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Martin Wiltsie had a tract in the southwest corner of the lot, described as "beginning at the mouth of a brook in Hudson's River, and running up the brook along Bloomer's land, then south 31 chains to the south bounds of Roger Morris Lot, and along the said bounds to the river, and northward along the river ten chains to place of beginning." Gilbert Bloomer had 298 acres immediately north of this, extending along the river. Among the early settlers was a family named Jaycox, whose descendants have been quite numerous. The reader is referred to the list of taxable inhabitants in 1777, which may be found in the chapter on population, for a complete list of residents before the Revolution.
As this part of the town was originally the property of Col. Roger Morris and his wife, the early inhabitants held their lands as tenants under them. Of the survey and division of these lands, previous to the Revolution, we have no knowledge, but most of the purchasers of farms after the war were those who had previously been in possession.
The general surface of this part of the town is rough and mountainous, the highest elevation being Breakneck Mountain, whose rocky summit towers to a lofty height. On the south side of the peak and near the highest point, was formerly a vast mass of rock, which bore a striking resemblance to the profile of a human head jutting out from the mountains, and it was generally called "St. Anthony's face", and seemed to be gazing over the rocky battlements at the eternal ebb and flow of the river that rolled beneath. Thousands of travellers on the Hud- son turned their gaze with awe and wonder at this marvellous curiosity of nature which, carved as it was in the everlasting rock, might seem likely to last as long as the world should en- dure. In the summer of 1846 Capt. Deering Ayres, who was engaged in furnishing stone for the Harlem High Bridge, at one blast detached an immense block of granite, weighing nearly two thousand tons, and shivered to atoms the majestic brow and weather beaten features of the stony monarch of the mountain. It would seem as if nature had determined to avenge the de- struction of her wondrous work, for some months afterward Ayres himself was killed by the very means which had hurled St. Anthony from his rocky throne. While engaged in blasting rock on Staten Island he set fire to a fuse which failed to ex- plode the charge. Upon his return to it the blast went off un-
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expectedly, and the blaster of St. Anthony's face was blown into a hundred fragments.
As all this section of the town is included in the lands once owned by Col. Roger Morris, perhaps no more suitable place could be found for a mention of this celebrated man.
COL. ROGER MORRIS, whose name must ever be connected with the history of the county, was a descendant from Cadigan, of Philip Dorddw, a powerful Welch chieftain, in high favor with the Duke of Argyle, and the Earl of Pembroke. His father, Roger Morris, married Mary, daughter of Sir Peter Jackson, Kt., Turkey merchant of London. He died January 13th, 1748. His third son was Col. Roger Morris, who was born January 28th, 1727, and entering the British army, rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He served with distinction, and was with General Braddock in the fatal battle of Monongahela, escaping with his life, although severely wounded. Colonel Morris af- terward settled in New York, and at the commencement of the Revolution was a member of the Council for the colony, and continued in office till the peace.
His acquaintance with Mary Philipse resulted in the mar- riage, which was solemnized at her father's residence, the old Manor House at Yonkers, January 19th, 1758. In the upper part of New York city, at 169th street, and a little below High Bridge, stands an elegant mansion, built in the olden time. This was the country residence of Colonel Morris, and here for many years he and the partner of his joys lived a life that com- ported with their ample means and high social station, little dreaming of the time to come, when they should be exiles in Roger Morris 1 a foreign land. After the Revolution, this mansion, Mary Phelique like the rest of the property of Colonel Morris and his wife, was confiscated and afterward passed into the hands of Madame Jumel, the Susanna Robinsono 1754 second wife of Aaron Burr, and as the " Jumel Mansion " it has been famous to modern times.
