History of Rockland County, New York : with biographical sketches of its prominent men, Part 6

Author: Cole, David, 1822-1903, ed. cn; Beers, J. B., & co., New York, pub
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: New York : J. B. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 993

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full expiation which Indian justice demanded, a blood atonement of money, and the custom, so rashness. De Vries protested that no warlike steps could universal among the red men of America, was, be taken without the assent of the twelve men, of whom strange to say, in accordance with the usage of he was president. It was urged that the Dutch colonists classic Greece. At length, persuaded by De Vries, who | in the open country were all unprepared, and the Indians

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would wreak their vengeance on the unprotected farmers. Taking De Vries into the great hall at the side of his house, Kieft showed him all his soldiers, reviewed and ready to pass over the river to Pavonia. "Let this work alone," again urged De Vries. "You want to break the Indians' mouths, but you will also murder our own people." All remonstrance was idle. The director doggedly replied: "The order has gone forth. It cannot be recalled."

And these impious orders he declared were undertaken in full confidence that God would crown their resolutions with success. What crimes are committed in the name of the Almighty by evil men! During the night of the 25th of February, 1643, the tragedy which Kieft and his coadjutors had been meditating was terribly accomplished. land or remove to Rensselaerwick, which experienced no Sergeant Rodolf, with a force of eighty men, crossed over to Pavonia, and straightway fell upon the encamp- ment of the refugee Tappans. While the savages were quietly sleeping in fancied security from their Mohawk subjugators, the murderous attack was begun. The noise liberal minded founder of Rhode Island, " mine eyes saw of muskets mingled with the shrieks of the terrified In- dians. Neither age nor sex was spared. Warrior and squaw, sachem and child, mother and babe, were alike massacred. Daybreak scarcely ended the furious slaugh- ter. Mangled victims, seeking safety in the thickets, were driven into the river, and parents, rushing to save their children, whom the soldiers had thrown into the stream, were driven back into the waters and drowned before the eyes of their unrelenting murderers. Eighty savages perished at Pavonia. "I sat up that night," says De Vries, " by the kitchen fire at the director's. About midnight, hearing loud shrieks, I ran up to the ramparts of the fort. Looking toward Pavonia I saw nothing but shooting, and heard nothing but the shrieks of Indians murdered in their sleep." A few minutes afterward an Indian and squaw who lived near Vriesen- dael, and who had escaped from Pavonia in a small skiff, came to the kitchen fire whither De Vries had returned with an aching heart. "The Fort Orange Indians have fallen on us," said the terrified savages, "and we have come to hide ourselves in the fort." "It is no time to hide yourself in the fort. No Indians have done this deed. It is the work of the Swannekens-the Dutch," answered the humane De Vries, as he led the undeceived fugitives to the gate where stood no sentinel, and that De Vries was a good chief. The grateful savages watched them until they were hidden in the woods. The cried out at once to the patroon's people that, if they had not already destroyed the cattle, they would not do so now. They would let the little brewery stand, al- though they longed for the copper kettle to make barbs for their arrows. The siege was instantly raised and the relenting red men departed. Hastening down to Man- hattan, De Vries indignantly demanded of Kieft: "Has it not happened, just as I said, that you were only help- ing to shed Christian blood? Who will now compensate us for our losses?" But the humiliated director gave no answer. He was surprised that no Indians had come to the fort. " It is no wonder," retorted De Vries. "Why should they whom you have so treated come here?" When the ghosts of murdered men and defenseless carnage of that awful night equaled, in remorseless cruelty, the atrocities six years before at the fort on the Mistic. Only in the number of victims were the mur- derous exploits of the New Netherland Dutch against the North River Indians less shocking to humanity than the ruthless achievements of the New England Puritans against the devoted tribes of the Pequods. We hardly need say that, after such wanton cruelty of the Dutch toward the savages, common cause was at once made by the Long Island savage with the North River Indians, who burned with frenzied hate and revenge when they found that the midnight massa- cres at Pavonia and Manhattan, where forty others were killed at the same time, were not the work of the women and children stared the governor of New Am-

