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In 1901 the Episcopal Church property in Rhinebeck village was purchased, repaired and improved, and the Church of the Good Shep- herd established. Rev. M. F. Aylward is also in charge here.
CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART, BARRYTOWN. This society was in- corporated November 17, 1875. Originally Barrytown was a mission attended from Rhinecliff, until September 1, 1886, when the entire township of Red Hook was set off as a new parish, and Rev. William
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J. McClure appointed resident rector. He was succeeded in 1893 by Rev. Daniel J. Cronin, who remained until June 27, 1899. The Rev. Hugh P. Cullum then became resident rector, and was followed in 1901 by Rev. Matthew J. F. Scanlon, the present incumbent.
The church edifice, which is a frame structure, was erected in 1875, during the pastorate of Rev. James Fitzsimmons, of Rhinecliff, on land donated by the Donaldson family, who also deeded to the church land for a rectory and for a cemetery. The rectory was built in 1887. When Fr. Scanlon was appointed, in 1901, the church was struggling under a debt of $2,400. Through his efforts and those of the lay trustees, Messrs. Daniel O'Connell and James Baxter, Sr., the parish was thoroughly canvassed and this indebtedness was wiped out.
ST. SYLVIA'S CHURCH, TIVOLI. In 1852 the Rev. Michael C. Power was appointed by the Bishop of Albany to the pastorate of Sauger- ties, Ulster County. He administered the Sacrament to the Catholics in Tivoli and neighboring districts, and was succeeded in the work of soul saving by the Rev. Michael Scully, who was stationed at Rhine- cliff. Then came the Rev. James Fitzsimmons, who succeeded Fr. Scully at Rhinecliff. He built the first Catholic Church in Tivoli, and with his assistants, served the entire eastern shore of the Hudson from Albany to Poughkeepsie.
In 1886 Rev. W. J. McClure took possession of Barrytown parish, with Tivoli as a mission, and February 18, 1890 Tivoli was elevated to the rank of an independent parish, with the Rev. J. S. Finton its first rector. Subsequent rectors were Revs. Michael Reinhart, P. F. Maughan, Francis C. Lenes, J. H. Dooley, and Rev. C. J. Parks, who has had charge of the parish since 1906.
Just previous to the appointment of Fr. Dooley, September 28, 1902, the late Archbishop Corrigan had arranged with the Countess de Laugier-Villars and her sister, Mrs. Geraldyn Redmond, for the erection and equipment of the present beautiful church edifice and rectory as a tribute to the memory of their mother, Mrs. Johnston Livingston. The church was consecrated June 28, 1903, by the Most Rev. John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
A convent school adjoining the church was established in 1888, and is under the direction of Sister M. Geronimo, assisted by Sister Rose Monico and Sister Frances de Chantal. A thorough religious
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and secular education is imparted to an average attendance of thirty- five pupils.
ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH, MILLBROOK, was at first a mission cared for by the parish at Amenia, but now has developed into a large and im- portant church, with two resident priests, and ministers to the spirit- ual needs of a large number of souls. This parish, St. Joseph's, con- ducts a mission at Clinton Corners, where a chapel has been erected. In Millbrook there is a large church edifice, a house for the priest's home, and a hall in which can be held social gatherings of all kinds. Lately a large number of Italians have made homes for themselves in Millbrook, and have become a part of this parish, which is prosper- ing under the care of Fr. Weir.
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, HYDE PARK. This church was built in 1863 and '64, at the expense of Mrs. Mortimer Livingston and her daughter, Mrs. Drayton, who married for her second husband Mr. Kirkpatrick. The name of the church is inscribed on the front of the building, Ecclesia Regina Coeli. It is a neat building of brick and brown stone on Harvey street, nearly opposite the termination of Park Place. In a vault under the nave of the church are buried mem- bers of the Livingston and Drayton families. A rectory adjoins the church edifice. The Rev. Tobias M. Fitzpatrick was the first resident priest. His successors have been: Rev. John Parker, 1883; Rev. Michael Murray, 1884 ; Rev. Fr. Leahy, 1888; Rev. Terence F. Kelly, 1890; Rev. R. J. Burns, 1893-99. Since 1899 the Rev. John De La Poer Lonargan has officiated.
