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The mills of the present town are of but little note. In the formation of new towns from this territory; Harley was deprived of its available water-power. Near Hurley village, often spoken of as " Old Ilurley," were formerly a grist- will, a distillery, and a carding.machine. They were sup- plied by the water-power of Mill Creek, now a small stream, but in the earlier days, before the forests were so fully cleared away, having a current of considerable volume during a portion of the year. They were on the present place, and near the present residence, of Augustus Sutton. They were operated perhaps thirty years, and were abaa- doned about fifty years ago. In a newspaper advertisement, June 9, 1819, Christopher Newkirk announces a carding- machine.
XII .- MILITARY.
The settlement of Hurley dating back to 1662, the people of this town were involved in the dangers and the horrors of the Indian wars. For items referring to this period, reference is made to the general history included in this volume. A large share of the male citizens capable of bearing arms were enrolled in the militia, and very likely some from this town may have entered the English
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colonial service during the long struggle that preceded the termination of French rule in Canada.
The following paper from the documentary history of the State is an interesting relie of a period preceding the mid- die of the last century :
MUSTER-ROLL OF THE FOOT COMPANY OF MILITIA OF HURLEY, OF CAPT. CORNELIS WINE COOP, 173S.
Capt. Cornelis Wine Coop, Left. Antoine Crispel, Insin Abraham Ten Eyck, Sergt. Ilendrick Konstaple, Corp Solomon ler Willege, Corp Jacob Van Wagene, Drom' Marynis Chambers, Jan Van Duese, Clarke; Nicolas Blandjan, Lambert Briuck, Tuenis Vos- trander, Jan Ronsa, Hendrick Oostrander, Gerret Konstaple, Jo- hannis Crispell, Johannis Suylandt, Arie Van Etten, Harmanns Oustrandler, Antoine Crispell, Jun., Johannis Koustaple, Andrics Van Viet, Heyman Roosa, Jan A. Moosa. Gysbert Rossa, Jan., Jan Crispell, Juu., Dirck Roosa, Gerret Jeo Freer, Nel Wieler, Edvart Chumters, Daniel Potter, Robert Wieler, Wouter Sluy- ter, Evert Shiyter, Willem Smit, Gerret Van Wagenen, Joban Van Wagenen. Aort Van Wagenen, Matys Blanchan, Jr., Simon Helm, Adamn Sjeever, Jefta De Lange, Christoffel Brosie, Mat- theus Nieukeret., Petrus Crispell, Jan Ja Roosa, Abr" Roosa, Nicolas Roosa, Benjamin Clearwater, Jan Ter Williger, Jun., Jan Van Dense, Jan., Jan Brinck, Johannis Oostrander, Jr., William Sluyter, Jr., Hendrick Jacoh Freer, Jan Waters, Albert Ja Roosa, Willem Burbans, Jacob Clyn, Jacob Oostrander.
WAAR OF THE REVOLUTION.
In the Revolutionary period ITurley was a point of con- siderable importance. Troops were stationed there for the defense of the outposts of Kingston. When Kingston was burned the people of that place flel to Hurley for refuge. There is a tradition that. Daniel Taylor, aspy, was hanged on an apple-tree near Hurley village after the burn- ing ot Kingston. He was arrested on the 10th of October, in the neighborhood of Little Britain, Orange Co., by a picket-guard under Lient. Howe. He appears to have been deceived by the vuiform of the party, they being clothed in red coats recently captured from the British. On asking his captors who their commanding officer was, they replied to him that Gen. Clinton was. He desired to be conducte ! to luis presence, and was greatly surprised to find that their general was Governor George Clinton, of the State of New York, instead of Sir Henry Clinton, of the British army. A letter from Gen. Clinton ro the council of safety gives an account of the interview as follows :
" The letter from Clinton to Burgoyne, taken from Haniel Tayl .: , was enclosed in a small silver bill of an oval form, about the size of a fusee bullet, and shut with a screw in the middle. When he was tasken and brought before the be swallowed it. I mistrusted this to be the case from information I received, and administeredl to him a very strong emetic calculatedl to net either way. This bad the desired effect : it brought it from him; but, though closely watched, he had the art to conecal it a second time. I made him believe I had taken one Coing bell, another messenger, who was out on the same business; that I learned from him all I wanted to know, and demanded the ball on pain of being hung up instantly and being ent open to search for it. This brought it forth."
