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HISTORICAL NOTES
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IN COMMEMORATION OF THE BELATED
CENTENARY ANNIVERSARY
OF THE
CONSECRATION OF THE FIRST PARISH CHURCH
OCTOBER, 10, 1811
PRIVATELY PUBLISHED
The a. V. Haight Company
POCGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.
1913
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FOREWORD
SO very many persons have willingly aided in this com-
pilation that it seems best to omit all names of those
to whom our thanks are due, except those of Dr.
Ashton, who prepared most of the historical sketch of the par-
ish in anticipation of the Centenary, and of Mrs. George
Crapser Briggs, who served many hours as amanuensis.
Also as this booklet is but a compilation for the preserving
in convenient form of historical data of interest, sources of
such data have been freely drawn upon without acknowledg-
ment, or the use of quotation marks.
E. P. Newton.
Hyde Park
February, 1913.
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HISTORICAL NOTES OF SAINT
JAMES PARISH
HYDE PARK-ON-HUDSON NEW YORK
FOR its first foundation the parish is indebted to the
zeal and liberaHty of Samuel Bard, M.D., LL.D., Presi-
dent of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New
York City, seconded by the efforts of General ^Morgan Lewis,
sometime Governor of the State, and a son of Francis Lewis,
one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, with
the cooperation of Judge Nathaniel Pendleton, of Judge
John Johnston, and others. Dr. Bard's biographer says: "In
the year 1811, circumstances favoring its establishment, the
church of Saint James at Hyde Park was erected, of which
Dr. Bard was the founder, a term of distinction, not perhaps,
strictly applicable, but morally just, as being the individual
to whose unwearied exertions, and superior liberality, its suc-
cess is to be attributed." Of his gifts for this enterprise he
was wont to say "No equal expenditure of money has ever
yielded me so large an interest."
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Historical N ote s of
The names of the contributors to the building fund are
herewith given.
SUBSCRIPTION LIST
(See plates following page 16 for reproduction of original paper.)
THE NAMES HAVE BEEN KEORDERED ALPHABETICALLY
We, the Subscribers, promise to contribute towards Building
an Episcopal Church at Hyde Park, in Duchess County, the
sums of money, services, etc., annexed to our names.
Ames, Henry-
Bard, William
Bard, Samuel
Bard, Sarah
Barton, Sarah (de Normandie)
Aunt to Mrs. Samuel Bard
Brahman, Cyrus
Broome, William
Bush, Jacob
Cruger, Henry
De Cantillon, Richard
De Cantillon, Tobias
Duer, William, Alexander
Dutton, Titus
Gillespie, George de Normandie
Gillies, David G.
Hedding, Samuel
Hughes, Christopher, 2d
Hutchins, Baron Steuben
Hyde, Christopher
Hyde, Lemuel
Johnston, John
Lewis, Morgan*
Livingston, James Duane
These persons contributed a sum total of $2,576.75, which
left a deficit of about $125.00 on the bills for construction.
This was promptly raised and the building was clear of in-
cumbrance, ready for Consecration.
The first building was of brick and stone, stuccoed and paint-
ed yellow, with a short square battlemented tower at the west
*General Lewis, in addition to his cash subscription conveyed the title
to a pew in old Saint Pauls Church, New York.
McClelland, Alexander
McVickar, John
Mead, Samuel
Muirson, Magdalena (Bard)
Sister to Dr. Samuel Bard
Mulford, David
Pendleton, Nathaniel
Phillips, Andrew
Post, Jotham
Progue, George
Ring, Louis
Robinson, Samuel
Russell, Isaac
Rymph, John
Selkrigg, John
Sherrill, Hunting
Spencer, Reuben
Stevenson, Timothy
Stoutenburgh, Isaac
Stoutenburgh, Tobias L.
Whiley, R.
Wickes, Silas
Wright, L.
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S. James Church 5
end. The walls within were whitewashed, and there were
three windows on either side of the church, filled with small
diamond panes of clear glass, no stained glass having been
used in this old building. Two of these windows remain in the
present church near the door. There was one aisle, six feet
wide, marbled in blocks. Sometime later through the influence
of Dr. Hosack, who bought "Hyde Park" in 1826, the pews
were rearranged and two aisles made, which is shown in our
cut, reproducing a paper dated 1837.* The chancel was one
step higher than the floor, and was furnished, after the manner
of that day, now happily forgotten except by some older mem-
bers of this generation, with "the triple decker," a high pulpit
reached by stairways on either side, a reading desk in front
below it on the second level, and still below, the communion
table. The kneeling cushions, hangings and altar cloth were
all of crimson damask. The west end organ loft, where was a
small melodeon loaned by Miss Johnston, who herself volun-
teered to serve as organist, was reached by a stairway from the
vestibule to the tower.
The church was heated by two wood stoves at either end of
the building, the pipes of which ran into huge drums supported
on iron rods fastened upon the tops of the pews.
Such is the quaint picture of Saint James Church as it stood
when consecrated, and as it appears in our photograph taken
years later with the changes of time apparent in the growth
of trees and other features of the surroundings.
On Thursday, October 10, 1811, t TheRt. Rev. John Henry
Hobart, D.D., Bishop of New York, consecrated the church
♦See among plates following page 16.
fXoTE — On assuming duty as Rector of the parish I read
the article in the Poughkeepsie Courier of October 8, 19 H,
which states that the Consecration took place on Oct. H, 1811,
and Dr. McVickar's Ordination on the 13. This statement,
I learn, was based on some notes of 1870, or thereabouts, and I
accepted it as fact, and the Anniversary was observed on those
dates October H, and 13, 19H — happily so observed as it gave
a Saturday and Sunday for the celebration. Delving over
parish archives in preparation for this book. Bishop Hobart's
letter of Consecration, which follows, was brought to light
and the first intimation of an error gained.
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building, and upon the following day, Friday, the eleventh, he
Ordered Deacon, in the new church, John McVickar, son-in-
law of Dr. Bard, who became the first minister of the congrega-
tion. His salary of two hundred and fifty dollars was appar-
ently paid in a lump sum on January first.
"Be it known that I, John Henry Hobart, D.D., Bishop
Assistant of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the State
of New York, have, on this tenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eleven,
duly consecrated a building erected at Hyde Park, in the
town of Clinton and County of Dutchess, by the name of
S. James Church; separating it henceforth from all un-
hallowed, ordinary and common uses, and dedicating it to
the service of Almighty God, for reading His holy word,
for celebrating His holy sacraments, for offering to His
glorious majesty the sacrifices of prayer and thanksgiving,
for blessing the people in His name, and for the perform-
ance of all other holy offices; according to the use of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of
America.
In witness whereof, I have hereunder subscribed my hand
tliis 10th day of October, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and eleven."
John Henry Hobart,
Bishop Assistant of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in the State of New York.
The following contemporary evidence from The Church-
man's Magazine for October, 1811, p 337, confirms the letter:
"On Thursday, the tenth of October, the Church lately erect-
ed at Hyde-Park, near Poughkeepsie, the residence of Dr. Sam-
uel Bard, was consecrated by the name of Saint James Church.
The service of consecration was performed by the Right Rev.
Bishop Hobart; after which morning prayer was read by the
Rev. Mr. Prentis, of Athens, and a sermon preached by the
Rev. Mr. Reed, of Poughkeepsie. This Church is a stone
edifice, fifty by thirty feet on the inside; it is unusually neat
and simple in its appearance, and does great credit to the taste
and zeal of the families at whose expense it has been erected.
The succeeding day, October eleventh, there was divine ser-
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Prior to this time those who fornu-d the new eon<^re«i;ation
were eoniiminicunts in ohi Christ Church, rou<,'hkeepsie, and
at the date of its orpmization it was the only parish on the
east hank of the Hudson for a considerable distance above
Poughkeepsie. There were sixteen resident communicants
before the establishment of the j)arish, to wit:
Saimu'l Banl Mary (Bunl) Bard
John Joliiistou Magdak'iia (Bard) Muirson
William Bard Catharine (Crugor) Banl
Patrick Macartney Susan (Bard) Pendleton
Sarah (de Norniandie) Barton Nancy (Bard) Pierce
Susan (Bard) Johnston Betsy Macartney
Sarah Bard Gertrude (Livinf^stou) Lewis
Eliza (Bard) McVickar Margaret (Lewis) Livingston
These formed a considerable nucleus for the development
of parochial life.
On Wednesday, September 7, 1814, Bishop Hobart, Insti-
tuted as Rector, the Rev. John McVickar, and confirmed twen-
ty-eight persons. In 1817 thirty-one were confirmed, and in
1819 thirty-three, so increasing the roll of communicants in
the parish. Parochial growth was steady and wholesome.
The first steps were taken before any formal parochial or-
ganization was made. Upon Easter Monday, March 30,
1812, the first official meeting of the congregation was held,
when "It was unanimously resolved that Saint James Church
at Hyde Park should be the name by which the said church or
Congregation should in future be known in law". The ques-
tion has sometimes been raised whether the dedication were to
Saint James, the son of Zebedee, or to Saint James the Less;
whether the artist who designed the chancel window, and gave
to the figured saint a club, which is the symbol of the latter,
vice and a sermon in the Church, and an ordination, when Mr.
John Mc\'ickar. jun., was admitted by the Bishop to the holy
order of Deacons."
In the "Life of John McVickar" the error in the date of the
consecration is also fonnd, and to this source may possibly be
traced the mistake of 1870. which we unwittingly continued.
E. P. Newton.
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did so under instruction or of his own artistic choice. The
following statement seems conclusive "He (Dr. Bard) looked
upon Christianity as a living fountain of good works, and se-
lected the name of Saint James for that of the church he found-
ed, in reference to the great practical principle that Evange-
list lays down, that 'faith without words is dead'."