Fr. Lonargan also serves St. Paul's Church, Staatsburgh, which was founded May 8, 1888, by Rev. Terence F. Kelly. The previous chapel was located on Clay Hill, on ground donated by William Em- met, cousin of the patriot Thomas.
CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL (Italian Catholic). The church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel was incorporated by certificate of incorporation dated February 19, 1908, and recorded in the Dutchess County Clerk's office, February 24, 1908. The trustees named in the certificate being His Grace, Right Rev. John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York ; Joseph F. Mooney, Vicar-General; Nicolas Pavone, Pastor; Pasquale Antonio Tesone and Nicola Manna, Lay Trustees.
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The congregation of this church, at present and for some time past, has held its services in St. Peter's Church. The corporation, June, 1909, purchased the John I. Platt property on the west side of Cataract Place and it is intended to erect thereon, very shortly, a new church, rectory and school.
Rev. Fr. Nicolas Pavone, pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, was born at Trivento, Province of Campobasso, Italy, Au- gust 18, 1878. In 1886 he went to the Seminary at Trivento and was ordained priest by Right Rev. Bishop Mgr. Carlo Pietropaoli, Decem- ber 23, 1901. In 1902 he studied in La Minerva University of the Dominican Fathers at Rome. In 1903 he returned to Trivento and was the secretary of the bishop and chaplain of the Holy Cross Church. In 1904 he was a teacher in the Seminary of Larino, and in 1905 he returned again to Trivento. At that time Bishop Pietropaoli, by request of Mgr. Provveduto of Rome, sent him to America. He arrived in New York December 20, 1905, and was received by Most Rev. Archbishop J. M. Farley and assigned to St. Peter's Church in Poughkeepsie, by request of Rev. Fr. Wm. Livingston, December 22, 1905.
THE MARIST BROTHERS. The institution of "The Little Brothers of Mary," generally known as "The Marist Brothers," is a teaching order, founded nearly a century ago in Lyons, France, by the Ven- erable Champagnat. The object of the order is the Christian educa- tion of young men. They take great care to develop the will as well as the intellect. They give their whole lives to the work of education. The Holy See gave many signal proofs of its satisfaction at the rapid development of this educational order and definitely recognized and approved of it by a decree January 9, 1863. This order has estab- lishments in many countries. In fact they are spread all over the world. They came to the United States in 1885 and a few years later opened a boarding school in New York City, with the approba- tion of His Grace, Archbishop Corrigan.
On February 28, 1905, the Marist Brothers purchased the Mac- Pherson place on the Hyde Park Road, just above Poughkeepsie, and subsequently on August 29, 1908, they purchased that part of the "Beck" property lying on the west side of the Hyde Park Road. The house on the MacPherson property is known as "St. Ann's Hermitage" and has been chosen as the Mother House of the order for the United
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States. These properties are to be used for a training school and a junior and senior novitiate.
On Sunday, July 26, 1908, nine young men were admitted to the "Marist Brothers" order at St. Ann's Hermitage, this being the first reception of novices to their order in Dutchess County.
NOVITIATE OF ST. ANDREW-ON-THE-HUDSON. The Novitiate of St. Andrew is one of the colleges erected by the Society of Jesus, more generally known as the Jesuit Society. The society purchased the Stuyvesant property on the Hyde Park Road, in the town of Hyde Park, on July 13, 1899. Since this time other farms adjoining have also been purchased. Since the purchase of the property the society has erected its college building upon the Stuyvesant property. On January 15, 1903, the Jesuit Novitiate, which had been at Frederick, Md., since 1833, moved to St. Andrew.
On November 19, 1907, the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament was consecrated by His Grace, Archbishop John M. Farley. This chapel is the gift of Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan to St. Andrew. The chapel was built by the late Thomas F. Brennan and cost $80,000.