The tale which has for many years been industriously
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circulated, and copied and re-copied in newspaper and magazine articles without number, narrating that no less a personage than Washington was enamoured with the beauty of the fair daughter of Frederick Philipse, and offered his heart and hand in marriage to the lovely charmer, an offer which was declined on account of her affection having already been won by the companion in arms who had with him fought on Braddock's fatal field, and escaped its dangers; and that in after times, she, in company with her brother-in-law, Beverly Robinson, sought him in disguise, to intercede in behalf of the doomed André, and when, after a vain appeal had been made by her companion, in which he had invoked the sacred claim of early friendship and received a stern denial, she, throwing off her disguise, revealed the face whose charms had once moved his soul, but found too late that her power was gone and that the shadow of the past had no influence to sway the mind of the man who held in his hands the destinies of a nation-all this originated in the fertile brain of a romance writer, and has no place in sober history.1
With the close of the war came the Act of Attainder, by which the vast estate of Roger Morris and his wife was confis- cated, and they themselves compelled to flee to England as exiles, under pain of death if they returned. Of their life in exile but little is known. Colonel Morris died in 1794. His wife survived him many years and died in 1825. They were buried in the vault of St. Saviour's Church, in York, and a marble tablet bears the following inscription:
NEAR THIS SPOT ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF COL. ROGER MORRIS
FORMERLY OF HIS MAJESTY'S 47TH REGIMENT OF FOOT, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 13TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1794, IN THE 68TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. AND OF MARY MORRIS RELICT OF THE SAME WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 18TH DAY OF JULY, 1825, IN THE 71ST YEAR OF HER AGE.
Colonel Morris and his wife were the parents of five children: Joanna, wife of Thomas Cowper Hincks; Amherst, who died unmarried in 1802; Margaret, who died in 1766, aged 2 years; Maria and Henry Gage.
Henry Gage Morris was born in New York in 1770. He was 'The story first appeared in the "Telegraph," printed in New Jersey, 1848.
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an officer in the British Navy, and rose to the rank of rear ad- miral. In 1805, he married a daughter of Rev. F. Orpen, of the Church of England. He died in 1851, leaving six sons: Rev. Francis Orpen Morris, Rector of Burholme, Yorkshire, Eng .; Henry Gage Morris, an officer in the British Navy; Fred- erick Philipse Morris, Barrister, of Lincoln Inn; Beverly Rob- inson Morris, M. D., Nottingham, Eng .; Rev. Adolphus Philipse Morris, of Leeds, Eng .; Charles D' Urban Morris.
The only one of these who lived in America was Prof. Charles D'Urban Morris. He was born in Charmouth, Dorset, Eng., February 17th, 1827, and received his collegiate training in the University of Oxford. As a student of Lincoln College he was admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1849, and three years later became a Master of Arts and a Fellow of Oriel Col- lege. He came to this country in 1853, and was for a time rector of Trinity School, in New York, and subsequently mas- ter of a school at Lake Mohegan. He was then made a pro- fessor in the University of the City of New York, and in 1876 was called to the professorship of Latin and Greek, in the John Hopkins University, Baltimore. Prof. Morris was the author of a Latin Grammar, and an Attic Greek Grammar, in which were some original views of the proper methods of teaching the elements of those languages, and at the time of his death was nearly ready to publish an edition of the first book of Thucydides.
Professor Morris died at Baltimore February 7th, 1886, and is buried in St. Paul's grave yard, of that city. He married Miss Jane Webb Shaw, daughter of the late Oliver Shaw, of Provi- dence, R. I. She survives her husband. They had no children.
OLD HIGHLAND METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH .- On the old Post road, in the northern part of the town, is situated the Old Highland Methodist Church, which is the oldest society of that denomination in this section of the county. In the book of records is found the following sketch, which is gladly given in full. It seems to have been prepared by the pastor in charge in 1880.
The land on which the old church stood, and where the present edifice stands, was conveyed by Robert Hustis to Timothy Wood, Justus Nelson and James Wright as trustees January 10th, 1824, the church having been built upon it many years before.
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The parsonage house was originally owned by Rachel Warren, and bought by the church from Caleb Hawkes.
