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Moses Birdsall, John S. Brewer & Co., Matthew Benedict, Jacob Bailey, Edward G. Burger, William Bolton, Oliver Brodhead, Hait Benedict, John Benedict, Daniel Brannan, Townsend Barrett, R. C. & A. C. Brodhead, Conrad Bishop, Isaac Bogardus, Isaac Barton, William Banks, Zachariah Baird, Nicholas Belly, Jacob Bailey, Richard Burger, Jesse Booth, Catherine Bailey, George W. Birdsall, Dolly Booth, Robert Brown, John Bradley, Stewart & Birdsall, Sands Beech, Nathaniel Bailey, Joseph Brown, Obadiah Brown, Charles Brown, Wesley Brodhead, Lewis Booth, Jane Bel- ly, Absalom Barrett, John Brower, A. D. Brower, James
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Bunday, C. Bishop & Brown, Caleb Bishop, jr., Isaac Brown, Amos Brodhead, Abraham Black, Joel Baker.
John Caverley, David Conklin, Jones, Conklin & Co. Samuel Cropsey, Peter Crookstan, Uriah Coffin, Peter Cou- tant, Henry Crawford, John Cropsey, Robert Chambers, Hezekiah Coffin, Abagail Crawford, Elijah Coffin, Haddock Carpenter, David Clearwater, Richard Cole, Augustus Conklin, Charles Craft, Peter Brookstone, John Cole, Mapes Crouse, Samuel Cypher, Thomas W. Cole, Nathaniel Chit- tendan, Seth Conklin, Nathaniel Clarke, John D. Crook, J. T. Conklin & Co., John Church, Peter Clearwater, Joseph Clearwater, Ebenezer Cooley, John Caton, George Conklin, Josiah Cooper, William Cramer.
Jonathan Deyo, Paul Darrow, Robert Dunn, Theodore Dusenbury, Peter DuBois, Samuel Dusenbury, William Dow, Jacob Dayton, John Davis, Jones Denton, James Dow, Richard DuBois, Samuel Drake, Robert Dillon, Cor- nelius DuBois, Charles L. Davis, Charles Decker, John Deyo, Benjamin Dunn, Rachael DuBois, Emeline Dowe, James DeMott, Walter Dobbs, John DeGraff, Ephraim Du- Bois, Stephen Davenport, Joseph Dunn, Caesar and Betty DuBois, Simon Deyo, Amos Dickinson, Wilhelmus Du- Bois, Henry Dusenbury, John Duffieed, Lavina Davis.
Jeremiah Ellis, Abraham Elting, Thomas Elmendorf, John Easterly, Reuleph Elting, William Eckirl, John Everitt, Derick Elting, David Elting, Jeremiah Ellis, Solomon El- ting, Francis Evans & Co., Job G. Elmore.
Benjamin Furman, Charles Field, Isaac Fowler, Henry Frederick, Henry Frent, Thomas Fowler, Charles Frost, Solomon Fowler, Sarah Fowler, Martines Freer, James Fisk, James Fowler, jr., Zachariah Freer.
Henry Gregory, Ferdinand Griggs, Fowler Griggs, Mil- ton S. Gregory, Melchior Gillis, Richard Garrison, Wm. Gidney, Thomas Gill & Co., Daniel Gregory, Isaac Gerow, William Gill, Abram Gutcher, Oliver H. Gerow, Harvey Griggs, John L. Gerow, Jacob Gillis, Caleb Gee, Rachael Ann Gregory.
Stephen Hadley, Thaddeus Hait, James Harris, James S.
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Hallock, James Hallock, Hallock & Sherman, Nicholas Hal- lock, James Hull, Benjamin Harcourt, James Hait, John Hadley, Moses Hunt, Moses Hunt & Co., Foster Hallock, Frederick Hadley, jr., Purday Hadley, James Hughes, Adna Heaton, Amos Hait, Nathaniel Harcourt, Parmela Holmes, Samuel Hughson, Gideon H. Hcard, James Hull, Joseph Harcourt, Phillip Hasbrook, Charles Hull, Taber Hull. Jonas Hasbrouck, Israel Haight, Ira John Hait, Harry C. Hornbeck, Andros Hasbrouck, Davis Hoag, Garrett Has- brouck, Alexander Hallock, Josiah Halstead, Martha Hal- lock, Jacob Halstead, Levi Hasbrouck, Benjamin Hulse.
