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Free Online editions of Olde Ulster magazine. Genealogies of early settlers of Ulster County. Olde Ulster: an historical and genealogical magazine Olde Ulster was a magazine published in Ulster County, New York, in the early 1900s. Delaware County, Greene County, Sullivan County, and part of Orange County were all originally part of Ulster County. Online editions of issues from 1905 through 1909 are available and offer a wealth of free and very useful information about people in Ulster County's past. Use the search or browse the index below. Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link More New York Resources Dutch Names in My Family: Decker Stanton Hollenbeck Dykeman Bogardus More New York Vital Records Comments: Old Ulster was a magazine published in Ulster County, New York, in the early 1900s. Delaware County, Greene County, Sullivan County, and part of Orange County were all originally part of Ulster County. Online editions of issues from 1905 through 1909 are available and offer a wealth of free and very useful information about people in Ulster County's past. Choose a Volume: Volume I - 1905 JANUARY - Our Proposition - Early Reference to the Esopus - Old Ulster and Washington Irving - An Uncompleted Manumission - Stoking a Kiln in Olden Time - The Esopus in 1679 - Jonathan W. Hasbrouck - Shawangunk, Its Meaning and Origin - The Reverend Charles Scott, D.D. - Lineage of the Martin Snyder Family - Martin Snyder's Certificate of Character - A Colonial Ballad FEBRUARY - Ulster's Fight for Liberty - Coetus and Conferentie Controversy 1754-72 - Population in 1698 - The Lineage of the Clinton Family - Charles Clinton's Church Letter 1729 - On the Esopus at Saugerties - George Clinton's Commission as County Clerk 1759 MARCH - The Mingled Blood of Old Ulster - Kingston in 1823 - The Esopus Indians and Their language - The Reverend Nathan W. Jones - The Ancestry of Elanor Graham wanted - The Indian deed to Thomas Chambers 1652 - Proof Wanted of William Horton's Ancestry - Will of Jean Hasbrouck 1712 - Kingston Baptismal Records - Gravestone Inscriptions at New Paltz - Lament on Death of Domine Mancius APRIL - The Esopus Settlers and the Indians - The Esopus as a Granary 1683 - President Roosevelt's Old Ulster Ancestry - The Esopus, a Land of Milk and Honey 1681 - The New Paltz Patent 1677 - Accession of George III Celebrated 1761 - George Washington to the Masons 1782 - Family vault of Thomas Chambers - Inhabitants of the County of Ulster in 1738 - Gravestone Inscriptions at New Platz - Kingston Baptismal Records after 1809 - Rallying Song of the Tenth Legion 1861 MAY - The First Disturbance at Esopus 1658 - Thomas Chambers to Governor Stuyvesant - Letter Confirming the Chambers Letter - A Farther Complaint of Thomas Chambers - Du Bois Tombstone Inscriptions at Fishkill - Forests of Old Ulster in 1738 - The Beginning of Wilbur 1806 - The Patent of the Kingston Commons 1687 - Lineage of the Bevier Family - A Kingston Boy's Lament JUNE - Indian Troubles Become More Acute - For Sale, A Young Negro Man - The Line Dividing Ulster and Orange - The Purchase of the Dutch Church Bell - The Honorable Charles G. DeWitt - Washington Riding to Take command - The Severe Winter of 1780 - The Kingston Church Beakers - Population of Kingston in 1681 - Uzal Knapp and Washington's Guard - Specimen of Dutch Humor - Original Name of the Wallkill - Proclamation of Clinton as Governor - A Wynkoop Family Bible Record - Gravestone Inscriptions at New Paltz - In the Ravines of the Catskills JULY - The First Esopus Indian War 1659 - Indian Graves in Rosendale - Indian incursion into Shawangunk 1780 - First Paper Published in Ulster County 1777 - First patent Issued in Orange County 1697 - Lineage of the Kiersted Family - Polling Places in Ulster County in 1777 - Kingston Baptismal Records - The Old Stone House AUGUST - Lull in the Conflict at the Esopus - Cultivation of Strawberries at the Esopus 1664 - English Equivalents of Dutch Christian Names - Various Versions of "Trip a Trop a Troontjes" - The Village School at Wildwyck in 1668 - Lieutenant Daniel Taylor, the British Spy - Status of the Indians in New York 1679 - Gravestone Inscriptions at New Paltz - Fighting under Ensign Smith no Child's Play - Last of the Esopus Indians - A Jarndyce-Jarndyce Case - Beneath the Overlook SEPTEMBER - Founding of the Neiuw Dorp, or Hurley - The Cheese Mines of Old Hurley - The Name of Kingston and its Predecessors - An Ulster County Boy in the Revolution - Kingston Baptismal Register - Gravestone Inscriptions at New Paltz - The Schepen's Court could not Deed Land - Mohonk Lake OCTOBER - The Second Esopus Indian War - Fire Insurance in Wiltwyck in 1670 - Old Ulser Adjuring the Pretender 1715 - Old Ulster's Unmarked Graves - Genealogical Information wanted - Savage Hearts Full of Love 1673 - Will of Hugo Frere, the Patentee - Lineage of the DeWitt Family - The Wallkill River at Walden NOVEMBER - Negotiating for the captives - Fined for Churning on Fast Day 1664 - Wallkill Valley Families in Central New York - Bill of Sale of a Negro Boy 1777 - The Earliest Israelites in The Esopus 1668 - The Stone at the Grave of Thomas Chambers - The Chambers PearTree - Journal of Henry Pawling - Lineage of the Pawling Family - Lineage of the DeWitt Family - Civil Marriages in Kingston 1667-8 - Indian Summer in Woodland Valley DECEMBER - Captain Cregier's Active Operations - Journal of Henry Pawling - The Statue of Patriotism - A Library at the Esopus in 1665 - A Matter of Dates - Currency at the Esopus 1652 - Lineage of the Pawling Family - Lineage of the DeWitt Family - Sunrise from the catskill Mountain House Volume II - 1906 JANUARY - The Rescue of the Captives - Ravages of Esopus Wolves - Saving the State Records - Religious Liberty in New Netherland - Orphan Masters in Old Ulster - The Call to Domine Blom - Journal of Henry Pawling - Lineage of the De Witt Family - The Cauterskill Falls FEBRUARY - Peace at Esopus - Prisoners for Debt to