On the west side of the road and opposite the parsonage, was in old times the house of John Davenport. Here he kept a tavern or house of entertainment for many years, and his place, at the junction of two important roads, was a great resort in days gone by, and the locality for long years bore the name of "Davenport's Corners."
" A brief Sketch of North Highlands M. E. Church.
" As near as I can ascertain from present residents the old church was erected in 1811.
"Mr. James Cargill came into this place in 1812, and the church was then built. The people worshiped in the rude struc- ture, which was without walls, and slabs for seats. In 1852 or 1854, it was repaired by Mr. Wm. A. Ladue, and greatly im- proved, and was made more pleasant as a place of worship.
"Mrs. Phebe Hill, who died Jan. 31st, 1871, was a great lover of the church and bequeathed to it, in her last will and testament, One Thousand Dollars to be placed at interest, so that the amount could be available, when the trustees should desire to build a new church on or near the site of the old one.
"In April, 1877, R. M. Robert was appointed to the charge. He found an old church dilapidated, people discouraged, and with little ambition, looking on the dark side, with but little hope of ever seeing the bright. From the commencement the Lord seemed to work with pastor and people, and they began to hope for better times, and sincerely wished they might see a new structure in place of the old. The pastor consulted with the stewards and trustees, and the result of the conference was a decision that the pastor should secure all he could on sub- scription. In August, 1878, sufficient had been secured on sub- scription to encourage the trustees to go forward with the enter. prise. August 30th, the contract was let to Mr. William H. Ladue to erect church and sheds, after plans drawn by himself, for $5,150.
" The following composed the Board of Trustees, who signed the contract: Thomas Mekeel, John Wallace, James Smith, Charles B. Warren, William O. Jaycox, Samuel Hustis and Wil- liam J. Meeks.
"September 15th was the last Sabbath in the old church, a pleasant Sabbath and a pleasant and profitable time. The Lord
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was with his people. The week previous, the old church had been sold at auction to Mr. Milton Smith, who converted it into a hay barn. Monday morning, September 16th, bright and early, he commenced to dismantle the old church. On the 10th of October, at 2:30 P. M., in the presence of a large concourse of people, the corner stone of the new church was laid by the P. E., A. K. Sanford, after an appropriate address by Rev. C. R. North, of Poughkeepsie.
" Wednesday, January 4th, 1879, was set apart as the Day of Dedication. The sun rolled up in his chariot, surrounded by dense clouds, and the face of the whole earth was well watered, to the great discouragement of the people. In answer to prayer, doubtless, the clouds cleared away before time for service, and the people filled the building, and were satisfied with the new and beautiful structure, so neatly furnished: man- ifest in the approving looks and remarks of every one.
" We found upon examination, that it was necessary to secure $600 to meet the indebtedness on the building. Rev. J. P Newman preached in the morning, on the necessity of a spiritual birth, as set forth in the conversation of Christ, with Nico- demus, John III. 3. In the evening the Past Elder preached and the people gave the balance of the $600, needed to meet the indebtedness on the church. After the full amount was secured, the church was dedicated by the P. Elder. The following are the names of the contributors, and the amount given by each: Phebe Hill's Legacy and Int., $1300; John Wallace, 200; Jas. Smith, 200; Samuel Hustis, 300; Mrs. E. A. Hustis, 100; Marth. I. Hustis, 150; Jas. Meeks, 100; Tho. Mekeel, 100; Milton Smith, 100; Wm. G. Hustis, 300; W. A. Ladue, 300; Mrs. Arvis Haight, 100; J. Y. Dykman, 25; Lewis Christian, 25; Jacob Haight, 25; Elizabeth Haight, 25; Jas. Mekeel, 25; Cornelius J. Organ, 25; Redmond Ashmond, 25; Susan A. Haight, 25; J. & A. Mosher, 26; Wm. O. Jaycox, 25; Wm. H. Jaycox, 25; Leonard Ferris, 25; Wm. Haight, 20; Sarah Wright, 20; Uriah Mekeel, 10; O. M. Baxter, 10; Wm. Knapp, 100; Jas. E. Jaycox, 100; David Moffatt, 100; Tho. W. Jaycox, 50; Chas. B. Warren, 50; Wm. J. Horton, 50; Harvey Hustis, 50; Arvy Hill, 50; Margaret Knapp, 50; A. Healy, 50; E. Nelson, 50; Sylvanus Mekeel, 25; Beverly Haight, 10; Chloe Barrett, 10: Sarah Wheeler, 10; David Haight, 10; Wm. H. Rich, 10; Levi Ladue, 10; Albert Jaycox, 15; Jas. Smith, 5; Charity Haight, 3; Deborah N.
