Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook Vol 028 1943

built the brick house at New Hackensack and his son, Samuel, built the frame house in the same locality which are described by Miss Reynolds in Dutchess County Doorways.

Dr. Stephen Thorn had six children: (a) Dr. James Thorn (born June 21, 1763, and died June 26, 1816), who lived on the west side of the Sprout Creek near the present hamlet called Noxon. He married twice: Jane Suydam (born in 1766 and died February 27, 1793), daughter of Reynier and Phebe Suydam, by whom he had two children Phebe and Reynier Suydam Thorn who both died young) ; and, on April 5, 1795, he married Johanna Van Kleeck (born in 1774 and died April 7, 1857), the daughter of John and Mary Van Kleeck, by whom he had three children: Stephen (born May 9, 1797, and died December 5, 1845) ; Anna Maria (born June 28, 1800, and died October 13, 1849), unmarried; and Jane (born August 24, 1805, and died April 10, 1884), who married, December 22, 1830, Teunis Ackerman (born April 20, 1800, and died November 15, 1861) ; (b) Hannah (born December 2, 1765, and died March 24, 1827), who married February 3, 1793, Jacob Boerum; (c) Samuel (born September 7, 1769, and died April 2, 1820), married February 21, 1799, Mary Hoffman (born November 16, 1777, and died May 3, 1852), the daughter of Robert Hoffman of Poughkeepsie. They had eight children: Stephen S. (born June 24, 1800, and died May 18, 1869), who married, in 1828, Mary Sleight (1802-1882) and had three children (Sarah Elizabeth, who married Jacob Bockee Carpenter; Samuel S., who married Matilda Myers; and Esther, who married Benjamin Platt Carpenter) ; Robert (born October 21, 1802, and died January 19, 1870), who married, October 30, 1833, Catharine C. Akin (died January 29, 1838), and had two daughters, Caroline who married, June 14, 1858, Richard W. Akin, and Catharine who died in infancy; Eliza (born May 3, 1805, and died March 24, 1880), who married, October 26, 1831, William T. Teller; Sally (born May 23, 1808, and died January 11, 1878), who married, December 15, 1830, George B. Adriance (born January 7, 1807, and died August 1, 1888) ; Esther (born December 24, 1810, and died December 1, 1885), unmarried; Mary (born October 10, 1813, and died August 25, 1882), unmarried; James (born July 4, 1817, and died March 4, 1818) ; and 86