Timeline for Shawangunk  1660 - 1800

  1.  1660
    1660 - "The Bruyn family is descended from Jacobus Bruyn, who emigrated to this country from Norway about the year 1660. He married Gertruyde Ysselstein, of Columbia County, a lady of German origin, and afterward removed to Shawangunk, Ulster County.
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  2.  1663
    1663 - It is believed to be derived from the burning of a Munsee fort by the Dutch at the eastern base of the ridge in 1663 (the Second Esopus War), wh ... See also: Shawangunk Ridge, Shawangunk Ridge - Name, Shawangunk Ridge - Geography, Shawangunk Ridge - Natural ...
     

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  3.  1666
    May 1666 - An exploring party was soon sent out, and the result was a treaty with the Indians and the purchase of about 144 square miles of land, in May 1666. It was bounded on the east by the Hudson River and on the west by Shawangunk, “Mohunk” forming the south-west ...
     

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  4.  1669
    Jul 22, 1669 - This Town has beeji long settled, and its early history is lull of incident and interest. A severe bat- tle was fought with the Indians, July 22, 1669, and tradition has well pre- served the horrors of the bloody battle of Minisink.
     

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  5.  1677
    1677 - IN 1677 Huguenots fleeing religious persecution in France settled New Paltz, NY Today Manhattanites fleeing the city flock there to climb the Gunks -- the rocks of the nearby Shawangunk Ridge -- and enjoy the youthful energy of a small college town. ''I rented ...
     

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  6.  1678
    1678 - They arrived on the shores of the Hudson River and negotiated with the Esopus Indians to purchase 40000 acres, a tract of land that stretched from today's Skytop on the Shawangunk Ridge to the Hudson River. In 1678, they began settling on the high, flat bank ...
     

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  7.  1682
    Mar 2, 1682 - On March 2, 1682, Jacob Bruyn and Michael Modt pettitioned the Court at Kingston for permission to purchase a tract of land 'behind the Paltz' from the Indians. This was in the town of Shawangunk, the tract along the Wallkill on which he settled was known later ...
     

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  8.  1683
    Nov 1683 - Or- ange was erected the first of November, 1683. The Highlands traverse the south-easterly part of this county, while the Shawangunk and others, traverse the westerly, or rather north-westerly. Between these mountains are some valleys and vales. ' The lands of ...
     

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  9.  1684
    1684 - It is of record in many orthographies, the first in 1684, of a place called Chauwanghungh;1 in deed from the Indians to Governor Dongan. in the same year, Chawangon* and Chamvangung in i686,8 later forms running to variants of Shawangunk.
     

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  10.  1694
    1694 - After the death of her husband, in the year 1694, Gertrude Bruyn, while still a widow, obtained from the royal government a patent for a tract of land lying in the town of Shawangunk, now known as the "Gertruyd Bruyn Patent." It was granted to her and her three children, who ...
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  11.  1704
    Nov 18, 1704 - He married Gertruyde Ysselstein, of Columbia County, a lady of German origin, and afterward removed to Shawangunk, Ulster County. Their youngest son, Jacobus, on the 18th of November, 1704, married Tryntje, daughter of Jochem Hendrick Schoonmaker and ...
     

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  12.  1709
    Nov 14, 1709 - On November 14, 1709, Jacob Bruyn and Benjamin Smedes jointly petitioned for and presented a survey of a tract of 400 acres in Shawangunk, "near a small hill." On the 28th of the same month Zacharias Hoffman presented a description of 330 acres of land laid ...
     

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  13.  1710
    Sep 5, 1710 - 1t was first erected into a Precinct, Sept. 5,1710, by an order of the Court of Sessions of Ulster county, with limitt undefined. The Act of 17*3 erected the Precincts of Highland, Walíkill and Shawangunk.
     

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  14.  1717
    1717 - In 1717, in a list of militia officers for Ulster County, one of the names of the officers for New Paltz and Shawangunk is Captain Zach. Hoffman.
     

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  15.  1719
    Nov 26, 1719 - I leave to my daughter, Gertruyd, wife of Methusalem Dubois, two hundred acres, being the northeast end of a certain tract of five hundred acres in Ulster County, called Pacansink, on the north side of Shawangunk creek or river, granted to Jacobus Bruyn by Letters ...
     

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  16.  1725
    Aug 8, 1725 - Baptized on 08 August 1725. Religion: Reformed Dutch Church, Kingston, Ulster County, New York. First Residence Kingston, Ulster County, New York. Second Residence Shawangunk, Ulster County, New York. Source 1. [The Schoonmaker Family by Ruth P ...
     

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  17.  1737
    1737 - His lands joined the Wallkill on the east for nearly a mile and extended west to where the Shawangunk church stands and probably extended a little farther to the Shawangunk kill, ^\'hen the Shawangunk church was organ- ized in 1737 he gave the land where the building stands.
    From Full text of "History of New Paltz, New York, and its old families (from …
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  18.  1738
    1738 - A settlement was made on the Dwars Kill in 1738 by Johannes Snider. He erected a log mill here, which was long known as " Snider's Mill " He also built a church, also known as " Snider't Church," in which the gospel was. preached in Dutch for a long time. This ...
     

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  19.  1741
    1741 - Isaac Chalker, the Rev. Johannes H. Goetschius, with probably Dominie Mancius, from Kingston.* In the year 1741, the Consistory of New Paltz, uniting with those of Rochester, Marbletown, and Shawangunk, called the Rev. John Casparus Freyenmoet to be their ...
     

