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"Cupt. Kortrite pursued thein until he came to the Vernooy Creek, when, his provisions being exhausted, he returned home to linebush. On their return, they buried the unfortunate Shurker and Miller, who fell martyrs to the cause of liberty.
"The fate of Baker is wrapt in impenetrable mystery. Nothing has ever been seen or heard of him. He was the stoutest man of the three. It is not improbable that he was reserved by the Indians as the object on which to wreak their vengeance.
" At the time of this massucre there was a body of two or three hun- dred troops laying at the fort on Houkhidt, where C. L. Dudley now# lives. On learning the facts alove stated, it was resolved by the officer in eutumand to fit out an expedition to waylay the In fiants on their return, at the Chestnut Woods (now called tirainsville), in Sullivan Connty, about thirteen tuiles from Napanoch. The officer called out for volunteers, when Lieut. John Grands, or Grahams, steppel ont. He was asked how many meu he would have ; lo which he replied. til he would take no more than this honor' gave him, which was
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eighteen privates, with one sergeant und corporal. This, it appears, was called a lieutenant's guard. He was offered more men, but re- fused to take them. In this he exhibited more valor than prudence or skill in fighting Indians, as the event will show.
" He warehed on immediately, and reached Graimsville in advance of the enemy. le selected bis position at the foot of a steep hill. They were all raw recruits from the old towns on the east side of the Shawangunk, and knew nothing about Indian warfare-fit subjects to give the Indians sport. Abraham Vancampen, the only good marks- man amongst them, Graims had imprudently sent a-hunting to get them some fresh ment. Before he returned, the Indians entue. They had discovered the plot of the whites; and the skill and ingenuity manifested in their attack is seldom surpassed in the annals of war- fare, savage or civilized. One Indian only was sent forward on the regular path iu frout of Graims' garrison. All the rest had approached undiscovered from the opposite side of the hill, and lay ready with their fingers on the triggers of their guns to sewil a leaden death into the bosoms of their unamipecting fors. Mr. Graims had just been very deliberately taking a drink from a rivnlet, and as he rose from drinking he saw an Indian in the path, and directed his men to fire. A volley wus discharged at him without effect. Now was the time for the Indians on the opposite sule to perforio their part of the game. The attention of the whites was all directed to the one Indian, and their guns discharged. At their first fire Graims fell, and uiost of his men. For the remnant to protraet the contest, under such circum- stances, would have been the height of folly. Two men, besides Van- campen, made their escape to the fort to tell the horrid tale.
" As soon as the necessary preparatious could be made, a force of three hundred men went up to Graimsville to bury the dead. They found them all scalped and divested of every article that could be put to uny use, but their bodies were not mangled, as was frequently the case. They were buried in several separate trenches in the place where they fell. It may be proper to observe that the place where Graims fell is called Graimeville, after his name, and serves to commemorate that event. It was called the ' Chestnut Woods' before."
The following extract from Col. Hasbrouck's letter, dated Oct. 14, 1757, probably refers to occurrences in what is now Wawarsing :
" This serves to acquaint you that on the 12th instant, about 10 o'eloek in the morning, the Indians attneked the house of Peter Jan, who lived in the southwestern part of Rochester.
" The enemy burat his house, killed one of his daughters and two men of the regimeut posted here as scouts. Another Ranger made a good defence ; used all the arms in the house which were charged, beat the enemy off, brought off Jan's wife and two daughters to Capt. Brodhead's, living a mile off. . Jan and two sons were in the field. Next night most of the Regiment marched, but could discover noth- ing; desires their case to be taken into consideration.
"To Lr .- Gov. DELANCEY."