He was tried by court-martial Oct. 14, 1777, of which Col. Lewis Duhois was president, and convicted. When the army moved down the Walkill to save Kingston, Taylor was taken along. The following general order directed bis execution :
" HEADQUARTERS MARBLETOWN, HOth October, ITT7.
" The sentence of the General Court-Martial, whereof Col. Dubois was President, against the within-named .Daniel Taylor, is approved,
and ordered to be carrie l into execution when the troops are para.led and before they march to-morrow morning.
" GED. CLINTON, " B. General Continental Army."
This order is dated the very day that Kingston was burned by the British under Gen. Vaughan.
The date above given at Marbletown would not fully sus- tain the tradition that Taylor was hung near Hurley vil- lago. The army was some miles south of that place. They, however, moved forward immediately to Hurley, as shown by the following report. The headquarters may have been at what is now North Marbletown, with the army lying in advance, and the tradition of the apple-tree near ITurley be correct.
" HURLEYTOWN, Oct. 20, 1737, " Headquarters.
" A morning report of the officer of the day, who visited the guards and pichets.
" Col. Webb's pickets, Col. Dubois and Col. Sutherland all suf- ficient.
" Col. Hasbrouck's and Ellison's deficient of arms and ammunition. " By report of officer of the main guard, countersign New York. The sentinels being frequently visited, found alert on their pos's, an ! the guard consisting of (number tabulated).
" The number of prisoners confined is the main guard 27 with the crimes given, and nine without erimes.
"Given under my haud, "JOHN HARDENBERGH. " Col.
"P. S .- The guard at Kingston deficient in Light Horse ant Guides."
WAR OF 1812.
The following are given in lists prepared by Hector Abeel some years ago as soldiers of the war of 1512 living in Hurley : William Brill, Abram Deits, Benjamin Elmen- dorf, John P. Elmendorf, Teunis Houghtaling, James Pat- terson, Peter Stoutenbergh, Jr.
WAR OF 1861-63.
There is no record of the men who entered the army preserved in the town clerk's office, as required by the law of 1865. The following list is prepared from the printed muster-in rolls of the State, and from the reports of the census enumerators of 1865. Some inaccuracies may ap- pear in it for the want of an official town record :
Rouben Elmiendorph, eul. Aug. 3, 18Gt, 524 Regt .; trans. to 4th U. S. Att. James Walton, enl. Sopt. 27. 1804, Both liegt.
Aaron II. Newkirk, enl. April, IsGA; died in the service.
Richard New kirk, eul. september, 1-64.
Hosea W. Schaven, enl. September, 1862, 136th Regt.
James P. D. Ellsworth, enl. Ang. 22, 1852, 120th Regt .; trans. to Inv. Corps ; Wounded.
Dani-1 MeAnilife, eul. Jannary, 1864, 15th Art. : trans. to Vet. Res. Corps.
Peter Bush, eul. Sept. 3, 1861, 20th Regi.
Wim. If. Ellsworth, eul. Ang. 22, 1:62, 12oth Regt.
Wru. 11. Clearwater, enl. Jan. 7, 1:64, 20th Regt.
John Elmuendorph, ent. Jane, 1864, 19th Regl.
Abram Fisworth, ent. leo2, 136th Regt.
John F. Fleworth, enl. 18Gl, 15sth Regt.
Win. H. Vaubramer, en !. July 23, 1862, 120th legt.
Win. 11. Podes, ent. Any. 22. 1.62, 12uth Regt .; woutdled in band.
Cornelins Banks, eul. August, 1852, 1With Regt.
Benj. Elmendorph, enl. Ang. 6, 1962, sorgt., 120th Rigt.
Philip H. Limitiorghi, end. Aug. 6, 19 2, 130th Regi. ; died since the war.
Demetrius J. France, Ed lient, enl. Oct. In, Isch, with Regt., Co. 1 ; pro. L. 1; hent. March 23, 1863; capt. Apt ! 21, 1961 ; must. ont Jan. 29, 1550.