At this meeting the following persons were unanimously
elected as Church Wardens and Vestrymen.
Samuel Bard ] „, ,
- , T f Wardens
Morgan Lewis J
John Johnston
Nathaniel Pendleton
William Broome
William Bard i v t
Christopher Hughes, 2d ^
James Duane Livingston
Titus Dutton
William Alexander Duer
The parish was admitted into union with the Convention of
the Diocese of New York on October 6, 1812; Dr. Samuel
Bard and Nathaniel Pendleton being its first lay delegates.
Dr. McVickar resigned November 10, 1817, to accept a
Professorship in Columbia College.
On June 5, 1818, the Rev. David Brown was elected to suc-
ceed Dr. McVickar as rector. He was instituted October 14,
1819, and resigned in February 1823. In 1820 the flagon,
chalice and patten, which are still in use for the Holy Commu-
nion, were presented by the women of the parish, and in 1826
the congregation gave the silver alms basin.
On February 2, 1824, the Rev. Samuel Roosevelt Johnson,
then a deacon, was elected to minister to the congregation, and
by this act of its vestry Saint James became the first parish
of one of the saints of the American Church. He was ordained
priest by Bishop Hobart in Saint James Church, August 1,
1827, and thereupon became rector. He resigned the rector-
ship on October 10, 1833.
S. J a m e s C h u r ch 9
The first Sunday school records whicli have been preserved
are of this period, and show an interest and activity which may
well quicken the spirit of emulation in parishioners today.
(See A])pendix.)
The following account of the Sunday school is given during
those years of Dr. Johnson's administration:
"The Sunday school was kept from May to November, com-
mencing at 3 p. m., continuing until 5 p. m., when it was fol-
lowed by the afternoon service and sermon."
About this time Dr. Hosack presented to the church a silver
baptismal bowl, which it was the custom to stand upon the
altar rail. When a marble font was presented to the church
in 1840, this silver bowl was converted into a second chalice
to correspond with the one given in 18^20.
About the year 1832, Dr. Johnson caused a school house to
be erected in the village, about three-fourths of a mile from the
parish church, and in April, 1834, he presented the building and
the lot on which it stood to the parish, and this, as we shall
see, became the site of the present chapel. Miss Susan Mary
Bard, who died in 1831, left in trust two thousand dollars, the
interest of which was to be paid to the rector towards the
maintenance of an infant school which was held here for many
years.
In June, 1835, the first rectory of S. James was built, ad-
joining the church.
Dr. McVickar made his home on his private estate on tiie
river bank, having })uilt a home for his bride, Eliza Bard, which
was styled "Inwood" (now the home of Hon. F. G. Landon,
which he has called "Mansewood" in commemoration of the
fact that it was the residence of the first rector). Later he
occupied a cottage opposite the church.
Dr. Brown, during his rectorship, was also a professor at
Dr. Benjamin Allen's Classical School, which stood south of
the village, on ground now owned by Mr. Archibald Rogers, and
made his home there.
Dr. Johnson lived at Red House, which was built by Dr.
John Bard, father of Samuel, and stood in the meadow just
north of the church. Tliis house was recently torn down.
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The rectory was built for the Rev. Reuben Sherwood, D.D.,
who entered upon his duties as rector on Easter Sunday, 1835,
and remained in that office until his death, Whitsunday, 1856.
It stood north of and facing the church, with the gable end
towards Albany avenue, or Broadway.
In 1839 Judge John Johnston gave the parish a folio edition
of the Prayer Book "Printed by Hugh Gaine, at the Bible,
Hanover Square, by direction of the General Convention of
1789"; and a folio Lectern Bible which has been in use until
the present date, and from it future rectors, yet unborn, may
read in years to come, as it shows today very few signs of age.
The Prayer Book is brought out and used on notable occa-
sions.
In 1840 the parish received a gift of the marble font which
bears the inscription, "The Eighth National Guard of the
City of New York, H. C. Shumway, Commanding, to the Con-
gregation of Saint James Church, Hyde Park, in Commemora-
tion of their visit July 4th, 1840", and in notes to a sermon
preached from 1 Tim. 6:12, by Dr. Sherwood before the com-
pany on Sunday, July 5, is found the statement "Mr. R. E.
Launitz, the artist, preceded with the font one day the com-
pany, and with a zeal surpassed only by his skill set it himself
in its present place." In the archives of the parish is preserved
this letter:
New York, June 30th, 1840.
To the Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen of
S. James Church, Hyde Park.
Gentlemen: The members of the 8th National Guard of
this city, ever mindful of past favors, and who are as ready to
give as they are to receive, have unanimously agreed to pre-
sent, through you, to the congregation of S. James Church a
Baptismal Font, as a slight testimonial of their esteem for the
inhabitants of your place generally, and in commemoration of
their third visit to your hospitable town, on the anniversary
of our nation's birthday. The undersigned therefore, being
THE OLD RECTORY,
SAINT MARGARETS Clll R( II, STAATSIR RMI.
S. J a me s C Ii u r c h 11
constituted ii committee, on beluilf of the company, to carry
out their design, respectfully tender to your congregation the
accompanying Baptismal Font to be placed in S. James
Church, Hyde Park, and ask your acceptance of the same.
Yours respectfully,
H. C. Shumway
John 0km lnd
AVm. a. Darling
Henry Beers
Horatio N. Squire
RoBT. E. Launitz
P. Crerar
Mr. B. B. Dobl)s remembers as a boy attending a target
contest during the encampment, and seeing Dr. Sherwood
present to the winner a new musket.
Colonel Daniel Appleton in a letter dated New York, No-
vember 20, Idhl, states that "Company H, or the Eighth
Company (7th Regiment N. G. N. Y.) has had a continuous
existence since 18'-26, and became the Eighth Company when
mustered in the "ilih Regiment now the Seventh". From the
records of the 7th Regiment he quotes: "In 1837 the Eighth
Company visited Hyde Park on July 15 and spent a pleas-
ant week in that delightful locality. During that time it
visited Poughkeepsie by invitation, and was hospitably enter-
tained by the military and citizens of that place; and in 1840
on the afternoon of July 4, the Eighth Company visited Hyde
Park for pleasure and military improvement. Willi a daily
drill, occasional target practice, rides and rambles through the
surrounding country, and an interchange of hosj)italities with
the people of the vicinity, the week passed pleasantly at Hyde
Park. The company presented to the church at that place
an elegant marble font, as a token of its ajjpreciation of the
uniform kindness wliicli the ])eople of that delightful locality
had extended to its ofiicers and meml)ers on this and on for-
mer occasions."
In 1843 it was found tli;il the cliurch needeil a new roof and
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other repairs. Upon examination, it was discovered that the
walls were unsafe, and a committee, appointed to report, ad-
vised taking the building down and erecting a new one.
Therefore, a new and enlarged church was built on the site
of the old one in 1844, half of the expense being borne by Mr.
Augustus Thomas Cowman, who therefore, at this time, ser-
ved the parish much as Dr. Bard did at its founding, with de-
voted zeal and liberality, personally superintending the work.
Mr. Cowman made a trip to Europe, which was not the simple
matter in 1843 that it is today, to study church architecture
in preparation for the contemplated work.
During the process of building, services were held in the
rectory.
It was at this time (1844) that the Gothic revival was at
its height in this country, and the black walnut ceiling with
open timbered roof, is one of the finest specimens extant of
that work in America.
Mrs. Curtis gave two stained glass windows, not memorials,
at the time of this rebuilding, and the plain red, yellow and
purple stained glass, which was used for the other windows,
was some left over from the windows of the Church of the As-
cension, New York city, and was given by that church to S.
James. Two of these now remain, the others having been
displaced by memorial windows.
The new edifice, barring some of its furnishings and deco-
rations, was completed as we see it today, and services held
in it the last of November, 1844. It was said at this time
that there were twenty more families in the parish than the
church could hold. It was consecrated by Bishop DeLan-
cey, of Western New York, on the Feast of Saint Michael
and All Angels, September 29, 1846.
The striking feature of Dr. Sherwood's rectorhip is the mis-
sionary spirit. It was manifested in the organization of the
church of the Holy Apostles, Clinton, ten miles northeast of
Hyde Park, and his labours there brought into the ministry
of the Church the Rev. Albert D. Traver, who was successively
Assistant Minister in All Saints Church, New York; Mission-
ary at Esopus, Ulster County; and at Clinton, Duchess Coun-
INTKRIOK OK S. .lAMKS ( lirK< II. 1-tH.
S. J a m e s Church 13
ty, and from 1846 to 186C a devoted and I)eloved Rector of
S. Pauls Church, Poughkeepsic. Dr. Sherwood also conduct-
ed evening services in Staatsburgh, four miles north of Hyde
Park, in the home of Isaac Russell, the postmaster. Later the
waiting-room of the railway station was used.
In I808 the frame chapel in Staatsburg, originally used by
any body of Christians, was built through the liberality of
Mrs. Margaret (Lewis) Livingston, and others.
On Thursday, February 10, 1848, by invitation of Dr. Sher-
wood, there met in the old rectory seven of the clergy, who "did
then and there, taking into consideration the state of the
Church in Duchess County, resolve themselves into a meeting
for extending the influence of the Church", and the Archdea-
conry of Duchess was born.
The Rev. Horace Stringfcllow succeeded Dr. Sherwood in
1856. His rectorship covered a period of less than four years;
but in that time Saint James Chapel was built on the school
lot given by Dr. Johnson, adjoining the school building. One
writes: "I remember that my mother was much interested in
the Chapel in Hyde Park to which she regularly walked every
Sunday afternoon, with her three children ahead of her, and
this after attending the morning service at the church. Those
were good old days, when the Sundays were not kept as they
are now, and I look back on them with affection."