In 177S the inhabitants of Rochester petitioned Governor Clinton for protection against the Indians, as follows :
" To his Excellency George Clinton, Esq, Governor of the State of New York. The petition of the inhabitants of Rochester, in Ulater County, Humbly sheweth :
" That your petitioners have for a long time labored under the dreadful apprehensions of an attack from an unseen enemy. Your Excellency is not unacquainted with the fate of the German Flats, tho late conflagration of Pienpack, that flourishing part of your Excel- leney's frontiers. We dread to share their fute. Your Excellency, being acquainted with the situation of this place, will not be surprised when we thus beg your Excellency's protection. Not only the lives of your petitioners are exposed, but the enemy seem determined to destroy the grain and the cattle. This must, your Excellency well knows, soon reduce the publie as well as individuals to scareity. Therefore, your humble petitioners do beg your Excellency to protect us with a larger number of inen. The supplies sent by your Exerl- leney, if doubled and properly stationed, may muter God prevent im- pending dangers, and your petitioners will ever pray."
To this petition were attached the names of Capt. Benja- min Kortright, Capt. Joachem Schoonmaker, Lieut. Dirick Westbrook, Lient. Frederic Westbrook, Lieut. Jacobus
Bruyn, Jr., Ensign Jacob Hoornbeck, JJacobus Wynkoop, Moses Depny, John Sleight, and others. That this fear was not causeless and foolish is abundantly proved by the massacre, two or three years later, at Pine Bush, Wawar- sing, and Napanoch.
Among the names of those who were Revolutionary sol- diers from Rochester, or lived there afterwards, were Ev- erett Terwilliger, Cornelius Quick, and Abraham Bell. Others may appear in the old military roll given in the general history.
WAR OF 1812.
The following names are mentioned by citizens of Roch- ester as having served in the army during the last war with England : John G. Bell, Lodewyck Griffin, Ephraim E. De- puy, Francis C. Lawrence, John W. Schoonmaker, Jacobus Roosa, Wessel B. Westbrook, James Schoonmaker, Fred- erick Koons,* Henry M. Schoonmaker, Philip Quick, Joa- chim Schoonmaker, Charles O. Bell, John Haight, John Addis, Ileury Bell, Samuel T. Jansen, John Phillips, Ephraim Quick, Henry Wheeler.
MEXICAN WAR.
Several from this town were in the army during that contest,-Calvin Davis, Peter Decker, Riley Lane, Corne- lius T. Schoonmaker. Mr. Lane lost his life.
WAR OF 1861-65.
The following list of those who served in the suppression of the great Rebellion is made up from the printed muster- in-rolls of the State, from the manuscripts of the census- takers of 1865, aided by the memoranda of John L. Bell, and by the recollection of other citizens. There is no record of the names in the town clerk's office, as was ex- pected, under the law of 1865 :
Jacob E. Bunton, enl. Aug. 12, 1862, 120th Regt., Co. C; lost his life in the ser- vice.
Simeon J. Davis, enl. July 28, 1862, 120th Regt, Co. C.
Clintou C. Devoe, cul. Aug. 11, 1802, 12011 Regt., Co. C.
Jacob Gansalins, enl. Aug. 9, 1862, 120th Regt., Co. C.
Storm Haines, musician, enl. Ang. 14, 1562, 120th Regt., Co. C.
Erastus It. Manson, ent. July 28, 1862, 120th Regt., Co. C; died in the service. Cyrus S. Rosekrans, enl. Aug. 133, 1862, 1201h Regt., Co. C; died in the service. David T. Wolle, en1. Aug. 12, 1862, 120th Tegl., Co. C.
Aaron D. Stokes, ent. Ang. 22, 1862, 120th Regt., Co. C.
Andrew Krom, . nl. Jan. 25, 1891, 20th Regt., Co. D; died at City Point, Va , ot. John H. Vat Liten, eul. Feb. 25, 1961, 20th Regt., Co. D.
Hiram Hoornbeeck, cal. October, 1863, 20th Regt .; lost his life in the service.
James Krom, enl. February, 1861, 201h Regt.
John II. Krom, end. March, 1865, 20th Regt.
Stephen Krom, enl. May, 1861, 156th liegt.