Mohawks, but of the Dutch. From swamps and thickets the mysterious enemy made his sudden onset. The far- mer was murdered in the open field. Women and chil- dren were granted their lives, but were swept off into a long captivity. Houses and boweries, haystacks and grain, cattle and crops, were all destroyed. From the shores of the Raritan to the valley of the Housatonic, not a single plantation was safe. Eleven tribes of Indians rose in open war, and New Netherland now read the awful lesson which Connecticut had learned six years before. Such of the colonists as escaped with their lives, fled from their desolate homes to seek refuge in Fort Amsterdam. In their despair they threatened to return to the Father- trouble. At this juncture, Roger Williams, who, not being allowed to take ship in Massachusetts, was forced to repair to the Dutch, arrived at Manhattan on his way to Europe. "Before we weighed anchor," wrote the the flames at their towns, and the flight and hurry of men, women, and children, the present removal of all that could, for Holland." So broken and depressed were the people of New Amsterdam at this unfortunate junc- ture, that four years later, when Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor, came to take charge of this shattered colony, he reported to the Home Government and said: " I need not intrude on your Illustrious High Might- inesses with a long narrative as to the low condition in which I found New Netherland on my arrival." The flatland was so stripped of inhabitants that with the three English villages of Hempsted, New Flushing, and Gravesend, fifty boweries and plantations could not be enumerated, and there could not be made out in the whole province as many as 300 men capable of bear- ing arms. Even Vriesendael did not escape the general calamity. The outhouses, and crops, and cattle on the plantation were destroyed. The terrified colonists es- caped into the manor house, in which De Vries had prudently constructed loop holes for musketry. While all were standing on their guard, the same Indian the patroon had humanely conducted out of Fort Am- sterdam on the night of the massacre at Pavonia, coming up to the besiegers, related the occurrence and told them

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sterdam in the face, then, when too late, he began to call upon God, by proclaiming a day of general fasting and prayer. When desolation and sorrow had taken the place of gladness and prosperity, when the colony en- trusted to his care was nearly, if not quite ruined, he then humbled himself before the Most High, and invoked that mercy from Heaven which the Christian had refused to the savage. In this terrible dilemma, when Kieft was despised by his people, who threatened to take the law into their own hands, depose him from the government and send him back to Holland, and when he was hated by the red man, who called him a corn thief, he appealed . to De Vries, who was the one only man able to allay the bitter, revengeful feelings of the wronged savage, to bring about, if possible, a reconciliation. The attempt was so far successful that some of the Long Island sachems were induced to visit Hackensack and Tappan with the view of once more establishing peace between the belligerents. But it was several weeks before the enraged savages would listen to the counsels of the me- diators or put any faith in the director. At last Oritany, the sachem of the Hackensacks, invested with a pleni- potentiary commission from the neighboring tribes, ap- peared at Fort Amsterdam. Kieft endowed him with presents, and peace was covenanted between the River Indians and the Dutch. This, however, proved to be a truce only, for in mid-summer, a few months after, a neighboring chief visited Vriesendael in deep despond- ency. He told the patroon that their young men were urging war, for some had lost fathers or mothers, and it might have been too that the young Indian cherished in his memory,

" The song of his maid of the woods and rocks. With her bright black eyes and long black locks, And voice like the music of rills."

De Vries was a native of France, and, on account of All were mourning over the memory of friends. The | his Protestant faith, became identified with the Dutch of presents which had been given to atone for their losses were not worth the touch. "We can pacify our young men no longer," said the well meaning sachem, as he warned De Vries against venturing alone into the woods for fear that some of the Indians, who did not know him, might kill their constant friend. At the patroon's en- treaty the chief accompanied him to Fort Amsterdam. "You are a chief. You should cause the crazy young Indians, who want to war again with the Swannekens, the Dutch, to be killed!" said Kieft, as he treacherously of- fered the sachem a bounty of 200 fathoms of wampum.

