thanks for trying. Went back to the LDS library site and did find films on Dutchess Co NY...just typing in Dutchess Co NY got me nothing but typing in Dover, Dutchess Co did. Looks like I will be making a trip to the Grand Rapids family history center soon. fran in mi -----Original Message----- From: Jim Groat <JDGRT@comcast.net> To: nydutche@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 2:14 am Subject: Re: [NYDUTCHE] Duchess Co,NY Sorry, no matches. Sorry I couldn't be of help. | -----Original Message----- | From: nydutche-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nydutche-bounces@rootsweb.com] | On Behalf Of swftotter@aol.com | Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:42 PM | To: nydutche@rootsweb.com | Subject: Re: [NYDUTCHE] Duchess Co,NY | | | | | | I am looking for the marriage of two brothers: | | Samuel West b. abt 1760 m. about 1789 Margaret Jenkins ( disowned by | Oblong M.M. 12-14-1789 for her marriage)? , dau of Valentine Jenkins, Sr | of Dover, Dutchess Co NY ...Valentine was Baptist before becoming Quaker | in 1761...Sam was in St. Albins VT in 1790? and so was Margaret's brother | Valentine Jr... Sam settled? 1792 in Peru, Clinton Co NY..."may be" | connected to a brother of the William West b 1717 line in Hillsdale, | Columbia Co NY, at least that is where the clues are pointing based on DNA | match out of Onondaga Co NY..36 out of 37 marker match is a pretty darn | close relationship to this line. | | William Barber West b. abt 1755-1760 m. Abigail abt 1787...she may be the | Abigail Jenkins, also dau. of Valentine Jenkins, that? was disowned by the | Oblong M.M 3-12-1787...William was in Queensbury, NY by 1795, son George | West living next door to Margaret Jenkins West's cousin Jedediah Jenkins | in 1830 | | May have married in Albany Co or Dutchess Co. Still trying to "prove" | parents after 18 years. | | Thanks for the offer of Help. Margaret's Uncle Philip Jenkins was a | Baptist Minister in RI., that is why I am looking for Baptist marriage | records for these two brothers. | | Fran West in MI | | | | | | -----Original Message----- | From: Jim Groat <JDGRT@comcast.net> | To: nydutche@rootsweb.com | Sent: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 8:01 pm | Subject: Re: [NYDUTCHE] Duchess Co,NY | | | | | | | | | | | Which marriage(s) are you looking for? I may be able to help you. Please | be | specific as to names of the parties and approximate year of marriage if | possible. | | Jim Groat | | | -----Original Message----- | | From: nydutche-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nydutche- | bounces@rootsweb.com] | | On Behalf Of swftotter@aol.com | | Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:23 AM | | To: nydutche@rootsweb.com | | Subject: [NYDUTCHE] Duchess Co,NY | | | | | | Greetings all, have been over to the online LDS library site and they | | lack microfilm of Dutchess Co NY. Does anyone know if there were any | books | | published about Baptist marriages in Dutchess Co pre 1790? | | | | fran in mi | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -----Original Message----- | | From: vglover776@comcast.net | | To: nydutche@rootsweb.com | | Sent: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:51 am | | Subject: Re: [NYDUTCHE] Quakers in Duchess Co,NY | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I love the story's thank you | | always | | Vickie J | | | | -------------- Original message -------------- | | From: Barbara de Mare <barbarademare@yahoo.com> | | | | > Carol, My grandparents are buried in the Upton Lake Friends Cemetery | in | | Clinton | | > Corners, Dutchess County. It is one of two Quaker burial grounds in | | Clinton | | > Corners. They were not Quaker; they were Baptists (my grandfather was | | > Episcopalian until he married my grandmother). An interesting aside-- | the | | old | | > Quaker Meeting House in Clinton Corners became the Grange Hall many | | years ago. | | | | > My grandparents met there at a Grange dance (1917 or 1918). | | > | | > Barbara L. de Mare, Esq. | | > Historian, genealogist and attorney | | > 155 Polifly Road | | > Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 | | > (201) 567-9440 office | | > BarbaradeMare@yahoo.com (home) | | > http://historygenealogyesq.blogspot.com/ | | > | | > ----- Original Message ---- | | > From: