- diately below, with whom they lived on terms of friendship.
Their first summer crops-corn, potatoes, pumpkins, and watermelons-were raised on a spot cleared by the Indians, which, being low on the margin of the stream and annually overflowed by it, was made rich with the sediment deposited by the water and needed little cultivation. The crops came fully up to Mil- ler's most sanguine expectations. The fruits of the season ingathered, the new settlers could not do less than pay a filial visit to their friends and kin in Ulster, and not only tell of their success and joyful prospects, but exhibit the fruits their own hands had produced from the earth.
To satisfy the discontented in Ulster, and prove to his friends his judicious selection of lands, Miller placed two watermelons in a bag and loaded them
Hanreck Smith.
James Graham,
Peter Dubois,
W'm. Barkley. John Graham, Joseph Crawford. John Wilkins,
James Latta,
Coonrad Moore.
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upon his horse, determined to have it in his power to say, "Judge of my lands by their produce." On their way they stopped at old Mr. Bruyn's, in Shawangunk, to refresh themselves and rest their horses. Bruyn was fond of a joke. While at his house he substituted two pumpkins for the melons, which he carefully laid by to be restored when the exchange should be dis- covered. The guests departed and made their way to Mr. Elting's, near the Paltz. This individual had been very friendly to the parties, and assisted them to move to their new location in the spring. On arriving at his house the horses were unladen for the night, the travelers received and entertained. When the subjects of land, quality, products, etc., were being mentioned and discussed, Miller had his bags and melons brought in for exhibition. On untying the string and turning them out, lo ! the melons had most mysteriously changed into two beautiful yellow pump- kins of about the same size. Miller stood confounded for a moment, but Elting, knowing that they had stopped at Bruyn's, instantly exclaimed that "old Bruyn or the devil had been the enchanter !"
married Sarah Bull, the widow of William Bull, of i Hamptonburgh, remarkable for her great age and the number of her descendants. Johannes Miller, the first settler, died in 1782, aged about ninety years. His son, John Miller, was twice married. His first wife was Miss Esther Bull, the oldest daughter of William and Sarah Bull, of the old stone house in Hamptonburgh, the daughter of his father's second wife by a former marriage, as above stated. The issue of this marriage was Peggy, Jemima, Johannes, and William. His second wife was Miss Anne Weller, daughter of Henry Weller .* His death was caused Smith, proposed to sell his farm of 125 acres, which by an accident in 1774. He was found dead in the Wallkill, in the vicinity of his father's residence. The supposition of the family was that he was drowned in an attempt to swim his horse across the Wallkill, though himself an expert swimmer. It is not known whether he or his father built the old stone house. He was town clerk of Wallkill in 1768, and held the office for several years.
The consequence of this unexpected death was that it deprived the family of its natural head and pro- teetor at a time when, from the age of the children, the disturbed condition of the country, verging daily to an outbreak with the mother-country, his protection and presence could be ill dispensed with ; and the care of the mother and children instantly devolved principally upon Johannes, the eldest son, then a mere lad. He was born in 1760, and the duties of the father were performed by his son in a becoming and filial manner. The family were Lutheran, and so remained till after the Revolution, and until all the
families of that denomination of Christians in the settlement at the place were swallowed up by or merged into other denominations.
Mr. Johannes Miller was not liberally educated, but instructed only in the elementary department of a slight English education. Indeed, when he ought to have been at school he was industriously laboring to support his mother and sisters, or on duty as a militiaman guarding the frontiers against the incur- sions of the Indians. The war continued from the time he was sixteen till he was past the age of twenty- one, and he had little opportunity to leave home for educational purposes. This deficiency of an early education he endeavored to supply by after-reading and observation.
For a short period after he was fifteen years of age he was boarded out at the old stone house of William Bull, in Hamptonburgh, where he attended a school taught by an frishman, and learned reading, writing, arithmetic, surveying, etc. Soon after the commence- ment of the war, and when about sixteen or seven- teen years of age, his brother-in-law, Hendrick Van Keuren, of Montgomery, commanded a company of
The issue of this marriage was one child, whose name was John. After the death of his wife he | militia, in which he was orderly sergeant, and when it was called out into service went with it. Notwith- standing the troubled and hostile condition of the country, he had the moral courage to enter a service for life, and made Miss Eve Mould Mrs. Johannes Miller on the 17th of March, 1779, and moved into the old stone house on the hill at the Wallkill. Here he had the satisfaction of entertaining a troop of horse at his expense a part of Que winter for the benefit of the country, and of paying a Continental tax of three hundred and fifty bushels of corn.
Soon after the war closed his neighbor, Johannes adjoined him on the north, at ten dollars per acre. Miller contracted to purchase, but was unable to meet his contract. Smith refused to take paper money, and specie could not then be had in the county. He proceeded to New York to borrow the amount, but they asked a premium of five per ceut. besides the legal interest. This he coneluded not to pay, and re- turned without the money. Determined to have the land, he issued twenty notes of £25 each, payable at different periods, without interest till due, which Smith received, finding he could pay for a farm in Shawangunk with them, and which he had agreed to purchase. These notes were all paid at maturity when presented, except four which had found their way into the pocket of some friend at Hackensack, in New Jersey, and were not presented for several years after due. This would be thought a small specimen of raising the wind at this day of financial improve- ment and kite-flying, yet the reader must remember that Mr. Miller was just of age, of no financial ex- perience, an uneducated and illiterate young country- man, with no father to guide, no friend to counsel.
He was an extensive reader on the subjects of theo-
* Of his issue by this marriage his son, James W., was the father of John, James W., and Samuel, residents of Newburgh.
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retic and practical agriculture, and no farmer in the county had a more extensive library. Ambitious in this, he was no less so in becoming a politician, and his reading extended to that and kindred objects, and he settled down firmly in the school of Washington. He was early known as a Federalist, and so continued till his party was dissolved, when he became a Whig, and so continued till he died. lIe was a hearty op- poser of Mr. Jefferson, his gunboat system and ultra democracy. From 1798 to 1806 politics raged in this county, as indeed they did everywhere else in the country, and Mr. Miller was actively engaged to sus- tain his party and accomplish its objects.
One dark night, returning from Goshen, where he : had been attending a political county meeting, he was waylaid, attacked, and knocked from his horse, though not dangerously injured. From some old hostile feeling still subsisting between himself and one of his neighbors, and from something which had
The application was made, and a law was passed in their favor which canceled the last patents in this county from all future payment of quit-rents, and was the means of building the Montgomery Academy. transpired that day in Goshen, he judged who his as- ' This grant amounted to $2000, and the trustees under- sailant was, and without due reflection called him to the field of honor. Capt. William Trimble, of Neely- town, accepted the invitation, but on a meeting of the parties, procured by mutnal friends, the matter was adjusted to their satisfaction. Capt. Trimble was not unlike Mr. Miller, prond, high-minded, and honorable, but more impulsive, headstrong, and pas- sionate.
Mr. Miller was very friendly to the manufacturing interest of the country and internal improvement by roads and canals, and we believe his friendship and the hostility of government cost him many thousands of dollars. He was mainly instrumental in getting up the cotton-factory at Montgomery. In 1801 he his subscription list. He addressed himself to Mr.
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