H. A. Jenkins, Albert Jenkins, Cyrus Jenkins, Cornelius Jenkins, James Jenkins, John Jenkins & Son, William Jud- son, William Jennings, John Johnson, Christopher Jaycox.
Jonathan Kent, Nathaniel Kelsie, Joseph King, Henry King, William Ketcham, William Kelsie, John Kelsie, James Kent, Daniel Knapp.
Josiah Lockwood, John LeFever, Jacober Le Fever, Abraham N. LeFever, Jones N. LeFever, Elisha Lester, La- doc Lewis, Simeon Lawson & Co., Robert Lockwood, Thos. L Lynch, Joseph Lester, John Lowell, Garrett LeFever. Nathaniel Long, Abram Lawson, George W. Lynch, Thomas Lawrence, John Lemunyan, A. & J. LeFever, Andrew Les- ter, William Legget, John J. LeFever.
Gilbert F. Mondon, Hatfield Morgan, James Malcomb, Alexander Mackey, John S. Mackey, John More, Richard Mondon. William Mackey, Wm. More, Elijah Martin, Johile Miller, Clark M. Mackey, John Matthews & Co., William Martin, Samuel Morehouse, Hester Morgan, David Martin, Francis Mackey, Benjamin Mackey, Thomas Mackey, Selah T. Martin, William Marshall, Isaac Mowl, Hackaliah Mer- ritt, Nehemiah Merritt, Phillip Mackey, Polly Mackey, Charles Merritt, Charles Millard, Sarles Miller, Levi Mackey, Drake Mackey.
Stephen Nottingham, John Noyes, Olly Norton, John Norton, William Newell.
Abel Ostrander, Rouben Ostrander, Carpenter Ostrander, Charles Ostrander, Jonas Orson.
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Nathaniel Potter, Henry Perkins, Hannah Perkins, David Phillips, Anson Perkins, Hezekiah Perkins, William and Luther Pratt, Henry Phillips, Samuel Palmar, Henry Palmer, Soper Perkins, Eli Perkins, Andrew Patterson, Elijah Porter, Parmalee & Brown, Daniel Polhamus, Abram Palmateer, Sally Patroit, Francis Pell, Abram Parsol, Miss Mary Perkins.
Henry Quick, Jacob Quimby, John Quimby, William Quigley, David Quigley, Amos Quigley, Daniel Quimby, Lewis Quick, Rosevell Quick, Michael Quimby.
Jacob Rowley, John Rooraback, Jacob Ransom, Uriah Raymond, John Rhodes, Joseph Ransom, Daniel Russell, Joseph Rhodes, Phillip Rhodes, Nathaniel Reeder, Smith Ransom, John Roe, James R. Russell, John Roe and Co., William Robertson, Phineas Rice, Cornwall S. Roe, Jere- miah Relyea, Benjamin Roberts, Richard Rhodes, Lucas Relyea, William Requa, Lewis Rhodes.
Benjamin Sands, Griggs & Sands, Lydia Smith, David Sands, John Sands, Sylvester Strong, Shepherd & Westfield, Ludlow N. Smith, Matthew Sammons, Samuel St. John, Zadock Southwick, Smith & Bailey, David Soul, George Seaman, James Sammons, Anning Smith, William C. Smith, John Stephens, Jacob Smith & Son, Joshua Sutton, Heze- kiah Smith, David Strong, Nehemiah Stephens, Stephen Stillwell, Cornelius Schoonmaker, Nancy Smith, James Sherman, John Sheffield, Charles Stewart, John Stewart, Johiel Seymore, Abraham Soper, George Saxon, Julia Ann Sloop, Henry Sloat, Jonathan Strickland, Anson St. John, George Sparks, William Soper, David Selick, Asintha Sco- field, Deborah Smith, Emma Sands, Judah P. Sands, Pardon Sherman, Henrietta Sherman, Abram Sherman.
Peter P. Tice, Jacob Townsend, Jeremiah Tompkins, David Thompson, Israel Terry, Nathaniel Thorne, Peter L. Travis, Ira Terry, Timothy Tilson, Anthony Thompson, Isaac Tompkins, Marinus Terpening, Nathaniel Turner, Benjamin Terwilliger, Nancy Tompkins, Haddens Thompson.
Isaac Underhill, Ann Underhill.
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Cornelius Van Curen, Peter Van Orden, Abram Van Or- den, Peter Van Demark, Edward Van Demark, Salino Vradenburgh.