Since the Jesuits came to Dutchess County four chapels or churches have been built in this vicinity, viz: One at Pleasant Valley called "St. Stanislaus," another called "The Chapel of Our Lady of the Wayside," the gift of the late Mr. P. J. Kennedy of New York City, to serve for the benefit of the Catholics living near the Novitiate, and two other churches, that of St. Joseph and of Our Lady, erected on the grounds of the Hudson River State Hospital. All the above named' churches, together with the Marist Brothers' Chapel, are attended by priests from St. Andrew.
The Novitiate of St. Andrew-on-the-Hudson occupies a charming site on the east bank of the river, some three miles north of Pough- keepsie. Here young men wishing to offer themselves to the ser- vice of God in the Society of Jesus, either as priests or coadjutor brothers, enter upon their long period of probation and training as novices. For two years they devote themselves exclusively to religious occupation such as the practice of mental prayer, obedience, humilia- tion and systematic spiritual exercises which may train them to solid and elevated virtue. After the two years of novitiate, the candidates are admitted to simple vows, and are professed members of the society ; those who are to be priests pass to another wing of the
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building to spend from one to three years, according to their pre- vious proficiency in reviewing or extending their classical and other college studies. This is only the beginning of a long and arduous course of study, to be continued in institutions of still higher grade. In addition to the novices and junior scholastics above referred to, St. Andrew's also shelters the Tertian Fathers, or priests undergoing the third year of probation. These are the young priests who having finished their studies and received Holy Orders, return to the Novitiate for the space of another year, to temper their souls anew in the fire of spiritual exercises before entering finally upon their life battle in the cause of Christ. During this year they have also practice in giving missions in the city and country churches. Still another purpose aimed at in the Novitiate is to afford a place of retreat to persons, either priest or layman, desiring to spend some. time in contemplation, and in the regular course of exercises devised by St. Ignatius Loyola for the reformation of life and the advancement of the soul. At all times during the year, particularly during the summer months, laymen and clergy, zealous for the better gifts, are. seen in retirement at St. Andrew engaged in meditation, prayer and penance under the direction of some Father of the community. With- in the sacred walls of the chapel and in the presence of the Blessed' Sacrament, the Novice or Tertian spends long periods of rapt con- templation. He attends the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and re- ceives in Holy Communion the Bread of Life, which is to sustain him in his mortification, labors and entire conflict.
The whole purpose of this community is the promotion and develop- ment of the higher life. It is to be a center of spiritual energy which may moderate or diminish, in Catholics at least, the danger of absorp- tion in the fierce struggle of the material forces that are focussed so intensely in this part of the country. It is an attempt to teach men to emulate, in their fight for heaven, the sacrifices which men make who are fighting for wealth and power. It is a school for training young Jesuits to imitate, and if possible surpass, the exploits of their prede- cessors, who achieved so much amid difficulties and hardships and trials, which in these easy-going days are hard to fully realize.
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CHAPTER XXXIX. FRIENDS' MEETINGS IN DUTCHESS COUNTY.
BY JOHN COX, JE., CUSTODIAN OF FRIENDS' RECORDS, NEW YORK.
T HIS county has had more Friends' meetings in it than any other in the State. The first settlement of Friends was on the ridge of Quaker Hill, and the first to settle there were probably Benjamin Ferriss and Nathan Birdsall, in 1728. Others soon followed, and by 1742 the first meeting was well established.
The "Enrollment of the People Called Quakers Persuant an act of General Assembly of this province passed the 19th of February, 1755, Entitled an Act for Regulating the Militia of the Colony of New York," gives a list of forty-nine heads of families for Dutchess County with their locations and occupations.
This list appears in Chapter V, page 53, and it is interesting to compare it with the following "List of the Heads of Families" in Ob- long Monthly Meeting in 1761.
IST AT NEW MILFORD.