The school building became a Sunday school and guild
room, and a free reading room, in which is quartered a circula-
ting library free to all village folk. The reading room was sup-
ported for many years by Mr. Walter Langdon, Jr., and is now
maintained by Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt, wliile the library
has Mrs. James Roosevelt for its patron.
On August 1, 1860, the Rev. James S. Purdy, D.D., became
rector. His first wife was Miss Susan Bard Johnson, the
daughter of a former rector, connected by blood with the early
families, which made the choice doubly a happy one. He re-
signed September 30, 1876, because of ill health. In 1871 the
stone font was set up in the chapel, and in 1874 the brass eagle
lectern was given to the church and, presumably, also at this
time the white marble altar, gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
14 Historical Notes of
Langdon, Jr., who also bore the expense of redecorating the
church, and recarpeted church and vestry room on the occasion
of the wedding of a niece Miss Emily A.Kane to Augustus Jay,
October 3, 1876. One volume of vestry records has been lost
which makes accurate statement difficult. It is interesting to
note that the carpets served for thirty-six years, until Mr. and
Mrs. Archibald Rogers laid new ones for the wedding of a
daughter Miss Ellen Habersham Rogers to Kenneth Baker
Schley, June 8, 1912.
Another item of interest is the following note from vestry
records of April 14, 1896 "Thanks of the Vestry were extended
totheRev. Dr. Greerforhisdonation of hassocksforthe church."
S. Bartholomews was doubtless getting new ones. They are
still in use and serviceable.
The Rev. Philander Kinney Cady followed Dr. Purdy,
having been instituted as rector October 1, 1876, and serving
the parish until 1887.
The work in Staatsburgh having grown, it became necessary
to have a curate in charge thereof, and the Rev. Charles Lancas-
ter Short was the first, serving from June, 1876, to June, 1880.
He was followed by the Rev. Francis J. Clayton, July, 1880,
until December, 1881, when the Rev. George W. Sinclair Ayres
(now Archdeacon of Buffalo), took up the work on January 1,
1882, continuing therein until January, 1884. It was during
Mr. Ayres' ministry that the mission was organized as a parish
on April 15, 1882, and called Saint Margarets Church.
The frame chapel built in 1858 was consecrated April 24,
1882, by the Rt. Rev. Horatio Potter, D.D., Bishop of the
Diocese, Dr. Cady preaching the sermon; and the parish was
admitted into union with the Diocesan Convention in Septem-
ber of that year.
The rectors of this flourishing daughter of Saint James have
been.
The Rev. Thomas Lafayette Cole, 1884-89 and 1898-1902.
The Rev. Pierre McDonald Bleecker, 1889-1897.
The Rev. Charles Henry Duncan, 1902, and still incumbent.
The cornerstone of the new stone church was laid by the
Rt. Rev. Henry Codman Potter, D.D., on May 27, 1891; and
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S. James Church 15
the frame })uilclinfj; lias ])een converted into a reading room for
general use of the village. The new church was consecrated
October 4, 1898, by Bishop Potter.
During Dr. Cady's rectorate the beautiful Lych Gate,
copied from one at Saint Marys Church near Torquay, England,
was erected attheentrance to the grounds of Saint JamesChapel.
In 1885 organs were given by Mr. Walter Langdon for both
chapel and church, the latter being in memory of his wife,
Catherine Livingston.
In 1887 the Rev. Richmond Herbert Gesner became rector
and after a ministry of three years he was succeeded by the
Rev. Amos Turner Ashton, who remained in office from August
2, 1891, till the time of his death, Epiphany, 1911.
The "old rectory," as it is always familiarly called, was in
such serious condition at the time of Dr. Ashton's election,
that the new rector took up his residence in the Livingston
house on Park Place — a fine old colonial house with extensive
grounds.
This house was bought chiefly through the generosity of
Messrs. Archibald Rogers and Elbridge T. Gerry, vestrymen,
in 1895, and is the present rectory, the old one having been torn
down in April, 1893.
In 1894 cellars were dug under both chapel and reading room
proper foundations laid, and the property generally renovated
at considerable expense. Dr. Ashton took an active part in
missionary and diocesan affairs, so that the influence of his
ability and character were far reaching. No mention has
been made of the good done by the wives and families of the
rectors, and yet the part played in the homes of the village
in kind ministry of cheer and comfort and help of such women
as Mrs. Ashton, Miss Purdy, the second Mrs Purdy, Miss
Sherwood and others has been a large factor in parish life
SOME STATISTICS
from October, 1811, to October, 1911.
Baptisms 1605
Confirmations 749
Marriages 189
Burials 944
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The first Baptism is that of Sarah Barton,* infant daughter
of John de Normandie and Susan Maria (Bedford) Gillespie.
Among the early records it is interesting to note the number
of slaves baptized, most of the old families in 1811 and the
following years owning slaves, and their emancipation coming
gradually.! These freedmen have all moved away.
It is exceedingly diflBcult to gauge spiritual forces. How
great a part the church, its ministries and Sacraments played
in the moulding of life and character during the hundred years
past, and what influence those lives and characters exerted in
the affairs of town, and county, and state and nation we
may not specifically and confidently affirm, but our confidence
that they were manifold and great is none the less sure. It
would be an interesting study to follow the lives of those bap-
tized and given Christian nurture in Saint James parish, and
to note their fruits. This work the angels of God have done,
and we must rest in the hope of knowing something of it after
death.
*Slie was an elder sister of the Rt. Rev. George de Norman-
die Gillespie, the first Bishop of the diocese of Western Michi-
gan. The Bard and de Normandie families in the genera-
tion of the parents of Dr. Samuel and Mrs. Bard were doubly
related a brother and sister marrying sister and brother. The
babe was named for a great-great aunt Sarah de Normandie
who married the Rev. Mr. Barton, who in later life lived with
Dr. Bard. She married Oswald Cammann of New York.
fNoTE — In looking up the question of slavery in the State
of New York I find that slaves were recognized by law in New
Y'^ork in 1656, and that along about the time of the Revolution
societies were formed for the purpose of improving the con-
dition of the slaves. New York had such a society, with John
Jay as its first president, and Alexander Hamilton was its sec-
ond president. These societies succeeded in suppressing the
slave trade from 1808, but New York had started a gradual
abolition of slavery as early as 1799.
Prior to 1678 there were very few slaves in the State of New
York. In 1698 there were 293, in Kings County alone. In
1723 there were 6,171; in 1790 there were 21,324, from which
time they commenced to decrease. In 1820 there were only
10,088; in 1830—75; in 1840—4.
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S. James Church 17
THE RECTORS
1. The Reverend John McVickar, D.D. 1811 to 1817.
^2. The Reverend David Brown. 1818 to 1823.
3. The Reverend Samuel Roosevelt Johnson, D.D. 18'24'
to 1833.
4. The Reverend Reuben Sherwood, D.D. 1835 to 1856.
5. The Reverend Horace Stringfellow, D.D. 1856 to 1860.
6. The Reverend James Souveraine Purdy, D.D. 1860 to
1876.
7. The Reverend Philander Kinney Cady, D.D. 1876 to
1887.
8. The Reverend Richmond Herbert Gesner, B.D. 1887
to 1890.
9. The Reverend Amos Turner Ashton, D.D. 1801 to 1011.
10. The Reverend Edward Pearsons Newton, ^I. A. lOl'i-
18 Historical Notes of
THE REVEREND JOHN McVICKAR, Jr.
1811—1817
John McVickar, son of John and Anna (Moore), McVickar
was born in the city of New York, on the tenth of August, 1787.
His father was a wealthy merchant of New York and a vestry-
man of old Trinity 1801-1812. He graduated from Columbia
College as valedictorian of the class of 1804. In 1807 he be-
came a candidate for Holy Orders, in preparation for which he
read theology under the guidance of the Rev, John Henry
Hobart, who later, having been chosen assistant Bishop of the
Diocese, ordained him. On Sunday evening, November 12,
1809, he married Miss Eliza Bard at Hyde Park, and the first
year of their married life was spent in the home of Dr. Bard,
while he continued his studies. These circumstances gave
shape to Dr. Bard's desire to build a church. McVickar was
something of an architect, so that the planning of his own home
called Inwood, and that of the church and the erection of both
went on together. On the day following the Consecration of
the church, Friday, October 11, 1811, he was ordained to the
diaconate by Bishop Hobart, and was given charge of the new
parish. Immediately following the opening services of the
Dioceasn Convention in 1812, he was ordained priest in Trini-
ty Church, New York. On November 13, 1817, he was elected
Professor of Moral Philosophy, Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in
Columbia College, and the following year at his own request,
without increase of salary, Intellectual Philosophy and Polit-
ical Economy were added to his department. This was the
first introduction into an American College of a chair of politi-
cal economy. In 1829 he was an aspirant for the Presidency
of the College, being the natural choice on many accounts,
and urged by persons of influence, but on December 9, when
the election took place. Dr. Wm. Alexander Duer, formerly
one of his vestrymen in Hyde Park, was elected by a majority
of one vote. Though disappointed he gave Dr. Duer loyal
support. While engaged in academic duties, he often preached
in Grace Church and Trinity, and shared in the general public
duties of the Church in the metropolis. In 1820 he was ap-
"•Il\ M' \ l< KAI{.
S. J a me s C h u r c h 19
pointed to llie missionary committee having the care of the
Oneida Indians. In 1826 he was elected a trustee of the Gen-
eral Theological Seminary, serving as member of the standing
committee. At the same time he was chosen Vice-President
of the N. Y. Bil)le and Prayer Book Society, and of the X. Y.
Tract Society. In 1828 he was made a trustee of Trinity
School, and in 1840 Nice-President of the City Mission Society.