be Kept in church 1680 - The Fleet Prison - The Rip Van Dam Patent - The New Paltz People and Mohonk - Isaack, the Hunchback, Sues Jan Roosa 1681 - Lineage of the Christian Meyer Family - Information Wanted of Harcourt Family - Lineage of the De Witt Family - No Savage to be harbored at Night 1677 - The Block House to be a School House 1681 - Kingston Baptismal Records - Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh MARCH - Old Ulster Under English Rule - Old Ulster in the Electoral colleges - Indian Mounds at Shawangunk "New Fort" - Picking Wild Hops at the Esopus 1666 - Lineage of the Schoonmaker Family - Kingston Baptismal Records - Lineage of the De Witt Family - "My Heart's in Old 'Sopus Wherever I Go" APRIL - The Erection of Fox Hall Manor - The Story of Fantine Kill - Lineage of the Brink Family - Lineage of the Schoonmaker Family - The Old Church Ruin at Wawarsing MAY - The Huguenots of Old Ulster - A "Baas" Shoemaker in Wildwyck 1680 - The Horrors During the Revolution - Chambers Presents a Portion of His Coat of Arms 1679 - Old Ulster and The Clermont - The Lineage of the Brink Family JUNE - The Indian Deeds and Treaties - The Name of Ponckhackie - The Fort at Great Shandaken 1779 - "Not You, but Thomas Didymus" Directions to Repair the Palisades 1663 - Hanging the Village Bell 1680 - Lineage of the Christian Meyer Family - Lineage of the Schoonmaker family - Kingston Baptismal Records - Mijn Jammer Klagt JULY - To Dutch and Then to English Rule - Appointment of a "Rattle Watch" 1681 - The Journal of Conrad Weiser - Ulster's Most Famous Spot - Covering the Church Roof 1669 - Some Surnames of Old Ulster - Our Indians in Trouble with Iroquois - Lineage of the Christian Meyer Family - In Plattekill Cross-Clove AUGUST - The Erection of Ulster County - Journal of Conrad Weiser - Susan Meritt Changes her Mind - A Wiltwyck Trial by Ordeal in 1682 - A Thanksgiving Day of James II - An Ordinance Against Tramps 1685 - The Dutch Rule of Purchase of Indian Land - Grant of Green Kill 1677 - The Military Post at Shokan - A Coroner's Inquest in 1683 - Lineage of the Decker Family - No Racing on Wiltwyck's Street 1676 - Lineage of the Brink Family - Great Falls, Near Kiskatom SEPTEMBER - Ulster's Earliest Sufferers for Freedom - Exchanging a Negro for an Ox 1682 - Origin of Name of "Anthony's Nose" - The Story of the Bush Children - The "Tories" of the Revolution - La Montagnie Both Fore-singer and Fore-reader - The Council of Safety - Fining the man Who Drank 1682 - Lineage of the DeWitt family - Moonlight upon the Hudson OCTOBER - The Leisler Tragedy - The Indian Names of the Hudson - Negroes Not to Congregate on Sunday 1682 - Old Hurley, the Capital of the State - Land Grant at "Kleyne Esoopus" 1682 - Fitting Out the Church in 1682 - The Patriots falling in Line - Indian Grant Until "New Fort" 1683 - Old Ulster Tories - Kingston baptismal Records - Sounding Do-o-o-o-o-o-o-o - Lineage of the Christian Meyer family - The Coming of the Palatines NOVEMBER - Escaping the Curse of Landlordism - The Kingston Society Library 1809 - The Length of the Sabbath 1682 - Campaign and Battle of Minisink - The Turkey Point Road - The Captivity of Short and Miller - The Lineage of the Van Etten Family - Minisink DECEMBER - The Esopus Before chambers came - Shank's Ben and Runnip - The Anchorage - Dutch Five-Finger Rhymes - Kingston, the Capital of the State - Lineage of the Christian Meyer Family - Lineage of the Van Etten Family - The Hudson Volume III - 1907 JANUARY - The Piepowder Court 1691 - Suit Over a Negro Without Ears 1682 - The Washingtons in Kingston - The Killing of Harmanus Du Mond - New York Refugees in Ulster County - Building a Rope-Walk in Kingston 1777 - Lineage of the Decker Family - Valorous Vandals at Kingston FEBRUARY - The old Mine Road - The Fort at Lackawack - The Kocherthal Records - The Lineage of the Van Etten Family - Sunset on Shawangunk Mountain MARCH - The Palatines of Newburgh - The Council-House at Wawarsing - The Ante-Mortem Recording of Wills - The Kocherthal Records - The Vision of Stoffel APRIL - The Newburgh Palatines - A Curious Dutch Expression - Rondout Valley in the Old French War - The Old Stone Church at Wawarsing - The Kocherthal Records - The Willowemoc in Summer MAY - The Palatine Exodus - De Pruttelarij Voerman - Millers' Tolls in 1661 - The Land Grant at High Falls 1682 - Where the Records Were Stored 1777 - The Esopus and Canada - An Indian Sale of Land 1684 - Lineage of the Elting Family - The Kocherthal Records - A Nocturne of the Catskills JUNE - The Platines at The Camp - The Loyalist Problem - Kingston Women Demanding Tea - The Depot at Marbletown - A Woodland Grant to Jan Roosa - Lineage of the Elting Family - The Kocherthal Records - The Minisink JULY - The Naval Stores Project - Pipes, Wine and Sermons Lost - Count Zinzendorf in Old Ulster - A Mombaccus Description of Land - The Indian Figure at Esopus - The Lineage of the Eltinge Family - The Falls of Caterskill AUGUST - The West Camp Palatines - A Quaint Appointment of Guagers 1682 - Sancte Claus, Goed Heylig Man - Dutch Proper Names in Ulster - Lineage of the Schoonmaker Family - The Kocherthal Records - A Reverie in the Catskills SEPTEMBER - Settling the Esopus - Some Ulster County Surnames - Petition for captain Snyder's Exchange 1781 - Kingston's First Steam Ferry - Atkarkarton-Atharhacton - Willem Beeck's Will 1684 - Lineage of the Stanton Family - The Kocherthal Records - The Falls of Mongaup OCTOBER - The Evolution of Liberty in Old Ulster - The Old Court House - Chambers and the van Rensselaers - Lineage of the Stanton family - The Kocherthal Records - White Lake NOVEMBER - The Remnants of the Esopus Indians - The Governor's Residence - The Dutch Ding Dong Bell - Lineage of the Stanton Family - The Kocherthal Records - The Cathedral Gorge of the Esopus DECEMBER - The Founding of Kingston - Ulster Names in Pennsylvania Archives 1724 - The Wawarsing Baptismal Bowl - Ulster County and Valley Forge - Lineage of the Stanton Family - The Kocherthal