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The patent was issued Oct. 19, 1708. Its issue was to Cornelius Kool, Adrien Garretsie, Matthew Ten Eyck, Jacob du Bois, Johannes Schep- mose, Roeloff Swartwout, Cornelius Lammerse, Peter Petersies, Law- rence Osterhout and Jannetie Newkirk, trustees of Hurley.
1708-Nov. 2-Deed from Hendricus (Henry) Beekman and Johanna his wife, to Pieter Louw (Lowe) for a tract in Rochester, including several small pieces, within the bounds belonging to the Indians, from the bounds of Kahansick to the bounds of the High Mountains. The survey began at Honk Falls. The patent to Lowe has been noted.
1709-Aug. 18-Petition of Alexander Griggs, of the County of Ulster, for 600 acres of land on the south side of Old Man's Creek, and running up the Hudson's River to a point called the Old Man's Hook, at a certain place called the Dans Kamer.
The patent was the second granted on the resumed lands patented to Capt. John Evans. The lands asked for were in the present Town of Marlborough. Old Man's Creek and Old Man's Hook were so called from Old Dennis Reljie, now Relyea, whose place of residence is de-
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scribed in official papers at Albany. He was the first settler at Juffrow's Hook. His name is on the tax roll of 1714.
1709-Nov. 1-Petition of Peter Barbarre for 2000 acres of the Evans Patent. Now in Marlborough.
1709-Nov. 8-Description of a survey of 400 acres in Shawangunk on the south side of the land of John van Camp, laid out for Evart Derwilighe (Terwilliger).
1709-Nov. 12-Description of survey of 200 acres of the Evans Patent lying on Shawangunk Kill, laid out for Severeyn Tenhout. Described as woodland on Shawangunk Kill, and Crum Kill.
1709-Nov. 14-Petition of Jacobus Bruin and Benjamin Smedes, of Shawangunk, for 400 acres of the Evans Patent. Surveyor's description: "Lying near a small hill called in ye Indian tongue Wecbqu-atenn-onck," meaning literally "at the end of a hill." Surveyed Nov. 15, 1709.
1709-Nov. 18-Petition of John McLean, of Shawangunk for 300 acres of the Evans Patent, described in survey: "Lying on the northward side of the Paltz Kill at Shawangunk."
1709-May II-Petition of Zacharias Hoffman of Shawangunk, for 330 acres of the land formerly granted to Captain John Evans. Described in survey Dec. 2, 1709: "Lying on the east side of Shawangunk River."
1709-Nov. 28-Petition of Matthias Mott that the 300 acres of land which had "been granted to Sovereign Tenhout be so divided that he (Mott) may have a proportionate share of the good land upon said river, i. e. on Shawangunk Kill.
1709-Nov. 28-Petition of Hugo Frere and others, inhabitants of ye Paltz for "a reasonable quantity of the resumed land formerly granted to Capt. John Evans. 1200 acres granted and surveyed May 3rd, 1714. Adjoining New Paltz.
1709-May II-Petition of Peter Matthews and others for 2000 acres of the Evans Patent, lying near the New Paltz, about twenty miles backward in the woods from Hudson's River, upon or near Paltz Creek." A part of this tract was owned by Jacobus Bruin in 1744, and described, "called the Gerbrande Vly, or the Burned Meadows." Burned over to clear it of bushes and coarse grass.
1709-May II-Petition of Evart Derwillighe of Shawangunk, for 400 acres of the Evans Patent.
1709-Feb. 29-Petition of Augustine Graham, surveyor, and Alex. Griggs, for 1200 acres of the Evans Patent, "at ye Old Man's Creek," now in Marlborough.
