Dear Gail, You are correct - these farms were along the river. As to whether they still exist, I don't think so. You might write to Florence Prehn - she might possibly know. Prehnfm@juno.com She wrote Lumber, Shingles & Chips which is a history of New Kingston valley and its inhabitants. She & I are both descended from Johann Nicholas Yaple. (Or Honnickle/Honnigal and various spelllings) I want to say that the land now lies under the Pepacton Reservoir (upper end) but I don't know right off the top of my head. Where in NY did you move back to? Harriett Schultz ----- Original Message ----- From: Gail Yeaple To: nydelawa@rootsweb.com Cc: Gail Yeaple Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] NYDELAWARE--Yaple/Yeaple/Dumond Would anyone on the Delaware list know if the "Elias Carpenter" farm still exists or the Harmonus Dumond farm? >From descriptions, they would have been adjoining farms. In the Yaple Family >in America book (Dorothy Yaple Geist and Roland Yaple, 1990) write: "Philip >Henry Yaple* and family came to the former Elias Carpenter farm at the little >Dutch colony of Pakatakan, then Ulster County, in 1771...this area, Arkville >near Margaretville" [from early maps, I think this spot was on the river, not >the Mountain]. Our immigrant ancestor, Philip Henry Yaple and family fled just >in time before a Tuscarora raid on September 5, 1778 after being warned by a >native friend named, Teunis. I've taken out some of the text in the interest of >space but if anyone is interested in the full text, please just let me know. >Harmonus was accidentally shot by the Schoharie Guard being mistaken for a Tory >and died three days later on August 29, 1778 at Simon Van Waggoner's Hotel. >[*two of Philip Henry Yaple's sons, the two youngest with his second wife >Susanna Vesqueau Heimbach, married two of Dumond's daughte! r! s: Johann Christian Yaple married Anna Dumond and Johann Philip Yaple married Nellie Dumond.] Excerpts from pages 22-25: "...a friendly Indian lad named Teunis...came to warn Philip Henry...[who] spread the alarm throughout the neighborhood and cattle were herded, heavy sap kettles and an anvil were sunk in the river and the aged, infirm and small children were bundled into wagons with their clothing and small prized possessions. The Wagons were sent over the trail cut into the mountains to Fort Honk. ...the first thing the Indians did when they entered the house was to take the last clock "the old man" made and break it in pieces on the floor and kindle a fire with its fragments. The settlement was reduced to ashes....Yaple subsequently returned after the remainder of his goods and was taken prisoner by the Tories...These outrages at Pakatakan so aroused the attention of the Americans that they sent a company of militia from Schoharie to drive the marauders from the frontiers. On the approach of the troops the Tories fled to the older settlement of Hurley while the Indians retired toward the ! Susquehanna.... No further attempts were made by the settlers to establish themselves at Pakatakan until after the close of the Revolution; but occasional visits were made to the place by the settlers for the removal of their property or gathering in of their crops." (She references Jay Gould's History of Delaware County, 1856; The Long Papers by Lincoln L. Long; History of Delaware County, 1880; French's Gazetteer of New York.) There is a wonderful early map on the Library of Congress website (http://www.loc.gov), American Memory Project, showing Pakatakan on a Revolutionary-era map. And in the searchable George Washington papers, an early letter, dated April 24, 1779 "MarbleTown," written by John Cantine to Governor George Clinton Esq. Cantine indicates that something was occurring with the Indians in Pakatakan (but spelled Pachkatackan in the letter). The letter reads (and I have a jpeg of this if anyone is interested): "Since my last, Judge Pawling [it could be Pauling] has had information of hostile intentions of the Indians & Tories against this quarter. The intelligence came to him in such a way that it leaves us no doubt but something is doing by them in order to attempt an attack on our settlements; but what their numbers are or where their design is in particular we have as yet not learned. We have sent three men as spies, & to make discoveries to Pachkatackan--Col. Cortland is to send a party to morrow or next day consisting of about sixty to Papachton." I hope to add a Yaple/Yeaple website soon--but a cross-country move back from CA to NY last fall has me devoting nearly all of my time to my business (web design, http://www.adprose.org) leaving very little time for my favorite hobby--history. 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