But the indignant red man spurned the proffered bribe. "This cannot be done by me," he said. "Had you at first fully atoned for your murders they would all have been forgotten. I shall always do my best to pacify my people, but I fear I cannot, for they are continually cry- ing for vengeance;" and so the boding sachem went his way. . It is enough to say that for two years after the events above narrated, hostilities in the shape of murder, rapine, and plunder continued, until the colonists of

New Amsterdam became so weakened and hard pressed by the savages that they were obliged to send to Tappan for stones to wall up an enclosure where Wall street now is, to protect their few remaining cattle from the forages of the Indians. The war which Kieft's recklessness had provoked was now about to end. During five years New Netherland had known hardly five months of peace. Manhattan was nearly depopulated, while the Indian na- tions around were still thousands strong, and New Eng- land already contained 50,000 souls. Too late Kieft per- ceived his error, for a stern voice of warning had come from the Amsterdam Chamber, and the conscience of the director smote him as he foresaw the end of his rule over the noble province whose interests he had sacri- rificed .*

With the opening of the spring of 1645, the Indians, who were anxious to plant their corn, desired peace. Delegates from several of the neighboring tribes, among whom was Wilhem of Tappan, came to Fort Amsterdam, and Kieft eagerly concluded a truce with the warriors. A formal peace was ratified by the exchange of tokens of eternal friendship. Whi-teney-wau, the ambassador sachem, was dismissed with presents.

Previous to this, the patroon of Vriesendael, seeing the inevitable drift of events, his boweries (when he had at- tempted to establish colonies) lying in ashes, and the In- dians, whose confidence he never lost, bent on war, a good opportunity offering in his ruined condition, deter- mined to return to the Fatherland. As he left Manhat- tan forever, and saw Kieft for the last time, he left with him this awful prophecy: "The murders in which you have shed so much innocent blood will yet be avenged upon your own head." We have already seen to what extent the warning was fulfilled.

the Netherlands. He was a blunt mariner, but emphat- ically a man of the people, with a heart imbued with hu- manity and conciliation toward all men, ever opposing arbitrary power, frank, honest, religious, and a sincere advocate of the interests of New Amsterdam. He was 47 years old when he founded Vriesendael, just in the vigor and zenith of his manhood. Had his judicious counsels prevailed, Vriesendael would have been the cor- ner stone, and her men and women the predecessors of the 28,000 people of this county to-day. But its extinc- tion required the introduction of new homes and fire- sides, and brought new names for our progenitors, who built slowly, but surely and well, and have left to us an inheritance worthy of our patriotic love.

* Kieft was recalled by the States General. On the 10th of August, 1647, he einlurked for Holland in the ship Princess, carrying with him a fortune which his enemies estimated at 400,000 gullders, The Princess. navigated by mistake into the Bristol Channel, struck upon a rock and was wrecked upon the rugged coast of Wales. Toward morning the . ship went to pieces. Kieft and eighty other persons, including ilo- gardus, were drowned.

HISTORY OF ROCKLAND COUNTY.

CHAPTER V.

ROCKLAND COUNTY IN THE REVOLUTION.

T THE TERRITORY now included in Rockland county was, by reason of its position relative to the Hudson River and New York city, the theater of important events during the Revolutionary war. It will be remembered that the city of New York fell into the hands of the English troops soon after the battle of Long Island, and was occupied by them till the close of the war. It will also be remembered that the enemy had . vessels of war in the river at varying distances above the | method to obtain a speedy repeal.

city, and that they conceived the policy, which they were never able to carry out, of possessing the river through its entire length, and thus making it a barrier between the Eastern and the Middle and Southern States. When active military operations were in progress in this vicin. ity, the region along the river above New York was the theater of stirring events, some of which transpired in what is now Rockland county, then a part of Orange.