1709-March 4-Anne of Greatt Brittaine, France and Ireland, Queene defender of the Ffaith, to William Peartree, Rip Van Dam, Adolph Phillipse, Geradus Beekman, Hendrick Vernooye, Abraham Dilijoe, Teunis Jacobson Klaarwater and Jacob Klaarwater, grant by patent of a certaine parcell of land situate on the west side of Hudson's River, and beginning at the southeast corner of a small island lying in the Paltz Creeke, and on the southwest side of the land granted to Capt. Mathews and Company, and is in breadth on the Paltz River on a straight line one hundred and eighty-six chains, and runs by the line of Capt. Peter Mathews and Company two hundred and two chains west twenty-four degrees north and on the south side of the said land at the termination of one hundred and eightysix chains it runs west twenty-four degrees north two hundred and fifty-seven chains con- taining four thousand acres.
1710-March 2-Petition of Peter Barbarie for 2000 acres of the Evans Patent, "lying on the southeast side of Paltz Creek."
1710-March 7-Petition of John Barbarie for 2000 acres of the Evans Patent, "beginning on the west side of Hudson's River at the south bounds of the Paltz
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Patent, running along the Hudson in a straight line southerly one hundred chains," southerly from Juffrouw's Hook in Marlborough.
1710-March 7-Petition of Gerardus Beekman and others for 3000 acres of the Evans Patent adjoining the lands of William Peartree and Company, in town of Shawangunk.
1710-March 24-Petition of Obadiah Hunt and others for 2500 acres of the Evans Patent, "beginning at a small brook called Tent Brook, and extends along the said brook to the Paltz River, sixty chains on each side." In Plattekill.
1710-March 24-Petition of John Thomas for 2500 acres of the Evans Patent.
1710-March 24-Petition of William Provost for 2500 acres of the Evans Patent.
1710-March 24-Petition of Dirck Benson for 1000 acres of the Evans Patent.
1710-March 24-Petition of Abraham de Peyster for 8000 acres of the Evans Patent.
17II-March 29-Warrant for a patent to Mindert Scutt for 300 acres at Sawyer's Creek.
1712-May 3-Warrant to Wm. Bond for 600 acres of the Evans land "adjoining John Barbarie's on Hudson's River." In Marlborough.
1712-May 30-Petition of John McLean and Richard Winfield praying patents for their lands in Ulster County, being part of the tract formerly granted to Capt. John Evans. In Shawangunk.
The land at Guilford, "by the Indians called Nescotsck," was known for many years as "Guilford Church." The actual location of the Indian name is claimed for a village now known as Libertyville, which was long known as Nescotack. The name describes a hill or ridge. The hill runs north from Lloyd's tract called Shawangunk.
1712-June 6-Petition of Hugo Frere and others for 2000 acres of the Evans tract, "near adjoining to the Paltz River at a place called the Platte Kill, six miles west of Hudson's River, on both sides of the Platte Kill. Surveyed May 3, 1714.
1712-June 25-Petition of Jacob Ruttsen of Ulster County, for 2000 acres "near the land of which he is already possessed," i. e. near Guilford. Surveyed June 12, 1712.
1712-June 5-Petition of John Ruttsen and Jacob Bruin of Ulster County, on behalf of themselves and Company, for 3000 acres of the Evans tract, "contiguous to their improved lands." Surveyed June 13, 1712. In Shawangunk.
1713-June II-Petition of Solomon du Bois and Lewis du Bois, "of ye county of Ulster" for 2000 acres of the Evans Patent near New Paltz.
1714-Aug. 20-Warrant to the Surveyor general to lay out for Lewis Morris and others, 5000 acres of the Evans tract, "lying on both sides of Old Man's Creek, near Hudson's River." In Marlborough
1714-Aug. 19-Warrant of survey for 1500 acres of the Evans tract, granted to Robert Milward, "pursuant to a grant from Governor Ingolsby." On north side of land of Francis Harrison & Co. Now in Marlborough.
1715-May 30-Grant of 300 acres to John Macklain, "lying on the north side of Shawangunk Creek, bounded on the southwest by the land of Severeigne Tenhout, south by the creek aforesaid, east by a small run which flows into Shawangunk Creek, and northwest by land not yet laid out.