Abner Hoag & Wife
Dobson Wheeler & his Wife
Benjam Hoag Senr & Wife
Aaron Benedick & his Wife
Moses Hoag & Wife
Joseph Ferriss Gaius Talcott
George Soule & Wife
James McKenney
Wm. Russell & Wife David Hoag & Wife
Ebenezer Peaslee & Wife
Nehemiah Merritt & Wife
Nehemiah Merritt Jur & Wife
Elijah Doty & Wife Henry Chase & Wife Abraham Chase & Wife Benjamin Ferriss & Wife
Timothy Dakin & Wife Elisha Akin's Children
Lydia Norton Anna Philips
2ND AT OBLONG.
John Bull & his Wife Wing Kelley & his Wife Oliver Tryon & his Wife John Wing & his Wife John Hoag ye 2d & Wife Benjam Hoag & his Wife
Philip Allen & Wife
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Reed Ferriss & Wife Zebulon Ferriss & Wife John Hoag Senr & Wife John Hoag Jur & Wife Jedidiah Wing & Wife Josiah Akin & Wife Stephen Hoag & Wife James Hunt & Wife Prince Howland & Wife
Isaac Haviland & Wife
Nathn Birdsall & Wife
Nathn Birdsall Jur & Wife
Daniel Chase & Wife
Edward Wing & Wife
Abraham Wing & Wife
Israel Howland & Wife
David Atkin & Wife
Jonathan Akin & Wife
Joseph Jinnins & Wife
Robert Whitely & Wife
Nathanael Stevenson
Joseph Hoag Abraham Thomas Isaac Bull
Patience Akin
Desire Chase
Mary Allen Widdow
Mersey Fish
Margaret Akin
Margery Woolman
Dinah Gifford Widdow
Elizab Hunt Widdow Abigail Gifford
Phebe Boudy Ann Hepbern Sarah Davis Ann Corban Hannah Birdsall
SOLY AT NINE PARTNERS.
Peter Hallock & Wife
Moses Haight & Wife
Aaron Haight & Wife Joshua Haight & Wife
George Soule & Wife William Palmer & Wife
Reuben Palmer & Wife Nehemiah Reynolds & Wife
Peter Palmer & Wife
Aaron Vail & Wife Joseph Haight & Wife John Lapham & Wife
Jonathan Holmes & Wife
Jonathan Hoag & Wife
Israel Devil & his Wife
John Kees & Wife Nathaniel Brown & Wife Anthony Arnold & Wife Caleb Norton & Wife
Micah Griffin & Wife
Jacob Haight & Wife John Haight & Wife
Stephen Haight & Wife Micah Palmer & Wife
Andrew White & Wife
Stephen Hicks & Wife
Daniel Tobias & Wife
Ezekiel Hoag & Wife William Haight Joseph Reynolds
Obadiah Griffin
Solomon Haight
Benjam White
John Hallock
David Arnold
Nathan Bull
Hannah Thorn
Hannah Tripp
Margaret Allen
Rose Barton
Sarah Collins
Bersheba Southerlin
Sarah Jacocks
Ruth Mabbit
Patience Green
4THLY AT OSWEGO.
Samuel Dorland & Wife
Richard Smith & Wife
Joseph Smith & Wife
Samuel Hall & Wife
Allen Moore & Wife
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John Thomas & Wife Lot Tripp & Wife
Deborah Reed Martha Gifford Abigail Adams
Ebenezer Shearman & Wife
Joshua Sherman & Wife Daniel Shepherd & Wife John Thomas & Wife
Mary Moore Catharine Leaven
Mary Youman Mehetable Devil
Josiah Bull Zebulon Hoxsie Ichabod Bowerman David Irish
5THLY AT PEACH PONDS.
Samuel Field & Wife
Elias Palmer & Wife
David Palmer & Wife
Andrew Moore Joseph Waters Eliab Youmans Othniel Allen
Samuel Coe & Wife
Stephen Field & Wife
Solomon Field & Wife
John Carman Jesse Irish
These Friends were partly from Westchester County and Long Island, but largely from the New England meetings.