Of the causes that led to the separation of the colonies from the mother country, and to the efforts by the colo- nists to obtain redress of their grievances from the En- glish government, it is not necessary here to speak, as these are matters familiar to all who have studied the history of this country. Some events, however, occurred outside the limits of Rockland county, in the period im- mediately preceding and during the Revolution, of which we must speak, as they were inseparably connected with what transpired here.

To the people of Orangetown, in Rockland county, belonged the honor of adopting, at a convention held July 4th 1774, resolutions that contained the germ of the great principles embodied in the Declaration of Indepen- dence. The coincidence of the day (July 4th), with that of the later Declaration was, of course, merely acci- dental, but the resolutions adopted evinced the spirit which actuated the people. And the alacrity with which they responded to the first call for troops, and the perse- verance with which they continued the struggle, showed

What events, if any, of importance occurred in this lo- that Sir Henry Clinton uttered the truth when he said he cality between October 1774 and April 1775, it is now could neither "buy nor conquer these Dutchmen." The following is the record of the proceedings of this con- vention:

"ORANGE TOWN RESOLUTIONS .*

" At a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of Orangetown and Province of New York, on Monday the fourth day of July, 1774, at the house of Mr. Yoast Ma- bie in said town, the following resolves were Agreed upon and passed, viz .:

" Ist, That we are, and ever wish to be, true and loyal subjects to his Majesty George the Third, King of Great Britain.

" 2nd, That we are most cordially disposed to support his majesty and defend his crown and dignity in every constitutional measure, as far as lies in our power.

"3d, That however well disposed we are towards his majesty, we cannot see the late acts of Parliament impos- ing duties upon us, and the act for shutting up the port of Boston, without declaring our abhorrence of measures so unconstitutional and big with destruction.

" 4th, That we are in duty bound to use every just and lawful measure to obtain a repeal of acts, not only de- structive to us, but which, of course, must distress thou- sands in the mother country.

"5th, That it is our unanimous opinion that the stop- ping all exportation and importation to and from Great Britain and the West Indies would be the most effectual

"6th, That it is our most ardent wish to see concord and harmony restored to England and her colonies.

" 7th, That the following gentlemen, to wit: Colonel Abraham Lent, John Haring, Esquire, Mr. Thomas Out- water, Mr. Gardner Jones, and Peter T. Haring be a committee for this town, to correspond with the city of New York, and to conclude and agree upon such meas- ures as they shall judge necessary in order to obtain a repeal of said acts."

It will be noticed that the recommendation contained in the fifth resolution of this convention formed a part of what was known as the non-importation agreement, which was adopted by the Continental Congress at Phil- adelphia, on the 20th of October, 1774. This non-im- portation agreement was subsequently ratified by the several colonies, and was one of the overt acts that pre- cipitated the Revolution. In this Congress, Orange county was represented by one of her most distinguished citizens, as the following extract from its proceedings on the 17th of September, 1774, shows, and the name of this representative was appended to the act for carrying into effect the non-importation agreement:

" Henry Wisner, a delegate from the County of Or- ange, in the colony of New York, Appeared at Congress and produced a certificate of election by said county, which being read and approved, he took his seat in Con- gress as a deputy for the colony of New York."

difficult to learn. But on the 17th of the latter month a meeting was held at the Yoast Mabie House, agreeably to notice given. At that meeting the freeholders "took into consideration the necessity of their being duly and properly represented in the Provincial Convention to be held at the city of New York on the 20th of April, for the purpose of electing and appointing delegates to rep- resent this colony of New York in the next Continental Congress to be held in the city of Philadelphia on the 10th day of May next." * * *

" It was thereupon voted and ordered that John Her- ring, Esq., should be a deputy for the said town of Orange, to represent the said town in this convention."

Colonel A. Hawkes Hay was also chosen for Haver- straw.

Soon after this, hostilities began in New England, and active preparations for war were begun here. On the

*American Archives, 4th serles, Vol. 1, page 500.

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31st of July, 1775, Colonel David Pye wrote from Clarks- town to the Provincial Congress of New York as follows: taken and compared by me. Per order of the committee.