Here, at the lands not yet laid out, a region of many acres, the enumer- ation of patents may be suspended, and later grants remanded to the
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THE COUNTY OF ULSTER.
history of the Towns in which they came to be included, a sufficient num- ber having been quoted from which to trace the evolution of the county and the persons by whom that evolution was wrought in the pioneer era along the lines of the Groot Esopus, the Esopus and the Wallkill, and from Wanton Island to the Dans Kamer on the Hudson, and from the Dans Kamer west to the Blue Hills, and south to Pachanassink, where Sam's Point lifts its wall of rock. The enumeration is panoramic. As it passes it presents the location of the homes of the pioneers, in some cases the precise location of their dwellings, as well as chronologically the flow of the tide of immigration. A more democratic policy than that which was pursued in the early stages of settlement of apportioning lands in homestead parcels to actual residents is not met in pioneer his- tory. In some few cases the parties to whom the homestead grants were issued did not remain in their occupation, death came to them from exposures and privations and from the tomahawk and scalping knife, but as a whole the homesteads became permanent and were cherished for generations - homes and graves in the wilderness, what more de- serving of monumental remembrance? Large patents, especially of later eras, were taken up by non-residents, as well as by prosperous residents for speculative purposes; land was cheap; a few shillings annual rent gave many acres to be sold for a price. To the record of names given in the early grants, others can be gathered from military rolls, road lists, church records, etc., and as an incident of the "Leisler Rebellion." A list of residents of the country who subscribed to the oath of allegiance to Prince William and Mary, in 1689, may be found in available docu- mentary histories, most of the orthographies requiring expert reading. The majority and a large majority, of the people of Ulster were un- doubtedly favorably disposed to the success of the Prince of Orange and when Leisler requested it, 190 promptly took the oath of allegiance ; four refused to do so, and thirty absented themselves. Presumably the list does not represent all the male inhabitants of the county, but the general temper of the people was in that direction. A much more satis- factory list of inhabitants is to be found in the original tax roll of the county in 1715.
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Zadoc P. Boice.
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EARLY FREEHOLDERS AND INHABITANTS.
CHAPTER IV.
EARLY FREEHOLDERS AND INHABITANTS.
HE freeholders, inhabitants, residents and sojourners in County of Ulster, theire Reale & Personal Estates are Rated as Assessed by the Assessors (on their oath) chosen for the same on the 20th day of January 171 4/5, and are to-
the rate of one penny half Pr L, to discharge this. of said County's quota, Layd by an Act of Assembly Intitled an Act for Levying the sume of Ten thousand pounds, viz :
CORPORATION OF KINGSTON.
John Wood
Nicolaas Dermeyer
Estate of Wyntie Bogardus, deced. Major Joh'o Hardenbergh
Jan Oosterhout
Petrus Bogardus
Anthony Slecht
Howd Alberse Pleogh Pieter Oosterhout Hellena Burhans Susana Legg John Legg
Theunis Swart
Barent Van Wagenin
Phillyp Vielle
Dowd Nucella
Joh's Traphagen
Humphry Davenport
Willen Traphagen James Whittaker
Nicholas Hofman
Edward Whitaker
Hillegonda Van Slichtenhorst
Arien Van Vliet
Cornelis Vernooy, Jun.
Mattys Pearce -- es De Graaf Baptista Du Mont
Collo Henrieus Beekman
Phillyp Hoogtylingh
Samuel Hooghtyling Dina Hooghtyling, alias Fysen Willem Hooghtylingh Kesia Hooghtylingh
Stephanus Gacherie Willem Eltinge
Jacomyntie Stynhout
Koelogg Eltinge
Keeper the Negro
Estate of Grelie Elmendorf, dec'd Dirck Schepmoes Teunis Ellisten Gerritt Aartsen
Mattys Mattysen Jun. Aardt Van Wagenin Cornelis Louis
Elizabeth Masten
Cornelis De La Matter
Claas Schoonhoven John Pearce Jean Frere
-rick Kip
House of M Anthony Gysbert Vandenbergh Jan f- Heermans Evert Bogardus
-hn Davenport Bastian De Witt
Henricus Heermans
Jan Mattyson Egbert Schoonmaker Gurtray Schoonmaker Evert Wynkoop
Kryn Oosterhout
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THE COUNTY OF ULSTER.