W'in. Bulvy, cut. July, 1:62, 120th Regt. ; died Dec. 2, 1862, at Washington, D. C. Johannis D. Hornbeck, col, Ang. 26, 1802, 120th Regl .; died feb. 17, 1-12, at
Jaimes hisworth, enl. September, 1801, 20th Bagt., died in service; last heard from a prisoner at Richmond.
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Wm. C. Dumond, enl. Ang. 23, 1>62, 120th Regt .; died Feb. 14, 1:63, at Fal- . mouth.
John J. Houghtaling, enl. Feb, 29, 1$64, 20th Regt .; pro. to corp.
Joses Whitbeck, enl. December, 1-61, 102d Regt. ; pro. to sergt. ; re-enl. Jan- hary, 1-64. Francis Newkirk, enl. IsG3, 20th Regt., U. S. Col. Geo. Scribner, eul. Aug. 28, 1-62, 156th Regt.
Ilenry Halstopde, enl. October, 1sc1, 20th Regt.
Abram !1. Hasbrouck, enl. Ang. 11, lacl, Ist lient., 5th Cav. ; pro. to capt .; pris- oner seven months at Salisbury ; died since the war.
John J. Dopugh, enl. Angust, 1664, navy. Peter Dewitt, ent. Dec. 26, 1863, 20th Regt., U. S. Col.
Cornelius Elsworth, enl. August, 1562, 120th Regt.
Gen. W. Vandermark, enl. Nov. 6, 1-61, 1021 Regt.
John Mulligan, enl. February, 1:65, 40th Regt.
Calvin Davis, enl. 1865, 20tb Regt.
Thomas Conlon, enl. Septeuiber, 1961, 20th Regt. ; re-enl. January, 1864; pro. to corp.
Michael Conlon, ent. March, 18G1, 56th Regt.
Francis Mulligan, enl. October, 1861, 24th Regt. ; re-enl. Jannary, 1564.
Wm. O'Seil, and. F bas, Bet, With Best.
Jordan A. Sickler, eul October, 1861, 20th Regt .; re-cul. December, 1803; pro. to sergt.
Win. H. Williams, Itth Kegt. Benj. Robertson, enl. ISC2, 16th Bert.
John Robertson, enl. 1862, 156th legt.
Jeremiah Robertson, enl. 1864
Nathaniel Robertson, enl. 18Si.
1 Geo. Robertson, enl. ISG1. Geo. W. Elsworth, enl. 1863, 15th Regt.
James B. Vandermark, enl. 1801, 1.2d Regt.
Casar Hasbrouck, ent. January, 1564, 20th Regt., U. S. Col.
Gilbert D. Si hler, enl. Feb. 4, 1-64, 20th Regt.
Patrick Conlos, enl. Ang. 4, 1962, 120th Regt.
Robert Dule. 18, enl. Sept. 20, 1861, Fist Regt. George R. Wands, enl. l.c. 23, 1863, 127th Regt. Johu Herdman, enl. July 10, 1-62, 4th Art.
Christian Bolce, eni. July 23, 1564, 20th Regt.
Lewis Inson, eni. Aug. 6, 1862, 120th liegt.
Abram H. Doyle, ent. August, 1869, 120th Regt.
Isaac Van Steinlargh, and. October, ISSI, corp., 102d Rest .; que. to sergt., 2d lieut, Ist lieut., and capt.
Samuel Van Sletuburgh, en !. Sept. 30, 1861, 2eth Regt .; pro, to corp. Abraham T. Lowe, 120 th Regt.
Chanrey H. Rowe, ent. Aug. 4, 1862, Luth Regt.
Hiram Burger, cul. Jan. 3, 1804, 120th Rept .; trans. to 73d.
Austin Warren, enl. Ang. 13, 1802, Jeeth Kogt.
James Bonda, enl. Dec. 23, 1863, 120th H .gt.
Win. II. Fairman, enl. Dec. 27, Ista, nevy, ship " Iroquois."
