At 11:37 AM 5/2/09, you wrote: >What was Fredericksburgh (and before that the Southern District of >Dutchess Co) is now the town of Patterson (and part of Kent ) in >Putnam County NY. (Putnam split from Dutchess in 1812 or so.) > >What religion was your Squire? They were Congregationalists. I understand that there not being one in an area, the Presbyterians would have been the nearest in belief. Jonathan Squire and his family moved from Weston Fairfield CT in 1783. There are baptism and marriage records at that Church. I don't know why they moved. I gained a lot of my Squire info from a book History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield by Donald Lines Jacobus. It didn't say where he found the info they were moving to Fredericksburgh. Wish I knew. A group of people and the preacher moved from Concord MA in 1644 or so. A religious disagreement I would guess. The immigrant Squire was George (1618-1691) Barbara >Unfortunately, there are no early church records for the Episcopal or >Presbyterian Churches in Patterson , although both churches were >around at the time of the Revolution. The Baptist church in Patterson >is even a bit older, but most of their early records ended up in >Millerton NY (Town of Northeast) when the Baptist Church congregation >divided. > >Janet C