CORPORATION OF KINGSTON .- Continued.
enncke Lagransie
---- sen van Eagenin
Jacob Cool
Jan Pleogh
-ter Tappen
Willem Schepmoes
Thomas Van Steenbergen
Jan Degraaf
Abraham De La Metter
Johannes Turck
-llart Kiersteden
-thony Dilpha
-hanns Louw
Du Mont
-ndries Heermans
-erand Du Mont
Crook
Mattys Mattisen, L. D.
-hannis Burhans
Estate of Tjirck DeWitt, deced. ยท Van Aken
Gysbert Pielle -achel Bogardus
---- mertie Winne
Christopher Tappen
Manuel Gunsalis Duck
-h's Tenbroeck
Autie Van Bunschooten
-col Tenbroeck
. Arien Neimskorck
-- arent Burhans
Thomas Beekman
Major Joh's Wynkoop
Hendrick Jansen
Doctor Hans Kiersteden
A- metie Hoogenboom
Matthys Slecht
Dirck Valck
Thomas Pearce
Thomas Hoxon
Arien Hendrickse
Jan La Chaire
Thomas Mattysen
Samuel Bayard
Tobias Van Beuren
Amerentic Hofman
Pieter -ambornnsel
Barent Nieuwkerk
Bruyn Bresser
Gusie Peer
John Viello
Barent Van Benthuisen
Annavan Vliet
Geesie Winne
Henricus Beekman Jun.
Willem Burhans
John Fortune
John Chambers
Estate of Collo Wm. De Myer, deced.
John Pawling
Cornelis Lange Dyck
Benjamin De Mes
Jacob Loun
Ephraim Bogardus
Henekel Rou
Valentyn Bender
Henrich Beam
Kahaneman De Wever
Chrystofel Moul
Johan Klyn
Johan Willem Snyder
Hermanus De hoogduytser Tax. Assessment. L.9176, L. 57-7-0.
Total sume
Evert Roosa
House of Wessel Tenbroecks heirs
Tjerck Dewitt
Nathaniel Davenport
William Harris
Ragel Pleogh
Cornelis Swart
Moses Contain
Pieter Pielle
Hendrick Pruyn
Evert Bogardus
Hendrick Traphagen
Elsie Smedes
Ffredrick Clute
Mattys Jansen
Omie Lagransie Jan Past
Pieter Dubois
Teunis Pier
Dowd Ffreeman
Mattys Dubois
Coenraate Elmendorf
Mattys Van Steenbergen
Major Dirck Wessellis
Jacobus Dubois Arent Stynhout Jno Rutsen
Allart Ariense Roosa
-n Cottin
-arbara Wynkoop
Tjirck Mattysen Teunis Tappen
EARLY FREEHOLDERS AND INHABITANTS.
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1
MANNOR OF FOXHALL.
Assessment.
Tax.
Collo Abraham Gaasbeen Chambers Capt Wessel Tenbroeck Francis Salisbury
80
0010-0
Pieter Ploegh
12
00-1-6
Total sume
LI322
08-05-3
.
TOWN OF HURLEY.
Assessment.
Tax.
Cornelius Lambertsen
L200
LI-5-0
William West
140
00-17-6
Albert and Nicholas Roosa
175
I-II-10
Pieter Oostrander Sen.
85
00-10-17
Andries Bratt
15
00- 2-10
Arma Vanetten
200
I-5-0
Marya Roosa
150
00-18-0
Mattys Ten Eyck
280
I-15-0
Arian Gerrittsen
655
4-1-10
Jan Roosa Sen.
