Adonijah/Cyrenius Newcomb Farm 430 Academy Hill Road
Milan, New York ______________________________________________________________________ History of the Property The Little Nine Partners Patent, comprising what is now the towns of Milan and Pine Plains, was granted in 1706 to businessmen and land speculators from New York City, for the purpose of settlement. Colonial governors were anxious to secure the area between Manhattan and Albany which had been left mostly vacant due to the focus of the Dutch on the fur trade which required only a few outposts on the Hudson River. The English took over the colony permanently in 1674 and established the practice of granting large tracts of land or “patents” to men of wealth and influence. The expectation being that these patentees would encourage and provide support for settlers in order to clear the land for agriculture. The other motive of the government was to provide a protective buffer against the French to the north, and against encroachment from wandering New Englanders. The first Dutchess County patent, the Rombout Patent, was granted in 1685, followed by the Pieter Schuyler Patent, Henry Beekman’s Rhinebeck Patent, the Great Nine Partners Patent, the Philipse Patent, the Beekman Patent, and finally the Little Nine Partners Patent in 1706. The partners in the Little Nine were Sampson Broughton, Rip Van Dam, Thomas Wenham, Roger Mompesson, Peter Fauconier, Augustus Graham, Richard Sackett, Robert Lurting, and George Clark. The land was not surveyed and partitioned until 1734 and that survey
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remained unofficial until 1744. At that point, the patent was divided into 63 lots and distributed among the surviving original partners and the heirs and assigns of those who had died in the intervening 38 years.
The property currently identified as 430 Academy Hill Road is located in the center of Lot 42, one of the seven lots originally assigned to Richard Sackett. The following biography comes from The Sacketts of America: their ancestors and descendants (1630-1907), by Charles H. Weygant. 75. Capt. Richard Sackett, 16__-1746, of New Haven, New York City, and Dover, Dutchess County, N.Y., son of (18) Jonathan and Hannah ______ Sackett, appears to have been employed in early life, for considerable period, in the forests of New England to have there learned how tar was extracted from pine trees. In 1699 he was a resident of New York City and the proprietor of a malt house or brewery. This malt house was located on the north side of Cherry Street, which at that time was known as Sackett Street, having been named for said Richard Sackett. On May 11, 1699, a marriage license was issued in New York City authorizing the marriage of Richard Sackett and Margery L. Sleade.
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At about the same date Richard Sackett was commissioned Captain of the 7th Company of the New York City regiment commanded by Colonel William Peartree. This company was composed in the main of prominent young business men and Capt. Sackett commanded it for several years. On March 11, 1703, Capt. Sackett petitioned the Lord Cornbury Government for permission to purchase from the Indian proprietors a certain tract of land in Dutchess County, called Wassaic. The license petitioned for was duly granted, the purchase from the Indian proprietors was made, and a patent for same, covering 7,500 acres, was issued to Richard Sackett and Company (Richard Sackett, Josiah Crego, Joseph Sackett, William Huddleson and John Mitchell), bearing date Nov. 2, 1704. At the time of which we are writing Capt. Sackett was enjoying marked prominence and popularity in both government and social circles, and his name appears frequently in official records of both New York and Connecticut. In April, 1703, Lord Cornbury appointed him Chief Revenue Officer for the South Eastern Section of the Province of New York. In April, 1704, he filed a minute of expenses incurred in seizing the sloop Betsey of Oyster Bay, for trading contrary to law, and bringing her up to New York. This proceeding shows that he had jurisdiction over the harbor and seacoasts as well as over the city and surrounding country. On June 16, of the same year, he was granted license to dispose by lottery, of several lots and tracts of land in New York City and Dutchess County, N. Y. The date of birth of Mr. Sackett has not been ascertained. It is claimed by some of his descendants that at one period before his marriage he was a sea captain. It is also stated on supposedly reliable authority that "having perfected his title to the Wassaick tract, he, in connection with several wealthy residents of New York City, purchased the Indian titles to several other extensive tracts in same vicinity, and the colony line between New York and Connecticut not having at the time been established, he probably availed himself of his knowledge of astronomy, acquired in the study of navigation, and made experiments and observations, based upon the treaty of partition made in 1683, but which had never been carried out by actual survey, and persuaded