From 1834 to 1868 he was a member of the Standing Committee
of the Diocese, and from 1862 to 1868 president thereof. From
1844 to 1862 he was Chaplain at Fort Columbus, Governor's
Island. At this time it was the recruiting depot for the Army
and its Chaplain had opportunity for wide spiritual usefulness,
missionary work of the highest character and value. There
was no place provided for public worship, but with his accus-
tomed energy and perseverance and the kind aid of General
Scott, the Government was led to set apart a plot of ground
and a frame chapel was erected after Dr. McVickar's own plans.
It cost $2,500. He says: "What I can raise by the help of
friends I will; what I cannot I must bear, and hold it a con-
secrated gift, laid on God's altar, a trespass-offering for years
of over-devotion to the acquisition of wealth." He was deeply
interested in the sending of Colonel Stephenson's regiment to
California in 1849. Looking upon them as colonists, and
realizing the importance of their own religious life and habits
upon the future of the new territory, he labored among them
untiringly and before they sailed he had persuaded them to
elect a chaplain, determine on daily prayers on shipboard, and
saw that they were provided with Bil)les and Prayer Books.
His sermons and addresses are filled with earnest interest and
solicitude for their future, and counsels of the soundest com-
mon sense. He fully believed, as he said, that "The virtue
of the people is our only political security, and the institutions
of Christianity our only sufficient safeguard for the existence
of that virtue". In 1851 in Trinity Church he preached the
sermon at the celebrating of the Third Semi-Centennial of the
venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and in
1854 after the death of Bishop Wainwright he preached the
sermon before the Diocesan Council, which smoothed the
20 H istorical N ote s of
way for the immediate election of a successor. In 1851 his
college duties were lightened, four professorships being made
from his department, of which he retained the chair of Evi-
dences of Natural and Revealed Religion. In 1864 he retired
from active college duty and became Professor Emeritus. He
then made Irvington-on-Hudson his home, where he died
October 20, 1868, and his body was brought to rest in the yard
of his own first parish church. A short while before his death
Bishop Horatio Potter had said in his convention address,
"One venerable and honored presbyter of this diocese, op-
pressed with the weight of years, but not chilled in his love
for the Church or in his devotion to duty, retires from the
official station which he has so long and ably filled as President
of the Standing Committee— the Rev. John McVickar, D.D.,
for half a century a professor in Columbia College — what a
historical name in this diocese! How steadfast in his princi-
ples, how far reaching in his views, and how elevated in all his
thoughts and sentiments! May the rays of that sun which
never sets to the Christian heart shine brightly and cheerily
along his path, and in his chamber, until faith, hope and love
change into the bliss and glory of the perfect day."
THE REVEREND DAVID BROWN
1818—1823
Rev. David Brown was born at Hopkinstown, Rhode Island,
October 3, 1786. In 1807 he began to study law, but abandon-
ed it and studied theology in New York City in 1816 with the
Rev. Thomas Lyell, D.D. He was ordained deacon by Bishop
Hobart, October 23, 1817, and priest October 23, 1818. His
first ministerial labor was, while still a deacon, at Saint James
Church, Hyde Park, New York, although he had assisted Rev.
Thomas Lyell, rector of Christ Church, New York, while study-
ing with him. In February, 1823, he became missionary at
Fredonia, Chautauqua County, and parts adjacent, remaining
there until 1826. In 1828 he was principal of a Female Aca-
demy in Albany. From 1831-34 he was missionary at Lock-
port, New York, leaving there to enter the service of the
»S. J a III c s (' h II r <• h 21
Domestic and Foreij;ii Missionary Society at S. Augustine and
later Jacksonville, Florida. In IS^i he became rector at
Florence, Alabama, and returned in ISiS to New York to be-
come the missionary at Cold Spring Harbor. In 18.n he was
instituted rector of Saint Andrews Church, Lanil)crtville,
New Jersey, a position which he held until August, 1867. He
then retired from the rectorship because of old age, but con-
tinued to live in Lambcrtvillc until his death, December 7,
1875. A few years before his death he mentions in his annual
reports to his Bishop a "little work of great labor on infant
baptism" which he has ready for the press, but it seems never
to have been published. The following are the closing senten-
ces of an obituary of Mr. Brown which appeared in the Church-
man for January 8, 1876: "Mr. Brown possessed a mind of
more than ordinary power and clearness, and was gifted with
an unusually retentive memory. This great gift added to his
long, studious and varied life, made him a most interesting
and instructive companion to those who came in contact with
him, especially his younger brethren of the clergy. Of late
years he lived much apart from the stirring centers of life, but
in his retirement he always retained his intelligent apprecia-
tion of all that interested younger and more active men."
THE REVEREND SAMUEL ROOSEVELT
JOHNSON, D.D.
1824—1833
Samuel Roosevelt Johnson was born at Newton, Long Is-
land, November 18, 1802. He graduated from Columbia in
1820 and from the General Theological Seminary in 1823.
In 1824 he was called as rector of Saint James Church, Hyde
Park, where he remained ten years. While there he was or-
dained priest in his own parish church by Bishop Hobart,
August 1, 1827, having been previously ordained deacon in
1824 l)y Bishop Croes. While at Hyde Park he married Eliza-
beth Johnston, a granddaughter of Dr. Samuel Bard, Septem-
ber 6, 1826, and his three elder children were born there. In
1834 he accepted a call to Flushing, Long Island, where he re-
22 Historical N otes of
mained nearly a year. In 1835 the general Church aroused
herself to the great missionary work which lay before her and
sent out Bishop Kemper to take charge of what was then known
as "The Northwest", a district which now comprises the ter-
ritory of several dioceses, Johnson felt moved to give up his
flourishing parish at Flushing and the comforts of life in the
East and to volunteer at his own expense to become the travel-
ing companion of the Bishop. For nearly a year he traveled
with him. In 1837, having previously officiated four months
at Jeffersonville, he brought his family to Lafayette, Indiana,
there to remain about ten years. In this place he organized a
parish, giving the site for a church building and a large portion
of the money necessary for its construction, as well as serving
as its rector without salary. He aided also, by personal ex-
ertions and gifts, in establishing the Church in many other lo-
calities in Indiana. He was regarded as the man for the Bis-
hopric when the Diocese of Indiana was organized, but he an-
ticipated the wish and assured his friends that under no cir-
cumstances would he consent to take the position. In 1847
he returned to the East and became rector of Saint Johns
Church, Brooklyn, a position which he gave up upon his elec-
tion in 1850 as Professor of Systematic Divinity in the General
Theological Seminary. He served as professor for twenty
years, resigning the position in June, 1869, but consenting to
remain another year at the urgent request of the Trustees.
During this period he was one of the most influential professors
at the Seminary and the testimony of his many students bears
witness to the great love and veneration in which he was held
while there. On leaving the Seminary he rested for a brief
interval from active work and then accepted the rectorship
of Saint Thomas Church, Amenia, a missionary station in the
eastern part of Duchess County, New York. In this retired
and beautiful spot he passed the few remaining days of his
life, devoting himself with diligence not only to the care of his
flock but to the welfare and best interests of the entire com-
munity. He died on August 13, 1873, and his body was
buried in the church-yard of Saint James Church, Hyde Park.
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S. James Church 23
THE REVEREND REUBEN SHERWOOD, S. T. D.
1835—1856
Dr. Sherwood was born in 1789 and graduated from Yale
University in 1813, receiving the degree from the same insti-
tution in 1817 of A.M. He was ordained deacon by Bishop
Griswold, May 5, 1815, and priest by Bishop Hobart, November
4, 1816. From 1816-20 he was the acting rector at Saint
Pauls Church, Norwalk, Connecticut, being formally institu-
ted rector of the same church in 1820, where he remained till
1830. For one year he became rector of the Hartford Acad-
emy, Hartford, Connecticut, leaving there in 1831 to become
the missionary at Ulster, New York. He organized Saint
Johns Church, Kingston, soon after removing to Ulster. At
Easter, 1835, he became rector of Saint James Church, Hyde
Park, where he remained until his death, May 11, 1856. In
1840 Hobart College conferred upon him the honorary degree
of S.T.D. From the notice of his death, which appeared in the
Church Journal of New York City of May 15, 1856, the fol-
lowing sentences are taken: "Dr. Sherwood's departure re-
moves a landmark from among the clergy of this diocese. His
position of simple, straightforward performance of what he
believed to be his duty, on principle, gained him the highest
respect of all, even of those who most widely differed from him.
All will grieve that the upright vigor of his hoary head, the
firm Roman energy of his manly profile, the gentle strength of
his calm blue eye shall no more be seen among us, and that the
tones of his voice, — slow, distinct, deliberate, yet tremulous
with intense earnestness of emotion, shall no longer be heard
in the councils of the Church. Few have passed as scathless
as he through the most exciting controversies of our day. Few
retire to rest crowned with a higher honor in the hearts of all
whom he leaves behind him." Dr. Sherwood published the
following works:
The Christian Soldier, a sermon preached in S. James
Church the third Sunday after Trinity, 1840.
A Pastoral address to the members of S. James Church ....
on the observance of Lent.
24 Historical Notes of
Church offerings a sermon at the anniversary of
the Prot. Episc. Tract Soc. (etc.) in the Church of the As-
cension, City of New York Sept. 28, 1842.
The workmen, and their work, in God's building. Sermon
at the Opening of the Annual Convention .... in the Diocese
of New York .... in S. Johns Chapel, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1845.
THE VENERABLE HORACE STRINGFELLOW, D.D.
1856—1860
Dr. Stringfellow was born August 6, 1827, at Madison Court-
house, Virginia. He was ordained deacon July 12, 1850, by
Bishop Meade, and priest August 6, 1851, by Bishop Johns.