"The bearer hereof, Captain Robert Johnson, has his company now full, and as he is a sum of money out by this, I take the liberty to recommend him to you for di- rection when he may have the necessary supplies for his company."

Subsequent records show that the supplies were fur- nished, and before the close of the war these troops rendered good service in the cause of their country.

On the 17th of July, 1775, the most important meeting ever held in this locality took place, probably at the Yoast Mabie House. At this meeting every man was called on to declare his allegiance to the cause of liberty, or be reckoned among the enemies of his country. The meeting was called to consider the following:

" General Association adopted by freemen, freehold- ers, and inhabitants of the city and county of New York, on Saturday the 29th of April, 1775, and transmitted for signing to all the counties in the province:

" Persuaded that the salvation of the rights and lib- erties of America depends, under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants in a vigorous prosecution of the meas- ures necessary for its safety, and convinced of the necessity of preventing the anarchy and confusion which attend the dissolution of the powers of the government, we, the freemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of Orange Town, being greatly alarmed at the avowed design of the ministry to raise a revenue in America, and shocked by the bloody scenes now acting in the Massachusetts Bay, do, in the most solenin manner, resolve never to be- come slaves; and do associate under all the ties of re- ligion, honor, and love to our country, to adopt and en- deavor to carry into execution whatever measures may be recommended by the Continental Congress, or re- solved upon by our Provincial Convention, for the pur- pose of preserving our constitution, and opposing the execution of the several arbitrary and oppressive acts of the British Parliament until a reconciliation between Great Britain and America, on constitutional principles (which we most ardently desire), can be obtained; and. that we will in all things follow the advice of our general committee respecting the purposes aforesaid, the preser- vation of peace and good order, and the safety of indi- viduals and private property.

"Signed by Daniel Lawrence, David Aljea, David Lawrence, Albert Aljea, Edward Briggs, Garret Blauvelt, Kasparius Conklin, Avery Campbell, Ram Boll, Abraham Conklin, James Jacklin, Spedwell Jacklin, Nathaniel Lawrence, Abraham Post, Jacob Wilfer, Michael Cornel- ison, Jacobus De Clark, William Martin, Daniel Vorhees, Abraham Onderdonk, Jones Torrell, Abraham Tallman jr., Daniel Onderdonk, Jacob Conklin, William Bell jr., Abraham Mabie, Garret Ackerson, Harman Tallinan jr., Peter Retan, John Westervelt, Johannes Vanhouten, Harman Tallman, John Rycher, Jacob Ackerson, Adrean Onderdonk, Conrad Gravenstine, Abraham Mabie jr., John Gissenar jr.

" These are the names of the persons who have signed

the General Association. A true copy from the originals

"THOMAS OUTWATER,

"Orange Town, July 17th, 1775. Chairman.

" These are to certify that each and every one of the persons hereinafter named, inhabitants of the town of Orange, and every one of them of full age, have refused and neglected to sign the General Association.

"Per order of the committee.

"THOMAS OUTWATER, " Chairman.

" Matthew Steel, Jacob C. Ackerson, Dennis Sneeding, Johannes Perry, Rals Bogard, Robert Sneeding, Isaac G. Blauvelt, Gesebert R. Bogard, Jessy Sneeding, George Man, Jacob Gessenar."

"This Association was also signed by other citizens of Orange County, as follows:

