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1. Address of the Hon. A. B. Hasbrouck, LL.D., de- livered before the society, Oct. 17, 1859.
2. An Account of the Settlement of New Paltz by the Huguenots, by Edmund Eltinge.
3. Notes and Documents pertaining to the Early ITis- tory of Kingston, Hurley, and Marbletown, by John R. Brodhead.
4. Letter of Joseph Brant to Col. Jacob Klock, 1778.
5. Letter of John Jay to Sheriff Dumoud, 1771.
6. Petition of the inhabitants of Rochester for protee- tion against the Indians, 1778.
7. Treaty between Col. Richard Nicolle, Governor of New York, and the Esopus Indians, 1665.
8. Proclamation of George Clinton's election as Governor in 1777.
9. Bill of sale of a negro boy in 1707.
10. Inscriptions in the First Dutch church-yard at Kingston.
11. Hurley, from MS. of Jon. W. Hasbrouck's History of Ulster County.
12. Notes upon the Esopus Indians and their Language, by the Rev. N. W. Jones.
13. E-opus Treaty, 1665.
14. Ulster Cony Sheriff's, from 1661 to 185S.
15. List of Colonial Statutes referring to Ulster County.
16. List of Documents, relating to Ulster, in the Clinton Papers in State Library at Albany.
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17. An Account of the British Expedition and of the Events connected with the Burning of Kingston in 1777, by George W. Pratt.
18. Certificate of denization for Abraham Dubois, 1701.
19. Certificate of church membership for Jan Eltinge, Beyle, 1680.
20. History of the Huguenot Church and Settlement at New Paltz, by Rev. Charles H. Stitt.
21. The Ulster Regiment in the " Great Rebellion," by William Lounsbery, Esq.
22. Origin and Meaning of the word " Shawangunk," by Rev. C. Scott.
23. The Indian Forts of 1663, by Rev. C. Scott.
The legend on the official seal of this society is Gedenkt- aen-de-dagen-van-monde, " to remember the days of old."
Of the original officers the president and secretary are deceased, and since their death the organization has had no regular meetings. William Lounshery, of Kingston, has charge of the historical collections and records of the society, and it is hoped that it may be resuscitated, and then earnestly carry forward the work so well begun.
II .- ULSTER COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
This organization is said to have been effected in 1840. The fair-grounds were located in the northeast part of the present city of Kingston, and comprised a tract of eleveu and a half acres. The buildings usual to such grounds were erected, and the value of the property has been stated at ten thousand dollars. The prescut secretary is not in pos- session of the early records, and it is difficult to state the names of the founders and the first officers.
A volume of minutes commencing in 1859 is preserved. The annual meeting for that year was held January 29th. Peter Crispell, Jr., the president, occupied the chair. Ben- jamin B. Hoornbeck was appointed secretary pro tem. A balance in the treasury was reported, amounting to one hun- dred and ninety dollars and fifty-four cents. The list of metubers enrolled that day shows who were active in sup- port of the society twenty years ago : P. Henry Brink, Jacobus Rose, George Wynkoop, J. Sagendorf, Beniah Snyder, Bragg & Jansen, John Vignes, Heury Van Buren, Louis Bevier, Matthew T. Truwy bour. Benjamin B. Hoornbeck, Andrew Bostwick, Dumont Ehuendorf. Samuel Frame, Charles Brodhead, C. S. Stillwell, Maurice Wurts, Jacob, U. Brink, William C. More, John T. Merritt. John Chipp, Jr., George Keys, Jacob Hl. Davis, William H. Trumpbour, Jacob Osterhoudt, John Crispell, Hiram Pat- terson, Simon S. Westbrook, J. Salsbury Burhans, Ben- jamiu llardenbergh, C. L. Kiersted. The officers elected at that meeting were C. L. Kiersted, President ; P. Henry Brink, Vice-President ; Samuel Frame, Recording Seere- tary ; Benjamin B. Hoornbeck, Corresponding Secretary ; Jolin Chipp, Jr., Treasurer.