Charles Pum mel, cul. Aug. 21, 15 12, levoth Regt., Co. A, corp .; pris. ner sixteen months at Richmond ail Andersonville. Stephen Jones, eul. Aug. 22, 1-02, 120th Regt.
James Chaill, onl. April, 1561, 120th Rest.
John O. Riley, enl. May, Ist1, 5Ist Regt .; re-end. December, 1803.
James B. Ryan, eul. August, 1801, navy, ship " Beauregard."
Patrick Carney.
Jamies llaves, enl. August, 1:62, 156th Regt.
Nelson Decker, enl. Betaler, 1861, 2 th Regt .; re-enl. March, 1961.
John Hogan, ont. September, last, Both Regt.
George W. Weed, enl. Aug. 29, Ised, corp., 120th Rest.
Call bun.
Mfel Lanteel wal. May 9, 18 1, 9 th Rozt. Zekel D. J ines, enl. February, 1564, 20;h Regt.
William H. Jones, enl. Netober, 1-3, 10th Regt .; wounded.
William Waters, enl. Sept. 13, 1:62, musician, 136th Regt.
Fred. P. Howe, eul. Aug. 1, 182, 120th Bert. William snyder, enl. Aug. 5, 1 62, leuth Regt. Nathan Wolven, enl. August, 1862, 126th Regt.
Moses Wolven, eul. August, long, lech Regt. Atudrew M. Myers, ent. Aug. Is, Isch, 12uth Regt. George Hughes, eul January, 1561, 12ith Regt.
James F. Bundy, rul. April, 1401, 2d Excelsior; re-enl. 73d Regt. ; pro. to sergt. North Bun ly; eul. January, 1864, 120th Regt.
Jolin Danazin, cul. August, 1862, 120th Regt. David A. Rumly, cul. Aug. 20, 1864, 199th Regt. ; wounded.
Thomas Hengan, ent. June, 1-61, 71st Regt.
John If. Fixe, enl. Ang. 19, 1sc2, MAtu Eng. Engene Walker, enl. Ang. 29, 19/1. 4th Cav. William Flowers, eat. March IT, 1961, 20th Regt. Levi Fritz, die in the - rvice.
Henry Hicks, enl. September, 1864, and Eng. Alexander Trumpde, est. January, Iset, 129th Boat .; trans. to With Regt. Unia Pautney, enl. July 25, 1801, 57th Rest .; severely wounded.
Tha:ldens C. Brooks, enl. August, 1662, sorgt., 120th Regt .; pro, to let and 2d lienta, ; wounded.
Ililan R. Moe, enl. Aug. 24, 1862.
Truman Temple, enl. July 17, 1862, 120th Regt., corp .; pro. to sergt.
Horace Wiloder, enl. September, 1863, 17th Regt.
Hiram Halowick, cul. April, Isa1, 2uth Regt.
Hiram M. Seaman, eni. Sept. 19, ISol, 26th Regt., sorgt .; pro. to Ist aud 24 lieuts.
Anthony Hungerford, enl. Aug. 19, 1864, 20th Regt.
Levi Stoutenburgh, enl. March 6, 1862, 20th Regt.
James Toodle, navy. .
Van Rensselaer Vradenbergh, enl. Ang. 27, 1862, 156th Regt .; pro. to com. sergt. wounded1.
Charles Van Steinburgh, enl. October, 1861, 56th Regt .; re-enl. Jannary, 1864. Hiram D. Kittle, ent. Any. 22, 1862, 120th Regt .; pro. to lyt sergt.
Michael King, enl. November, 1861, 50th legt. ; trans, to 4th U. S. Art.
John E. Simmons, 734 Regt.
Wilson Hicks, eul. Ang. 21, 1863, 141th Regt.
David Hicks, enl. March, 1863, 3d Cav. ; died October, 1864, at Annapolis, MA. Solomon D. Roseapangh, enl. Aug. 14, 1802, 120th Regt .; diol July 1, Iso4, of supposed starvation.
David Van Steinbergh, enl. January, 1864, 15th Art .; died January, 1865, at City l'oint, Va.
