Treasurer's Report, October 19, 1928-October 18, 1929

The Treasurer's report was given by the Assistant Treasurer, Mrs. Waterman. This was accepted and follows these minutes.

Miss Reynolds reported for the Year Book Committee that the work was well in hand and that the book would be mailed some time in November. She also reported that the volume of marriage and death notices was in the press and gave the first of the year as a probable date of publication.

The Secretary reported that the following members had died since the last meeting: Mrs. Horatio N. Bain, John H. Cotter, M. D., Ely S. Elting, Mrs. Theodore C. Lundy. Francis W. Platt, Mrs. Alonzo B. See and Alonzo H. Vail.

The Secretary also reported one resignation: Miss Mary Van der Burgh.

The following new members were proposed and elected: Mrs. Frank Bradbury, Mrs. B. C. Collins, Miss Sarah P. Cramer, Mr. Eugene Daley, Mrs. Eugene Daley, Mrs. Frank Greene, Mr. Francis J. Hopson, Mrs. Charles Joseph, Mr. Edward Buffington Kitts, Mrs. Felix Parker, Mrs. W. T. Penoyer, Mr. Daniel R. Spratt, Mrs. Daniel R. Spratt, Miss Rita I. Tompkins, Miss Mary Swain Wagner.

The Secretary reported that Mr. Charles W. Burroughs, 65 Midland Ave., Arlington, N. J., had requested that his membership be changed from annual to life membership. This was approved.

The Secretary reported the gift of a mortar and pestle which had been used in the family of Levi Pawling for more than one hundred and twenty-nine years. This was presented by Miss Lavinia Wallace. A note of presentation giving a history of the heirloom and the signatures of members of the family is appended to these minutes. This gift was gratefully accepted.

MTS. Theodore de Laporte read a request from Mrs. Fuller of Madison, Wis., who wished to hear from any member who could help her with information relative to Gideon Dutcher and his wife, Sarah Manchester.

Miss Reynolds spoke of the gift made by Mrs. de Laporte to the Chancellor Livingston Chapter, D. A. R., of Rhinebeck, saying that Mrs. de Laporte had purchased the first home of General and Mrs. Montgomery and restored it and that it is now used as a headquarters for that chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

A motion was made that the Secretary be empowered to order new membership application blanks.

Mr. Mylod reported that Mr. Charles 0. Conger of the state highway department had advised him that the department had been resetting the milestones that had been removed during the construction of the new road.

On motion the meeting adjourned to the Nelson House where 162 members partook of luncheon. Dr. Baldwin presided and introduced Dr. A. C. Flick, New York State Historian, who gave a very interesting.and enlightening address on the Sullivan-Clinton campaign through the state of New York in 1779, stating in detail the causes

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which led up to it and the results attained, which made it one of the most important movements of the whole Revolutionary War.

After Dr. Flick, the chairman introduced the Rev. Frederick J. Baum, pastor of St. John's English Lutheran Church, Poughkeepsie, who spoke about the Palatine migration in 1710. He gave a detailed and interesting history of the settlement of the Palatines in Dutchess County and other sections of the state of New York and the important influences they have exerted upon its later history.

The meeting adjourned with a rising vote of thanks to the speakers.

Hyde Park, N. Y. The Dutchess County Historical

Society,

Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Dear Friends:

In memory of my greatly beloved mother, Gertrude Pawling Wallace, I take pleasure in presenting to you for all time the accompanying Indian mortar and pestle.

This has been a precious heirloom in my family for one hundred and twenty-nine years and was used for more than one hundred years by my grandmother and later by my mother in which to grind the family spices. Still later, many times, I, myself, have used it in which to crack corn for my chicks.

My aunt, Julia Ann Pawling Howell, stated that this mortar and pestle was a gift from an Indian to her father, Levi Pawling, and his first wife, Gertrude Knickerbocker.

Levi Pawling was the son of Major John Pawling of "Pawling Manor" and grandson of Captain Henry Pawling who came to America in 1664 in the Duke of York Expedition and who later took out a Patent for a tract of land known as Pawling Purchase, part of which is now the village of Staatsburgh.

From Levi Pawling and his second wife, Hannah Griffing, this mortar and pestel was handed down to their daughter Gertrude (Mrs. David Wallace of Staatsburgh) and from Gertrude Pawling Wallace, my mother, to me. I now pass it on to you for safe keeping for all time. Signed, LAVINIA WALLACE.

We, the undersigned nieces and nephews of Miss Lavinia Wallace (five of us members of your organization) wish to share with our aunt in the presentation of this prized heirloom and wish, also, to release any claim we may have in the future on the same. We therefore sign ourselves as follows: Katherine Wallace Kitts. Emeline Roach Sproul. Gertrude Wallace Ballard. Garetta Roach Forbes. John Roach William M. Roche. Anne Wallace Parker. October 16, 1929.

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