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Haight, 2; An Bell, 1; legacy, Miss Charity Hustis, 90; cash de- posited in bank, 53.75; sale of old church, 52; Henry Knapp, 8; E. Denney, 10; cash, dedication, 94.07; since dedicated, 396.55."
The present pastor, Rev. J. G. Price, was born in New Brunswick, of Episcopal parents, and was converted in Boston, Mass., in 1866, and called to the ministry. He was educated in this country, and attended the following schools: in 1869, the Lawrence University; 1771-72, East Greenwich Academy; 1873- 76, in Tillon N. H. (the New Hampshire Conference Seminary and Female College) and graduated in the class of 1876; entered Boston the same year, and graduated from the Boston Theo- logical Seminary in the class of 1879. He joined the Northern New York Conference in 1880, and was transferred by Bishop Henry W. Warren, D. D., to the New York Conference and stationed at North Highlands, April 10th, 1885.
The northeastern part of this town is the north end of Lot No. 4 of Philipse Patent, and generally known as " Beverly Robin- son's Long Lot." This portion of the town is mountainous, and thinly inhabited. The eastern part was annexed to the town of Kent a few years since, as will be seen in the history of that town. A tract of 1,100 acres of woodland, at the junc- tion of the Slenandooh and Wicopee roads, was sold to the Fishkill Iron Company, in 1838, and the iron ore and tract in the north part of the town was sold to the same company by William Bushnell, in 1864.
The Fishkill Iron Company was incorporated by Act of Legis- lature March 24th, 1834, and by its provisions, James Emott, Nathaniel P. Talmadge, Walter Cunningham, James Hooker, Ira Spooner, Samuel B. Halsey, Rufus Fuller, Nathaniel P Perry, Uriah Gregory, Solomon V. Frost, Aaron Frost, Teumis Brinkerhoff, Richard De Witt, Andrew Stockholm, John W Brinkerhoff and Abner W. Spooner, were made a corporation "for the purpose of mining and working ores and manufactur- ing iron and steel, and were empowered to purchase and lease lands and all convenient wood, timber and other lands, in the Counties of Dutchess and Putnam."
Abraham Wagner, an old man 80 years of age, was murdered by G. George Denny, a youth of eighteen. The vic- tim lived in the northern part of the town, in a log house, on a small parcel of ground which he cultivated. The murderer
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was arrested, and being tried at the March term of Court, was convicted. He afterward made a full confession, and was ex- ecuted on the 26th of July following.
On the 27th of July, 1870, Mr. W. A. Browning, the agent of the Fishkill National Bank, was in the village of Cold Spring. While going to the railroad station with a large amount of money in his possession he was attacked by one John P. Trumpbour, who, knowing that Mr. Browning was carrying the money, made a desperate effort to rob him. Shaking off his assailant, and raising an alarm, several citizens rushed to his assistance, and Mr. Browning retained possession of the funds he was carrying. The robber, in attempting to escape, was seized by Elijah Jones, a coachman in the employ of Mr. H. H. Munsell. Trumphour drew a revolver and shot Mr. Jones who died the following day. Trumpbour was arrested and upon trial was convicted of murder in the second degree, and was sentenced to the State Prison for life, where he is still under- going the sentence. Elijah Jones, the victim, was a Pole, a native of Warsaw. The officers of the Fishkill Bank, in recog- nition of the services, defrayed the expenses of his funeral, and erected a monument to his memory in the Fishkill Cemetery.