William Eckert, enl. 1801, 20 N. Y. Regt. ; died Ang. 27, 1801, at Washington, D. C. Peter L. Keblerhouse, enl. March, 1561, 26th Regt .; died September, 1804, at City Point, Va.
Johu Kittle, enl. July, 1862, 120th Regt .; died in 1864, while being carried in an ambulance.
Smith Philips, enl. Jannary, 1864, 120th Regt. ; died Aug. 10, 1864, at Annapo- lis, Md.
Edbert G. Stoughtenburgh, enl. Ang. 23, 1862, 128th Regt .; died Jan. 12, 1963, at New Orleans. William J. Rowe, enl. Angust, 1802, 120th Regt .; died June 14, 1864, at Auder- sonville.
Juhu Butier, enl. 1551; died in service.
Henry Hasbrouck, enl. January, 1864, 20th U. S. Col. Regt. ; died June 18, 1864, ut New Orleans.
John A. Simnous, enl. July 21, 1802, 120th Regt .; pro. to corp .; died Dec. 21, 1864, at City Point.
Lewis W. Payne, enl. September, 1861, 20th Regt .; died, 1863, of wounds re- ceived at Antietam.
Silas Plough, enl. Sept. 98, 1863, 176th Regt. : died Sept. 5, 1864, at New Orleans. William II. Plough, onl. September, 1:51, 40th Regt. ; died September, 1-02, at Washington, D. C.
Benjamin G. Vandermark, enl. December, ISCI, 102d Regt .; died July 31, 1962, nt Little Washington.
l'eter Ten Eyel, enl. April 6, 1805, 20th U. S. Col. Regt .; died ot Fortress Monrue.
Folmond 11. Kron, col. Ang. 22, 1852, 156th liegt .; died April 1, 1>65, at home. exused by exposure in prison.
Philander W. Demond, enl. August, 1862, 126th Regt .; died July 31, 1563, of wounds received at G-trysbnrg. Conrad W. JunimonJ, Jr., enl. Angust, 1862, 120th Regt .; diel July 11. Ici, at Andersonville, La.
Alexander Markle, enl. July, 1502, 190th Regt. ; sergt. ; died April 1, 1565, 00 route from City Point to Washington.
David II. Fay, enl. August, 1862, 156th Regt .; died Ang. 27, 1861, at home.
John F. Boughton, eul. 1802, 25th Conn. Regt. ; died Sept. 17, 1543, at New Orleans.
Alexander Vanetten, eul. Jan. 22, 1863, 20th Regt .; died Sept. 16, 18ยบ2, at City Point, Va. William Knapp, enl. September, 15G1, 20th Regt .; died March 22, 1864, at Alex- andria, Va. Jullus D. Rice, enl. August, 1862, 120th Regt .; died March 4, 1864, at Rich- mond, of supposed starvation. Patrick Sweeney, eul. 1861, 20th Regt. ; killed Ang. 30, 1562, at battle of Bull Run.
John A. Simmons, 4th corp .; enl. July 21, 1962, 120th Regt., Co. B. Joseph II. Cudney, enl. Ang. 2, 1862, 120th Kogt., Co. B.
MIward B. Dumind, eul. Ang. 6, 1862, 120th Regt., Co. B.
Charles Dumund, enl. Ang. 6, 1502, 120th R.gt., Co. B.
Joseph Il. Cudney, enl. Ang. 2, 1862, 120th Regt., Co. A.
Edward B. Dminond, enl. Ang. 6, 1862. 120th Regt., Co. A. Andrew Wolveu, enl. Ang. 5, 1862, 120th Regt., Co. A.
William Coin, enl. Sept. 15, 1962, 156th Hept., Co. C. Al-ba Jarvis Sinter, enl. Sept. 15, 1862, 150th Regt., Co. C. David Beckins, eal. Aug. 25, 1. 62, 156th Regt., Co. F. Jerome B. Knapp, enl. Aug. 14, 1862, 12oth Regt., Co. A. Ezra L. Mar, enl. Ang. 6, 1862. 120th Regt., Co. A.
Andrew Wolven, eul. Aus. 5, 1862, loeth Regt., Co. B. Jerome B. Knapp, cul. Ang. 11, 1-02, 79uth Regt., Co. B. Ezra L. Moc, end, Ang. 6, 1502, 120th Regt, Co. B.