"Signers in Haverstraw Precinct, Orange County. Robert Burns, Joseph Knap, David Pye, John Coleman, John Coe, Robert Johnson, Arry Smith, John Lent, Walter Smith, Jacob Polhemus, John Smith, Walter Cure, Andrew Onderdonk, George Polhemus, Cornelius Paul- ding, Abraham Ackerson, Thunis Snedeker, Dowey Tall- man, John Wallace, Nathaniel Barmore, Thomas Morall. David Hoofman, Garret Cole, Nathaniel Towenson, Thomas Allison, Henry Hallsted, Harmanus Hoofman, Harmanus Felter, Johannes Demarest, James Hannan, Thomas Dolphen, William Bell, Abraham Polhemus, Peter Snyder, Abraham Blawvelt, Edward Cane, Ram Ramson, Matthew Coe, Peter Salter, Stephen Stephenson, Theunis Tallman, Andrew Onderdonk, William String- ham, Garret Paulding, Theunis Ramson, James Thene, Jacob Archer, Joseph Seamondis, John Toten, John Tot- en, Jr., Robert Ackerly, Richard Osborn, Thomas Dick- ings, William Derunde, John Dunscombe, Abel Knapp, Jerod Knapp, Jobair Knapp, Thomas Gilfon, Alexander Giffon, Thomas Kingen, Andrew Onderdonk, Johannes J. Blawvelt, Johannes Vanderbilt, Thomas Blawvelt, Isaac Blawvelt, Andrew Cole, Isaac Manual, John Clark, Johannes Blawvelt, Jonathan Lounsberry, Powlas Hop- per, Peter Salter, Joseph Wood, Jr., Harmanus Tallman, James Paul, Jeremiah Williamson, Jacob Mayers, Theu- nis Ramson, Derick Vanderbilt, Isaac Dutcher, John Feltar, Johannes Ramson, William Feltar, Theunis Tall- man, Abraham Tallman, Ebenczer Wood, John Wallace, Stephen Stephenson, John Ferrand, Garret Mayers, Abraham Thew, James Sharp, Theodorus Snedeker, James Kelly, John Brush, Garret Van Cleft, Dawey Tall- man, Aurt Polhemus, Jacobus D. Clark, George Ramson, Luke Stephenson, Jobair Lawery, Cobar D. Clark, Daniel D. Clark, Johannes Jenwie, Theunis Tallman, Samuel Wilson, Henry Tenure sen. Jacob Tenure, Leon- ard Bayle, Thomas Jacks, Cobbas Clark, Thomas Wilson, Gilbert Fowler. Peter Esterly, Abrahan: Stag jr. Jacob Seacor, Isaac Seacord, Jona Wood, Aurt Amorman, Thomas Osborn, Isaac Cole, Abraham Blawvelt, Reynard Hopper, Abraham Brower, Abraham Koll, Daniel Van Sichels, Albard Stephenson, Petris Blawvelt, Jacobus Van Orden, Daniel Martine, Henry Brower, Stephen

HISTORY OF ROCKLAND COUNTY.