After attending the theological seminary in Alexandria and
leaving there in 1850, he became rector of S. Johns Church,
Harper's Ferry, and later assistant at S. Pauls, Baltimore,
and rector of S. Andrews, Baltimore. In 1856 he became
rector of S. James Church, Hyde Park, where the birth of
several of his children and the kindness of the people created
life-long attachments. He left S. James in 1860 and became
rector of Christ Church, Indianapolis, one of the largest par-
ishes there. During the Civil War he left his parish to serve
as a chaplain in the Southern Army, going through many
battles in charge of a hospital corps. Toward the close of the
war he ran the blockade and went to Canada and held a small
parish there for a time, returning almost immediately to In-
dianapolis, however, and becoming rector of S. Pauls parish
there, which shortly became the cathedral of the diocese.
Fully a dozen buildings, churches, chapels, and hospitals,
owe their existence to his energy. The urgings of Bishop
Wilmer led him to leave his large parish in Indiana to go to
Alabama where prospects were poor and dreary. He became
rector of S. Johns Church, Montgomery, in 1869 and remained
there until his death. Besides fulfilling all the duties of his
large parish he was Archdeacon of Alabama, carrying the in-
fluence of his attractive personality and force of character
into various parishes and towns throughout the diocese. He
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iS. J a ni e s Church 27
Hoffman in June 1902, to the installation of Dean Robbins in
Sej)tcnibcr, 1003. Columbia University conferred upon him
in 187G the degree of S. T. D., and in 1895 the Seminary did
the same. On June 11, 1863, Dr. Cady married Miss Helen
S. Hamilton, who died in 1808. Dr. Cady now lives at
Ridgefield, Connecticut.
THEREVERENDRICHMONDHERBERTGESNER.B.D.*
1887—1890
Richmond Herbert Gesner was born in Kingston, N. Y.,
while his father the Rev. A. H. Gesner was rector of the Church
of the Holy Spirit. He prepared for college at the Holbrook
School, Ossining, N, Y., and entering S. Stephens College,
Annandale in 1877, and graduated with honors in 1883.
He graduated from the General Theological Seminary in
1886 and the following February, while minister in charge of
S. Johns Church, Yonkers, was advanced to the priesthood
by Bishop Potter. The General Seminary in the following
June conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Divinity.
Bishop Potter commended Mr. Gesner to the rectorate of this
parish and he entered upon his duties in July, 1887, serving
the parish until June, 1890, w^hen he became the first rector of
S. Marys Church, Tower, Minn. After a year's service there,
he was recommended by Bishop Gilbert to the parish of his
boyhood, Zion Church, Morris, N. Y. Thence after four years
he went to old Christ Church, West Haven, the most historic
j)arish in Connecticut. In 1899 he accepted the call of Trinity
Church, Lime Rock. After seven years of work there he went
to Christ Church, Oswego, one of the leading parishes of Cen-
tral New York. Mr Gesner is a member of three very impor-
tant committees in the diocese. In 1890 he married Miss
\'irginia I. Brett of Ali)any, N. Y. They have four children.
Mr. CJesner has been for many years a contributor of verse to
the lioston Eveniri;/ Transcript and has in preparation a
little book on the E\idences of the Christian Faith.
The Rev. Authon T. Gesner, Professor of Ethics and Apolo-
getics in the Berkeley Divinity School, is his brother.
*Sci' plate facing page 72.
28 E I storical N ote s of
THE REVEREND AMOS TURNER ASHTON, D.D.
1891—1911
Dr. Ashton was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on May
3, 1849. He was the son of Job and Abby Stacy (Turner)
Ashton. On his mother's side he was descended from one of
the earliest New England families; Hugh Stacy, her great-
great-grandfather, having settled in the colony of Plymouth,
in the year 1622.
The public schools of Providence, and Brown University,
supplied the classical education, which was to bear the fruit
of a faithful ministry of thirty-six years. Dr. Ashton was
graduated from Brown in the class of 1872, and the next year
entered the General Theological Seminary in New York. He
was ordained Deacon in 1875 and Priest in Advent of the same
year by Bishop Horatio Potter.
On June 30, 1875, he married Amelia Huntington Sill,
younger daughter of Rev. Ferderick and Margaret (Cocks)
Sill, of New York City, and entered upon the duties of his
first cure: S. Thomas Church, Amenia Union, New York.
Two daughters were born to him at Amenia, Margaret Abby,
and Leonora Sill.
In 1878 Mr. Ashton accepted the rectorship of Trinity
Church, West Haverstraw New York; and in addition to his
parochial duties, assumed the missionary charge of the neigh-
boring village of Haverstraw, and the mountain missions of
Rockland County.
Two sons were born at West Haverstraw, Mortimer Stacy,
the present rector of Zion Church, Morris, New York; and
Frederick Turner, the present rector of S. Pauls Church, Salem,
New York.
After a service of thirteen years, devoted to these labors, he
was elected rector of S. James Church, Hyde Park, N. Y., and
continued in this parish until the day of his death.
He was appointed Archdeacon of Duchess by Bishop Henry
C. Potter in 1901, and under his direction an active mis-
sionary work was carried on in the central and eastern sections
of the covmty.
AMOS 'iri{\i;i{ \>ii ION
S. James C h u r c h 29
In 1903 Brown University awarded the degree of Doctor of
Divinity with these prophetic words: "Amos Turner Ashton,
11 'Workman that ncedeth not to be ashamed.' " (2 Tim. 2:15.)
Prophetic, hecau.se as a country missionary at Amenia and
West Haverstraw, as rector of his two parishes, as Archdeacon
and as a clerical member of the Standing Committee of tiie
Dioceses of New York, to which body he was elected in 1904,
and on which he served until his death, he proved him.self a
'Faithful dispenser of the Word of GOD, and of His Holy
Sacraments."
Dr. Ashton was a keen classical scholar, his chief pleasure,
apart from the discharge of his official duties, being historical
research. He was a recognized authority on Church History
and Canon Law.
Too keen an observer of the complexity of human nature to
be concerned with the partisan feelings which from time to
time are asserted by the various schools of thought in the
Church, Dr. Ashton manifested in his public and private life
that : "In Christ Jesus, neither circumcision availeth anj'thing,
nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." And this breadth
of sympathy for all mankind was the basis of his success in
the private counsel of a Shepherd of Souls, as well as in the
weightier deliberations of a Church Dignitary.
On Christmas Day, 1910, Dr. Ashton celebrated the Holy
Communion in S. James Chapel, Hyde Park. This was the
last public service at which he officiated. For many months
he had suffered from an affection of the heart which finally
ended his ministry of thirty-six years.
In perfect consciousness, he entered into life eternal, on
January 10, 1911.
THE REVEREND EDWARD PEARSONS NEWTON*
1912—
The Rev. Edward Pearsons Newton, son of the Rev. Ben-
jamin Ball and Adeline (Prichard) Newton, was born in Saint
Albans, Vermont, August 28, 1859. The family moving to
Brooklyn, New York, he was educated in Holy Trinity Parish
♦See plate facing page 70.
30 Historical Notes of
School, and Saint Johns School, Manlius, New York, graduat-
ing from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, in the class
of 1881. Having some doubts as to his vocation to the minis-
try he taught for two years, entering Berkeley Divinity School,
Middletown, Connecticut, in 1883. He was ordained Deacon
by the Rt. Rev. John Williams, D.D,, on June 2, 1886, and
Priest by the Rt. Rev. John Franklin Spalding, D.D., in Den-
ver, Colorado, on December 18, of the same year. He was
rector of Holy Trinity Church, Pueblo, Colorado, from 1886
until May, 1902, when he became Senior Curate of Calvary
Church, New York, under the Rev. J. Lewis Parks, D.D., which
post he resigned in November, 1907, having offered himself to
the Rt. Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe, D.D., for missionary service
in Alaska. He was stationed in Valdez, on Prince William
Sound, having charge as well of the Church's missions in Cor-
dova, Seward and Katalla, which duties he resigned in August,
1911. He was elected rector of Saint James Church, Hyde
Park, January 8, 1912. On February 8, 1912, in Calvary
Church, New York, he was married to Miss Carolina Burton
Hart, only daughter of Dr. Charles Alfred and Virginia (Bur-
ton) Hart, and came into residence February 16, 1912.
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S. J a m e if C It u r c h 31
THE FIRST VESTRYMEN
Samuel Bard
KWIS J
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Morgan Le
John Johnston
Nathaniel Pendleton
William Broome
"William Bard
Christopher Hughes, 2d
James Duane Livingston
Titus Dutton
William Alexander Duer
32 Historical Notes of
SAMUEL BARD, M.D.
Senior Warden 1812-1821
The earliest Bard colonists settled in Delaware, Samuel,
the son of Doctor John and Susanne (Valleau) Bard, was born
in Philadelphia, April 1, 1742. The family removed to New
York City when Samuel was four years old.
His mother was a descendant of Peter Fauconnier, a French
refugee, who was Receiver General and Treasurer to Lord
Cornbury (Edward Hyde), Queen Anne's favorite cousin,
when he was Royal Governor. Fauconnier received from his
patron several grants of land, one of which, styled in his honor
"Hyde Park", ultimately fell by inheritance to Mrs. Bard,
the claims of other heirs having been settled by cash payments.
Hyde Park was originally the name of this country estate (now
owned by Mr. Frederick W. Vanderbilt), and the Bards were
at first annoyed when it was applied to the local inn and to the
village.
Samuel was educated in the schools of New York City, and
pursued the study of medicine under the guidance of his father.