himself that the boundary line when surveyed would run within about two miles of the Ouastonic River. And that in this belief he purchased of Metoxan, the Great Chief of all the Indian tribes in that region, 22,000 acres of land -- more than 7,000 acres of which the survey of the boundary line showed to be in Connecticut." The foregoing probably refers to the Little Nine Pardners tract for which a patent was issued on April 10, 1606 (hand written note: "1706?"), to Richard Sackett and associates, the larger section of which is to-day the most productive portion of Dutchess County, and contains some of the most valuable farms to be found in the State of New York. The records of Connecticut General Assembly, under date of May, 1705, contain the following minute: "Mr. Richard Sackett, of the Province of New York, petitions this Assembly for full liberty for himself and associates to get and transport all such timber of pine and spruce and whatever growing in this colony, that might be of use in furnishing his Majesty's navy, and that he might have a patent for the same. Referred to the next General Assembly to be holden at New Haven in October next." At said October session the above petition, having been modified by the insertion of certain limitations and conditions, was favorably considered, and a resolution ordering the issue of a patent accordingly was duly passed. 3
In the Census of the City of New York, taken about 1708, Richard Sackett is shown to have resided in the East Ward, and to have a household consisting of himself, his wife, four children (two sons and two daughters), and four negro slaves (three male and one female). In 1711 Mr. Sackett settled his family permanently in Dutchess County, building his residence about one mile south of the present village of Wassiac. French, in his "Gazetteer of New York." says that Richard Sackett purchased several large tracts of land of the Indians in Dutchess County and in Sharon, Connecticut. P. H. Smith, in his "History of Dutchess County." says that "at the time Richard Sackett established his family in Amenia there was not another white family nearer than Paughkeepsie. Woodbury and New Milford." In other words within a radius of fifteen miles. In same year, 1711, Governor Hunter, somewhat in opposition to the Lords of Trade, who favored another person, appointed Mr. Sackett superintendent of the manufacture of naval stores in the Province of New York, and subsequently of New Jersey also. This important position he filled acceptably throughout the term of office of Governor Hunter, who mentions him favorably in no less than twelve of his official reports to the Lords of Trade. In the first one of above mentioned reports Governor Hunter says: "I have provided another here by the name of Sackett, who hath lived three years in the Easterne Countries among the manufacturers of tar, and gives me a very rational account of the method of preparing the trees; I have also wrote to Connecticut for two more, who, as I am informed, understand ye matter very well." Mr. Sackett was also one of the presiding officers of the "Court over Palatines," appointed by "His Excellency, Brigadier Hunter, Captain-General and Governor-inChief," to manage the affairs of the several Palatine villages within his jurisdiction. The extraordinary powers conferred on this court are shown in the warrant creating it, which is recorded on page 669, Vol. III, Documentary History of New York, and reads as follows: To Robert Livingston, Richard Sackett, John Cast, Godfrey Wilson, Andrew Bagg and Herman Schumeman, Esqrs. and the officers commanding the detachment of soldiers at Manor Livingston for the time being: By virtue of powers to me granted by her Majesty's Patent, and her particular instructions with relation to the Palatines within the Province of New York, who by her Majesty's orders and their own contract are obliged to follow the manufacture of naval stores within the said Province, I do appoint you or any three of you (of which number Robert Livingston or Richard Sackett is always to be one), to be a court for regulating and forwarding the said work, with full power to take cognisance of all misdemeanors, disobedience, or other wilful transgressions in the said people to confinement or corporal punishment, not extending to life or mutilation. You are also hereby impowered to nominate to each village or settlement of the said Palatines a fit person for the head of the said village or settlement to whom all your orders are to be directed, and who is to see them put in execution, and in case of tumult, disobedience of any other mutinous proceeding as have already fallen out, the officer commanding the detachment now at Manor Livingston is to assist you, if need be, toward the suppressing the same, preserving the public peace and securing the delinquents, in order to their being brought to Royal and condign punishment, for all which this is your sufficient warrant. 4