Stephen Waring, David Woolsey, Jonathan Wood, Na- than Wolley, Noah Woolsey, Abraham Wolley, Richard J. Woolsey, Henry Woolsey, Richard Taylor Woolsey, Jona- than Woolsey, James Waring, John Warner, James Wy- gant, Thomas Wygant, Jeremiah Whitney, Wm. Wiltsie & Co., Elijah Woolsey, Mathew Wygant, Maria Warner, Je- mima Wilson, Job White, Thomas Warren, Joshua Woolsey, Michael White, Timothy Wood, Stratton Wolley, Ichabod Williams, Elidia Watkins, Stephen Winn, George Worden, Samuel Wright, David Weed, Stephen Wardwell, William Wiggins, Elise Westervelt, Derrick Wesbrouck, Jonathan Wesbrouck, John Wilklow, Miles, Wells, Moses Woolsey, Daniel Wilklow.
Hannah Young, Edward Young, Charles Young, John Young, Elias York, Robert Young, Alexander Young, Abraham Young.
OLD FAMILIES.
THE WYGANT FAMILY.
The name of Wygant is closely identified with the first settlement of the Town of Marlborough. The numerous residents of to-day who bear the name are almost all de- scended from Michael Weigand (as the name was originally spelled), who was one of the original owners of the German patent in Newburgh. He came to this country in 1708, be- ing one of the Palatine fugitives from Germany. Louis XIV of France ordered the Palatine of the Rhine to be dev- astated. His generals gave the inhabitants three days to vacate. Michael Weigand and family were thus obliged to lose nearly all their possessions, and come to America through the aid of a company. They arrived in this coun- try in 1708, and Michael obtained lot No. two of the German patent, 250 acres in extent, being now part of the city of Newburgh. His family was at this time composed as fol- łows: Michael Weigand, aged 53; Anna Catharine, his wife, 54; children, Anna Maria, 13; Tobias, 7; George, 3. The company which aided them in settling here furnished Michael with tools, viz .: "I great file, I smaller do., I hatchet, I jointer, besides several pieces more."
The son Tobias grew up to be a man of influence among his neighbors. In 1727 he entered into a written contract with the Consistory of the Lutheran Church of New York, to have a preacher officiate for them in Quassaick twice a year. In 1725 he became a trustee of the Glebe, and served in that position many years. He became the founder of the Monroe branch of the family. Martin, son of Tobias, opened the principal tavern in Newburgh. He was the first to spell his name Wygant. A cut of his tavern appears in Rutten-
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ber's "History of the County of Orange." His place was a great resort for the loyal during the Revolution. He kept tavern until his death in 1792, without issue.
George, youngest son of Michael, had several children, of whom Michael (2) was the progenitor of the Marlborough families. He was one of the original subscribers to the Presbyterian church, and a trustee in 1785. He served with distinction in the Continental army. He had three sons, James, Michael (3) and John Waring. They all became owners of adjoining farms south of Lattintown and west of Marlborough village.
James Wygant served in the war of. 1812, and was for a number of years trustee of the Presbyterian church. He married Philvena Waring, and their children were Clem- ence, J. Calvin, Eliza, Charlotte Ward and Jane S.
Clemence married Sarah Young, of Palmyra, N. Y., and resides a mile and a half west of Marlborough, on a fine fruit farm. He was for several years a trustee of the Presbyterian church and owns a large amount of real estate in Marlbo- rough and vicinity. His children are J. Foster, Fannie E., Elmer E., Adella W., J. Calvin, Philvena and Clemence, jr.
Eliza married J. C. DuBois, of Highland, now deceased. J. Calvin married Jemima Velie, and lives at Hyde Park. Charlotte Ward married Toomis Velie, of Middle Hope, and is mother to Charles E. Velie. Her husband is now dead. Jane S. married Smith Young, of Milton.
Michael (3) married Althea Carpenter, and was the father of Edward J., Dennis M., John, Elmira, Hattie and Ann D. Edward J. is a prosperous fruit farmer, and raises an enormous amount of Concord grapes for the New York market. He lives where the old homestead was. It was burned some years ago, and many valuable old papers lost to history. Dennis W. is a commission merchant, and does business in New York city. John is dead. Hattie married Phineas H. Lawrence, and Ann D. married Asbury Wygant, also a descendant of Michael (1).