Jacob Terwilliger, enl. April, ING1, both Legion.
Joseph Vanvleet, enl. April, 1864, 10th liegt.
Johu J. Roosa, onl. Aug. 23, 1862, 120th Regt.
John Kelly, ent. Angust, 1862, 120th Regt.
Edward Kelly, eul. Angust, 1862, 120th legt.
llenry J. Hoar, eul. Ang. 17, 1862, 120th Regt. ; died Nov. 20, 1>61, at Anderson- ville.
Ephraimn Hendricks, enl. May 27, 1862, 20th Regt .; died May 1, 1863, ner Rich- mond.
Abrahatn Osterhoudt, eul. Angust, 1862, 120th Regt .; died September, 1565, at Washington, D. C. Mecker Q. B.Il, Int., enl. 1961, 36th Regt. (10th Legion); pro. to col., died of diserve contracted in the war.
Jacob Il. Westbrook, q.m.
Storny.
Daniel T. Whittaker (Wawaring), enl. 20th Regt., Co. D); pto. to corp. ; re-enl. Frb. 8, 1864 ; pro. to sorgt.
Joseph Van Vliet, enl. February, last, Buth Regt., Co. D; died Ang. 95, ICH, ut City Point, Vu.
$ Lived to be nearly one hundred years ofit, and his widow is still living nt nearly that ago.
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MAPLE LAWN . RESIDENCE OF J. H. VAN WAGENEN, ROCHESTER, N.Y., ERECTED IN 1751.
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Reuben C. Van Leuven, enl. Sept. 20, 1>01, 20th Regt., Co. D ( Kingston); killed At Gettyalnirg, July 1, 1>63.
David R. Elting, enl. August, 1862, 120th Regt .; woundedl. Ellas Johnson, en1. August, 1861, 39th liegt. ; Jed since the war. Thotnas Johnson, enl. Augnet, 1801, 59th Bogt. ; died since the war. Cornelius S. Decker, enl. Jan. 4, 1864, 56th Regt.
Abner H1. Gillespie, corp, und company clerk, enl. Feb, 25, 1864, 20th Regt., Co. D; disch, Jan. 29, 1SGG.
John Hendricks.
W'm. Richardson, lost his life in the service.
Peter Richardson, Jr., tuken prisoner; escaped.
Warren Potter, musician, enl. Ang. 28, 1862, 156th Regt.
Egbert Shaw, enl. March 13, 1864, 156th Regt. ; dird since the war.
Jacob Consaly, enl. Ang. 7, 1862, 120th Regt.
Juhu Cole, enl. September, 1862, 156th Regt.
Thomas J. Keator, enl. December, 1863, Chiogo Bat. ; died since the war.
James T. W. Dunn, cul. 1501, Ist Maine Cav .; severely wounded.
Francis Van Etten.
Angustus Krom, enl. April, 1861, 624 Ohio Regt.
Solomon Krom, rul. November, 1562, 102d Regt .; re-enl. March 8, 1865, 20th Regt., C, D.
Samuel Ålliger, ent. Oct. 10, 1864, 20th N. Y. Regt.
Virgil Britt, ent. Oct. 10, 1:64, 20th N. Y. Regt.
Benj. Hasbrouck, eal. April 15, 1865, 24th Regt.
Edgar Kelder, en1. April 10, 1861.
Andrew J. Yaple, enl. April 26, 1961, 20th Regt .; re-enl. September, 1861, and again cul. in 1864; wounded and a prisoner; died since the war.
James S. Hasbrouck, col. June 28, 1864, 56th Regt .; trans. to Gtst N. Y. Regt. Abraham Badley, enl. Sept. 1, 1864, 20th Regt.
Gailsmith Denman, enl. September, 1861, 56th Regt., Co. K.
John Harkless, died on the Peninsula.
Duncan L. Brown, enl. July 8, 1863, 26th Cav., Co. K.