C. P. Myer and James Kiersted were chosen directors in place of Cornelius M. Van Leuven and Peter H. Brink, whose term of office had expired. The board of managers for the year were William Cockburn, Kingston ; Louis Bevier, Marbletown; Benjamin D. Souser, Kingston ; El- liot Thompson, Fly Mountain; C. P. Myer, .Kingston ; James Kiersted, Kingston.
OFFICERS 1850-80.
PRESIDENTS.
1859-60, C. L. Kier-ted; 1861, P. Henry Brink ; 1862, Joslah P. Le- fever: 1863, Cornelius P. Myer ; 1564, William Cockburn ; 1565, Silas Snyder: 1866, C. L. Kiersted : 1867, William Masten ; 1868-69, James Kiersted; 1870-71, Lewis N. Heermance ; 1872- 73, C. L. Kiersted; 1874, F. L. Westbrouk ; 1875-76, C. L. Kier- sted.
RECORDING SECRETARIES.
1859-60, Samuel Frame; IS61, Cornelius Burhans ; 1862-63, Samuel Frame; 1864, Cornelius Burhans; 1865-66, C. S. Stillwell; 1867 -71, William Lounsbery; 1872, P. Harlow; 1873-76, Robert Loughran.
The society has not formally dissolved, but it has ceased to hold annual fairs, and new elections of directors have not taken place for three years.
III .- ULSTER COUNTY TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.
This organization dates from the early years of the tem- perance reformation in this State. It was auxiliary to the New York State Temperance Society, and in turu had its own auxiliaries in nearly all the towns in the county, and required stated reports from them. Of course its first organization was under the " old pledge," which prohibited the use of ardent spirits only, and met with much apparent success nuder this arrangement. Hon. Lucas Elmendorf, of Kingston, was one of the early presidents, and Dr. Peter Crispell, Jr., Gen. Joseph S. Smith, Edmund Eltinge, Richard Hardenbergh, and many other prominent men were among the active workers of the time. But the " old pledge" came to be regarded as inadequate aud inconsistent, and the " total abstinence" system was demanded. The innovation met with much opposition from temperance uieu, and some abandoned the cause never to retin. Yet the very conflict of opinion brought the question into more intimate connection with the people, and gave an added impulse to the cause. Teetotalism triumphed, and the society was reorganized upon that basis. Gen. Joseph S. Smith, Edmund Eltinge, Richard Hardenbergh, A. B. Preston, George A. Dudley, Gabriel W. Ludlum, E. W. Buddingtou were among the new workers, and all save Mir. Hardenbergh were in turn secretaries and presidents of the society. Quarterly and annual meetings were hell in different parts of the county, with great success. Business sessions would convene in the afternoon, with addresses in the evening, always with full houses. Gen. Smith was president for many years, and to him more than to any other individual was the society indebted for its usefulness in keeping the temperance question before the people so long. Many of the clergy of the county leut valuable aid, uutil, at length, other methods of work having been intro- duced, the society was dissolved.
IV .- ULSTER COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY.
This venerable organization comprises in its history al- most the entire period of modern religious activity. In the early part of this century, when foreign and domestic mission agencies were being founded, none were more im- portant than that which proposed to multiply copies of the
* Reorganized into a stock company, in pursuance of an act of the Legislature.
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Holy Scriptures for the widest possible diffusion and at the lowest possible price. These movements received an carnest support in this county, and the county Bible Society ante- dites the founding of the national organization one or more years, being formed as early as 1815. It has been eon- tinned with unbroken regularity, holding its annual meet- ings, opening up depositories of Bibles, and securing sys- tematic visitation of every family for the purpose of selling or giving away Bibles.
The present employed agent of the society is W. Smith, of Rifton, who is giving his whole time to this society and to the work of the Ulster County Sunday-School Association.
V .- ULSTER COUNTY SUNDAY-SCHOOL ASSOCIA- TION.