Records - By Rifton Rapids Volume IV - 1908 JANUARY - The Silver Covenant Chain - The Map of the Stockade - Securing the Iron of the Old Court House 1777 - The Gathering of the Patriots - Jan Oom - Lineage of the Stanton Family (cont'd from Vol 3 p 376) - The Kocherthal Records - The Heroine of Esopus pt 1 FEBRUARY - Governor George Clinton, first paper - An Error Corrected - The Story of Kingston - Jeremiah Bachorn, Hair-Dresser - Vaughan's Second Expedition - Lineage of the Christian Meyer Family - The Kocherthal Records - The Heroine of Esopus pt 2 MARCH - Governor George Clinton, second paper - Vaughan's Second Expedition - Keeping the Stockade in Repair - Revolutionary Vouchers - A Time of Indian Alarms 1756 - The Kocherthal Records - Local Names for the Dutch - Indian Wigwam of Palse Creek - Colonel van Cortlandt and Brant - The Massacre at Esopus 1663 APRIL - Governor George Clinton, third paper - Highway Overseers in 1742 - Vaughan's Second Expedition - First Indian trouble at the Esopus - Early History of Ithaca - Boston Trading at Esopus - Indian Summer on the Hudson MAY - Governor George Clinton, fourth paper - The Monument to George Clinton - Vaughan's Second Expedition - The Duel in Kingston 1671 - Resolutions of the Kingston Trustees - The Hasbrouck Diary - Early History of the Dumond Family - An Appreciation of George Clinton - A Nieuw Dorp Pastoral JUNE - Governor George Clinton, fifth paper - Clinton to Lieutenant-Colonel Bruyn - Vaughan's Second Expedition - Journal of the Voyage of Charles Clinton 1729 - Marriage of George Clinton - Coming Marriage of Charles DeWitt - Lineage of the Abraham Hasbrouck Family - The Home Coming of Clinton JULY - Governor George Clinton, sixth paper - Vaughan's Second Expedition - The Clinton Obsequies - A Letter from George Clinton - Lineage of the Abraham Hasbrouck Family - On Sam's Point AUGUST - Governor George Clinton, seventh paper - Vaughan's Second Expedition - The Celebration in Kingston - Lineage of the Abraham Hasbrouck Family - By Hudson's Tide SEPTEMBER - Governor George Clinton, eighth paper - A Dutch Nonsense Rhyme - Vaughan's Second Expedition - Forming the Clinton Procession - The Van Aaken and Allied Family - Lineage of the Abraham Hasbrouck Family - October Hues of the Catskills OCTOBER - Governor George Clinton, ninth paper - A Dutch St. Nicholas Rhyme - Adding Romance to History - A Letter of Congratulation - The Fort at Lackawack - Letters to Colonel Charles DeWitt - Forming the Clinton Procession in New York - Lineage of the Christian Meyer Family - Lineage of the Abraham Hasbrouck Family - Esopus Kingston NOVEMBER - Governor George Clinton, tenth paper - The Name Ashokan - The Captivity of the Abeels 1781 - Letters of Charles DeWitt - Taking Governor Clinton to the Battery - The Lineage of the Abraham Hasbrouck Family - The Van Deusen Family - Autumn in the Catskills DECEMBER - Governor George Clinton, eleventh paper - The Esopus When Chambers Came 1652 - Letters of Charles DeWitt - Law Relating to Private Burials of Servants 1684 - The Patentees' Monument - Lineage of the Abraham Hasbrouck Family - Information Given and Asked - The Deed of Vaughan Volume V - 1909 JANUARY - Governor George Clinton, twelfth paper - The Story of Jane Strope - Kit Davis' Kil - Letters of Charles DeWitt - An Echo of Indian Troubles - Brew House for Sale 1803 - The House of Johannes Tack - Lineage of the Abraham Hasbrouck Family - The Van Aaken and Allied Families - At Funeral of Marius Schoonmaker FEBRUARY - The Settlement of Katskill (Leeds) - Law of New York Relating to Arson 1732 - Governor george Clinton, thirtheenth paper - Letters of Charles DeWitt - The Hardenbergh House at Rosendale - Lineage of the Abraham Hasbrouck Family - On the Banks of the Hudson MARCH - Governor George Clinton, fourteenth paper - The Labadists and The Esopus - The Birthplace of George Clinton - Letters of Charles DeWitt - The VanAaken and Allied Families - The Rhine APRIL - Henry Hudson and Ulster county - Governor George Clinton, fifteenth paper - The Manhattan at Battery Pier, New York - Letters of Charles DeWitt - Lineage of the Decker Family (cont'd from Vol III) - A Ballad of a Dreadful Day MAY - Henry Hudson and Ulster County - Some Old Dutch Names for Cookery - Governor George Clinton, sixteenth paper - Jacob Jansen Stoll and Jacob Hap - George Clinton and Billy Smith - A Tory Estimate of Sheriff DuMond - Letters of Charles DeWitt - The Clinton Procession in Washington - Lineage of the Decker Family (cont'd) - A Storm in the Catskills JUNE - Henry Hudson and Ulster County - Governor George Clinton, seventeenth paper - The Old Senate House - Sheriff Egbert DuMont - Lineage of the Decker Family - The Van Aaken and Allied Families - Letters of Charles DeWitt - The Hudson JULY - In Memoriam, colonel Charles DeWitt - Governor George Clinton, eighteenth paper - Letters of Charles DeWitt - The Van Aaken and Allied Families - From the Tower on Belle Ayr Mountain AUGUST - The Ambitions of Kingston - Governor George Clinton, nineteenth paper - Letters of Charles DeWitt - DeWaal House - Charles De Witt - A Quaint Document - The Van Aaken and Allied Families - The Hudson SEPTEMBER - A Crafty Esopus Indian - The Delaware and Hudson canal - The Treaty Made "Under the Blue Sky" - The Man Who Burned Kingston - Letters of Charles DeWitt - Foreign Trade of the Esopus - The Name "Steene Rapie" - Clinton Procession in Washington - Advertisement of a Forge - The Van Aaken and Allie Families - Henry Hudson's Quest OCTOBER - Old Ulster and its hinterland - The Dutch Church in Kingston - In the Bruynswyck Churchyard - Kit Davis's Patent - Slaves in Marbletown in 1755 - Petition for Domine Bloem - The Van Aaken and Allied Families - Gates of the Hudson NOVEMBER - A Palatine Boy and a Free Press - Fox Hall Manor and the Monument - Indian Outrages in Rochester in 1756 - Colonel Jacob Rutsen - An Alarm of Early Days - The Van Aaken and Allied Families - Night in Katsbaan DECEMBER - The First Census of the Town of Kingston - Rensselaerswyck