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SHAWANCUNK
MOUNTAIN.
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RESIDENCE OF J. P. ANDREWS, SHAWANGUNK, ULSTER CO, N. Y.
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SHAWANGUNK.
I .- GEOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.
This town lies ou the southern border of the county, and is bounded on the north by the towns of Wawarsing, Gar- diner, and Plattekill; the latter town forms a portion of the eastern boundary of the town, Wawars'ug a portion of the western, and the remainder of the towa is bounded by Orange County. The tax-table of 1879 gives the number of aeres in the town at 33,851; total value of real and personal property, $173,095; and total tax, $14,001.23. The population of the town, according to the census of 1875, is 2793; the cash value of farms, $1,574,979, and of' farm-buildings, $280,735; number of dwelling-houses, 572, with a vahe of $517,180.
The following are given as the boundaries of the town in the " Revised Statutes of the State." They have been since modified by the ercetion of the town of Gardiner :
" The town of Shawangunk shall contain all that part of said county bounded easterly by the boun Is of the county and the town of Platte- kill ; auntherly and southwesterly by the lounds of the county : north- erly by a line beginning at the northeast corner of a tract of two thousand acres of ler I grantel to Withion. Hull'est send mluning thence along the north boundis thereof, and the north in la of two thonsaud neres of iand grantel to Peter Matthews ar Iotsets, to the mouth of Shawanguuk Kill: then we- erly along the north side of Ile saine hill as it runs to the southwest corner of the land granted to C.1. Jacob Bution : then along the westerly bounds there. f to the northwest corner thereof: and then along the southerly branls of a tract of land! granted to Stephen Du Bois; then along the same to the northwest corner thereef; then in a straight line northwest to the highest part of the precipines of steep rocks: then southerly along Die same as they range fromding in general southmasterly and south- erly to tio southwesternmost extremity of a high point of rocks on the sail mountain- cifled Sam's Point; and then along a line of markel trees south fifty-fone degrees, west two hundred and nine and a half chains, to the county of Sullivan."-Rated Sontalex, vol. i. page 221.
II .- NATURAL FEATURES.
The surface of the town is a hilly and broken upland. The Shawangunk Mountains extend along the west border, and rise to a height of two thousand feet above tide-water. The soil is generally a gravelly loam, fertile and productive. The water-courses are abundant, furnishing fine water. priv- it's in different parts of the town. The Shawangunk Kill forms about half of the southern border of the town, and flows northeast through its centre, receiving in its Ourse Dwaars Kill from the west. The Wallkill flows northeast through the eastern part of the town, receiving Mudly Kill from the cast. The Plattekill forms a por- tion of the west border of the town. The Indian name for the truet west of the Shawangunk Kill to the mountain was that borne by the towo, and that of the tract in the southwest part of the town was Peconasink.
III .- INDIAN OCCUPANCY.
A part of the town appears to have been the granary of the L'opus Indians when the first settlers entered the county, and how long it had then been under cultivation no one can tell. An expedition under command of Burgomaster Martin Kregier, as captain lieutenant, and Schepen Van Courvenhoven, Lieut. Nicholas Stillwell, and Sorgt. Pieter Ebel, set ont on July 4, 1663, from New Amsterdam, and, sailing in two yachts, landed at " Rondnit." The purpose was to punish the Esopus savages, who had carried their depredatious so far as to attack and burn a portion of the village of Wiltwyck (now King-ton). The savages had a fort containing several strongly-built houses, and inelosed by three rows of palisades, upon the Shawangunk Kill, in the present town of Shawangunk, about thirty miles south- west of Wiltwyck. It was determined to attack them, and Kregier set out with a force of 210 men, two pieces of can- non, and two wagons, guided by Rachel La Montagne, wife ef Surgeon Gyabert Van Imbroeck, who had been taken prisoner on the 7th of June, and had escaped. After hauling the wagons and conton over many hills, and cross- iug many streams upou bridges made of trees which they ent down, the expedition arrived near the fort, which Conr- venhoven, with 116 men, was sent forward to surprise. But the savages had fled to the mountains two days before with their prisoners. The night was spent at the fort, and at dawn of the next morning Courvenhoven was despatched with 140 men, and a captured squaw as a guide, to a high mountain several miles off, but no Indians were there. Further pursuit was abandoned, and after destroying the corn of the savages, and burning the fort and houses, the expedition returned in safety to Wiltwyck.