Given at Manor Livingston this present 12th June 1711. R. Hunter In 1715, Richard Sackett was, on recommendation of Judge Leonard Lewis, made the first clerk of Dutchess County, which office he held until 1721. On Nov. 29, 1722, it is recorded that Richard Sackett petitioned the New York Assembly for "a warrant of survey, to run the north line of Madam Brett's patent, his land lying adjacent thereto (in Dutchess County)." In 1732 the General Assembly of Connecticut granted a charter to "The New London Society, United for Trade and Commerce," in which Richard Sackett is named as one of the incorporators. Among the acts passed by the New York Colonial Assembly at session of 1734-5, was one "For the partition and division of a certain tract of land in Dutchess County, granted to Rip Van Dam, Richard Sackett, and others." A full account of proceedings taken under this act, together with copies of official maps, showing the specific allotments in this thirty-five mile trace, may be found in the "History of Little Nine Partners," by Isaac Hunting, of Pine Plains, N.Y., issued from the press of Charles Walsh & Co., Amelia, N.Y., in 1897. Capt. Richard Sackett died at Wassaick in 1746, and is buried in a private plot on a small rise of ground on the original Sackett Homestead farm at that place. Van Alstine in his "Burying Grounds of Sharon & Vicinity," referring to this particular plot, says: "This is a small enclosure on the hillside above the steel works, on the old road, half way between South Amenia and Wassiack. Here was buried in 1746, Mr. Richard Sackett, the earliest settler of Anemia. The stone that marked the spot has long since disappeared. The whole place is shamefully neglected." The will of Capt. Sackett was probated April 28, 1746, and was recorded both at Albany and New York City. It reads as follows: In the name of God Amen. Dec. 14, 1744. I Richard Sackett, of Dover in Dutchess, County, yoeman, being sick ...... leave to my wife Margery all Household goods, and the use of my lot, house and Orchards, during her widowhood, and then to my son John Sackett. I leave to my oldest son Richard Sackett 200 acres of land above his equal share as oldest son. I leave to my wife 50 acres to be at her disposal. I leave to my son John after my wife's decease my house, homestead, orchards and meadows and all my books. I leave to my sone Josiah Crego, and to the heirs of my daughter Mary Dean deceased, and to my daughter Catherine during her widowhood, and to my sons Richard and John the whole of my remaining estate, each an equal part, and they are to pay equally in defending the title. I make my wife Margery and my sons Richard and John executors. The later years of the life of Capt. Sackett were attended with great annoyance occasioned by suits at law brought by persons claiming title to his estate, or the greater part of it, by virtue of grants or patents which it was claimed antedated those held by him.
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It should be noted here that the Palatine project produced not even one barrel of pine tar. In 1751 Richard Sackett (junior) sold the approximately 1245 acres of Lot 42, in six undivided shares, to Nicholas DeLavergne, Henry Filkin, Anthony Yelverton, Bartholomew Noxon, Clare Everitt and Leonard Van Kleek, all of Dutchess County, for 245 pounds. This deed (see appendix) refers to “tenements” on the property and specifically conveys water, timber and mineral rights to the purchasers. DeLavergne, Van Kleek, and Yelverton were all Poughkeepsie lawyers. Noxon is described as a staunch churchman of Poughkeepsie and his father was the Headmaster of Trinity School in New York City. Henry Filkin was at one time the High Sheriff of Dutchess County. Two years later Yelverton, Noxon and James G. Livingston (who seems to have acquired either DeLavergne’s or Van Kleek’s share) sold their 3/6 of Lot 42 to Cyrenius Newcomb—a Quaker whose family had come from Martha’s Vineyard by way of New London, Connecticut—for 65 pounds.
In 1756 Cyrenius sold this land to his younger brother Adonijah Newcomb, for 100 pounds. In March of 1761 Adonijah purchased the one-sixth shares belonging to Henry Filkin and Clare Everitt for 90 pounds each. Newcomb then sold the whole parcel to John Collin for 320 pounds. This deed refers to “the said Mefsuage (sic) or tenement and premifses (sic)…” According to oxforddictionaries.com “messuage” is a middle english term for “a dwelling house with outbuildings and lands assigned to its use”. 6
John Collin (1732-1809) and his wife Sarah Arnold came from Milford, Connecticut to settle in the area that was until 1818 referred to as North East. “At a meeting of the Freeholders and inhabitants of the North East precinct, Dutchess County, on Tuesday the 5th of April, 1774…John Collins, (was chosen) Collector of Quitrents.” In 1775, Collins was Captain of the Third Company of the North East Precinct. By 1788 John and Sarah Collins had moved north to Hillsdale. In 1789 John Collins held one year notes for brothers Joseph and John Crandall on two pieces of property, each described as a dwelling house and piece of land within Lot 42 of the Little Nine Partners Patent. Lot 42 measures approximately 2 miles north to south and 1 mile east to west. Joseph Crandall’s mortgage was in the amount of 125 pounds for