The Documentary history of the meetings in this county is found in the records of these meetings and of earlier meetings to the south- ward. These records, and those of all meetings throughout the State, have been brought together at Fifteenth Street meeting house, New York City, by a joint committee of the two New York Yearly Meet- ings, of which the writer is chairman. Over a thousand volumes are already collected, and many additional volumes are coming in every year. The writer earnestly requests all having such records in their possession to communicate with him.
Purchase Monthly Meeting in the lower part of Westchester County, was the first one on the main land of this province, and its jurisdiction extended over Friends to the northward till 1744. The receipt of certificates from Dartmouth, Mass., shows the movement from the east, but the earliest mention of a meeting in Dutchess County appears First Month, 1, 1742, when a certificate from Dart- mouth in New England was received for George Soul and wife, "being settled at the nine partners." At the same meeting Benjamin Ferriss, William Russell, James Clement and Thomas Franklin were appointed "to Conclude the dementions of a meeting house to be build on the Oblong" and to build it. In Fourth Month Overseers were appointed for the meetings at Oblong and at New Milford, Conn., where a meet- ing had been established as early as 1739, and where Friends had been
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settled as early as 1733, as proved by the Purchase minutes. Sixth Month 12, 1742, "The request of Sundry friends living at Crumelbow or the Nine Partners to have a meeting Settled Amongst them was read at this meeting and Approved." Seventh Month 9, 1742, the Monthly Meeting decided "that theire be a preparative meeting held at the Oblong the week before each monthly Meeting, for themselves and the adjacent meetings."
Fourth Month 14, 1744, the Yearly Meeting having approved, Ob- long Monthly Meeting was set up "at the Oblong and the nine part- ners to be held at each place by turns on the 3d fifth day of every month;" and no further reference to Dutchess County Friends appears in the Purchase minutes, except,-and this is important as showing the strength of the new Monthly Meeting-Oblong Monthly Meeting recommended to the consideration of Purchase Monthly Meeting the establishment of a Quarterly Meeting "on this side." The Yearly Meeting granted the request and Purchase Quarterly Meeting was established 6th Month 3, 1745, to be held at Oblong and Purchase.
The men's minutes of Oblong Monthly Meeting from Fourth Month, 1744, to Seventh Month, 1757, are missing. A note on the first page of the next volume states that "the Preceeding Minutes hereon depend- ing are in Manuscript. As also all ye former Minutes from 1744: when first this Monthly Meeting was Settled." The inference is that the minutes were then on loose sheets. In 1760 the meeting directed Joshua Haight to record the minutes from 1744 to 1757 in a book. He may have done so, and if this volume can be found it will be of great historical value. The men's minutes are complete from 1757 to 1828, and of the Hicksite branch to 1884, when the meeting was laid down, and of the Orthodox branch fairly complete from 1828. Sev- eral volumes of women's minutes are missing, but it is hoped they will yet be found.
The Oblong meeting house, built in 1742 as above noted, was re- placed in 1764 by the present venerable building on Quaker Hill in the town of Pawling. It is very strongly built with unusual framing and bracing. While Washington's army was located in this region this was used as an hospital. Loopholes cut at that time through the plank siding of the gables can still be seen in the attic. The first house seems to have been on the south side of the road, nearly opposite the present one. At the Separation of 1828 the house was retained
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by the Hicksite branch and the Orthodox built the house still used on the Ridge road near the old house. Oswego meeting at Moore's Mills in the present town of LaGrange was allowed as early as 1750, and was made a Preparative Meeting in 1758. New Milford meeting, in the town of New Milford, Litchfield County, Connecticut, was not made a Preparative Meeting until 1777. It was laid down in 1828 by the Hicksites, and later by the Orthodox.