George Canon, enl. Aug. 10, 1863, 16th Cav., Co. K.
Owen Carter, en1. Sept. 4, 1863, 16th Cav., Co. K.
Lewis S. Foster, ent. Sept. 12, 1863, 16th Cav., Co. K.
Ebenezer Gage, enl. Ang. 7, 1863, 16th Cav., Co. K.
Roger Harney, enl. Sept. 4, 1863, 16th Cav., Co. K.
Sherwood Hinman, en1. Sept. 10, 1863, 16th Cav., Co. K.
Valentine Krause, enl. Sept. 17, 1863, 16th Cav., Co. K.
Stephen Lane, enl. June 10, 1863, 16th Cav., Co. K.
Wesley Krause.
Westbrook Krom, enl. Oct. 3, 1861, 56th Regt.
John J. Krom, eni. March, 1804, 20th Regt.
James T. Cutler, ent. 1864, 20th Regt.
Comelins Cutler, cul. March, 1865, 20th Hegt.
Nelson B. Brink, enl. fall of 1862, 56th Regt.
Jacob Landers, end. Jan. 5, 1865, Cav.
Abram Wynkoop, en1. April, 1861, 20th Regt., Co. D; re-cul. Cav.
William Brown, enl. Jan. 27, 1>64, Art .; wounded.
Frederick Sulky, enl Jan. 27, 1864, Art.
Jainrs Krom, en1. 20th Regt., Co. D.
Jacob 11. Markle, enl. 1864, 20th Rugt., Co. D.
Janes B. Pomeroy, cul. March 3, 1864, 20th Regt., Co. D.
Andrew 11. Purdy, enl. March 2, 1864. 20th Regt., Co. D.
Joseph Smalley, ent. Feb. 19, 1864, 20th Kugt., Co. D.
Lucas Schoonmaker, enl. March 3, 1861, 201h Regt., Co. D. Jeremiah Schoonmaker, enl. Feb. 25, 1861, 20th Regt., Ch. D.
Jacob 11. Vandemark, ent. March 1, 1864, 20th Regt., Co. D. George Van Bumble, enl. Jan. 12, 1864, 2014 Hegt., Co. D. Dewitt Van Bnadde, et:1. Jan. 12, 1864, 20th Rigt., Co. D.
I'vier West, eul. November, 1864, 20th liegt.
Epbert Vandemars, cul. Juno, 1863.
Stephen II. Philips, Bergt., enl. July, 1862, 120th Regt. Martin Markle, 120th N. Y. Vols. Win. Carpenter, enl. Ang. 12, 1862, 120th Regt.
Wm. M. Baker, enl. August, 1862, Both Regt.
James McDole, enl. April, 1864, 20th Regt.
J hn D. Irvin, enl. Detober, 1862, 120th Regt.
WW.nine Wright, enl. September, 1861, 12uth Regt.
Eleazer C. Smith, end. April 9, 1864, 20th Regt., Co. D.
Henry D. Burger, enl. April 6, 1865, 20th Regt .; died in Libby prison ; starved. Selon B. Brink, musician, enl. Sept. 5, 1862, 136th Regt.
A Hill, ent. March, 1865, 5th Cav.
James E. Winnie, en1. Jan. 19, 1864. 80th Regt .; died March 20, 18CI, Brandy Station.
& T T, rwilliger, enl Angust, 1862, 120th Regt. ; died May 20, 1864. Hoy i. Erwin, enl. September, 1961, 20th Kept .; died in service.
Ah c. Wright, rul. September, 1862; died in service ..
l'augamin 1. Burger, enl. Jan. 17, laf4, 20th Regt .; died September, 1861, at · Rty Print, Va.
v. in 11. Bush, end. Aug. En, 1×62, 10th Regt. ; died July 9, 1563.
James thaterlagt, sergi, end. September, 1802, 1ofth Ragt .; wounded.