Previous to 1861 the Sunday-school work in the county had been local and quite unsatisfactory to the prominent Christian workers in the churches. The outlying districts, remote from church privileges, were little eared for or en- tirely neglected, and the efforts put forth to bring the young under Bible influence and teaching were local and fragiven- tary. A feeling pervaded the minds of those who loved the Sabbath-school that individual effort should be aggre- gated and associated, and the scattered energies of Christian workers should be organized and a definite plan of action adopted. Repeated calls came from the State association, then six years old, for the statistics of the county, but there was no organization to respond.
An organization was first attempted at a meeting called in the Second Refermed church, Kingston, on the 26th of February, 1861. Subsequent meetings were held at Stone Ridge, Saugerties, New Paltz, Kingston, and Ellenville. The meeting at Ellenville, May 27, 1863, seems to have been the last effort for permanent organization. Prominent among those present and who participated in the exercises of those incetings we find the names of Rev. Thomas Lape and John D. L. Montanye, as chairmen ; Rev. J. L. McNair aud Joseph Hasbrouck as secretaries, and among the speakers Rev. Joseph Collier, R. G. Pardee, E. W. Buddington, Nial T. Childs, Walter B. Crane, J. U. Emerick, John Lyons, and Albert Nichols.
Aug. 1, 1864, a meeting of one del gate from each of the seven Sabbath-schools in the village of Kingston was held in the lecture-room of the First Reformed church " for the purpose of a lepting means to seeure the Sunday- school statistics of the county." The following persous appeared as said delegates : Mr. T. C. Brodhead, G. B. Merritt, Rev. J. G. L. McKowen, Frank Nestell, J. O. Merritt, HI. II. Reynolds, and F. W. Reynolds. Rev. J. G. I. MeKowen was called to the chair, and George B. Merritt appointed secretary. A committee representing the different religious denominations of the county was appointed to procure the Sunday-school statistics, which were pre- seuted at an adjourned meeting of the delegates with the officers and teachers of the village schools, held August 2 lih, and are the first records of the Sunday-school statistics of the county, viz. : Number of schools, one hundred and forty-one; officers and teachers, two thousand and sixty- three ; scholars registered, nine thousand six hundred and twenty-two.
On Sept. 14, 1864, in accordance with a previoas call, a " county convention of pastors, officers, and teachers, and all interested in the Sunday-school work," was held in the Second Reformed church, Kingston, "for the purpose of organizing a county Sunday-school association." Rev. Thomas Lape was called to the chair, and George B. Mer- ritt chosen secretary. The committee on permanent organi- zation reported for President, Reuben Bernard, of Kingston ; Vice-President, Nial T. Childs, Ellenville ; Vice- President, J. B. Sheffield, Saugerties ; Secretary, George B. Merritt, Kingston ; Treasurer, E. W. Buddington, Kingston. A constitution was presented and adopted which set forth the objects of the association to be "to obtain statistical in- formation relative to the Sunday-schools of the county, to visit and co-operate with every town and neighborhood in building up and enlarging the schools now existing, the establishing of new schools where needed, and the organiz- ing of town associations auxiliary to the county associa- tion, to the end that all the children and youth may be gathered into the Sunday-schools." The constitution pro- vided for an annual and semi-annual meeting, to be held in June and October ; secretaries were appointed in each town " to aid in procuring the statistics, and to enlist in active union and sympathy every Sabbath-school with the objects and purpose of the county organization." Out of this meeting there grew results which the most sanguine and ardent participator in the exercises could hardly have an- ticipated. Mr. H. H. Reynolds in addressing the meeting uttered these prophetie words : " This Sunday-sebool asso- ciation, among other noble ends, will unite in unity of effort the Christians of all denominations." The prediction has been fully verified in the union and harmony which has pervaded the work of the association.