125
00-15-7++
Junne he Niewkerck
130
00 -- 16-3
Roeloff Swartwout
170
1-1-3
Cornelly Cool
952
5-19-00
Charley Wilei
50
00-6-3
Jacob Dubois
260
I-12- 6
Egbert Gerritsen
15
00- 1-10
Huybert Suyland
40
00- 5-00
Johannis Schepmoes
225
Jan Crespel
85
00-10-7-1
Willem Van Vredenburgh
15
00- 1-10
Heirs of Griete DeHooges
8
00- 1-00
Barnardus Swartwout
30
00- 3-9
Assessment.
Tax.
Pieter Oostrander Jun.
L20
00- 2-06
Pieter Van Etten
35
00-4- 4+
children of Pieter Crispel
40
00- 5-00
Dirck De Duytser
40
00~ 5-00
Jacobus Van Etten
25
00-3- I
Willem Roosa
IO
00- 1-3
Arien Roosa
20
00- 3-9
Allart Janse Roosa
25
00-
3- I-
Gerritt Neiuekerk
70
00-
8- 9
Jacobus Elmendorf
36
00- 4- 4-1-
Cornelius Wynkoop
30
00- 3-9
Arent Oostrander
15
00- 1-10 --
Jan Roosa Jun.
8
00- 1-00
Jan Terwillige
IO
00- 1-3
Jacobus Terwillige
5
00-00-7-
Lowrens Cortreght
5
00-00-71
Lambert Cool
IO
00- I-3
Totall Sume
L4398
27 9 do
L.900
L 5-12-6
330
2- 2-3
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THE COUNTY OF ULSTER.
TOWNE OF MARBLETOWNE.
Assessment.
Tax.
Collo. Jacob Rutsen
1020
6- 7- 0
Major Jacob Aartsen
290
1-16- 3
Mattys Blanchan
310
1-18-9
Wm. Nottingham
140
00-17-0
Jno. Beatty
60
00-7-6
Jno. Joosten of Raretans
IIO
00-13-9
Cornelis Eltinge
160
1-00-00
Mrs. N. Pawling
200
I- 5-00
Gysbert Krom
150
00-18-9
Richard Brodhead
155
00-19- 4
Peter Van Luven
100
00-12-6
Engeltie Mourits
80
00-10-00
Pieter Mourits
25
00-3-1-+
Heirs to Jno. Bigges
15
00-II-10
Cornelis Flack
25
00-00-71/2
Joris Middagh
125
00-15-7+
Widow Keetell
5
00-00- I
Huybert Lambertse
70
00- 8-9
Thomas Vandermarke
60
00-7-6
Charles Broadhead
185
I- 3- 1-
Nicolaas Sluyter
2
00-00-3.
Hendrick Clasen
65
00-00- I-
Thomas Cock
65
008-14
Catherine Ashfordbie
35
00- 4- 4 ---
Thomas Garton
390
2-8- 9
John Cock
125
00-15-7-
Jannetie Davies
25
00- 3-1-1
Cornelia Ennis
IO
00- 1-4
Jeremiah Keetell
15
00- 1-10
Hendrick Boss
3
Claas Keator
15
00 1-10-
Arie Vandermarke
20
00- 2-6
Jacob Vandermarke
15
00- 1-10-1-
Frederick Vandermarke
5
00~00- 7 --
Augustinno Vandermarke
5
00~00-7 --
Thomas Jansen
45
00 5-7-
Jacob Keyser
5
00-00-7-
Jan Van Campen Sen.
140
00-17-6
Nicolaas Dapuis
IIO
00-13-9
Gysbert Roosa
30
00- 3-9
Hendrick Bogart
380
2- 7-6
Jno. Brigges
15
00- 1-10-
Cornelis Keyser
6
00-00~ 0
Jacobus Boss
5
00-00-7-
Johannis Cool
IO
00- 1-3
Nicholas Blanchan
15
00- 1-9
Jannetie De Witt
190
I- 3- 9
James Robinsone
8
00- 1 -- 00
Johannis Van Luven
5
00-00-7-1
Lambert Dolderbrinck
50
00-6-3
Marten Bogart
8
00- 1-00
Henricus Krom
5
00-00-7-
Roeloft Dolderbrinck
5
00 -- 00-7-1
Henry Pawling
15
LL-1-10-1
+ ++
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EARLY FREEHOLDERS AND INHABITANTS.