Settlers Connected with the Esopus - The Rhinebeck Ferry - The Old Catskill House - Esopus and Ponckhockie - Governor George Clinton, twentieth paper - The Van Aaken and Allied Families - Lineage of the Christian Meyer Famliy - Catskill Mountains Volume VI - 1910 JANUARY - The House of Mrs. Falls, Liberty Square - Early Settlement of Middletown - Death Notices from Old Papers - The Father of Colonel Jacob Rutsen - A War Scare in Kingston - LIneage of the Christian Meyer Family - The Van Aaken and Allied families - To Thomas Cole, the Painter FEBRUARY - The Palatinate of the Rhine - A Reminder of Slavery Days in New York - The Ferry at Saugerties - The Government of New Paltz - The Reverend John Miller and "The Esopus" - An Order to Repair the Domine's House - Death Notices from Old Papers - The Van Aaken and Allied Families - Vanderlyn MARCH - Patriotic Women and Their Tea - Bridging the Esopus - The Supply of Lead in the Revolution - New Store and Landing - The Bruyn Family of Shawangunk - Some Dutch Family Names - Renewing the Treaty with the Indians - The Farm Between Two Creeks - The Van Aaken and Allied Families - The Wallkill Valley APRIL - The Patent of Rochester and the Settlement - colonel George W. Pratt - The Bogardus Inn - An Interesting letter - The Indians in 1676 - An Old Dutch Nonsense Rhyme - A Will of Manumission - The van Aaken and Allied Families - Ontiora MAY - The Hardenbergh, or the Great Patent - Governor George Clinton, twenty-first paper - Colonel McClaghry's Freedom - The Day Line of One Hundred Years Ago - The Effect of a Patriotic Address - The Settlement of the Town of Hunter - Marriage Notices in Old Kingston Papers - Patriots of New Paltz - The Van Aaken and Allied Families - May in Kingston JUNE - The Earliest Settlers at Saugerties Village - The Settlement at the Peenpack - Manuel Gonzales, the Spaniard - A Carrier's Address, One Hundred years Ago - Death Notices from Old Papers - Building the State's Strong Box 1777 - The Precincts of Old Ulster - The Van Aaken and Allied Families - The Hudson JULY - Disbanding of the Army under Washington - The New Paltz Patent and its Boundmarks - The Ostrander Family - Lineage of the Christian Meyer Family - Independence Anthem AUGUST - The Iroquois and the Ulster - Building the Delaware and Hudson Canal - Manuel Gonzales and His Nickname - Anthonij van Hooges, a Charming Personality - The Old Kingston Academy - Slavery in Ulster County - Tawarataque and the Hurley Boundary - Lineage of the Christian Meyer Family - Organizing the State Government at Kingston 1777 SEPTEMBER - Slavery in Ulster County - The Mill of the Esopus - A Few Kingston Death Notices - feudal Service to Fox Hall Manor - Highway Districts in Early days - Lineage of the Christian Meyer Family - Cloudland in the Catskills OCTOBER - James S. McEntee's Story of the Canal - Mattys Jansen van Ceulen, the Patroon of Zwaanendal - A Few Old Letters - The Committee of Ulster County - Fortifying Kingston in the Old French War - Lineage of the Christian Meyer Family - Onteora to the Pine NOVEMBER - Bonding Towns and Corrupt Politics - A Dutch Nonsense Rhyme - The oldest House in Port Jervis (Decker ) - Conraedt Ten Eyck, an Early Patriot - About the De Witt Family - The Wallkill - The Lineage of the Christian Meyer Family - The Sprit of the Mountain DECEMBER - The Temple at New Windsor 1782 - The Birthplace of DeWitt Clinton - De Duivels Dans Kamer - A Moving "Birnam Woo," Which Failed - Tombstone Inscriptions in Kingston Churchyard - Fourth of July Meeting 1845 - Lineage of the Christian Meyer Family - Perished Volume VII - 1911 JANUARY - The Shawangunk Mountain Range - Site of Old Fort and Wawarsing's First Settler - First Riflemaker in America an Ulster Huguenot - The House of Judge Hasbrouck - John Persen's Will - Records in the Persen Family Bible - From a Roosa Family Bible - New Year Morn O'er the Catskills FEBRUARY - Wiltwyck Chapter House - Provincial and Revolutionary Military Organizations - Tombstone Inscriptions in Kingston churchyard - A Threat from Joseph Brant - The Will of Antoine Crespel - Lineage of the Christian Meyer Family The Mountains of the Skys MARCH - DeWitt Clinton's Birthplace - Provincial and Revolutionary Military Organizations - Ulster Lodge, No. 193, F. & A. M., Saugerties, N.Y. - A Glimpse of Kingston Fifty Years Ago - New Shaving and Tonsural Establishment - A Revolutionary Certificate - The Will of Wessel TenBroeck - Information Wanted - Legend of Kaaterskill APRIL - The Indians of Catskill - The Katsbaan Church Records - Relating to the Terwilliger Family - Provincial and Revolutionary Military Organizations - Wiltwyck Chapter House - On the Rondout MAY - The Captivity of Frederick Schermerhorn - Provincial and Revolutionary Military Organizations - A Carrier's Address of Forty Years Ago - Governor George Clinton's New Coat - The Colors of the One Hundred and Twentieth - The Katsbaan church Records - The Catskills JUNE - The Departure of the Twentieth Regiment - An Old-Time Pedagogue - Provincial and Revolutionary Military Organizations - A Marriage License of British Days - The Katsbaan church Records - The Maid of Ulster JULY - Departure of the One Hundred and Twentieth - The Divorce of Annetje Arians 1664 - Katsbaan church and Domine Ostrander - The Katsbaan church Records - The Men Who Held the Line AUGUST - The Centennial of the State of New York - The Grave of Colonel Jacob Rutsen - Major John Gillespy and Family - Roosa Family Records - Records in the Viele Family Bible - The Katsbaan Church Records - Half a Century After SEPTEMBER - Rondout Village Eighty Years Ago - Frontier Blockhouse Defense 1758 - Three Generations of Patriots - The Medal of the Brothers De Witt - Palatine Families at West Camp in 1710-11 - The Katsbaan Church Records - Vanderlyn OCTOBER - Greenkill Mills and Charles De Witt - Proposed Moravian Settlement in Ulster County 1753 - New York State Historical Association Meeting - Katsbaan Church Records - The Catskills NOVEMBER - The Story of the One Hundred