A second expedition sent out a few months later de- stroyed a new fort which the savages had erected in Mana- kating, captured a number of prisoners, and slew the chief of the Indians, Papequanachen, thus putting a stop to their depredations.
The first fort is believed to have stood opposite the house of John D. Decker, ou property now owned by Matthew Jansen. Many arrow-heads and other Indian relies have been found at this point.
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IV .- EARLY SETTLEMENT.
The first settlement of the town was made by the Dutch along the Shawangunk Kill from 1080 to 1.00. Among the early settlers were Jacobus Bruyu, Cornelins Schoonmaker, Abram Schutt, Zachariah Hoffman, Benja. min Sinedes, Jacob Decker, Jobn Terwilliger, and Jo- hannes C. Decker. Along the Wallkill, Robert Kain, Robert Graham, David Davis, Daniel Winfield, Hendrick
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Van Wegen, and James Pennock settled from 1710 to 1730. The Schoonmaker family located on the Anthony Denton property, where they erected one of the first stone dwellings in the town. Hendrick Van Wegen located where Reuben Robinson now resides. The Bevier family lived carly at " Muddy Kill." The Winfield farm, about a mile north of Galeville, was settled by Daniel Winfield, from England, on May 15, 1732. It was settled under the old Hardenburgh patent, and is now in the possessiou of the seventh generation of the family. Zachariah Hoff- man settled where Benjamin Freer . now lives. He was one of the trustees of the glebe from 1722 until his death, which occurred in 1744. He married Hester Bruyn on Oct. 19, 1707, and had five children, of whom Zachariah, Jr., occupied the homestead property. George Graham came from the North of Ireland at an early day and took up a tract of land near Shawangunk village. Ilere the fautily resided for several geucrations, and has been one of the most influential in the southern portion of the county. Their publie positions are elsewhere re- ferred to.
Jacobus Bruyn resided where John V. MeKiustry how lives. He was a ship-carpenter by trade, came from Norway, and settled in New York City about the middle of the seventeenth century. He married Gertruyd Essel- styne, of Columbia Co., N. Y., and afterwards removed from New York to Shawanguuk, where he subsequently resided. They had three children-two sons and a daugh- ter. One of them, the eldest son it is supposed, died young, as un trace is left of him. A minute of his bap- tism is found among the old records of the Dutch Church at Kingston, where he was baptized " Jan" by Parsou Blom, on Oct. 6, 1678.
After the death of her husband, and in the year 1001, Gertruyd Bruyn, while a widow, obtained from the royal government a patent for a tract of land lying in the town of Shawangunk, now known as the " Gertruyd Bruyu patent." It was granted to her and her three children, who were at that time minors. The names of the chil- dren are not given in the patent, the original of which is still in existence, but Jan, Jacobus, and Esther were, as far as kuown, her only children. Gertruyd Bruyn subse- Tratly married a Gerran named Tenhout, a baker of Kingston, who held and occupied the patent in Shawau- gunk, adjoining the Bruyn patent, that was granted to Thomas Lloyd. He was called by the Dutch "Severyn de Baacker." There was no issue of this marriage, and Tenhout, upon his death, left all of his property, including the Lloyd patent, to his wife's children.
The daughter of Jacobus and Gertruyd Bruyn -- Esther -married Zachariah Hoffman, and resided in Shawangunk, on the east side of the kill of the same name. The Bruyns lived in a house located on their patent, on the east side of the public Highway. on the brow of the hill facing the low- land on the west side of the Shawangunk Kill, aud about three hundred yards east of the subsequent residence of Charks Bruyu. They were buried on a little knoll of gravelly ground, about eighty rods worth of their dwelling- house, where their graves were visible as late as the year 1 500, marked by rough gray stones, which have since disap-
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