TOWNE OF MARBLETOWNE .- Continued.
Assessment.
Tax.
5
00-00-7-1
5
00-00-7 ---
5
00-00-7-1-
Totall Sume
L5142
L22 s 2 d 9,
TOWN OF ROCHESTER.
Dirck Krom
Cornelis Vernooy Sen.
410
2-II-3
Teunis Oosterhout
I25
00-15-7 --
David Du bois
85
00-10-7-
Geertruy Van Cortland
45
00-5-7-
Pieter Lambertsen
IIO
00-13-9
Moses Dupuis
450
2-15-3
Marynus Van Aken
60
00-7-6
Jochem Shoonmaker
285
1-15-7 --
Gerrit Decker
105
00-13-1+
Gysert Van Garden
20
00- 3-9
Jan Van Vliet
15
00- 1-10-1
Hendrick Jansen Cortrecht
55
00- 6-10-1
Grietie Hoornbeck
25
00- 3-1-
Lodewyck Hoornbeck
80
00-10-00
Cornelis Switts
220
I- 7- 6
Cornelis De Duyser
25
00- 1-10
Magdalena Rosenkrans
IIO
00-13- 9
Dirck Rosenkrans
130
00-16-3
Jacob De Witt
150
00-18-9
Simon Westphaalen
20
00- 2-6
Harmanus Decker
60
00-7-6
Hendrick Rosenkrans
40
00- 5-00
Jan Cort Recht
20
00- 2-6
Cornelis Cortrecht
55
00- 6-10
Jan Van Etten
30
00- 3- 9
Leendert Cool Sen.
150
00-18-9
Barent Harmense
3
00-00-4 --
Johannes Westbroeck
35
00- 4- 4 ---
Pieter Louw
40
00- 5-00
Dirck Westbroeck
30
00- 3- 9
Allexander Rosenkrance
60
00-7-6
Andries Van Luven
15
00- 1-10-1
Jurian Quick
120
00-15-00
Albert Van Garden
5
00-00-76
Cornelius Schoonmaker
30
00- 3-9
Harmanus Cool
15
Johannis Vernooy
40
00- 5-00
Jean Beveire
15
00 -- 1-10
Abraham Beviere
20
00- 2-6
Samuell Beviere
10
00- 1-3
Jacob Vernooy
55
00- 1-3
Johannis Hoornbeck
5
00 -- 00-7-L
Jacobus Wynkoop
15
00- 1-10-L
Thomas Quick
IO
00- 1-3
Willem Decker
5
00 -- 00- 7-1
Frederick Shoonmaker
IO
00- I- 3
00~6-10-
Wm. Cool
15
00- 1-10 --
Hartman Heyn Jurian Best Johannis Tack
70
THE COUNTY OF ULSTER.
TOWN OF ROCHESTER .- Continued.
Assessment.
Tax.
Jan Van Campen Jun.
15
00-1-101
Jan Gerritsen Decker Jun.
IO
00- 1-3
Cornelius Dupuis
IO
00- 1-3
Pieter Van Garden
5
00-00-7-1-
Mattys Louw
15
00- 1- 71
Anthony Westbroeck
5
0000-7-
Cornelis Van Aken
5
00-00- 7-1-
Sara Rosenkrans
15
00- 1-10+
Totall Sume
3523
L22 00 41/2
TOWN OF NEW PALLES.
Abraham Doyo
L 55
LIO-s6-dio
Christian Doyo
50
00- 6-
3
Peter Doyo
35
00- 4- 4 --
Henry Doyo
50
00- 6-
3
Abraham Hasbrouck
230
Louis Bevier
350
2- 3-
9
Jacob Hasbrouck
150
00- 8-
9
Mary Du bois
165
1-00-
7-
Abraham Du bois
280
1-15-00
Arien Le fevre & Comp.