property beginning at the southeast corner of Lot 42, proceeding 45 chains (.56 miles) southwest along the boundary of lot 42, then north west 21 chains (,26 miles), north east 45 chains (.56 miles), and then south east 21 chains along the east boundary of Lot 42. This seems to delineate a rectangular parcel half a mile by a quarter of a mile of land in the south east corner of Lot 42. John Crandall’s mortgage was in the amount of 109 pounds for a house and an irregular shaped parcel, described as follows: beginning at the northeast corner of Joseph Crandall’s land, thence south west 45 chains (.56 miles)…northwest 11 chains (.13 miles)…northeast 16 chains (.2 miles)…northwest 16 chains (.2 miles)…northeast 29 chains (.36 miles)…southeast 27 chains (.33 miles) along the east side of Lot 42 to the place of beginning. In 1815, John Crandall, Sr. sold “one equal undivided half part of that tract or farm of land upon which the said parties now reside” to his son, John, Jr. for $1500. This deed references the deed from John Collin to John Crandall dated 13 February, 1789, but this deed has not been found. John Crandall, Jr died one year later and his father passed away in 1824. Their farm had remained undivided, but one equal half share was owned by one David Brownell of Pittstown, Rensselaer County. Josiah Hedges of nearby Mount Ross purchased both halves of the hundred acre John Crandall property in 1825 and sold them to Isaac Smith. Smith acquired the David 7
Carpenter farm, and other adjoining property. It seems that Smith must have sold off the north portions to the Pelham and Cornelius families, but no record of that transaction has been found. The US Census records have the family of Jesse Pelham (b. 1787) settled in the neighborhood of Woody Row from the 1820s until the early 1850s. Their son Daniel had a cooper shop at the southwest corner of Woody Row, two sons: James and Stewart were laborers, and their son Griffin was a teacher, most likely at the school located at the north end of North Road. It is not clear however where Jesse Pelham’s residence was.
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The dot indicating a structure between J. Pelham and E.N. Case on the 1850 map is likely the house of Carman Cornelius, who appears on the 1858 map in that location. The Cornelius family were Quakers who had come from Long Island. There were several Corneliuses in the neighborhood; William, Carman, Jeptha, Gideon and Mott. Other Quaker families on Academy Hill were the Hoags, Wilburs, and Carmans. Carman Cornelius was an itinerant carpenter. He owned the property that included 430 Academy Hill by 1833 and appears in the US Census records in Milan for 1830 and 1840. In 1850 the
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details of his farm are listed in the agricultural schedule but he and his wife Susan and their children were, according to the Census, living in Brooklyn where Carman’s occupation is “house carpenter”. By 1858 the family was back in Milan, Carman Cornelius is on record as having been the builder of the Pine Plains Union Free Church in that year. By 1861 the property on Academy Hill had been subdivided and the subject property arrived in the hands of John I. and Emaline Kilmer who lived to the north on Milan Hill on the 1858 map. In February of 1861, the Kilmers sold the now 28 acres parcel for $1200 to Isaac Crandall, grandson of John Crandall who had purchased the larger property from John Collin in 1789. Isaac Crandall and his wife Catherine (Knickerbocker) sold the property in 1866 to Matthias and Mary Wertz for $1300. The Crandall’s held a mortgage for $950 at 6% interest. (108:398 mortgages) “A. Haines” is in the house in question on a 1867 map, but he does not appear on the 1870 Census. A William Haines owned the property of “J.W. Cornelius” prior to 1853 , perhaps this is a relative. “M. Werts is listed on the 1876 map, but there is no record of the family in the 1870 Census, or of the property in the Agricultural Schedule for that year. In 1885 Thaddeus Knickerbocker, the postmaster at Bangall and perhaps a relative of Catherine Knickerbocker 1876 Crandall’s, takes legal action against Sarah A. Kilmer, John J. Kilmer, Matthias Werts and Caroline Hutchins and the house is sold at auction to Mary Sleight of Poughkeepsie. Caroline Hutchins holds a mortgage for $350 at 5 %.
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In 1900 Mary (Sleight) Goodsell purchased the house again at auction, apparently having defaulted on the loan. 189:386 mortgages It was then sold in 1911 to George F. Owen and his wife Lula. 371:185 Andrew and Minnie Johnson, formerly of Waterbury, CT purchased the property in 1917 for $500. Charles and Rosa Boettcher of 1603 Lexington Ave, Manhattan became the owners in 1930. Felix and Marie Trost of New Rochelle purchased the 28 acre parcel in 1932 and subdivided it, selling 1.34 acres in 1952 and 22 acres in 1957. Oswald and Alice Stippa formerly of Noxon Road, Poughkeepsie acquired the property in 1963. Diane M. and James W. Goetz of Brooklyn purchased the approximately 3.8 acre property on June 19, 1981.