1. op Buch, corp., end September, 1861, 66th Regt. to mens spaick, enl. May ta, 18GI, with Regt. Caram Qui A, corp , enl. Sept. 18, 1-61, 50th Regt. S wets gamle, end. Juniaty, 154, 20th Regt. ; pro. to corp. Je v.t II. Vandermark, enl. March, Ist1, 20th Rugt., Co. D; Pioneer Corpo.
Jolin Vandermark, onl. Jun. 29, 1864, 11. Art.
Win. Bbard, enl. July. 1862, 24th Regt.
Nelson Quick, ul. Ort. 18, 1860, 16sth Regt.
Warren C. Tamney, Marbletown, enl. March 11, 1865, 20th Regt., Co. D. Daniel T. Whilbeck.
Mortin Wright, ent. Ang. 19, 1863, 109th Regt.
Elisha Wright, ent. Feb. 8, 1>62, 20th Regt., Co. D: re-enl. Feb, 8, 1864 ; pro. to corp. ; diach, with the company, february, 1>66.
David S. Bell, ent. August, 1863, 26th Rrgt. Geo. O. Yan Etien, enl. September, 1862, 156th Regt.
Peter Terwilliger, enl. 1861.
Joseph Gray, ent. April 13, 1>64, ICth Legion.
Josiah Slater, corp.
Wm. Burger, enl. Jan. 18, 1864, 51, Art.
Nelson Crink, must. Nov. 17, 1662.
Than Cole, must. Nov. 17, 1862.
Jacob D. Constable, must. Nov. 17, 1862; died April 19, 1863.
Wilkin D. Moorehouse, must. Nov. 17, 1862.
Henry T. Terwilliger, must. Nov. 17, 1862.
John Banestall, must. Nov. 17, 1862.
Daniel D. Bell, capt., 534 Regt., Co. C.
Dewitt Burger, enl. April 6, 1865, 20th Regt., Co. D.
Charles T. Eno, enl. Dec. 30, 1963, 20th Regt., Co. D; pro. to corp.
Henry W. Bush, en1. Jan. 25, 18G1, 29th Rept., Co. D.
Alexander P. Bush, enl. Jan. 25, 1864, 20th Regt , Co. D.
Volney Mudge, enl. Aug. 25, 1863, Cav., Co. K.
Jolin Schoonmaker, enl. July 15, 1863, 15th Cav., Co. K.
Michael Shillito, enl. Aug. 28, 1863, Cav., Co. K.
Birdeley N. Curtis, q m,-sergt., enl. Ang. 29, 1861, 5th Cav., Co. C.
James German, died in the service ; had served in the Flotkla war. Thomas Burger, enl. September, Is61, 10th Legion ; died June 3, 1802.
Win. Chase, enl. September, 1561, 2uth Hegt .; wounded.
Wills C. Maikle, enl. 1862, 156th Regt., Co. I.
Jamies Bunton, enl. 1862, 156th Regt.
John U. Schoonmaker, enl. 1862, 156th Regt.
Luca . Schoonmaker, enl. 1862.
Isaiah Barnhart, enl. 1862.
Eddie MeCabe, enl. 1862, 156th Regt.
William Bunton, enl. 1862, 20th Regt.
Lewis Hendrickson, 10th Legion.
W'm. Alexander Decker, 20th Regt.
Alonzo Decker, 20th liegt.
Calvin Davis, 20th Regt .; served in Mexican war, and also in the war of 1861-65.
l'eter Decker, served in Mexican war, and also in the war of 1801-65.
Jacob Landers, went into the Regular Army at the close of the war, and las served two enlistments of five years each.
John H. Smith, capt .; now in the Regular Army, on The frontier.
Lewis Newman, enl. July 15, 1863, 16th Cav., Co. K.
Stephen Doyle, cnl. Dee. 9, 1861, Ju2d Regt., Co. F.
John MeGrady, ent. Dec. 28, 1861, 102d Regt., Co. F.
George Schoonmaker, drummer ; Cav.