250
I-II-
3
Hugo Frere
90
00-II-
3
Abraham Frere
90
00- 3-
-
Elias Uim
35
00- 4-
41
Solomon Du Bois
80
00-10-
00
Joseph Hasbrouck
35
00-4-
4
Hendrick Van Weye
15
00- 1- 10L
Jacob Claarwater
10
00- I-
3
Jan Teerpenningh
5
00-00-
71
Louis Bevier
20
00- 2-
6
Teunis Claarwater Jun.
5
00-00-
7-1
Hart Claarwater
5
00-00-
7-1
Hendrik Jochense Schoonmaker
IO
00- I-
3
Totall Sume
L2075
L12 SI9 d4-
PRECINCTS OF SHAWANGONCK.
Severyn Ten hout
L240
LI-SIO-doo
Zacharias Hofman
130
00- 16- 3
Jacobus Bruyn
120
00- 15 -- 00
Benjamin Smedes
150
00- 18-
O
John Macklaine
5
00- 00-
71
Richard Winfield
5
00- 00-
7+
Jacob Decker Sen.
15
00-
10-1
Abraham Schutt
35
00 ---
4-
4-1
Jacob Gerretsen Decker
50
00-
6
3
Evert Terwillige
60
00-
7-
6
Leendert Coal Jun.
IO
00-
I-
3
Collo. Peter Matthews & Comp.
15
00-
Johannes Terwillige
3
00- 00-
4-
Phillip Miller
I- I- 3
Totall Sume
L848
L5 s 6 00
00-12-
6
Louis Du bois
25
00- 3 ---
9
Jacob Frere
Henny do Reynolds
71
EARLY FREEHOLDERS AND INHABITANTS
NEIGHBORHOOD OF WACKEMECK.
Assessment.
Tax.
L25
Loo. . s3. . dI-1-
15
00- 1-10+
10
00- 1-3
50
00-6-3
5
00~00-7-1
Totall Sume
L 105
Loo SI3 d 11/2
PRECINCT OF THE HIGHLANDS.
Peter Magregory
L 30
L 00-s3-d9
Swerver
5
00-00- 7+
William Southerland
45
00-5-7-
Michael Wygant
15
00-1-10-
Burger Myndertsen
IO
00- 1-3
Jacob Weber
15
00- 1-10 ---
Peter La Ross
IO
00-
I- 3
John fisher
10
00-
I- 3
Andrew Volck
I2
00- I-
6
George Lockste .
IO
00- 1-3
Pieter Jansen
IO
00-
I-
3
Henry Rennau
25
00-
3-
William Elsworth's widow
5
00-00 -- 7-1
Dennis Relje
3
00-00-4 --
Thomas Harris
5
00-00- 4-1-
Capt. Bond
15
00- 1-10-
Melgert the Joyner
13
00- 1-10 --
Christian Henneke
3
00-00-14-
Jacob Decker Jun.
IO
00-10-3
Cornelis Decker
5
00-00-7-
L293
LI SI6 d7-L
Kingston
L9176
L7-s7-doo
foxhall
I322
8- 5- 3
Hurley
4398
27- 9-
9
Marbletown
5142
32- 2 --
9
Rochester
3523
22-00-
4-1-
Showongonck
848
5-6- 00
Wagachkemeck
105
0-13-
High-lands
293
1-16- 74
Totall Sume
L 26882
LI68 00 3
Henr Beekman Avidn Yornlaeu A. Gaasbeek Chambers Egbert Schoonmaker Cornelis Cool Mattys Jansen
Thomas Swartwout Harmen Barentsen Jacob Coddeberg Peter Guymard Jacobus Swartwout
(Signatures)
Assemt.
72
THE COUNTY OF ULSTER.
(Endorsed.) "Kings tax- 1715. Justices signed.
Peek de Witt L 25 ) Assessors.
Jean frere
Mattys Van Keuren
L 25 ) ) Assessor.