SUPERVISORS OF PHILIPSTOWN .- George Lane, 1784-6; John Haight, 1787-9; Joshua Nelson, 1790-1; John Haight, 1792-3; Johua Horton, 1794-5; John Haight, 1796; Joshua Horton, 1797; Harry Garrison, 1798; Joshua Horton, 1799-1800; John Warren, 1801-2; Jacob Nelson, 1803-4; John Warren, 1805-6; James Slattery, 1807-10; Jonathan Ferris, 1811-12; Harry Gar. rison, 1813; Edward Buckbee, 1814-16; Harry Garrison, 1817- 18; David Knapp, 1819-21; Cyrus Horton, 1822-23; Abm. Smith, 1824; Isaac Horton, 1825; John Garrison, 1828-34; Silvenus Warren, 1835-40; John Garrison, 1841; Silvenus Warren, 1842; George Wright, 1843; Silvenus Warren, 1844; Gouverneur Kemble, 1845; Caleb Hustis, 1846-48; Samuel Hustis, 1849; Lewis Birdsall, 1850; John Garrison, 1851; Alfred H. Ladue, 1852; William Birdsall, 1853-54; Edwin A. Pelton, 1855-57; Silvenus Warren, 1858; Charles T. Brewster, 1859-60; Charles Boyd. 1861-62; Robert Wilson, 1863; Jeremiah Sherwood, 1864; Colin Tolmie, 1865; Osmond M. Baxter, 1866; Joshua H. Perry, 1867; George F. Garrison, 1868-69; George McCabe, 1870-71; Colin Tolmie, 1872; William D. Garrison, 1873; Wil- liam Humphry, jr., 1874-75; George Mc-Cabe, 1876; Gouverneur
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Paulding, 1877; George McCabe, 1878; Gouverneur Paulding, 1879; George McCabe, 1880; Gouverneur Kemble, 1881; Titus Truesdell, 1883; Seth Secor, 1884-85.
HON. HAMILTON FISH, LL.D., Secretary of State of the United States during the eight years of President Grant's ad- ministration, was born in New York city, August 3d, 1808. His father, Col. Nicholas Fish, a distinguished officer of the Revolutionary Army, also a native of New York, was born on the 28th of August, 1758. Having finished his classical course at Princeton, he began the study of law, but on the breaking out of the Revolutionary struggle abandoned his studies and took up arms in defense of the colonies. He served throughout the war; participated in both battles of Saratoga; commanded a corps of light infantry at the battle of Monmouth; served with General Sullivan in the expedition against the Indians in 1779; was with the light infantry under La Fayette in 1780; and .in the following year was active with his regiment in the opera- tions which resulted in the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. He was Adjutant-General of the State of New York from 1786 until 1789, and in 1794 was appointed by Washington to the office of Supervisor of Revenue. Active also in municipal affairs he served as Alderman of New York city from 1806 to 1817. He was a prominent member of the Society of the Cincinnati, an organization composed of officers of the Continental Army and their male descendants, and in 1797 was elected president of the New York branch of the society. He was active in religious and charitable affairs and a member of many local societies, literary, religious and beneficent. Col. Fish was also at one time a candidate for lieutenant-governor of the State of New York. Mrs. Lamb, in the second volume of the "History of New York City," written by her, says of him, " He was a rep- resentative citizen of elegant scholarship, refinement and good breeding."
Col. Fish married Miss Elizabeth Stuyvesant, great-great- granddaughter of Governor Stuyvesant, and a descendant, through her mother, Margaret Livingston, of the first Lord of Livingston Manor. Peter Gerard Stuyvesant, afterward president of the Historical Society, and Nicholas William Stuyvesant were her brothers, and Mrs. Benjamin Winthrop and Mrs. Dirck Ten Broeck were her sisters.
