Could you send me your issues from the past 1999 year and the begginig of 2000 Thank You, Sara NYORANGE-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > NYORANGE-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 13 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Re: Orange Co letters of admininis [WELLGEN@aol.com] > #2 Pine Hill Cemetery [Robin Carpenter <ANALYTIX@valley.n] > #3 Drowned Lands ["Barbara" <bdimunno@pioneeris.net>] > #4 Pochuck Mountain? ["storbeck" <storbeck@gateway.net>] > #5 Samuel Galie (Gale) will;Gales m C [MzCortez@aol.com] > #6 Daniel Gale Will 1757 [MzCortez@aol.com] > #7 RE: Patrick Smith [Ken & Toni Cannon <k-t.cannon@worl] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from NYORANGE-D, send a message to > > NYORANGE-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: Orange Co letters of admininistration > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:18:50 EST > From: WELLGEN@aol.com > To: NYORANGE-L@rootsweb.com > > The first will listed in "Early Orange County Wills" as being in Goshen > was dated June 27, 1787. (I did not find administrations in Goshen until > about 1820 in my searches there ?). Before 1787 wills had to be filed with NY > State Courts. Most of those were filed in Albany and later moved to the > Surrogate Court in New York City. Abstracts of those wills for the whole > state were published by the New-York Historical Society. 15 volumes and 2 > volumes of corrections. 1891-1908. > I went to the Surrogate Court in NYC years ago looking for > administration papers and was told that there were few or none before about > 1830. > There is a book by Dr. Kenneth Scott "Genealogical Data from > Administration Papers from the Court of Appeals in Albany" -1972. The > administration papers from Albany (covering the whole state) were deposited > in the Historical Documents Collection of Queens College. They were > abstracted and then published. > > Ralph Weller > > > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Pine Hill Cemetery > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:09:32 -0500 > From: Robin Carpenter <ANALYTIX@valley.net> > To: NYORANGE-L@rootsweb.com > > Does anyone here know whether the Pine Hill Cemetery still exists?...and > whether there are records of interments there? Where specifically is or was > this cemetery? > Also, does the Ridgebury Meeting House still exist? If so (or even if > not), where specifically is/was it in terms of today's landmarks? > Robin > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Drowned Lands > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 19:31:46 -0500 > From: "Barbara" <bdimunno@pioneeris.net> > To: NYORANGE-L@rootsweb.com > > The Goshen Public Library and Historical Society has an indexed pamphlet or > brochure titled "The Cheechunk and The Drowned Lands" by Borland-Wilcox . > This work was prepared in 1925 by Mrs. Frances E. Borland-Wilcox and > presented in May to the Historical Society of Middletown and Wallkill. This > work was also published May 2, 1925 in the Middletown Times Press. The > Middletown Times Press introduced her work as: > > "Valuable historical information to many residents of the section of > Orange county known as the "Drowned Lands" lying south of Denton, is > contained in a paper on the history of the Cheechunk, the outlet ditch or > canal which changed the course of the Wallkill river, written and read by > Mrs. Frances E. Borland-Wilcox Friday night at the May meeting of the > Historical Society of Middletown and Wallkill Precinct, Inc., in the Chamber > of Commerce rooms. > Mrs. Wilcox is a daughter of the late Charles Sweezy Borland, who as a > young man was prominent in the town of Wawayanda. He and his family moved > to the Cheechunk neighborhood in the town of Goshen, in 1880, and Mrs. > Wilcox who has lived near this spot, has always been much interested in the > history of the locality." > > Regards, > Barbara > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Pochuck Mountain? > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:54:02 -0500 > From: "storbeck" <storbeck@gateway.net> > To: NYORANGE-L@rootsweb.com > > Can anyone give me the location of Pochuck Mountain? Is it in NY or NJ? My ggg grandfather owened several acres of land at the "foot of Pochuck Mountain" during the mid 1800's. What present day town is the mountain near? > Thanks, > Lorie > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Samuel Galie (Gale) will;Gales m Carpenters in Or. Co. > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:38:17 EST > From: MzCortez@aol.com > To: NYORANGE-L@rootsweb.com > > Wayne was nice enough to permit me to repost his message from another list. > > Abstracts of Wills Vol V 1754-1760, page 159 & 160: > Page 210.--In the name of God, Amen. I, SAMUEL GALIE, of Goshen, in Orange > County, being weak in body, February 14, 1756. I leave to my son Samuel 5 > shillings. I leave to my son Richard my dwelling house I now live in in the > town of Goshen, and a piece of land lying near Thomas Sayres, which I > purchased of Thomas Mapes. I leave to my son Asa my house and land I > purchased of John Carp in Goshen, Also my two West Division lots of land. I > leave to my daughter Juliana, wife of George De Kay, 5 shillings. To my wife > Elizabeth the choice of my negroes, and to my daughter Dorithy the second > choice. "And as my wife is now pregnant, the child, if it lives, is to have > the third choice." All the remainder of my estate I leave to my wife and > children. I make my wife, and William Worthrinton, of Saybrook, and John > Galie, of Goshen, and Benjamin Carpenter, of Goshen, and Henry Usonow, > executors. > > Witnesses, Joseph Wood, Israel Parshall, Jonathan Cory, Jr. Proved, February > 28, 1757. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Daniel Gale Will 1757 > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:40:06 EST > From: MzCortez@aol.com > To: NYORANGE-L@rootsweb.com > > > Abstracts of Wills Vol V 1754-1760, page 192 & 193: > Page 364.--In the name of God, Amen. I, DANIEL GALE, of Goshen, in Orange > County. "I leave to my wife Dinah that house and two lots of land in Goshen > between the Court House and the Meeting House, with all improvements," And > also all my movable estate, after payment of debts. My farm where I now live > is to be rented at discretion of executors, and 1/3 of the rest to be paid to > my wife till my son Daniel is of age. My sons Daniel and Moses are to be put > to trades. I leave to my said sons Daniel and Moses all the farm where I now > live when they are of age, but if they die under age, then to my brothers, > John, Benjamin, Samuel, and Coe Gale, and to my nephew and niece, William and > Temperance Gale. I make my brother John and my friend, William Denn, both of > Goshen, executors. > > Dated July 3, 1757. Witnesses, James Thompson, Nathaniel Bayles, wheelwright, > Isaac Smith, planter. Proved, September 27, 1757 > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: RE: Patrick Smith > Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:54:19 -0800 > From: Ken & Toni Cannon <k-t.cannon@worldnet.att.net> > To: NYORANGE-L@rootsweb.com > > I am trying to find information on Patrick Smith b. 1860 Ireland. He is > the son of Terrence and Julia Smith, they immigrated to Camden, NY in > 1861. Their other ten children were all born in Camden. Patrick > appears an obit for his mother in 1920, it shows him living in > Middletown, NY. He appears again in 1942 in an obit for hid brother and > he is still in Middletown. > Does anyone one do lookups for directories, census, death index or > anything to help me find Patrick. > Thank you, > Toni Smith-Cannon > Minden, Nevada