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Architectural Observations
The Newcomb/Collins/Crandall/Goetz house is a classic example of the Hudson Valley vernacular style. Several campaigns of renovation and the hybrid of Dutch, German and English architecture commonly found in this area are on display here. The stone foundation of the original mid-18th century structure is 12’ x 24’ (inside dimensions) with walls 2 feet thick. The second structure on the site, was a seven-bent Dutch-style building, as evidenced by visible marriage marks (photo 1) on the posts and top plate in the north bedrooms, but it appears to have been constructed as a saltbox, a New England form. The posts on the south side extend about 18 inches above the anchor beams and have a vertical groove to accept the local variant of wattle and daub matrix. The posts and anchor beams appear to be chestnut.
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From the outside the house looks like a typical five-fenestration bay, 1 1/2 story house, but the seven-bent structure starts to the west of the front door and continues east to the kitchen addition. The west end of the house, consisting of an additional three bents, was added on at an early date. Likely in the late 18th or early 19th century. It is also possible that both were freestanding structures moved from elsewhere and joined together.
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In the living room (west parlor) the first anchor beam in from the hall has many empty mortises, which show that this was an end wall. Additionally, in the attic and in the north closet of the upstairs bedroom the differences in framing heights and materials confirm this supposition.
In the bedrooms on the north side, where crossties are visible, they show evidence of being reused material. They are finished smooth and have a quirked bead at the bottom edge which means that they were meant to be exposed in their first incarnation, likely in the 18th century. They are crudely split and have nail holes and plaster marks indicating that when they were put up, they were never intended to be seen. (photo 2) The easternmost anchor beam in the dining room has significant fire damage, and the next beam to the west has empty mortises for studs and knee braces, and has clearly had several inches cut off along the bottom. (photo 3) This hints at the possibility that this beam was reused from another building, perhaps as a result of the fire. Along with the framing, the door to the upstairs is very old. It is a true raised panel door that has been cut down to fit (photo 4). photo 2
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The west end mantle, with extravagant reeding, likely dates to the late 18th or early 19th century (photo 5). It is not clear where this mantle came from, as the chimney is relatively new, and the 1970s Ossie Stippa drawing shows no chimney at that end of the house. It may have come from somewhere else in the house. The stairs are very steep with a rise of 8� and 9� treads and probably date to the campaign of renovation that added the west end of the house. 20th century alterations have covered up clues that later explorations may reveal.
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Conclusion The neighborhood at the top of Academy Hill Road began to be settled in the late 1750s, early 1760s. It was a popular area for Quakers. As evidenced by the prevalence of the names Knickerbocker, Kilmer, Mott, Wilbur, Cornelius, Carman and Crandall (all used as both first and last names), it is clear that the families were all closely related. The parcels of land, specifically between Academy HIll and North Road, were subdivided and reassembled several times before being broken up for good in the mid to late 19th century. It is impossible to know for certain if this is the messuage referred to in the 1761 deed from Adonijah Newcomb to John Collin, but the architectural clues suggest that the original house on the site could be of that vintage. The seven-bent saltbox structure that now stands on the old foundation, and over the crawlspace to the west could have been standing by the time that John Crandall took possession of the property in 1789. Since Carman Cornelius, a house carpenter, was a verifiable owner and tenant of the house during some part of the years between 1830 and 1865, it is interesting to ponder what might have been his contributions to the structure.