Note-The Precinct of the Highlands then embraced the territory lying between the mouth of Murderers' Creek and the southeast line of the Paltz Patent, west to the Precinct of Shawangunk. It covered the present towns of Newburgh, New Windsor, Montgomery and Crawford in Orange County, and Marlborough and Plattekill in Ulster.
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CIVIL ORGANIZATIONS AND DIVISIONS.
CHAPTER V.
CIVIL ORGANIZATIONS AND DIVISIONS.
P RIMARILY the settlement in the Esopus country was without local government other than that which was conferred by the general laws and customs of Holland; it was simply a depend- ency of Fort Orange (Albany). Brought to the special attention of Director Stuyvesant by the difficulties with the Indians in what is known as the war of 1660, and the enclosure of the village of Wildwijk, he appointed (May 5th, 1661), what he called "A small bench of Justices a3 commissaries," consisting of Evert Pels, Cornelius Barentsen Slecht and Albert Heymse Roosa to "administer good care and justice" according to the best of their knowledge; "prevent all mutiny, strife and disorder, and assist in preventing them; "maintain and exercise the Reformed Church service, and no other," and "do everything which good and faith- ful magistrates are bound to do."* The directors of the West India Com- pany, Department at Amsterdam, had recommended to him (April 15, 1660), the appointment of Roeloff Swartwout as Schout (Sheriff) at Wildwijk, but Stuyvesant held that appointment in abeyance until May IIth, 1661, when by formal charter or patent he decreed that the "place called Esopus" should be given a more extended municipal form of government, by the addition of a Schout (Sheriff) who should with the justices (Shepens) form a Board of Magistrates over which the Schout should preside, to which was given the title of "The Court at Wildwijk," and which should hold its sessions at Wildwijk every fortnight - harvest time excepted. The organization of the Court was completed May 23d by the appointment of Roeloff Swartwout as Schout .* It was the third of the similar charters issued in the Province-Fort Amsterdam (New York) being first, and Fort Orange (Albany) second. At the same time Stuyvesant appointed Thomas Chambers captain of the
* Cornelis Barentsen Slecht was an immigrant of 1661; Albert Heymes (or Heymanes) Roosa, an immigrant of 1660, and Evert Pels of 1642. Roosa located first at Fort Orange, from whence he removed to Esopus in 1654. He assumed the name of Roose (now Roosa). Swartwout came from Holland for the second time in April, 1660.
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THE COUNTY OF ULSTER.
militia ; Hendrick Jochem Schoonmaker,* lieutenant, and Roeloff Swart- wout, Hendrick Jansen, Cornelius Barentsen Slecht and Peter Jacobsen, minor officers. Thereafter the village of Wildwijk and the Esopus country became a dependency of Fort Amsterdam, and directly under the charge of the Director-general. So far as is known the Board of Magis- trates, and the militia organization were in full power under the charter on June 7th, 1663, when the settlements were surprised by the Indians. The first meeting of the Board or Court was held July 12, 1661.
The civil government conferred by Director Stuyvesant continued for only a few years; substantially it was only the beginning. The Eng- lish captured Fort Amsterdam Aug. 27th, 1664, and successively all the principal towns were surrendered. No immediate change in civil gov- ernment at Esopus followed, English laws not being introduced until June 12, 1673. The Duke of York, into whose hands the Province had fallen, deemed it wise to permit the Dutch settlements to grow into the new order of things. Even under the Dutch had Wildwijk been asked to send representatives to a convention at New Amsterdam. That was in April, 1664, when Thomas Chambers and Dr. Gysbert Van Imbrocht went there for the purpose of considering a proposition to send a delegate to Holland to lay before the States General and the West India Company the condition of affairs. The first change that came about was the ap- pointment by the English Governor Nicolls, in 1665, of Daniel Brodhead as Sheriff, vice Roeloff Swartwout, and the adding to the Sheriff's duties those of chief officer of the militia, Captain Chambers being con- tinued in a subordinate relation. Swartwout was not a very superior man. Brodhead was a captain in the regular service of England; his effort to "boss" the Dutch at Esopus was not regarded with special favor to say the least. He died at Esopus in 1669.
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