Stephenson, Thomas Eckerson, Adrian Onderdonk, Dercke Vanderbilt, John Smith, Henry Tornure, Her- manus Blawvelt, John Ackerson, Alexander Mannell, Andris Onderdonk, Rulef Stephenson, John Van Dolsen, Andrew Van Orden, Derick Van Houten, John Vander- belt, Edward Ackerman, Carpenter Kelly, Jacob Jirekie, John Martine, Thomas Kelly, Garret Onderdonk, Rulef Onderdonk, Mauhel Ternure, Johannes Defrees, Jere- miah Martine, James Onderdonk, Powlas Seamonds, John Vorhese, Jost Vorhese, James Paul, Edward Jones, Johannes Cole, E. William Kerse, Jacob Kenifen, John Hill, Amos Hutchins, Peter Kiselar, Patten Jackson, Joseph Allison, Adam Brady, John Johnston, Benjamin Allison, William Concklin, Abraham Garrison, Claus Van Houten, Joseph Allison, Harmanus Trumper, John Alli- son, Chas. R. Van Houten, Garit Snedeker, Daniel Cock. late, Stephen Beans, Peter Allison, William Slatt, Elis Seacor, James Seacor, Peter De Pue, John Allison, Wil- liam Dozenberry, Jonah Halsted, John Halsted, Jonathan Taylor, Benjamin Jones, Peter Read, James Stewart, Theunis D. Clark, James Smith, Joseph Concklin, Mi- chael Concklin, Abraham Concklin, James Girnee, Edward Smith, John Smith, Isaac Seacor, David Seacor, Daniel Ward, Jacob Jones, Theunis Cuyper, Gilbard Cuyper, John W. Cogg, Garit V. Houten, Gabriel Fargyson, Benjamin Coe, Powlas Vandervort, Samuel Sidman, Joseph Jones, John J. Coe, John Harper, Garit Ackerson Cornelius Cooper, Gilbert Wilson, Samuel Youmans, Abraham De Puy, John Thew, A. Hawkes Hay, Daniel Morall, James Seacor, Paul Keselar. Gilbard Crumm, Adrian Onderdonk, John Parker, Robert Wood, James Carmelt, Moses Chid Charter, John Johnston jr., Rose- velt Van Houten, Rosevelt V. Houten, Jacob Onderdonk, Albard Onderdonk, Garit Garitson, John Allison, son of do. Benjamin Knapp, John Ackerman, John Ellison, Ct., Jacob Derunde, Timothy Halsted, Daniel Parker, Abraham Deronde, James Shirlay, P. Van Houten, sen., Peter Van Houten, Abraham Mayers, John Mayers, " July 11th, 1775, signed the Association and published the same before all the spectators, calling them to witness, that we would not countenance rebellion, nor have any hand in a riot, but stand for King, Country, and liberty, agreeable to the Charter, but at the same time disallowing taxation in any wise contrary to the Charter, and shall never consent to taxation with- out being fully represented with our consent. Jacobus Mayers, Henry Onderdonk, James Willson, Daniel Coe, Johannes Trumper, Abraham Sarvant, Walter Van Orden, Abraham Herring, Patrick Gillian, Isaac Post, James Wilson, jr., George Trumper, Claus Van Houten, Samuel Youmans, Henry Wood, David Morgan, Cornelius A. Turk, William Wood, Daniel Coe, jr., Simond Trump, James Osborn, William You- man, jr., James Christe, James Stagg, Abraham Spring- "Isaac Sherwood, Cornelius De Gray, Alberd Smith Cornelius Smith, Garit Smith, Daniel Gerow, Cornelius Benson, John Palmer, John Cox, Harmanus Kiselar, Pe- ter Forshee, Derick Straws, Guysbert F. Camp. John Smith, John Darlington, Johannes Bell, John Van Horn, R. Quackenboss, Arry Blawvelt, John Rureback, Abra- ham Debann, Re Cier Quackenboss, Thunis Emmat, An- thony Crouter, Jacob Waldron, Thunis Crum, Peter Bush, Arthur Johnston, David D. Ackerman, Benjamin Sicore, Cornelius Smith, Johannes Forshee, Reynard House, jr. steel, Harmanus Blawvelt, Peter Ackerson, Francis Cline, Joseph Palmer, Henry Houser, Frederick Urie, David Sherwood, Stephen Vorhese, Edward Ackerson, Stephen Smith, Samuel Hunt, John Jeffries, Thomas Din- ard, Joseph Seamonds, John Burges, John Hogencamp, Cornelius Ackerson, Richard Springsteel, Thunis Van Houten, Samuel Youmans, Willvart Cooper, Johnas Snedeker, Hendrick Stephens, Benjamin Benson, John Persall, jr., Peter Crum, James Rumsey, John Parker, jr., Salvanus Mott, Thomas Tillt, Henry Osborn, Jacob Parker, Benjamin Furman, Isaac Parker, Patrick Gur- "The above subscribers could not be prevailed upon to sign the main or principal Association (except Isaac nee, Paul Vandervoort, John Gardner, Charles Mott, Markel Mott, George Johnston, Gilbart Hunt, John De Sherwood, who did conform), but must have one of their

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History of Rockland County, New York : with biographical sketches of its prominent men, Part 6

Author: Cole, David, 1822-1903, ed. cn; Beers, J. B., & co., New York, pub Publication date: 1884 Publisher: New York : J. B. Beers & co. Number of Pages: 993

Author: Cole, David, 1822-1903, ed. cn; Beers, J. B., & co., New York, pub
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: New York : J. B. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 993