The first annual convention was held at Kingston, June 21, 1865, and the first semi annual meeting at Stone Ridge, in October following. The second anniversary was held at Ellenville, June 20, 1860, and the semi-annual meeting of the same year at New Paltz, October 24th. The annual convention for 1867 was held at Saugerties, June 19th. It was the largest and most animated meeting of the assoein- tion yet held. Five hundred children from the Sabbath- schools of the village and vicinity were addressed in the afternoon by Rev. Charles H. Stitt. The felt presence of the Spirit was most manifest through all the exercises. The semi-annual gathering was at Highland, October 16th. Oet. 24 and 23, 1867, the third convention of the HIndson River Sunday-School Association was held in the First Reformed church, Kingston. The county association held its fourth annual convention at Shokan, June 4, 1868, and the semi- anual session at New Hurley, October 16th.
The State secretary having changed the time for receiv- ing the county reports, the annual meeting for 1869 was held at Rondout, October 20th; the sixth anniversary at Ellenville, Oct. 19, 1870, Nathan Curtis, of Kingston, pre- siding. The report shows : Number of schools, one hun- dred and fifty-six; registered membership, thirteen thousand one hundred and thirty-two ; conversions, two hundred and thirty-four; volumes in libraries, thirty thousand; con- tributed by Sabbath-schools, eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars. The seventh annual convention
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met at Marlborough, Oct. 18, 1871, Nathan Curtis again presiding.
At the annual meeting held at Accord, in October, 1872, Rev. Angelo Ostrander presiding, Mr. George B. Merritt declined to longer fill the office of county secretary. For eight years he had been devoted to the arduous duties of the office. The gathering of the statistics and the in- creased labors of this growing and successful association called for more time than he could give. Earnest and en- thusiastic in Sunday-school work, Mr. Merritt had been constantly in the advance, and by voice and pen enlisted the clergy and churches of the county in a union of Chris- tian effort in organizing and making more efficient the Sab- bath-schools. William Smith, of Rifton, was chosen his successor, and the treasury placed in the hands of J. L. Snyder, of High Falls.
The annual meeting for 1873 was held in the Second Methodist Episcopal church, Kingston, October 22d, and the semi-annual session at Pine Hill, June 17th, following. On Oct. 20, 1874, the association assembled in annual gathering at Rosendale. The meeting was favored with the presence of the State secretary, Edward Danforth, who addressed the convention on county and town organization. The semi-annual convention and first institute of the asso- ciation were held at Ellenville, June 23 and 24, 1875, Prof. William F. Sherwin, of New Jersey, officiating as conductor of institute. The new departure of a two days' session, and the introduction of institute exercises and practical Sunday school work into the meetings of the asso- ciation, are due to the live and cuergetic Sunday-schoo! workers of Ellenville, who assumed the responsibility. The annual meeting of the same year oeenrred at Sauger- ties, October 14th aud 15th, and was largely attended, Prof. William F. Sherwin conductor. The report showed one hundred and seventy-six schools; registered member- ship, sixteen thousand five hundred and sixty ; number of commissioners, four hundred and fifty-nine; volumes in library, thirty-four thousand five hundred and eighty-uine; contributed in Sabbath-schools, cleven thousand two hun- dred and fifty-four dollars and sixty cents.
May 25 and 26, 1876, the semi-annual meeting was held at Rondout, with Prof. William F. Sherwin again conduc- tor of institute, and Mrs. S. W. Clark, of New Jersey, in charge of the primary section. Seventeen towns were rep- resented by delegates. The spirit of the meeting rose to a height not before reached. Five hundred dollars was speedily pledged for active aggressive work, and the secre- tary of the association commissioned to thoroughly explore the county, organize town associations, and to institute Sabbath-schools in destitute localities. The twelfth anni- Versary was held Oct. 25 and 26, 1876, at New Paltz. The meeting was one of much interest, and the report showed two hundred and three schools. At the seuni- annual meeting, held at Kingston, May 24 and 25, 1877, thirteen new schools and fourteen town associations were reported as the result of the mission work during the year. The fourteenth annual convention met at Ellenville, Nov. 14 and 15, 1877. At this meeting, Mr. Reuben Bernard declined to accept a re-election as president of the associa- tion, He had held the office for cleven years, and presided
at nineteen annua! and semi-annual conventions. Mr. Ber- nard was well known as a warm and zealous friend and liberal supporter of the Sunday-school interest through the county, and through all the early years of the association he never failed to be present at the meetings, though often at a personal sacrifice. Affable and courteous, he was a favorite with the people as a presiding officer. The follow- ing appears upon the minutes of the meeting :
" Resolved, That the thanks of this association are due and are hereby tendered to our retiring president, Reuben Bernard, Esq .. for his long and faithful service in behalf of this society and the cause of Sabbath-schools in Uleter County, and also to Mr. William Smith, the devoted secretary and missionary of the association, to whose un- tiring labors so much of the usefulness and efficiency of this organi- zation is due. May the blessing of the great Head of the Church be their abundant reward !"