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Hamilton Fish enjoyed the best educational advantages dur- ing his early years and was graduated from Columbia College in 1827, being then in his nineteenth year. He commenced the study of law, and after due preparation was admitted to the Bar in 1830. He early in life took an active interest in politics, and, as a whig, was repeatedly nominated by his party as a candidate for the State Legislature, but was defeated, owing to the democratic majority of his district. He was elected in 1842 a representative in Congress from the Sixth Congressional Dis- trict, New York city. In 1846 he was the whig candidate for lientenant-governor on the ticket with the Hon. John Young for governor. Mr. Young was elected governor, but Mr. Fish was defeated for the second office, owing to the opposition of the anti-renters, whose hostility he had incurred on account of his earnest and uncompromising denunciation of their princi- ples. Addison Gardner, his successful opponent, a democrat who had received the support of the anti-renters, subsequently became judge of the Court of Appeals, and, on resigning the office of lieutenant governor to take his seat on the bench, Mr. Fish was elected in his place. He was elected governor of the State in 1848 by a plurality of nearly 100,000, and in 1851, was chosen United States Senator to succeed the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson. As a member of the United States Senate he op- posed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and acted with the republican party from its formation until the close of his term in 1857, in which year he went with his family to Europe, and remained abroad till a short time before the com- mencement of the Civil War. His earnest sympathies and efforts were, of course, in favor of the preservation of the Union, and he also contributed liberally in money for the support of the government. He was in 1862 appointed by Secretary of War Stanton, in conjunction with Bishop Ames, a commissioner to visit the Union soldiers imprisoned at Richmond and else- where, with a view to relieving their necessities and providing for their comfort. The Confederate Government, for some reason, declined to receive the commissioners within its lines, but expressed a willingness and readiness at the same time to enter into negotiations for a general exchange of prisoners. This suggestion was encouraged by the commissioners, and, on its approval by the authorities at Washington, an equal ex- change was eventually agreed upon, and the terms of the agree-
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"GLENCLIFFE." RESIDENCE OF HON. HAMILTON FISH, GARRISON'S, PUTNAM CO., N. Y.
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ment were substantially carried out to the termination of the war. Mr. Fish also rendered valuable service as chairman of the Union Defence Committee.
In March, 1869, Mr. Fish was called to the chief office in the cabinet of President Grant. This high position he filled with great acceptance to the president and people, and, on the com- mencement of the second term of President Grant in March, 1873, he was reappointed secretary, and served until the in- auguration of President Hayes in 1877. To him is due the credit of suggesting the formation of the joint high commission between the United States and Great Britain for the settlement of the various difficulties between the two nations (including the Alabama Claims), a proceeding which possibly averted war; and on the 9th of February, 1871, he was appointed by Presi- dent Grant one of the commissioners on the part of the United States to negotiate the treaty of Washington, which was signed by him on the 8th of May of that year. He also, in Novem- ber, 1873, negotiated with Admiral Polo, the Spanish Minister at Washington, the settlement of the " Virginius " question.
Mr. Fish, as Secretary of State, conducted the affairs of that department during one of the most difficult and critical periods in the history of our foreign relations, in a manner which re- flected honor upon himself and upon the nation. Seldom in the history of our country has the Department of State as- sumed such importance as during the years of his office, and, in his administration of it, Mr. Fish made a record of which any statesman might be proud. Mr. Fish is a man of large at- tainments, and is specially well versed in foreign affairs and in- ternational law. In all the numerous capacities in which he has at different periods of his life served the country, he has al- ways, whether his duties were legislative, executive, or diplo- matic, displayed a high order of statesmanship, and the most unquestionable probity and patriotism. In 1854 he became president of the Order of the Cincinnati; he is a leading mem- ber of the New York Historical Society and of various other learned bodies, and is prominently connected with the princi- pal literary, social and benevolent organizations of the city and State, among which is the Union League Club of New York city, of which he was formerly president.
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