John Gillespie, Ist U. S. Chasseurs. James I. Schoonmaker.
R. A. Sheldon, enl. 1864, 170th Regt., Co. E; taken prisoner by the guerrillas Unt escaped by shooting his captor.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
J. II. VAN WAGENEN.
John Hardenberg Van Wagenen, the subject of this sketch, is by profession a teacher. He traces his ancestry to Holland. That branch of the Van Wagenen family from which he descended immigrated to Ulster County, in the year 1642,
He is a son of Jacobus and Rachel (Brodhead) Van Wagenen, and was born Sept. 11, 1821. Jacobus was born in 1799, and died in 1825. He was a son of Wessel B. and Mariah ( Hardenberg) Van Wageneu. Wessel B. diedl in JS18, aged forty years. He was a son of Jacobus, Sr, and Rachel ( Brodhead) Van Wagenen. Jacobus, Sr., was a son of Simon and Sarah ( Du Bois) Van Wagenten, and was born in 1692. Simon was a son of Jacob and Sarah (Pels) Aartse, who were married Feb. 25, 1677. Jacob
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was a son of Jacob Aartse, Sr., and Annatje Gerrits, who came from Wagenen, Holland ; and as van means from in the Holland language, the family name became Van Wage- nen. They were all farmers by occupation, and were identi- fied with the Reformed Dutch Church of America.
John HI. spent his early life on the farm, attending the district school in his neighborhood. He then left home, and spent a year at the New Paltz Academy, and about the same length of time at a select high school in Sullivan County, established by Obadiah Bush, Esq., with Prof. J. F. Stoddard principal. Also a year at the Liberty Normal Institute, at Liberty, Sullivan Co., N. Y. Thus prepared for the work, he commeneed his profession, which he fol- lowed for more than twenty years.
He taught a district school one year in Marbletown, Ulster Co., after which he became principal, successively, of the following institutions: the Union School of Ellen- ville, now known as No. 1; the University of Northern Pennsylvania ; the Ellenville High School ; was associated with Prof. Stoddard and Prof. J. P. Wickersham in a three- months' institute held in the Lancaster County Normal School, Pennsylvania ; then principal of a select school iu Blooming Grove, Orange Co.
In 1857 he located upon the old homestead where he now resides, a view of which appears on another page. He then at intervals taught in his own district and at Stone Ridge, closing his successful career as a teacher in 1876. From this time he has given his entire attention to his farm, which is aneestral, and has come down to him in a direct line through several generations, the proprietorship never having passed from his family name from the original purchase or grant of the Van Wagenen estate or patent in the early part of the last century, nearly two hundred years ago, up to the present writing. The house, which is his birthplace, is unique in appearance, is constructed of rough blocks of stone broken from a neighboring limestone quarry, and is in a good state of preservation.
He married, April 3, 1855, Jannette Brodhead, an ac- complished young lady of Ellenville. Their children-three lovely daughters-died at an carly age. Mr. and Mrs. Van Wagenen are members of the Reformed Church, and are living in the full enjoyment of their pleasant and hospitable home. In politics Mr. Van Wagenen is a Republican ; al- though not aspiring to political preferment, is a gentleman of energy and enterprise, enjoying the confidenec and esteem of those who know him.
PHILETUS KORTRIGHT,
son of Cornelius and Hannah M. (Hoornbeck ) Kortright, was born in the town of Rochester, Ulster Co., N. Y., Nor. 12, 1846. Hle spent his minority at home. At the age of twenty-two he married Miss Elizabeth D., daughter of Richard and Eliza (Johnson) Brodhead, and began dis- tilling whisky, and farming. As the successor of Richard Brodhead he is carrying on the sante business in 1880, and resides on the same farm formerly owned by Mr. Brod- head. Mr. Kortright is identified with the Republican party, and interested in town and county affairs. Ilis chil- dren are Lizzie, born in 1868, and Maggie, born in 1876.