The semi-annual session for 1878 was held at Rondout, May 29th and 30th, Mr. S. M. Taylor, of Ellenville, pre- siding. The annual meeting of the same year was held at Sangerties, October 29th and 30th, Rev. Philip Peltz presi- ding. The exercises were largely institute and normal, con- ducted by Ralph Wells, of New York City, and very profit- able to the large mimber of Sunday-school workers present from every part of the county.
June 3, 1, and 5, 1879, the State Sunday-school conven- tion was held in the First Reformed church, Kingston, II. B. Silliman, of Albany County, presiding. It was a gath- ing of the most prominent and enthusiastic Sunday-school men and women of the State, and attended by delegates frem nearly all the Sabbath-schools of the county.
The following is the summary of the report given at the fifteenth annual convention, beld at Ellenville, Oct. 28 and 22, 1879 :
Number of schools 239
Officers and teachers 3,275
Scholars registered 17,840
Total membership. 21,115
Average attendance. 12,740
Number of conversions
542
Amount contributed for benevolent and other purposes.
$$283.62 42,690
Volume, in library ..
Number of town associations. 17
Town conventions. 42
Number of public meetings of City Sunday- school l'uion. 10
Number of delegates attending State Sunday- school convention at Albany. 67
The officers for 1880 are President, Wm. R. Sheffield, Saugerties ; Vice Presidents, George B. Ilibbard, Rondout ; John Lyon, Ellenville; Win. L. Degroff, Shandaken ; Sec- retary, William Smith, Rifton ; Treasurer, George B. Mer- ritt, Kingston.
In review we note with satisfaction the progress made. Every year has been a step in advance. Christian fellow. ship and love have characterized all the proceedings of con- ventional gatherings. The good work has been protuoted by frequent and friendly counsel and interchange of opinion, and Uister County to-day, in " thorough and efficient organ- ization in Sunday-school work," stands recorded on the pub- lished records of the State association as the " banner county in the State of New York." This proud position has been attained only by a union of Christian effort and the blessing of God upon earnest, persevering labor.
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The following statistics show in a concise form the results of these years of toil :
CONVERSIONS REPORTED, SIXTEEN YEARS. 1864, 185; 1565, 511; 1866, 182: 1867, 188; 1865, 613; 1869, 341; 1870, 234; 1871, 251 : 1872, 313; 1873, 302; 1974, 856; 1875, 459; 1876, 1017; 1877, 918 ; 1878, 734; 1859, 542, -- total, 7576.
MONEYS CONTRIBUTED BY THE SABBATH. SCHOOLS OF ULSTER COUNTY FROM 1869 TO 1579 FOR BENEVO- LENT AND SUNDAY-SCHOOL PURPOSES.
1869 $7,330.46; 1870, $S788.00; 1871 (estimated), $8788.00; 1872, $9948.51; 1873, $10,971.19; 1874, $0974.52; 1875, $11,251.60; 1576, $11,196.77; 1877, 88604.70; 1878, $9508.63 ; 1879, 88283.62, -total, $104,649.00.
CHAPTER XXIII
THE PRESS OF ULSTER COUNTY.
THE newspapers of the county at the present time are twelve in number, distributed as follows: two dailies and four weeklies in Kingston, and one daily in Saugerties, the remaining issues being weekly publications and located in Saugerties, Ellenville, and New Paltz.