He sailed for London in November, 1761, where he enjoyed
some practical hospital experience under eminent men of the
time, and went to Edinburgh in September, 1762, taking a
three years' course in medicine and receiving his diploma on
September 6, 1765. He was married in Christ Church, Phila-
delphia, on May 14, 1770, to his cousin, Mary Bard, a daughter
of Peter and Marie (de Normandie) Bard. In the Edin-
burgh University there were quite a number of American stu-
dents in medicine. They often discussed the need for Medical
Colleges in the new land. Those from Philadelphia were first
successful in a move in this direction, but within a year of his
return to New York, Doctor Bard had so stirred the medical
profession in the city that the first Medical School was organ-
ized and united to Kings College (now Columbia University),
and he was given the Professorship of "The Practice of Physic".
When the first degrees were conferred in 1769, to Doctor
Bard was assigned the honorable task of addressing the stu-
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S. ./ (/ ni c s (' h II re li 39
CHRISTOPHER HUGHES, 2d
Vestrymun 181 2
Christoi)hcr Hughes, 2(1, was the son of Captain Christopher
Hughes (b. Sept. 17, 174.5; d. jSlay 22, 180o), the first of the
name in these parts. Captain Cliristopher was engaged in
trading with the West Indies, and made New Haven his home
port, where liis son was born August 14, 1772. He married as
his second wife Abigail Mulford of Staatsburgh, and made that
town his home. There is a tradition that upon his settlement
here he brought all his wealth in Continental paper money,
that in some manner it was water soaked, that he and his
mate hired a room in a home north of the church, in which to
spread out and dry the bills. He bought land north of Staats-
burgh.
For his son he bought a farm between S. James and Staats-
burgh, Christopher, 2d, was married December 12, 1832, to
Rachel Pawling, who died November 22, 1850, while he died
May 30, 1856.
JAMES DUANE LIVINGSTON
Vestryman 1812
James Duane Livingston, of "The Locusts", Staatsburgh-on-
Hudson, N. Y., and a member of the first Vestry of S. James
Church, Hyde Park, was born in the City of New York, on
September 1, 1786. He was the youngest son of Robert "Cam-
bridge" Livingston and Alice Swift, his wife, and a grandson of
Robert Livingston, third (and last) Lord of the Manor of
Livingston. He was graduated from Columbia College in the
Class of 1804, studied law in the office of Peter Van Schaack,
of Kinderhook with the son of Alexander Hamilton and otlier
sons of prominent New York families, and was admitted to the
Bar, by Chancellor Kent, in 1810. On October 9, 1809, he
was married by Bj). White, of Pennsylvania, to his cousin,
Sarah Swift, of Philadelphia, at the country residence of her
father, Charles Swift, "Croyden Lodge", Bucks Co., Pa. Mr.
Livingston made his home in Staatsburgh for about twenty-
40 Historical N otes oj
five years, and all but one of his ten children were born there.
They are all (but one) buried with their parents, in S. James
churchyard.
After the death of his wife, in 1835, Mr. Livingston decided
to move to New York, and sold "The Locusts" to Robert
Emmet, Esq. His own death followed shortly after, on June
25, 1837. He left but one son, the late Charles James Living-
ston of New York, and daughters, Alice, who married Howard
Tillotson, Esq.; Julia, wife of Hon. Charles A. Peabody; and
Louisa, wife of Oliver H. Jones, Esq, of New York and Long
Island. The others died unmarried, in early life.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER DUER
Vestryman 1812
William Alexander Duer, son of William and Catherine
(Alexander) Duer was born in Rhinebeck on September 8, 1780.
He served as a midshipman under Decatur in 1798, and stu-
died law in Philadelphia, and later in the office of Nathaniel
Pendleton in New York, being admitted to the bar in 1802.
He married Hannah Maria, daughter of William Denning, a
merchant of New York on September 11, 1806, and soon after
they removed to New Orleans, where he was in the law office
of Edward Livingston, and familiarized himself with Spanish
civil law. As his wife disliked living so far from her kin he re-
turned to the north and settled in Rhinebeck, practising law
until he was raised to the Supreme Bench of the State in 1822,
when he removed to Albany. He was elected President of
Columbia College, December 9, 1829, and thereupon resigned
his judgeship. In 1843, owing to ill health, he resigned the
presidency of Columbia and removed to Morristown, N. J.
There, and in the neighborhood, he lived until his death which
occurred in New York City, May 30, 1858, while he was visiting
a married daughter. During his years of leisure he contribu-
ted to various magazines many papers and sketches of old
New York and its history, writing, also, at the request of Wash-
ington Irving, recollections of Washington and his family with
whom he was intimate while a boy.
:*t^__ ,*'
I 1 I I - 1)1 ITON.
AftiT a portrait. TlirDiitili t he coiirtt'sy of Mr<. S. I'. Korinan. of N»-\v Vork.
S. J a 111 e s C hiirch 41
He could remember seeing General Washington at the time
he gave his farewell address, though but nineteen at the time
of Washington's death.
TITUS DUTTOX
Vestryman 1812
Titus Dutton (son of Sir William Dutton of England) was
born in Middlotown, Conn., in 1747. He served through the
Revolutionary War as Lieutenant of the Connecticut Conti-
nental Line. He married Elizabeth Scott and had four children
when they removed to Hyde Park in 1797. He learned the
work of a carpenter and cabinetmaker, and some of the rush-
bottom chairs that he made for his children, and which have
been in daily use for a hundred years, are as strong and good as
ever.
His oldest child Mary (Polly) married WiUiam Stoutenburgh
and had eight children. Two of her boys went to California,
two others were physicians. Two daughters died unmarried
and Mary married Rev. Mr. Quinn. The descendants of at
least one of her sons have reached the fourth generation of
Stoutenburghs.
His third child Charles was thought to have been lost at sea.
The fourth child, Samuel Beldon Dutton, born July 18, 1795,
married in S. James Church, Oct., 18^20, Catherine Vander-
burgh and had three children. The eldest of these, Charles
Titus Dutton, ninety-one years old, and a great grandfather
is living in Wilkinsburgh a suburb of Pittsburg, Pa.
Five years after the death of his wife, S. B. Dutton married
her youngest sister Eliza DeWitt Vanderburgh in S. James
Church, Oct. 22, 1829, and after a tally-ho ride to Poughkeepsie
and a wedding journey to New York City (via a sloop which
took longer than it does to go to Europe today) they settled in
Poughkeepsie. They had one daughter who married S. P.
For man. She is 80 years old and now living in New York City
with her daughter Grace Forman.
The bodies of Titus Dutton and his wife and daughter-in-
law, Catherine V. Dutton, lie buried in S. James churchyard.
42
Historical N ote s of
SENIOR WARDENS
Samuel Bard,
William Bard,
Morgan Lewis,
John Johnston,
James Russell,
Elias Butler,
Christopher Hughes 3d,
James Roosevelt,
Archibald Rogers,
1812—1822
1822—1827
1827—1836
1836—1850
1850—1867"
1867—1878
1879—1894
1894—1901
1901—
(See page 32)
(See page 37)
(See page 34)
(See page 35)
JUNIOR WARDENS
Morgan Lewis,
1812-
-1827
(See page
34)
WiUiam Bard,
1827-
-1829
(See page
37)
John Jolmston,
1829-
-1836
(See page
35)
Edmund Henry Pendleton,
1836-
-1837
James Russell,
1837-
-1850
David Johnston,
1850-
-1858
Edmund Henry Pendleton,
1858-
-1867*
Christopher Hughes 3d,
1867-
-1879
Nathaniel Pendleton Rogers,
1879-
-1892
James Roosevelt,
1892-
-1894
Archibald Rogers,
1894-
-1901
Samuel Braman Sexton,
1901-
-1903
S. Nicholson Kane,
1903-
-1906
John Hopkins,
1906-
-
*There are no records of elections from 1861 to 1867. Presumably the old vestry con-
tinued, so far as anything was done during war times.
KLIAS Bl TLKK.
S. James C h u r c h 4i9-
JAMES RUSSELL
Vestryman iy'-28. Junior Warden 1837-1850. Senior Warden
1850-1857
James Russell was the son of Isaac Russell who was elected
to the vestry in 1815. The son, born in Staatsburgh, Septem-
ber i24, 1779, soon followed the father as vestryman and for
thirty years served as a member of that body. He was deeply
interested in the early beginnings of the mission in Staats})urgh
the first services being held in his house, while postmaster,
which office he filled for many years. On December 19, 1822,
he was married to Sally Gibbs. Their descendants are still
residents of Staatsbm-gh.
ELIAS BUTLER
Vestryman 1845-1878. Senior Warden 1867-1878
Elias Butler, born January 13, 180G, was a native of the
State of New York and early entered upon a business career.
In 1842 he retired from active business and purchased the
place in Hyde Park called Crumwold. Here he spent the re-
mainder of his life, enjoying his library and the oversight of
the farm and the garden with its greenhouses and vinery. He
took great interest in politics, though he never would accept
any office. He was always a devoted and energetic member
of the parish. He died April 29, 1878.
CHRISTOPHER HUGHES, 3d*
Vestryman 1850. Junior Warden 18G7-1879. Senior
Warden 1879-1894
Christopher Hughes, 3d, was the son of Christoi)her and
Rachel (Pawling) Hughes. He was born July 31, 1805,
married Dec. 12, 1832, Sarah Lamoree, and died May 28,
1903. He was a farmer and good citizen of the type which
have made this nation and have been the l)ackbone of its
liberties and institutions. In 1S33 Governor Wm. L. Marcy
♦See plate facing page 68.
44 Historical Azotes of
appointed him Junior Cornet in the 23d Regiment of Cavalry,
and the following year he was made a Captain therein. He
served for many years as a School Trustee, and also as Super-
visor of the town. He was regularly at the services in S.