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  20.  1743
    Dec 17, 1743 - On the 17th of December, 1743, the town of Deerpark and a part of Mount Hope, in Orange county, together with all the territory of Sullivan, except that of Neversink, Rockland, a part of Fallsburgh, Liberty, Callicoon and Fremont, and a narrow strip of land ...
     

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  21.  1750
    1750 - In 1750 he purchased of Frances Barbarie, daughter of Peter Barbarie, the patentee of that tract, 245 acres, at $2.50 an acre, on the Shawangunk Plains Road. He built a log house on this tract by a big spring about the center of the portion of this tract lying ...
     

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  22.  1753
    1753 - The Reformed Church of Shawangunk founded in 1753 is the oldest church still in use in the Reformed Church Congregations in America, the oldest denomination in the United States. Situated among the beautiful Shawangunk Mountains, the church remains a vibrant ...
     

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  23.  1760
    1760 - Rev. Johannes Mauritius Goetschius assumed the pastorate of the churches of New Paltz and Shawangunk in 1760. Each congregation was to pay him 40 pounds in gold, the Shawangunk church, with farm and buildings, and New Paltz to lodge himself and horse while there.
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  24.  1763
    Apr 1763 - The records of the town begin on the first Tuesday of April, 1763, when "agreeable to the directions of an act of the Governor, Council, * This building was located at the fork of the road now leading from St. An- drews to Shawangunk and Walden. History of The Town of New ...
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  25.  1765
    1765 - In 1765, there were only six Townships in the entire Ulster County, New York, viz.: Kingston, Marbletown, Hurley, Rochester, Shawangunk and New Paltz. An estimate, or list, of all the estates real and personal of all the freeholders and inhabitants of the ...
     

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  26.  1767
    1767 - Louis, the youngest son of Isaac, was born in 1767, married Catherine Decker of Shawangunk, and located at Stone Ridge. They had sons as follows: Garret who lived in New York, Cornelius who lived at Stone Ridge, Benjamin who occupied the homestead, and Jacob ...
     

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  27.  1768
    1768 - Pine Bush.—The western boundary of the town, at the time we speak of, was the Shawangunk Kill. On this Mr. Robert Milliken erected a saw mill—called Milliken's Mill on the town records in 1768. This appears to be the earliest mention of a saw mill on this stream ...
     

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  28.  1774
    Jul 21, 1774 - Page 429.—"In the name of God, Amen. ." JOHX MASTEN, of the Precinct of Shawangunk, in Ulster County, July 21,1774. I leave to my wife Idarytie, one room in and the use of cellar and homestead while she remains my widow. Also one bedstead with all the ...
     

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  29.  1775
    1775 - In 1775, a district was established from the termination of No. 6 to the Plattekill. Thus there was a public road on each side of the mountain, and one running east from the valley connecting the two. The road across the Shawangunk was in the southern section of the precinct.
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  30.  1776
    1776 - It was there in 1776, when William Ellis settled in the neighborhood, and was in the old precinct of Wallkill until the line between Wallkill and Mamakating waa changed from the foot of the mountain to the Shawangunk or Assining river. Its site is a little back ...
     

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  31.  1778
    Jan 21, 1778 - He died there January 21, 1778, leaving three sons and a daughter. As he died intestate the law at that time provided that his eldest son receive the estate.
     

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  32.  1779
    1779 - In the month of March in the year 1779 he [was] drafted for nine months in the company of Captain[s] Stanley, Henry Pawling [Paulding], and Levi Dewitt, Lieutenants belonging to Col. Albert Pawlings [Paulding's] Regiment, Elias Van Ben Scouten 1st Major ...
     

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  33.  1780
    Sep 1780 - The task was undertaken in September, 1780, by Samuel Gonsalus, Ben. DeWilt (commonly called Shank's Ben,t) and three other Indians who were formerly of the neighborhood. This Ben was a tall, bony savage, and was well known in Shawangunk.
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  34.  1786
    Sep 8, 1786 - Proved, September 8, 1786. Page 285. — Joshua Decker, of the Precinct of Shawangunk, Ulster County, New York, to my son Tennis, one bay mare ; my executors to sell all my real estate situated in Shawangunk precinct, also my per- sonal estate, as to them shall ...
     

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  35.  1788
    1788 - It stands today exactly as it was built in 1788.
     

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  36.  1790
    1790 - Need any info on ELI HOWELL birth date unknown, but probably around 1760's. Married with a child in Shawangunk town in 1790 census.
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  37.  1791
    Jul 1791 - 812 Land at foot of Shawangunk mountains; surveyed July, 1791, by. Cor's C. Schoonmaker. 813 Land between Seneca lake and Lake Ontario; a gore in Ontario and.
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  38.  1795
    Aug 13, 1795 - laes4), seventh child of Nicolaes Hoffman (37) and Sarah Terwilliger, was born August 13, 1795, and was baptized at Shawangunk. He married . . . , and had one child, whose mother died at her birth ...
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  39.  1796
    1796 - Schoonmaker died in Shawangunk, New York in the spring of 1796, and was interred in Old Shawangunk Churchyard at Bruynswick, in Shawangunk. Cornelius Schoonmaker's grandson, Marius Schoonmaker, was also a US Representative from New York. Cornelius C ...
     

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