Thomas Wygant was born in August, 1753, and married Elizabeth Bond. It is probable that he was a grandson of
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Michael (1). He died in May, 1823, leaving the following children : Barnard, born May 9, 1776, died Decem- ber, 1850. Matthew T., born October 6, 1777, died October 23, 1851. Rebecca, born June 29, 1779, died October 13, 1871. Michael. born April 8, 1781, died September 13, 1782. William, born February 24, 1783. James, born June 29, 1785. Anthony, born March 8, 1787. John, born April 14, 1789. Martin, born May 27, 1791, died August 19, 1792. Benjamin E., born 1793, died July, 1875. David, born May 23, 1796, died August, 1870. Austin, born December, 1798. Lewis, born December 27, 1800.
The second son, Matthew T., was the father of Martin and Chauncey (who died without issue), and Asbury, Hiram and Augustus, all of whom are now living.
Augustus married Phebe C. Barrett, of Milton, and owns a fine fruit farm on the Lattintown road. Their children are Mari Anna, married to William Harris, and Samuel B.
Asbury married Ann D. Wygant, and lives on Hudson street. He has three daughters, Elizabeth, Mary C. and Harriet.
Hiram is living in Steuben county.
J. Ward Wygant is a son of John Waring, and is a fruit farmer, living on Greaves' avenue. He married William Cosman's daughter, H. Elizabeth, and has two sons, William and Howard.
Wm. W. Russell, of N. Y. city, is also a descendant of the John W. Wygant branch.
YOUNG. -
Alexander and John Young, brothers, were the first of that name to settle in Marlborough. They came about 1760 or 1762, and John settled on what is now the Lyons' place, south of Milton village. The brothers emi- grated from England about 1730 or '40, and first settled in Long Island. John Young married Dorcas, daughter of
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Edward Hallock. Alexander married Elizabeth Lawrence, of Northern Ulster. They had three sons and three daugh- ters, John, Lawrence, Edward, Dorcas, Eliza and Phebc. The daughters all moved to the West.
Edward, son of John Young, who was born in 1775, mar- ried Hannah Halsted, daughter of David Halsted, of Dutch_ ess county. Her mother was a Cromwell, and a descendant of Oliver Cromwell.
The family were members of the Society of Friends in those early days. Edward kept a boarding school at one time, but his principal business was farming, and he may be called with propriety the first fruit farmer of Marlborough, since he raised more fruit than his neighbors, and introduced the famous Antwerp raspberry. . Others claim to have pro- pagated this berry before Edward Young, but this is not proven, and, anyway, to him belongs the credit of being the first to market this remarkable berry, and pave the way for the shipment of fruit of all kinds to New York city.
The first Antwerp plants were obtained in a singular way. A friend of Edward Young, who kept a shop in Poughkeep- sie about 1834, one day observed a package on his counter, which he was satisfied had been left by a stranger who had visited the shop a short time previous. He laid the pack- age aside for several days when, it not being called for, he opened it, found some young raspberry plants, and set them out. They yielded such splendid fruit that he sent for his friend Edward Young, and invited him to take some and raise them. This was in the fall of 1835. The plants were taken home by Young, and propagated, much attention being devoted to their culture. He raised them first near Lattintown. They proved very prolific, and far ahead in quality of any other variety. He was laughed at for trying to sell them in New York city, but time has shown his fore- sight and wisdom. He died in 1854, and his wife in 1848.
The sons of Edward Young were five in number. John, the eldest, was born in 1803, and married Martha Sands, of Milton. They had three daughters and one son, Phebe, Hannah, Henrietta and John Hallock Young, the latter a
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large landholder in Milton. Martha died in 1833, and John married second Phebe S. Hallock, of Milton, and had by this union, two daughters and one son, Smith. J. Hallock Young married a Wolley, Smith married a Wygant, Phebe married Justice Gerow, of Plattekill. Martha married De Witt Vail, and Henrietta married a Wolley, cousin of J. H. Young's wife.
David, second son of Edward, was born in 1808, and mar- ried a Carman, of Dutchess county, and had two children, Edward and Ann Eliza. Edward married an Adams and Ann Eliza a Hicks. David died in 1880.
Alexander Young was born in 1810, and married Deborah Ann Harcourt, daughter of Benjamin Harcourt, and had two children, Marietta and William. Marietta married Chas. G. Velie, of Marlborough, and resides at the southern line of the town. William married a Flagler, of Sullivan county, and lives in Hampton. Alexander has been engaged in fruit farming all his life. He and his brother William C., spent their best years in developing the fruit industry. Many a day they went among the best class of grocers in New York, inducing them to handle the Antwerp berries. They succeeded, driving a little acrid berry, about half the size of natives, entirely out of the market.