James with his family, and when Sunday evening came would
get his lantern, and hitch up his horses to drive to Staatsburgh
to attend the service there, thus helping the beginnings of the
mission there, which have resulted in S. Margarets parish, in
which his descendants are still loyal workers.
JAMES ROOSEVELT
Vestryman 1858. Junior Warden 1892-1894
Senior Warden 1894-1901
James Roosevelt, a descendant of Isaac Roosevelt, one of the
first senators from this state was born on July 16, 1828.
He was graduated from Union College in the flass of 1847
and thereafter studied and traveled in Europe for two years.
Subsequently he studied law in the Harvard Law School, and
entered the office of Benjamin D. Silliman in New York. He
was called from his profession into the management of impor-
tant corporations, holding offices as president, trustee, and
director of railway, transportation and trust companies. He
was a manager of the Hudson River State Hospital, and a
member of the Board of State Charities and of many charitable
institutions in various parts of the State. He spent as much of
his time each year as his manifold duties would permit, at his
country place, in Hyde Park, which he dearly loved, and took
an active interest in the local affairs of the town, having been
for years especially devoted to the welfare of the public school.
As vestryman and warden he served Saint James parish with
constant zeal. Actively useful as a business man, a philan-
thropic and public spirited citizen, he was the very ideal of a
gentleman of the old school, witnessing by his kindliness and
charm of manner to the nobility and honor of his inner Chris-
tian character.
He died December 8, 1900.
.i\Mi> i:(»(>sKVKi/r
S. J a m e s C h u r c h 45
He married first Rebecca Ilowland in 1852. He married as
his second wife Sara Delano, 1880. Each of whom bore to
him a son, James Roosevelt Roosevelt and Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, both of whom are serving upon the present parish
vestry.
At a Vestry meeting on January 13, 1901, the following
"minute" was voted to be placed upon the records of the parish :
"It is our sad but heartfelt privilege to offer our sincere tri-
bute of respect to the memory of our late associate, the Senior
^Yarden of the parish, Mr. James Roosevelt. No long and
elaborate eulogy would be suitable for him, who in such a
modest and retiring way, gave much of his time to the interests
of this parish, but a brief expression of loving appreciation may
not seem inappropriate.
Born of honorable lineage, he wrought out with singular
fidelity those traits of character which constitute a useful and
dignified life. Mr. Roosevelt was one of the first lay members
of the Duchess Convocation, now the Archdeaconry of Duch-
ess, and always afterwards continued to act as representative
of this parish in that body. He was for more than forty years
a Vestryman and Warden of Saint James Church, and at the
time of his death was one of its delegates to the Diocesan Con-
vention.
An upright Christian man, full of kindness and helpfulness
he adorned the doctrine of Christ our Saviour, by a consistent
walk and holy life.
He is sadly missed in the church which he so faithfully served
but our sore trial of separation is mingled with the comforting
assurance that he rests in Paradise."
"Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord".
ARCHIBALD ROGERS*
Vestryman 1882. Junior Warden 1894-1901
Senior Warden 1901-
Archibald Rogers, son of Edmund Pendleton and Virginia
(Dummer) Rogers was born in Jersey City, on February 22,
1852. He is a grandson of ArchibaUl and Anna Pierce (Pen-
•See plate facing page 30.
46 Historical Notes of
dleton) Rogers, his grandmother being the daughter of Nathan-
iel and Susannah (Bard) Pendleton, the latter a sister of Dr.
Samuel Bard, therefore church building and fostering is a
natural inheritance of his blood. He was educated as a
Mechanical Engineer in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale
University in the class of 1873.
Before graduation, for practical experience he served an ap-
prenticeship in the Rogers Locomotive Works in Paterson,
N. J., and the following year went around the Horn to China
and return as Assistant Engineer on the City of Tokio. He was
engaged in constructive engineering on the D., L. and W.
tunnel, and later also on railway construction in Wisconsin,
where the first year of his married life was spent, making a
home and headquarters in Milwaukee. He was married May
11, 1880, in Saint Bartholomews church. New York, to Anne
Caroline Coleman, only daughter of William and Susan Ellen
(Habersham) Coleman of Cornwall, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Archi-
bald Rogers rented Drayton House, a property south of the
old Pendleton place, Placentia, where they lived until May,
1889, when they moved into Crumwold Hall, south of the vil-
lage. They purchased several adjoining places which were
thrown together as Crumwold Farm.
In partnership with a cousin Edmund Pendleton Livingston,
he ran a ranch in Wyoming, which took him often West, and
being a keen sportsman he had many a bear hunt in the Rocky
Mountains.
Mr. Rogers has been greatly interested in scientific forestry,
a goodly part of the broad acres of Crumwold being wooded,
and many tens of thousands of young trees having been set
out on the place. He has been a leader in ice boating on the
Hudson, his engineering skill coming into play, as all his boats
are constructed from his own designs, and he has won a great
number of trophies. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers keep an ever open
house at Crumwold Hall, entertaining with most gracious and
charming hospitality. As Senior Warden, Mr. Rogers has
given a great deal of time and thought and money to the care
of the church properties, and the beauty of the surroundings of
the church in largely due to his thought and labor.
S. J ame s C h u r ch 47
EDMUND HENRY PENDLETON
Junior Warden 1836-37, 1858-62
Edmund Ilcnry Pendleton was the eldest son of Nathaniel
Pendleton. He lived at Hyde Park, Duchess County, New
York, and eventually filled his father's place as an attorney at
the bar in Pou^hkeepsie. On January 16, 1830, he was elected
County Judge of Duchess County, and he held that position
ten years. He was a Representative in Congress for New York
State 1831-1833. He married Frances Maria Jones, daughter
of John Jones of New York. In the year 1836 he went to
Europe and after his return spent the remainder of his life
principally at Hyde Park and in New York City. He died on
February io, 186'-2, without issue.
DAVID JOHNSTON
Vestryman 1845. Junior Warden 1850-1858
David Johnston, a son of Judge John and Susannah (Bard)
Johnston, was born in Hyde Park at "Bellefield," now owned
by Mr. Thomas Newbold, on August '20, 1812. In early child-
hood he had a severe fall, which crippled one side of his body.
This unfitted him for active life, consequently he occupied
himself with the care of the placo having at one time a nursery
of young trees. He also developed quite an artistic taste,
cutting cameos with great success. He died, unmarried,
January 23, 187'2.
NATHANIEL PENDLETON ROGERS
Nathaniel Pendleton Rogers, late of Hyde Park, Duchess
County, New York, was born April 29, 1822, at the house of
his grandfather, Moses Rogers, Number 7 State Street, New
York City. In his early life he practised law in New York,
and in 1849 he married Miss Emily Moulton. After a number
of years he retired from the active practice of the law in New
York and spent his summers at his country place at Hyde Park
on Hudson, which had been purchased by Mr. Rogers' grand-
father, Nathaniel Pendleton, who named it "Placentia". Mr.
Rogers' father, Archibald Rogers, married in the year 1820
48 Historical Notes of
Anna Pierce Pendleton, a daughter of Nathaniel, and Susan
(Bard) Pendleton. The latter was a daughter of Dr. John
Bard, Nathaniel Pendleton Rogers was the eldest son, and his
brothers and sisters were Julia Ann; Archibald, who died in
1831; Edmund Pendleton; Philip Clayton; Archibald, who
died in 1836; and Susan Bard Rogers, who became the wife of
Herman T. Livingston. Mr, Rogers was a grandson of Moses
Rogers, an old time merchant of New York, who was born in
1750 and died in 1825. Moses Rogers was one of the founders
of Grace Church, New York. He married Sarah Woolsey and
had four children, one of whom was Archibald Rogers, the
father of Nathaniel Pendleton Rogers. Mr. Rogers' maternal
grandfather was Nathaniel Pendleton. (See page 36.)
Nathaniel Pendleton Rogers died on April 22, 1892, leaving
him surviving his eldest son, Henry Pendleton Rogers, who
married Mary Shillito of Cincinnati, Ohio; his daughters Anna
Pendleton Fuller, the wife of Charles D. Fuller of New York;
and Elizabeth M. Rawson, the wife of Edward Stephen Raw-
son of Cincinnati, Ohio; and two other sons, Nathaniel P.
Rogers, who married Katharine Witherspoon; and John Bard
Rogers, who married Daisy F. Wells. There are numerous
grandchildren and also several great grandchildren. A daugh-
ter of Nathaniel Pendleton Rogers, Frances Maria Rogers,
predeceased her father, having died at the age of eleven years,
on the third day of May, 1867.
SAMUEL BRAMAN SEXTON
Vestryman 1893. Warden 1901-1903
Samuel Braman Sexton, son of Samuel John Mills and Caro-
line (Braman) Sexton was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 19,
1869. The family removed to Hyde Park in 1870, where he
was educated by private tutors and at Colonel Lester's School
in Poughkeepsie. He entered Columbia Law School in 1886,
but was forced by reason of ill health to leave after completing
the second year of the course. He traveled extensively in
Europe hoping to regain his health. He died in Augusta,
Georgia, April 19, 1903.
AMI i;i, H1{\M\\ SKXroN.