Linda C. Koehler | | > To: nydutche@rootsweb.com | | > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:51:28 AM | | > Subject: Re: [NYDUTCHE] Quakers in Duchess Co,NY | | > | | > | | > Carol, | | > | | > Just a quick review of Quaker records-- Local meetings called meetings | | > for | | > worship or Preparative Meetings (PMs) conducted their own weekly | | > worship | | > meetings; it was this local group that attended church in the building | | > called a meeting house. Delegates from these local weekly meetings | | > attended a Monthly Meeting, a regional meeting with territorial | | > jurisdiction which met once a month for business; two or more meetings | | > for | | > worship would constitute a Monthly Meeting (historically). Going up | | > the | | > ladder and covering larger geographic areas, there was also a | Quarterly | | > | | > Meeting (delegates met 4 times a year) and a Yearly Meeting (delegates | | > met | | > once a year). | | > | | > For the genealogist, it is the Monthly Meeting records that are most | | > important, since their minutes and record books contain the Society's | | > vital | | > records. The Monthly Meeting could hold property, accept and expel | | > members, issue and accept removal certificates (requests to move from | | > one | | > Monthly Meeting to another Monthly Meeting, thus showing where people | | > migrated and the approximate time they made the move), record | | > marriages, | | > accept and record reports of the local meetings about births and | | > deaths. | | > | | > A Monthly Meeting often took the name of one of its local meetings or | | > perhaps the town which had the most PM's, but the Monthly Meeting is a | | > separate entity from any of the meetings for worship under its | | > control. Even if one knows the name of the local meeting house that a | | > Friend probably attended, it is important to know which Monthly | Meeting | | > it | | > belonged to, since vital records will be recorded there. The Dutchess | | > County meetings most likely to include members who lived in the | Beekman | | > | | > Patent would be Oblong MM (the earliest) and Oswego MM. | | > | | > Original Dutchess County Quaker records have been deposited at | | > Swarthmore | | > Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA | | > 19081-1397 | | > (Telephone 610- 328-8000). Website: . An | | > online catalog can be accessed at . | | > And | | > as mentioned before, many of these records have been filmed by LDS. | | > | | > But, the jackpot here is that James E. Hazard created a name index to | | > New | | > York Yearly Meeting records that can be accessed online at | | > . | | > | | > You didn't have to be Quaker to be buried in a Friends' | | > Cemetery. Conversely, in many of their early burying grounds, Friends | | > preferred not to mark graves with headstones, so you have to hope they | | > are | | > mentioned in the records of a burial committee. | | > | | > Linda | | > | | > | | > At 03:01 AM 1/24/2008, you wrote: | | > | | > >Today's Topics: | | > > 6. Re: Quakers in Duchess Co,NY (cheap@simon.com) | | > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- | | > > | | > >Message: 6 | | > >Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:37:52 -0500 | | > >From: cheap@simon.com | | > >Subject: Re: [NYDUTCHE] Quakers in Duchess Co,NY | | > >To: nydutche@rootsweb.com | | > >Message-ID: | | > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII | | > > | | > >Charlotte, | | > >"A suggestion to all of you researching in Duchess | | > >county--whether or not they were Quaker, and especially if you are | | > >not familiar with Duchess Co. reference books---Look for copies of | | > >the several VOLUMES of ' SETTLERS of the BEEKMAN PATENT' by | | > >DOHERTY, Frank J.. Vol.1 was pub. in 1990. I think Mr. Doherty is now | | > >on Vol. 6 or 7. This man will be or is already --a Duchess Co. HERO." | | > > | | > >Are you saying that many of the people in Beekman Patent were | | > Quakers? | | > >I have 2 people buried in "The Friends cemetery" in Dutchess. | | > Elizabeth & | | > >John DICKINSON, John died 1845 | | > >any suggestions on how to search for Quaker info for someone who has | | > never | | > >had a Quaker in the family tree before? | | > > | | > >Thanks, | | > >Carol L. 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