Poughquaig (sometimes called Appoughguague) meeting, in the town of Beekman, was allowed in 1771, and made a Preparative Meet- ing in 1773. Peach Pond meeting was allowed in 1760. The Pre- parative Meeting was established in 1779 and laid down in 1792. The meeting house is still standing at Peach Lake in the town of Salem, Westchester County, and one large meeting each summer has been for a quarter of a century a local event of the year. Valley meeting, in the town of Patterson, was allowed in 1776, first at Elijah Doty's and then at Daniel Haviland's. It was made a Preparative Meeting in 1785. The Orthodox branch laid this down in 1828, and the Hicks- ite branch in 1866.
Cornwall meeting. There was a meeting of this name, allowed as a part of Valley Preparative Meeting. It was laid down in 1801. Oblong Monthly Meeting also allowed several other meetings outside of the County, one at Salisbury (probably in Rensselaer or Washing- ton County) in 1766, though they had held a "Visitation" Meeting there twice a year since 1746, one at Queensbury, near Glens Falls in 1767, and one at West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1800, the latter becoming a Monthly Meeting in 1805.
In 1769 the second Monthly Meeting in the county and the third on the mainland was established at Nine Partners. It comprised at first the Preparative Meeting of Nine Partners and Oswego, and the meetings at Salisbury and Queensbury. The old brick meeting house of Nine Partners, near Millbrook, still used by the Hicksite branch, is the second house built there. After the Separation the Orthodox built their house in Millbrook. Other meetings were soon allowed. In 1771 Friends "over the Creek" desired a meeting which was granted, at the house of Jonathan Hoag. In 1775 a committee was appointed to "pitch upon a place" for the meeting house, which was soon built in the present town of Clinton, and a Preparative meeting established the following year. Easton Meeting in Washington County and East Hoosack Meeting at Adams, Mass., were allowed in
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1774, and both made Preparative Meetings in 1776. These two meetings, together with White Creek meeting, allowed in 1777 in Washington County, and the Queensbury Meeting above referred to, were set off in 1778 to form Easton Monthly Meeting.
Meetings at New Cornwall, Orange County, and New Marlborough, Ulster County, were allowed in 1773 and 1776. These, with Creek Preparative Meeting and New Britain Meeting in Columbia County, the latter allowed in 1771, comprised Creek Monthly Meeting, set off from Nine Partners in 1782.
By 1783 the journey to Quarterly Meeting, held at Purchase and Oblong, was too great for those to the northward, and Nine Partners Quarterly Meeting was established, comprising the Monthly Meet- ings of Nine Partners and Creek in this county, Easton Monthly Meeting in Washington County, and East Hoosack Monthly Meeting at Adams, Mass. Ten years later Easton Quarterly Meeting was established with the two last meetings, and Oblong Monthly Meeting was transferred to Nine Partners Quarterly Meeting.
By 1798 the wave of Quaker immigration had reached up into Canada, and Adolphus Town Preparative Meeting was then estab- lished by a committee of the Yearly Meeting to be a part of Nine Partners Monthly Meeting. In 1801 it was set off as a Monthly Meeting, a part of Nine Partners Quarterly Meeting.
Chestnut Ridge Meeting, in the town of Dover, was allowed in 1790 at the house of Rachel Hustis, and a Preparative Meeting estab- lished in 1799. It was laid down in 1828 by the Orthodox and in 1854 by the Hicksites. Canaan meeting, in the town of Canaan, Litchfield County, Conn., was allowed in 1807 and established as a Preparative Meeting in 1820. Laid down by the Orthodox in 1828 and by the Hicksites in 1839.
In 1788 Cornwall and Marlborough Preparative Meetings were set off from Creek Monthly Meeting to form Cornwall Monthly Meeting, in Orange and Ulster Counties, which was a part of Nine Partners Quarterly Meeting until Cornwall Quarterly Meeting was established in 1816.
In 1793 Hudson Monthly Meeting was set off from Creek with the Preparative meetings of Hudson in the City of Hudson, Columbia County, Coeymans in the town of Coeymans, Albany County, and the meeting at Klinakill (now Ghent), Columbia County. The dates at which these meetings were allowed and established cannot be exactly
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