Forwarding additional info that Laurie sent me. This area is particularly interesting to Samuel Covey (c1755-1822) researchers since this is where the YEARNS/YARNS had settled after leaving Connecticut. Pam >X-Apparently-To: waughp@yahoo.com via 66.218.78.182; 21 Oct 2002 18:08:22 >-0700 (PDT) >X-Track: 1: 100 >Reply-To: "Laurie Lovelace" <lauryle@etown.net> >From: "Laurie Lovelace" <lauryle@etown.net> >To: "Pam Wood Waugh" <waughp@yahoo.com> >Subject: Re: Covey >Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:13:20 -0400 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 > >History of Putnam County, New York > >William S. Pelletreau > >Chapter XXVII > >Town of Kent, page 676 > >Among the early settlers in the western part of the town was Peleg Wixon, >who came from Cape Cod probably about 1754. He had a son Daniel, whose son >Reuben died June, 1828, at the age of 60, and his son, Bently Wixon, is >now living on the old homestead about a mile northwest from Boyd's >Corners. The descendants of the various branches of this family are numerous. > >Throughout the northern and western portions of the town the Highlands are >seen in all their wildness and grandeur. The mountains are steep and >rocky, and the streams that flow down their valleys are uncontaminated and >glide on in their crystalline purity. > >The lots both of Roger Morris and Philip Philipse were surveyed and >divided into farms at an early day, but, so far as the portions which lay >in this town were concerned, did not readily find tenants, and while the >lower lands to the south and east were beginning to be settled they >remained with scarcely an inhabitant. > > From the Field Book of Survey of Lot 6, made in 1762, by Benjamin Morgan, > the following persons were living at that time on the north part of the > lot, which is now included in the town of Ken: William Colwell, Hope > Covey, Isaiah Bennett, Amos Northrop, Joseph Northrop, Moses Northrop, > William Daley, Nehemiah Barlow, Elisha Calkins, Stephen Osborn, Samuel > Daley, Aaron Calkins, Edward Dolph, Jacob Phillips, Joshua Burdox, Samuel > Carter, Jonathan Tuttle, Jonathan Hill, Johnathan Gray, William Borden. > >May 3d, 1767, Philip Philipse gave a lease to Malcom Morrison for a tract >of 688 acres in the northeast part of the town, described as farm 93, >bounded north by Jonathan Hill, east by Joshua Burdox, south by Moses >Northrop, and west by William Borden. Malcom Morrison was a son-in-law of >Rev. Elisha Kent, the first minister in Southeast. As he was a Tory during >the Revolution, his property was confiscated, and he went to England and >died there. > >History of Putnam County, New York > >William S. Pelletreau > >Chapter XXVI > >Town of Patterson, page 633 > >Of the brothers of the first Benjamin Haviland, Daniel lived south of the >Quaker meeting house (for which he gave the land), while Roger lived in >Connecticut, near the State line, Solomon lived in Harrison, and Isaac >lived on the bank of the Croton River, in the town of Pawling. For want of >any contradictory evidence we conclude that the Havilands were the first >settlers in the town. The settlers on Lot 7 of Philipse Patent, were of >course tenants under Beverly Robinson. Who the first settlers were on this >tract is not known. The following brief list of tenants was found among >the Philipse papers, and doubtless was made about 1760: > >"A list of tenants on Mr. Robinson's Lot No. 7: Samuel Terry, 5 1/2 acres; >B. Gifford, 14 1/4; Judah Smith & others, 319 1/4; Jonathan Hungerford, >195; Peter Eastman, 177, Jno. Covey, 112; Noah Lee, 139; Isaac Utter, 200; >Samuel Hallock, 119; Fred. Baker, 97 1/2." > >Thomas Lee had a lease of 120 acres on the west side of Croton swamp in 1752. > >For a long time there were disputes as to the true ownership of the lands >bordering on the Oblong, and farms were taken up and improved by persons >whose titles (on paper at least) dated back prior to the establishment of >the Oblong line. > >History of Putnam County, New York > >William S. Pelletreau > >Chapter IX > >Settlement and Population, page 122 > >TAX LIST OF PHILIP PHILIPSE PATENT, 1777 > >(List of the taxable inhabitants of Philips Patent in the year 1777.) > >"Fredericksburg Precinct: Elijah Tompkins, 2; David Paddock, 2; James >Dickenson, estate, 3; Daniel Townsend, 1; John Newbury, 6; Josiah Baker, >4; David Crosby, 3; Joshua Crosby, 3; Theophilus Jones, 1; Tho. Kelley, 1; >James Covan, 1; Jonathan Kelley, 2; Silas Paddock, 2; Charles Townsend, 2; >Robert Townsend, 1; Tho. Paddock, 3; Peter Angevine's estate, 4; Jonathan >Paddock, 4; Jonathan Paddock's widow, 1; Isaac Pearce, 2; John Yeoman's >estate, 3; Jonathan Bryant, 2; Michael Shaw, Jr., 1; David Aikins, 4; >Heman King, 8; Reuben Kelly, 2; Ebenezer Robinson, 3; John Rhoads, 1; >Jacob Philipse, Jr., 1; Nathan Crosby, 4; Hezekiah Mead, 1; Tho. Fowler, >2; Daniel Brundage, 5; Jeremiah Whitney, 2; Ebenezer Brown, 1; Reuben >Crosby, 2; Peter Bunker, 1; Joseph Northrop, 2; Hezekiah Mead, 2; Robert >Hughson, 3; James Covey, 2; Peter Maybee, 3; Joseph Ganung, 2; Ebenezer >Jone's widow, 2; Cornelius Fuller, 2; John Dickenson, 7; Wm. Palmer, 2; >Robert Mooney, 1; Tho. Smith, 4; Wm. Penny, 3; Isaac Chapman, 1; Edmund >Batner, 2; Moody Howse, 4; Elisha Cole, 5; etc > > >---------- >Pam, if you haven't been there yet, you may find this site interesting as >there are Yards, and Yarns mentioned, and yes even a Yurns! ><http://www.fortklock.com/docnyhistalpha24.htm>http://www.fortklock.com/docnyhistalpha24.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pam Wood Waugh pam@woodwaugh.com 730 Dunhill Drive or Orlando, FL 32825 waughp@yahoo.com http://www.geocities.com/waughp Family Lines http://www.geocities.com/waughp/et.html ETs Research