The past and present status of the press of Ulster winy be seen in the following account, compiled in part from a series of articles published in the Kingston Democratic Journal in 1845, supplemented by contributions of muem- bers of the press, and from material gathered from other sources.
THE FIRST PAPER.
" During the sittings in this village [ Kingston] of the convention which framed the first constitution of the State, in 1777, a paper was printed here which recorded its proceedings ; but whether it was only established tem- porarily, or continued to exist after that body bad ad- journed, we cannot state. But, inasmuch as the village was burned in October of that year, it is not likely that it was published after that event, and are inclined to believe it to have been only a temporary press from the city of New York, established for the use of the convention."*
The next paper in existence was the Farmers' Register, printed and published by Nicholas Power and William Copp, probably commenced in 1792. Its name was changed to The Rising Sun, Sept. 21, 1793, and Mr. Copp associated with him Samuel Freer. " The office was in the back part of the frame building on the comer of St. James and Wall Streets which is still standing. It was printed every Saturday, on a sheet ten by seventeen inches."
The next paper in the order of its establishment was the Ulster Gazette, published by Samuel S. Freer for a period of twenty-four years, from April, 1708, to 1822, " and the only Federal organ of the county. His boldness
in speaking of his opponents, who then held the power in the State, once led him into trouble. Freer hund published something in his paper derogatory to the Legislature, and, when that body assembled, he was brought before it on the charge of libel. He went to Albany, saw Hamilton, with whom he was acquainted, aud, after stating his object, was thus answered by the latter : ' Well, my good fellow [that being Hamilton's usnal salutation], we don't know what can be done for you. If the Legislature should imprison you, that, will have to be borne by you alone: we cannot suffer in your stead ; but should they fine you, the money will be forthcoming. As regards counsel, I am with you heart and hand, and will plead your case.' The trial came on, and Hamilton argued the case in a most powerful speech. He reviewed the whole history of the common law in regard to the right of speech and liberty of the press, and so earnest did he become that, forgetting all else but his subject, his wig became loose and fell from his hend, his cravat untied aud neek open and bare, and his dress otherwise disordered ; but, unmindful of them all, he proceeded in an argument so lucid and convincing that. when he had finished and the trial concluded, the decree of the Legislature was that Freer be fined ten dollars, which was, in reality, a virtual triumph."
POST-RIDERS.
The manner in which papers were distributed to their patrons iu those days may be seen from the following ad- vertisement :
"WANTED IMMEDIATELY .- A Post-Rider, to carry the Pie- Ician and Gazette, on a very thickly-populated route, embracing almost the whole of Ulster and part of Sullivan. A man who can come well recommended will meet with liberal encouragement.
"Jons TAPPES, "S. S. FREER.
" KINGSTON, Aug. 30, 18LI."
" After the Gazette was discontinued, Mr. Freer pub- lished a paper called the Peoples' Advocate, noticed else- where in this chapter. Mr. Frecer died suddenly in Kings. ton, July 5, 1840, aged sixty-three years."
Contemporaneous with the Gazette, and for a still longer period, was published The Plebeian. It was estab- lished in June, 1803, by Baell & Mitchell, and by them conducted until 1807, when Jesse Buell published it on his own account, and so continued until 1813, when he re- moved to Albany, there establishing the Argus and be- coming State printer. Daniel MeDuffee published the Plelcian for one year, and in July, 1814, sold to John Tappan, Esq. In ISI5 the name was changed to the Ulster Plebeian, and in 1826 it became the Plebeian and Ulster County Advertiser ; but from 1827 until it ceased to exist it bore the name of the Ulster Plebeian. Mr. Tap- peu conducted the paper until his death, April 20, 1831. The office of the Plebeian was in John Street, but was re- moved by Mr. Tappen to Green Street, opposite the resi- dence of the late Lucas Elmendorf. In 1831 the paper passed into the hands of John J. Tappen, and in January, 1833, to Henry Tappen and John Van Buren. But ia May, of the same year, Alonzo L. Stewart purchased the paper, and changed its name to the Ulster Republican.
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