and Fifty-Sixth - Proposed Moravian Settlement in Ulster county 1753 - This Region Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago - Initial Stones in Katsbaan Church Wall - The Katsbaan Church Records - What Isaac Thomas Did DECEMBER - Musings in the Kingston Churchyard - Vouchers of the French and Indian War 1758 - Proposed Moravian Settlement in Ulster County 1753 - An Old Dutch Milking Song - George Washington and the Church of Kingston - The Katsbaan Church Records - Down in the Glen at Idlewild Volume VIII - 1912 JANUARY - Ulster County and the Frelinghuysens - Musings in the Kingston churchyard - The Will of Tjerk Glaeszen De Witt - Katsbaan Church Records - A Patriotic Charge for Each Sixteenth of October FEBRUARY - Mrs. Dina Frelinghuysen - Mrs. Dina Hardenbergh - Revolutionary Frigates in the Esopus - The Ulster Iron Works at Saugerties - Ulster County Ninety Years Ago - Kingston Postmasters - Katsbaan Church Records - The Glebe Schoolhouse at Newburgh MARCH - A Pioneer Settlement from 'Sopus - The Honorable Agreement of Tjerck De Witt of Coxing 1710 - Lieutenant Van Hoevenberg in the Revolution - Katsbaan Church Records - In the Catskills APRIL - A Pioneer Settlement from 'Sopus - The Northeast Corner of Old Ulster - The Matrimonial Bond of Three Bachelors 1781 - Genealogy of Colonel Jacob Rutsen - The Katsbaan Church Records - The Hudson River MAY - An Ulster Congressman Fights a Duel - Aaron Burr and Ulster County - A Curious Marriage Custom - Will of Lambert Huybertse Brink - Temple Hill Monument, New Windsor - Katsbaan Church Records - A Day by the Delaware JUNE - The Jewish Colony at Sholam, Ulster County - Prayer, Faith and Expectation in Wawarsing - Old Stone Church at Hurley, New York - That Katsbaan Church Records - Klyne Kill JULY - The Delaware River - The Old Stone School House at Hurley - David Schuyler - Last Letter of General Montgomery 1775 - The Katsbaan Church Records - The Catskills AUGUST - The Catskill-Canajoharie Railroad Project - An Old Dutch Musical Rhyme - Aldert or Aleardt Roosa - The Jan Van Deusen House, Hurley - The Katsbaan Church Records - An Autumn Ramble in the Catskills SEPTEMBER - General Sharpe and Lee's Surrender - Remarks at the Fire - The Katsbaan Church Records - A Sonnet. To G. P. K. OCTOBER - The Building of Plank Roads - Death of Domine Mancius - The Old Normal School at New Paltz - Legend of the Willow Plate - The Katsbaan church Records - Jacob's Valley NOVEMBER - General Sharpe at the Unveiling - First County Convention in Ulster County - Manumitting a Slave 1794 - Recollections of General James Clinton - The Katsbaan Church Records - A Sunset at the Episcopal Parsonage DECEMBER - Historical Notice of Kingston and Rondout 1858 - Some Old Landmarks in and About Hurley - The Residence of John Sudam - Marius Amid The Ruins of Carthage Volume IX - 1913 JANUARY - Historical Notice of Kingston and Rondout - Some Old Time industries of Hurley - The Will of Rachel Bogardus - The New Netherland Origin of Santa Claus - The Katsbaan Church Records - Winnisook FEBRUARY - The Episcopal Church in Ulster County 1704-6 - The Horse of General Sharpe and his Tombstone - The last Proclamation of the Last Royal Governor - A Former Visit of Washington Irving in Kingston - The Katsbaan Church Records - The Peace of Winnisook MARCH - The Pratt Rocks at Prattsville - John Vanderlyn - General Van Cortlandt and Sullivan's Expedition - The Katsbaan Church Records - At Winnisook APRIL - The Pine Bush Raid and Graham's Defeat 1778 - Names and Occupations of Newburgh Palatines 1708 - Brodhead's Ashokan Reservoir - Advertisements One Hundred Years Ago - About Tar Making 1708 - Ulster County Feeding Boston's Poor 1774 - The Katsbaan Church Records - Burial of Minnisink MAY - Old Ulster and the American Navy - Judge Elmendorf and Lucas Turnpike - A Fox Hunt - A Revolutionary Tar and Feathering - The Will of Helena Smedes - The Katsbaan Church Records - Sonnet-Marious in Carthage JUNE - Old Ulster and the American Navy Lieutenant Charles W. Chipp, U.S.N. - Governor William L. Marcy at Saugerties 1833 - The Jubilee of American Independence 1826 - The Katsbaan Church Records - A Legend of the Hudson JULY - Old Ulster and the American Navy - Rear Admiral Robert W. 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When British troops marched into Philadelphia on September 26, 1777, capturing the American capital did not solve their greatest problem: supply. American defenses blocking the path to Philadelphia. British transports loaded with food, ammunition, clothing and other necessities were waiting down the Delaware River, but American defenses stood between those ships and Philadelphia. At the center of that defensive system was a small fortification on Mud Island, several miles below the city, supported by Fort Mercer at Red Bank, New Jersey, the Pennsylvania Navy, armed galleys, river obstructions known as chevaux-de-frise, and shore batteries. The resulting Siege of Fort Mifflin is generally dated from September 26 to November 16, 1777, although the devastating final bombardment occurred chiefly between November 10 and 15. For weeks, a surprisingly small and constantly changing American garrison prevented the British from freely using the Delaware River.[1] You can watch a YouTube short about it here, but read on for details about the names of the known soldiers who were there, and other facts not mentioned in the short video. The men who defended the fort came from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware and Continental artillery units, with detachments entering and leaving the fort throughout the siege. Identifying an ancestor who actually served there requires more than finding his regiment mentioned in a history book. Fortunately, surviving muster rolls, military correspondence, diaries, pension applications and even clothing returns allow us to identify a growing number of the men who were actually there. A desperate situation on Mud Island Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Smith of Maryland arrived at Fort Mifflin on the night of September 26–27. His report to George Washington the following day paints an alarming picture. Smith reported shortages of ammunition and provisions and said that only about 60 untrained militiamen were serving as artillerymen. He also complained that the militia had refused to obey artillery officer Captain-Lieutenant Samuel Treat. The defense was therefore not a polished operation conducted by a single veteran regiment. It was a constantly changing collection of Continental soldiers, state troops, militia and artillerymen trying to keep an unfinished fort functioning while the British steadily tightened their grip around it.