JOHN II. DAVIS
was born in Glen, Montgomery Co, N. Y., June 12, 1831. He was a son of Valentine Davis, whose ancestors were among the early settlers of Marbletown, Ulster Co. His early life was spent in his native county, where for several
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years he followed painting. In the year 1851 he went to California, where for fourteen years he was engaged in mining and trading in Klamath County. Returning in 1865 to the town of Rochester, Ulster Co., he purchased a one-half interest in the Accord Paper-Mills, which interest he retains in 1SS0.
Mr. Davis was formerly a member of the Democratie party, but has been identified with the Republicans since the elose of the late civil war. He represented the town of Marbletown on the Board of Supervisors in 1878-80, receiving at each cleetion after the first" an increased majority.
He married, in 1872, Mary C., daughter of Philip Du Mond, of Rochester, this county, by whom he has three children living.
ELIAS DE PUY.
The following obituary notice, published in the Christian. Intelligencer in September, 1854, is here reproduced in memoriam :
" Died, at Rochester, Ulster Co., N. Y., on the 21st of September, 1851, Elias De Puy, Esq., the only surviving son of the late Joseph De Puy, Esq.
" The death of this excellent citizen and most exemplary Christian produced a deep sensation throughout the com- munity in which he had so long resided. From his early years he had devoted himself to the cause of morality and
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religion. Separated throughont his whole life from the giddy pursuits of the men of pleasure and of worldly am-
ELIAS DE PUY.
bition, he had bestowed all his time and opportunities in storing his mind with the principles of moral and eternal truths. He had cut himself loose from all that could tempt him to wander abroad into the world, and into the other relations of domestic or social connections, that he might
employ himself wholly in promoting the comfort of his aged parents until their respective deaths. In the latter years of his life he confined himself altogether to his family of sisters, with whom he lived as Lazarus did with Martha and Mary. That home was his Bethany. There they (both brother and sisters) loved to entertain the Saviour and all those who loved Jesus.
" The loss which these sisters sustained in the death of their beloved brother cannot be repaired. Every recollee- tion of him who was unto them their all on earth but makes them feel more deeply their desolate loneliness. The Saviour alone can fill the painful void, and bear them up in the re- maining part of their dreary journey. The sympathies of many warur friends are with them; the whole neighborhood is moved by this heavy affliction and bereavement. Every- thing that can be awarded by Christian friendship will be at all times extended to this lonely family of warm-hearted and truly affectionate sisters. Surely He who sticketh more closely than even their brother will not leave them in their orphan state. He will surely come unto them, and be a very present Help to them in every time of their need.
" This worthy man died as he had lived; his house, in a spiritual as well as secular sense, was truly set in order. All was well that he endured, however severe the pain ; all was safe, although the Valley of the Shadow of Death was opening before him. He took leave of his domestics with solemn admonitions, and of his sisters and relatives, who were weeping around him, by requesting them not to weep for him ; for ' all was safe.' ' Maik the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace.'"
ROSENDALE.
1 .- SITUATION, BOUNDARIES, AREA, TITLE.
ROSENDALE is a peculiarly formed town, lying very largely in the valley of the Rondout and the Wallkill, which form & junction upon the eastern boundary-line. The town is in the eastern part of the county and sepa- rated from the Hudson River only by the territory of Eropus. It is bounded north by Hurley, east by the new town of Ulster and Esopus, south by Esopus, New Paltz, and Rochester, west by Rochester. The area of this town 4 stated in the census of 1875 at 11,413 acres. Of this Area, 6119 acres were improved, and 4964 acres unim- ¡rovel. Of the unimproved, 1837 aeres were woodland ah 1 3127 acres were classed as " other unimproved" by the compilers of the census. The several patents from which he title to the soil is derived are fully stated in the general every or in the chapters upon the several towns from « bich Rosendale was formed. We add, for the purpose of convenient reference, the legal boundaries of the town, as garen in the act of incorporation : .
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