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Deed History 19 June 1981 James and Diane Goetz from Alice Stippa 59:646 “adjoining lands of Ephraim Case/Jeptha Cornelius/John Myers/Henry Wilbur…surveyed October 12, 1859 by Andrew L. Martin…28 acres 3 roods and 19 perches…) 1 April 1981 Alice Stippa from Oswald and Alice Stippa 21 October 1963 Oswald and Alice Stippa (Noxon Rd.) from Marie Trost 1112:238 11 August 1960 easement given to Central Hudson by Marie Trost 1034:562 Property (west side of the road) subdivided as follows: 9 August 1957 to Hortense M. Joyce. Book 950 Page 435. 22 acres. 15 September 1952 to Nat Franklin Taylor. Book 812 Page 122. 1.34 acres 18 May 1949 Felix and Marie Trost from Felix and Marie Trost 717:578. 17 October 1932 Felix Trost (New Rochelle) from Charles and Rosa Boettcher 527:205 29 March 1930 Charles and Rosa Boettcher (1063 Lexington Ave. Manhattan) from Andrew and Minnie Johnson 505:302 1 June 1917 Andrew Johnson (Waterbury, CT) from Owen (George F. and Lula S.) Book 401 Page 36 20 September 1915 George F. and Lula S. Owen from George F. and Lula S. Owen 290:505 1911 Mary Sleight Goodsell to George F. Owen 371:185 1 January 1900 AUCTION George Overocker-referee to Mary A. Goodsell, nee Sleight Synopsis: Liber 189 Page 386 of Mortgages Caroline Hutchins held a note 3 January 1885 for Mary A. Goodsell, nee Sleight. But then the property was sold at public auction “at the east front door of the Court House in the City of Poughkeepsie” to the highest bidder—Mary A. Goodsell—for $350. 3 January 1885 Caroline Hutchins to Mary A. Sleight for $350—holding the note for two years at 5% AND provide proof of fire insurance on the buildings on the property. 3 January 1885 AUCTION Charles N. Goodsell-referee to Caroline Hutchins Synopsis: Supreme Court at Poughkeepsie action 10 October 1884, Thaddeus Knickerbocker vs. Sarah A. Killmer, John J. Killmer, Matthias Werts and Caroline Hutchins. Matthias Werts and his wife, Mary, gave a mortgage to Isaac Crandall (Liber 108 Page 396 of Mortgages). 2 December 1884 the property was sold at auction to Caroline Hutchins for $1001. 24 March 1866 Isaac and Catherine Crandall $950 mortgage to Matthias and Mary Wertz— holding the note at 6%. $50 per year with a balloon after 4 years with the interest.
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24 March 1866 Isaac and Catherine (Knickerbocker) Crandall sell TO Matthias and Mary Wertz for $1300 21 February 1861 John I. and Emaline Kilmer to Isaac Crandall for $1200 119:321 Crandalls lived farther south on Academy Hill Carman Cornelius to John I. Kilmer after 1858 Josiah Hedges to Isaac Smith to Carman Cornelius prior to 1833 6 July 1825 executors of John Crandall, Sr (d.1824) to Josiah Hedges reference to Collins/ Crandall deed “part of Lot 42” 100 acres 34:128 6 July 1825 David Brownell (Pittstown) to Josiah Hedges- John Crandall, Jr’s half 34:122 7 June 1815 John Crandall, Sr to John Crandall, Jr (d. 1816 wife is Hannah Brownell; “one equal undivided half part of that tract or farm of land upon which the said parties now reside” reference to Collins deed 100 acres 27:231 6 March 1789 Mortgage John Collins to John Crandall dwelling house and 100 acres North of Joseph Crandall $125 liber (mortgages) 5: 393 6 March 1789 Mortgage to Joseph Crandall dwelling house and 100 acres $109 liber (mortgages) 5: 392 13 Feb 1789 John Collin and Sarah to John Crandall, Sr. 100 acres (“messuages, buildings…) MENTIONED IN 1815 DEED, NO RECORD OF COLLIN TO CRANDALL DEED 28 March 1761 Adonijah Newcomb to John Collin 320 pounds liber 5: 66 8 March 1761 Henry Filkin to Adonijah Newcomb 1/6 undivided part of 1235 acres 90 pounds liber 5: 73 6 March 1761 Clare Everitt to Adonijah Newcomb 1/6 undivided part of 1235 acres 90 pounds 1 October 1756 Cyrenius Newcomb to Adonijah Newcomb 3/6 of undivided Lot 42 100 pounds liber 3: 458 27 January 1753 Anthony Yelverton, Bartholomew Noxon, James G. Livingston to Cyrenius Newcomb 3/6 undivided part of 1235 acres 65 pounds liber 3: 455 3 August 1751 Richard Sackett, Jr to Nicholas DeLavergne, Anthony Yelverton, Bartholomew Noxon, Clare Everitt, Leonard Van Kleek Lot 42 (1235 acres) 245 pounds Liber 2: 358 1744 Division of Upper Nine Partners Patent Lot 42 to Richard Sackett liber 2: 54
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Milan tornado June 3, 1837
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