[2] Fort Mifflin's own history estimates that the garrison numbered roughly 200 men early in the struggle and eventually increased to around 400. French-born Continental engineer François-Louis Teissèdre de Fleury, writing from the fort on November 14, referred to a new garrison of about 450 men.[3] A rare surviving Fort Mifflin muster roll One of the most valuable records for genealogists is an actual muster roll for Captain John McCullough's Second Company of Artillery of the Philadelphia Militia, commanded by Colonel Jehu Eyre.[4] Unlike a general regimental roster, this document specifically states: “Fort Mifflin, September 10, 1777. Mustered then Captain John McCullough's company.” The roll names 33 officers and men: Rank or duty Men recorded on the Fort Mifflin muster Captain John McCullough Captain-Lieutenant John Connelly Lieutenants Samuel Goodman, Samuel Scott, Mathew Shaw Sergeants Samuel Griffin, John Bulgin, Patrick Connelly, Jacob Collody Corporals Andrew Durand, Samuel Casky, James McGill, Nicholas Hand Drummer & Fifer William Troutwine, Michael Wester Bombardiers Michael Thompson, Robert Long, Israel Bell, John O'Neal Gunners Richard Biddle, Lewis Burn, James Young, William Crook Matrosses and support Andrew Boden, Robert Todd, John Steward, Robert Casky, Andrew Peterson, John Gilyard, Charles McCarter, Joseph Jacobs, Barnabus Neave, Thomas Allan The details in the roll are important. John O'Neal was marked sick but present, while Andrew Peterson and Charles McCarter were sick and absent. Barnabus Neave was noted as a conductor and Thomas Allan as a clerk.[5] There is also an important warning for family historians: this muster was taken on September 10, before the siege intensified. It proves that the company was stationed at Fort Mifflin on that date; by itself, it does not prove that every man remained through the October and November fighting. That distinction is exactly why Fort Mifflin research requires examining individuals rather than simply copying entire regimental rosters. Maryland soldiers at the fort Samuel Smith himself was a Maryland officer, but he was not the only Marylander at Fort Mifflin. A fascinating surviving record is titled essentially an account of clothing delivered by Lieutenant Colonel Smith “on Fort Mifflin” to soldiers under his command from the 7th Maryland Regiment. Eight men appear on the surviving list: Neal Peacock, Jacob Storm and Edward Murray, associated with Williams' company, and Patrick Connelly, Robert McDaniel, Edmond Nash, John Farrel and John Davis, associated with Bayley's company.[6] One of these men, Neal Peacock, is independently reported as having been wounded during the siege of Mud Island Fort, strengthening the connection between this Maryland detachment and the actual fighting.[7] This clothing return is a wonderful example of why genealogists should search beyond traditional muster rolls. A seemingly mundane record about shirts, shoes, stockings and blankets can establish that a particular soldier was serving at a particular fort. Virginia soldiers and the power of pension applications Revolutionary War pension files provide some of the most vivid evidence of individual Fort Mifflin service. Benjamin Lemasters, a soldier of the 1st Virginia Regiment, later testified that he spent about a month at the siege under Smith. He remembered seeing the British warship HMS Augusta destroyed on the Delaware and said that during the siege he rode as an express messenger from Smith to George Washington at Whitemarsh.[8] Another remarkable account comes from Sergeant Jacob Burruss, or Burris, of the Virginia Line. His pension testimony stated that he was detached with other soldiers to Mud Island Fort, crossed the Delaware above Philadelphia, traveled down the New Jersey side and entered Fort Mifflin by boat at night. Burruss recalled serving there throughout the siege under Smith and being attached to Samuel Treat's artillery. He reported being wounded twice by flying splinters produced when British cannonballs struck the fort's timbers.[9] Another Virginia veteran, Claiborne Durrett, later specifically named Mud Island alongside Brandywine and Germantown when describing his Revolutionary service in his pension declaration.[10] These records demonstrate why an ancestor's pension file can be far more revealing than a simple compiled service record. The Rhode Islanders arrive Rhode Island troops played a particularly complicated role because detachments moved between Fort Mercer and Fort Mifflin. Surviving garrison orders show that on October 19, Major Simeon Thayer was ordered to take a detachment from Colonel Israel Angell's 2nd Rhode Island Regiment consisting of 3 captains, 9 subalterns, 12 sergeants, 4 drummers and fifers, and 121 rank-and-file soldiers to Fort Mifflin. That was nearly 150 men. They were sent to relieve a detachment from Colonel Christopher Greene's 1st Rhode Island Regiment.[11] One of Thayer's men was Sergeant Jeremiah Greenman, whose diary gives us a soldier's-eye view of the experience. On October 21 he recorded that he was continuing at Fort Mifflin and described the duty simply as “very hard indeed.” The following morning, October 22, Thayer's detachment crossed back to Fort Mercer—just in time to participate in the Battle of Red Bank against attacking Hessian troops.