Edward was born in 1814, and married Hannah Haviland, of White Plains, and had two daughters. She died, and he married second a Frost, of Dutchess county, having a son and daughter by this union. Tne son married an Underhill, of Long Island ; the daughter is deceased. Edward died in 1878.
William C. was born in 1815, and married Althea Har- court, daughter of Benjamin Harcourt, and has three chil- dren living, Ann Augusta, Charles and Ella. Charles married a Peck of Albany. William C. began business when he was only fifteen years of age. He had a shoot near the present West Shore R. R. depot, and ran cord wood to the river. When quite young he and his brother bought the Cornelius Bloomer place, and did well there. Alterwards he bought the Hampton property in partnership with his
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brother Alexander, and they were in the fruit business a number of years. In 1858 he sold out to Alexander, and bought the property in Marlborough, where he now resides, establishing a fruit farm. In 1862 he built Young's dock, commonly called the upper dock, giving Marlborough increased facilities for the shipment of fruit. The steamer Queen, of Wappingers Falls, was the first boat to land at his dock. Afterwards the Ann, the Walter Brett, and the present line, comprising the steamers Baldwin and City of Kingston. They carry immense quantities of fruit. In 1884 William C. took his son Charles into partnership, under the style of W. C. Young & Son, and they carry on a large coal, lumber and fertilizer business, in addition to the dock property and fruit farm. Through the efforts of William C. the cut-off road to the dock was built, being the only road of record from the village to the docks, the lower end of Land- ing street being the property of the West Shore R. R. Co.
John Hallock Young, of Milton, is a fruit farmer, owning between 300 and 400 acres of land. He also raises choice stock. His son Arnold is in business with him, under the style of J. H. Young & Son.
CAVERLY.
This name is associated with the early history of the town. The family was numerous in Marlborough during and after the Revolution. John Caverly was a soldier in Capt. Belknap's Newburgh company in 1776, together with a number of others from New Marlborough. At that period there were four other Caverlys resident in the precinct be- sides John, viz. : John, jr., Philip, Joseph and William. In 1799 we find eight Caverlys on the pathmasters lists : Philip, Latting, Richard, John, Joseph, Nathaniel, Peter and John (2d). Philip was the grandfather of Jonathan Caverly, now residing west of Milton village. He carried on ship build- ing at the foot of Dog street, Milton. He first settled in Lattin-
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town, and owned a farm there where he lived and died, as did also his son Lattin Caverly, being the same place that Jonathan Caverly owned until 1868, when he removed to Milton, where he now resides, his oldest son Luther P., oc- cupying the old homestead at Lattintown. Jonathan was the son of Lattin.
In ISto John Caverly was Town Clerk.
'FOWLER.
The Fowlers are of English descent, and of good family, one of the ancestors being Sir Thomas Fowler, who lived in 1632. The oldest branches of the family in this country are supposed to be direct descendants of William Fowler, of New Haven, magistrate, who flourished there in 1637.
The Fowlers of Marlborough and Middle Hope trace their descent from Joseph, a first settler at Mespat Kills, L. 1., in 1665, supposed to be a son of William, the New Haven magistrate. Joseph had a son William, and he a son
John Fowler, son of William, born at Flushing, Long Is- land, 1686, died at Newburgh, 1768. He had five sons- 1, Samuel ; 2, Isaac ; 3, John ; 4, James ; 5, Nehemiah.
Samuel, (1) born 1720, died 1789. Married Charlotte Purdy, and had 7 children :
1, Mary, Married George Merritt ; died 1799.
2, Elizabeth, Samuel Clark.
3, Charlotte, .6 Daniel Gedney.
4, Martha, 6. Reuben Tucker.
5, Abigail, 66 Abel Flewelling.
6, Gloriana, 60 John Fowler, (nephew of Samuel).
7, Samuel, born 1757, died January 22d, 1830.
Samuel (7) married, first, Rebecca Gedney, and had 3 children :
1, Purdy, married Charlotte Tooker and had 6 children.
2, Mary, 66 George Wandel.
3, Charlotte.
Samuel (7) next married Mary Clapp and had 5 children :
4, Henry, married Eliza Ann Thorne.
5, Rebecca, George Grone.
6, Electa, Dr. James Smith.
7, Samuel, 66 Susan Phillips.
8, Charlotte, 66 Henry Cox.