[11] Thayer would later return to Fort Mifflin and eventually take command during its final terrible days. Connecticut soldiers and Joseph Plumb Martin As casualties and exhaustion reduced the garrison, fresh troops were sent in. British forces bombard Fort Mifflin as American defenders fight to keep the Delaware River closed to enemy supply ships. The U.S. Army's history of the Philadelphia Campaign records that during the nights of November 11–13, Lieutenant Colonel Giles Russell and troops of the 4th and 8th Connecticut Regiments entered Fort Mifflin to relieve Smith and the surviving Virginia Continentals.[12] Among the Connecticut soldiers was a young private whose memoir would become one of the best-known enlisted men's accounts of the American Revolution: Joseph Plumb Martin. Martin later described the miserable conditions inside the shattered fort—the mud, exhaustion and almost constant danger from British shot and shell. The American Battlefield Trust likewise identifies Martin as one of the soldiers who garrisoned Fort Mifflin during the siege.[13] His presence is particularly valuable to historians because his later memoir allows us to experience the siege through the eyes of an ordinary Continental soldier rather than only through officers' reports. Artillerymen from several commands The artillery inside Fort Mifflin deserves special attention. Samuel Smith's September 27 letter identifies Samuel Treat as the artillery officer at the fort. Treat belonged to the Continental artillery and was later killed during the fighting.[14] Other Continental artillery units operated throughout the Delaware defenses. The recent U.S. Army campaign history identifies Captain David Cook's company of the 3rd Continental Artillery among the artillery forces in the Delaware forts and Captain James Lee of the 2nd Continental Artillery operating heavy guns against British shipping during the campaign.[15] The result was an exceptionally mixed garrison: Pennsylvania militia artillerymen could be serving beside Continental artillerymen, Virginia infantrymen and temporary detachments from Rhode Island or Connecticut. The Pennsylvania Navy fought beside them The defense of Fort Mifflin cannot be understood solely as an army action. Commodore John Hazelwood and the Pennsylvania Navy fought on the Delaware with armed galleys and other vessels, supporting the forts and helping protect the river obstructions. The defenders even enjoyed a dramatic success on October 23 when the British ships HMS Augusta and HMS Merlin became stranded during operations near the forts; Augusta caught fire and exploded, while Merlin was subsequently destroyed to prevent her capture.[15] An ancestor involved in the Fort Mifflin campaign, therefore, might appear in naval records rather than an army regiment. The final bombardment American troops evacuate the shattered Fort Mifflin by boat during the night of November 15–16, 1777, after days of devastating bombardment. Beginning on November 10, the British brought overwhelming firepower against the fort from batteries on Province and Carpenter's Islands. Smith and Fleury were wounded. Reinforcements replaced exhausted defenders, and command eventually passed to Major Simeon Thayer. By November 15, British warships had maneuvered into positions from which they could fire directly into Fort Mifflin at extremely close range. The fort's guns were progressively disabled, its powder was nearly exhausted, and its defenses had been shattered. Rather than sacrifice the survivors, Thayer ordered the fort evacuated. During the early morning hours of November 16, 1777, the remaining Americans crossed to New Jersey. They left the flag flying over the ruined fort. British troops entered several hours later.[15] The fort had fallen—but only after delaying British use of the Delaware for weeks. A lesson hidden in the battle For family historians, Fort Mifflin provides a perfect illustration of how Revolutionary War service should be researched. An ancestor's regiment may have participated in the Philadelphia Campaign without the ancestor himself ever entering Fort Mifflin. Conversely, a man whose regiment is not normally associated with the fort may have been temporarily detached there for only a few days. Search terms matter too. In pension applications and contemporary documents the fort may appear as Fort Mifflin, Mud Island, Mud Island Fort, Mud Fort, Mudfort, or simply the fort on Mud Island. Searching only for “Fort Mifflin” can therefore miss valuable records.[16] The surviving evidence already gives us dozens of identifiable defenders—from Philadelphia artilleryman John McCullough, Maryland soldier Neal Peacock, Virginians Benjamin Lemasters and Jacob Burruss, Rhode Island sergeant Jeremiah Greenman, Connecticut private Joseph Plumb Martin, and many ordinary gunners, bombardiers, matrosses and infantrymen whose names rarely appear in traditional battle histories. And the roster is still incomplete. Somewhere among surviving orderly books, company returns, pension files, casualty reports, clothing accounts and military correspondence are undoubtedly the names of still more of the men who endured the guns at Mud Island in the autumn of 1777. For genealogists with an ancestor who served in the Philadelphia Campaign, those records may provide the evidence that finally answers an exciting question: Was my ancestor one of the defenders of Fort Mifflin? Behind the Research: ChatGPT by OpenAI assisted with researching, organizing, and drafting this article. The final article was reviewed and edited for publication by MyGenealogyAddiction.com, with links to the historical sources used throughout the research. Sources [1] National Park Service, “The Philadelphia Campaign of 1777.” Includes the November 10–15 bombardment and evacuation of Fort Mifflin. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/philadelphia-campaign-1777.htm [2] Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Smith to George Washington, September 27, 1777, Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Smith's report from Fort Mifflin describing the militia artillerymen, shortages and condition of the garrison. https://www.navydocs.org/node/24632 [3] Fort Mifflin on the Delaware, “The History.” Overview of the 1777 defense, changing garrison strength and strategic importance of the fort. https://www.fortmifflin.us/the-history [4] Pennsylvania Archives, Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, Associated Battalions and Militia, 1775–1783. Captain John McCullough's Second Company of Philadelphia Artillery muster, Fort Mifflin, September 10, 1777. https://wolfensberger.org/pages/library/books/Pennsylvania/pennsylvaniaarch04penn.pdf [5] Pennsylvania Archives, Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, Associated Battalions and Militia, 1775–1783. Captain John McCullough's Second Company of Philadelphia Artillery muster, Fort Mifflin, September 10, 1777. https://wolfensberger.org/pages/library/books/Pennsylvania/pennsylvaniaarch04penn.pdf [6] 7th Maryland Regiment clothing account, transcription of a record identifying soldiers receiving clothing under Lt. Col. Samuel Smith at Fort Mifflin, including Neal Peacock, Jacob Storm, Edward Murray, Patrick Connelly, Robert McDaniel, Edmond Nash, John Farrel and John Davis. https://sites.google.com/site/sjzscertainfolksandevents/nathan-nash [7] Revolutionary War Patriots Buried in Ohio https://www.ohiohistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Revolutionary-War-Patriots-Buried-in-Ohio_opt.pdf [8] Benjamin Lemasters, Revolutionary War Pension Application S18490. Lemasters recalled a month at Fort Mifflin, the destruction of Augusta, and carrying messages between Smith and Washington. https://revwarapps.org/s18490.pdf [9] Jacob Burruss/Burris, Pension Application W340. His testimony describes his journey to Mud Island, service under Smith and Treat, and two wounds suffered during the siege https://www.gloucestercountynj.gov/DocumentCenter/View/16176/African-Americans-at-Red-Bank-Bob-Seligpdf [10] Pension Record of Claiborne Durrett https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person%3AClaiborne_Durrett_%281%29 [11] Christian McBurney, “A Rhode Island Officer's Recollections Lead to New Information on Battle of Red Bank,” Journal of the American Revolution. Uses Rhode Island orderly books and diaries to reconstruct Simeon Thayer's approximately 149-man Fort Mifflin detachment. https://battleofrhodeisland.org/new-information-on-battle-of-red-bank [12] Joseph A. Seymour, The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777, U.S. Army Center of Military History. Modern U.S. Army campaign history covering the Delaware forts, Rhode Island troops, Continental artillery, Connecticut reinforcements and final evacuation. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D114-PURL-gpo240180/pdf/GOVPUB-D114-PURL-gpo240180.pdf [13] Joseph Plumb Martin, American Battlefield Trust. Biography documenting Martin's service in the Fort Mifflin garrison. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/joseph-plumb-martin [14] François-Louis Teissèdre de Fleury, Journal, November 14, 1777, Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Firsthand account from inside Fort Mifflin during the final bombardment. https://www.navydocs.org/node/25422 [15] The Philelphia Campaign 1777 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D114-PURL-gpo240180/pdf/GOVPUB-D114-PURL-gpo240180.pdf [16] Frederick Reed, Pension Application S43911. A Delaware Regiment veteran who specifically recalled participating in the actions at “Mudfort” and Red Bank. https://revwarapps.com/s43911.pdf Feel free to download and share this image, but please don't modify it. Thank you.

When Governor Andros restored the English form of government in New York, the first case brought to the new court at New Harlem was the case of Widow Jacqueline Tourneur vs. Elizabeth Nightengale Disosway. The "old antagonist", Mrs. Disosway, had many times accused and slandered the name of Jacqueline's husband, Daniel Tourneur, claiming he had killed a man in his old home of France. Even though Daniel was deceased, Jacqueline saw the new court as an opportunity to settle the matter, once and for all, and it appeared to end in justice. Mrs. Disosway's apologetic appeal was entered as follows, on January 19, 1675: "The Defendant brought into ye Court her suplicatory peticon, in which was her acknowledgement for her wrong and injury to ye Plaintiff's husband; which ye Court accepted off, conditionally she behaved her selfe well, and pay all costs." But it wasn't over yet. Within three months, Mrs. Disosway repeated the offense and the court grew tired of the case and it was dismissed. Jacqueline and her son, Daniel, Jr., "had suffered so much annoyance from the story that they finally rented their village property and moved over to Montagne's Flat, where the young man had holdings inherited from his father". According to "New Harlem past and present; the story of an amazing civic wrong, now at last to be righted", and other sources, the allegations were false: "The accusation against Tourneur had its foundation in the fact that the elder Tourneur had drawn his sword in self-defense, in company with several of his companions, during a political quarrel in France. In the course of the melee a man was killed. Tourneur, with others, fled. The Disosways had held this taunt over Tourneur's head whenever the Magistrates displeased them." Later, the Tourneurs and Disosways settled their differences and the Disosways moved to Staten Island in 1684. Read more about the circumstances of the melee here. Click here to read more about this branch of my family. Sources: New Harlem past and present; the story of an amazing civic wrong, now at last to be righted, by Carl H. Pierce, W.P. Toler, and H.D. Nutting, 1903, p. 50, 91-92. Google Maps #HesterTourneur #Deveaux #Harlem #DutchSettlers #dutchsettlement #DanielTourneur #JacquelineParesis #JacquelinedeParisis #justice

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