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It is said of Samuel (7) that he was for 40 years a minister of the M. E. Church. His home near Newburgh was the cradle of Methodism in the town of Newburgh. He was the first located preacher in the First Methodist Church, of Newburgh, (now Trinity M. E. Church) in 1820.
Samuel (1) and Isaac (2) came from Rye, Westchester Co., and purchased part of the Harrison patent of Gomoz, in 1747, being the lands now owned and occupied by Peter V. B. Fowler and M. W. DuBois, and east to the Hudson river.
Isaac (2), son of John, married Margaret Theal, and had one son, Isaac, jr., born April 3, 1746.
Isaac, jr .- About 1770 Isaac, jr., married Martha, daughter of Charles Tooker, and settled at the Dans Kamer, where the Armstrong heirs now own and live. They had one child, but both mother and child died of small-pox and were buried in Marlborough in March, 1771. He next married Glorianna Merritt, in 1773, and had 8 children as follows :
1, Caleb, born February 8th, 1775; died March 8, 1826.
2, Martha, married Stephen Taber, died leaving no issue.
3, Dr. Charles, lived and died in Montgomery.
4, Gilbert, died at about 20 years of age.
5, Nehemiah, born 1784, died 1853, in Plattekill, Ulster Co.
6, David, lived and died in Gennessee, Livingston Co.
7, Dr. Francis, lived and died in Ohio.
8, Dr. Isaac, settled in Ohio, and was drowned in the Muskingum river, when quite young and unmarried.
Isaac Fowler, jr., was a military officer during the Revo- lution. Several of his descendants live in Middle Hope and a few in Marlborough. Among them the sons of Caleb- Peter V. B., Jacob V. B. and Isaac Fowler.
The third wife of Isaac Fowler, jr., was a Mrs. Owens, maiden name Furman. By this marriage were born Fur- man and Mary, who were both married in Sharon, Conn. Mary married a Mr. Gay. Isaac Fowler, jr., died in 1825, and was buried at Sharon. His widow and children removed to western New York, where his daughter still lives. The son died respected and esteemed by all who knew him.
Caleb (1), married Catharine Sebring, a granddaughter of Isaac Sebring, and had 11 children.
In November, 1804, Caleb Fowler had a gathering of his neighbors for a wood drawing frolic. Some of the logs
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were cut from a tree which had killed the chopper who cut it down, a man named Hoffman, from Esopus. Nobody wanted to draw these logs, so Underhill Merritt, (father of Daniel Merritt, a connection of the ancestors of the Marl- borough Merritts) volunteered to draw the load. While walking beside the team he caught his feet in the lines, was thrown under the wheels, an arm broken in two places and his head crushed so that his brains bespattered the road. When the others came up he was quite dead.
Caleb lived at Middle Hope. He was born February 8, 1775; died March 8, 1826. The following are his children :
I. Peter V. B., born February 20, 1800; died 1875. Hle married Eliza Du Bois, of Fishkill, and had four chiklren : 1, Heary D , born 1827, and lives on the old homestead in Middle Hope ; 2, Abram D. B., born 1830; died 1854; 3, Caleb Gilbert, born 1835: din 1879; 4, Peter D. B., born 1844; died 1855.
II. Caroline, married James E. Slater and had five children: 1, Eliz- abeth; 2, Anna; 3, James; 4, Sebring ; 5, Frank.
III. Dr. Gilbert S , born 1804; died 1832. Had no issue.
IV. Ann Catharine. born 1806; died 1833. No issue.
V. Amelia, married William D. Weygant. and had one child, Theodore Weygant, now in Portland, Oregon.
VI. Martha B., died in infancy.
VII. Margaret, died young.
VIII. Mathew V. B., married Elizabeth F. Seymour, and bad offe child, James.
IX. Jacob V. B. settled in Newburgh, and married. first, Susan Brinckerhoff; second, Mary J. Currie. Had two children : 1, Catharine, who married Dr. Avery ; 2, Helen C., unmarried, resident in Newburgh.
X. Elizabeth, born 1819; died 1836. No issue.
XI. Isaac Sebring, living in New York, married Mary L. Powell, granddaughter of Thomas Powell, and had four children : 1. Robert Ludlow, a lawyer, resident in N. Y. city; 2, Thomas Powell, a lawyer, resident in N. Y. city : 3, J. Sebring, died young ; 4, Lulu.
Nehemiah (5). He was the fifth son of Isaac, jr. He lived and die I in the County of Ulster, near the western end of the Town of Mail-
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