.'>. ./ a 77? e s Church 40
S. NICHOLSON KANE*
Vestryman 18J)0. Junior Warden 1903-1906
S. Nicholson Kane, son of DeLancey and Louisa (Langdon)
Kane, grandson of Walter and Dorothea (Astor) Langdon,
and nephew of Walter Langdon, Jr., owners of "Hyde Park,"
whose graves are in S. James churchyard, lived at 23 West 47th
Street, New York, but he spent much of his time with his
uncle at Hyde Park during the last eight years of the hitter's
life, so naturally becoming interested in the old parish church,
and a member of its vestry. He was born on July 2, 1846,
and died November 15, 1906. He entered the U. S. Naval
Academy in 1862 and graduated at the head of his class, being
also Adjutant of the Academy. After a cruise in the West
Indies, he became personal aide to Admiral Farragut on the
Flagship Franklin, visiting European courts with him. Re-
signing from the navy, he went to England and entered Cam-
bridge University. After graduation he returned home and en-
tered the Albany Law School, from which he graduated in 1874
as valedictorian of the class and was admitted to the bar. Soon
afterwards his old taste for the navy showed itself in his in-
terest in yachting, and as owner of the yacht Restless he be-
came Commodore of the New York Yacht Club. For many
years he was chairman of the Regatta Committee, which car-
ried to success so many of the international competitions for
the American Cup. At the breaking out of the Spanish War
he offered himself to the government and was assigned to duty
on the Saint Paul, and was highly commended in official des-
patches. He was always greatly interested in the affairs of the
Church, serving many years as a vestryman of S. Clements
Parish, New York, serving also for many years as a member of
the Standing Committee of the Diocese, and also as Vice-
President of The Church Clul). He was particularly interested
in the National Geographical Society, and in the various polar
expeditions. Mr. Kane's intellectual e(|uipment for life had
been broad, whicli added to personal (jualities of character,
♦See plato facing page 02.
50 Historical Notes of
naturally gave to his career a broad and varied usefulness.
To him nothing was alien that concerned the well being of his
country, his state, or his city, and he was unfaltering in his
devotion to his church.
JOHN HOPKINS
Vestryman 1891. Junior Warden 1906-
John Hopkins, son of Dr. William Harrison and Jemima
(Van Benschoten) Hopkins was born July 8, 1845, in the town
of La Grange of old Duchess county stock. His mother was
a descendant of that Theunis Eliasen Van Benschoten, who is
found at Esopus in 1671, being the head of the family in this
country. His father was village doctor from 1870 to 1890,
during which years he also conducted the village drug store,
which business the son today continues.
Mr. Hopkins has been postmaster since 1897 under four
administrations. He has been treasurer of the parish for
twenty -two years and has represented the parish in the diocesan
council with continued regularity. He is one of the men who
quitely do a large share of the world's work without the fact
being realized by half of their neighbors.
THE PRESENT VESTRY
Archibald Rogers, Senior Warden John Hopkins, Junior Warden
In Order of Seniority of Election
James Roosevelt Roosevelt. Henry Myers.
Elbridge T. Gerry. Ellsworth Martin Crapser.
James Henry Horrocks. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Gerald Livingston Hoyt. Edmund Pendleton Rogers.
.lnil\ IKM'KIN-
S. J a m c i>- C h u r c h
51
VESTRYMEN
The dates of first election only are given, as many served
broken terms, a few years of service, an interval (probably of
absence in New York) and again years of service.
For convenience names are ordered alphabetically rather
than in chronological order.
Allen, Benjamin, 1819
Allen, Theudore, 1838
Bard, Sanuiel, 1812
Banl, 'William, 1812
Broome, William, 1812
Butler, Elias, 1845
Carter, Israel M., 1855
Collins, David Jr., 1835
Cowman, Augustus Thomas, 1837
Crapser, Ellsworth Martin, 1904
Dobbs, Benjamin Burroughs 1875
Duer, William Alexander, 1812
Button, Titus, 1812
Emmet, William C, 1846
Fuller, Dudley B., 1843
Gerry, Elbridge T., 1894
Hale, Elisha 1832
Henderson, John, 1822
Hinchman, John, 1830
Hinchman, "William, 1828
Holbrook, Ephraim, 1829
Hopkins, John, 1891
Hopkins, William Harrison, 1878
Horrocks, James Henry, 1900
Hosaek, David, 1835
Howard, Thomas Howard, 1899
Hoyt, Gerald Livingston, 1901
Hoyt, Henry Sheaff, 1889
Hughes, Brooks, 1852
Hughes, Christ<)i)her 2d, 1812
Hughes, Cliristopher 3d, 1850
Hughes, Miles, 1871
Johnston, David, 1845
Johnston, John, 1812
Johnston, Francis I'ljlon, 18(!7
Jones, James I., 1856
Kane, S. Nicholson, 1890
Kneeland. Henry, 1830
Laight, William E., 1830
Langdon, Walter Jr., 1847
Livingston, James Duane, 1812
LivingstgH, Mat>urin, 1839
Livingston, Maturin, 1807
Lowndes, Rawlins, 1875
Mosher, Nathan R., 1855
Myers, Henry, 1901
Newhold, Thomas N., 1878
Northrup, Charles W., 1875
Pendleton, Edmund H., 1822
Pendleton, Edmund H., 1857
Pendleton, Nathaniel, 1812
Rogers, Archibald, 1st, 1839
Rogers, Archibald, 2d, 1882
Rogers, Edmund Pendleton, 1000
Rogers, Henry Pendleton, 1892
Rogers, James, 1813
Rogers, Nathaniel Pendleton 1808
Rooseveh, Franklin Delano, 1900
Roo.sevelt, James, 1858
Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, 1879
Roosevelt. Jolm A., 1889
Russell, Lsaae, 1815
Russell. James. 1828
Sexton, Samuel B., 1893
Sherrill. Hunting, 1820
Speneer. Reui)en, 1815
Vanwart, H., 1850
Van Vliet, Cornelius Jr., 1845
Van Vliet. James R.. 1850
Woodworth, William W., 1837
5^2 HistoricalNotesof
AUGUSTUS THOMAS COWMAN
Vestryman 1837
Born 1814; died September 12, 1854
The following notices give estimate of the labors and gifts
of this devoted servant of the parish, whom we have styled
the second Dr. Bard.
For a long time a member of Christ's Mystical Body, Mr,
Cowman was a thorough churchman of the old school, sound,
intelligent, and devoted. He showed his faith by his works.
For many years a prominent member of the Vestry of S.
James Church, he was ever forward and active in all measures
adopted for the welfare and prosperity of the Parish. He was
noble and generous in all acts of benevolence, — and blessed, at
the time of rebuilding our little church, a few years since, with,
as he supposed, abundance of means, he liberally applied them
to this holy purpose. He bore at least one-half of the expense
of this beautiful and church-like edifice. In his death the
Parish has lost one of its most willing and liberal supporters —
while the poor, the sick, and the afflicted will long and grate-
fully remember his many acts of kindness, his ever-willing
heart and outstretched hand, to help, cheer, and comfort them
in their distress. Strong in the true faith, and relying entire-
ly on the mercies of God, through Jesus Christ, he dies in peace;
and he rests, we trust, in the paradise of God, where in joy and
felicity he waits the consummation of his bliss, at the general
resurrection at the last day.
"At a meeting of the Wardens and Vestrymen of S. James
Church, Hyde Park, on September 3, 1846, the following pre-
amble and resolutions offered by Elias Butler, Esq., were unan-
imously adopted:
Whereas, at a meeting of the Wardens and Vestrymen of
S. James Church, Hyde Park, on the 8th day of August, 1844,
James Russell, Augustus T. Cowman and William E. Laight,
Esq., were appointed a committee, with full powers, to repair
the church edifice, and to borrow, on the bond of the corpora-
tion, whatever money might be necessary for that purpose. —
AUGISI I S lll().MA> (OWMAN.
S. J a m c s C h u r c h 53
Whereas, the said committee, on examining the building
and after obtaining the opinions of experienced mechanics, as
may be seen by their report on the minutes of the Vestry,
thought it inexpedient to attempt any repairs on the old church
and resolved to erect a new one.
Whereas, the said committee have, by the voluntary
and generous subscriptions of members and other friends of the
Parish, rendered sufficient by their own exemplary liberality
erected and completed the new church edifice; therefore
Re.solved, That the Vestry of S. James Church do ap-
prove of the course pursued by their committee, in rebuilding
the Church.
Resolved, That the thanks of the Vestry are due, and
are hereby given said committee, for the energy, liberality
and good taste, with which they have discharged the trust
committed to them.
Resolved, That the Rector be requested to present a copy
of the foregoing resolutions to each member of the committee.
Resolved, That the Rector be requested to procure some
suitable architectural work, to be presented by him in the name
and behalf of the Vestry of S. James Church, to A. T. Cow-
man, Esci., as a testimonial of the sense entertained by tliis
corporation, of his great kindness, unremitted exertions, and
singular lil)erality, in drawing the plans, superintending the
erection and bringing to so happy a completion our beautiful
Church.
Resolved, That the Rector be authorized to draw on the
Treasurer for the money necessary to carry the above resolu-
tion into effect.
And now. My dear Sir, entirely sympathizing with the Ves-
try, in the above expression of their gratitude to you, and for
the reasons there stated, I have great pleasure in complying
with their direction and requesting your acceptance of this
work* which, it is hoped, will prove interesting to you, as an
amateur architect, and serve, as a keepsake, occasionally to
remind you, and yours, of past scenes, of the good will of tl.c
♦Weale's Papers on Architecture.
54 H is tor ic al N ote s of
Vestry of S. James Church, and especially of your friend, the
Rector.
Augustus T. Cowman, Esq. R. Sherwood.
Advent Season, 1846.
THE ORGANISTS
The first organist of the parish was a daughter of Judge
John Johnston who volunteered her services. We have no
record of others who gave their services during succeeding
years until it became the custom of the parish to employ an
organist on salary.
Tradition reports that Miss Sherwood played for some
years, and also that the Misses Eliza Matilda and Susan Maria
Cowman served in the same capacity.
On May 9, 1840, the vestry by resolution thank"Miss Parker
for the aid she had so long afforded in leading our choir", and
in 1846 they also thank Mr. James Van Vliet for forming and
leading the choir, and make him the grant of a pew.
ELIZABETH A. DROM, Organist 1859-1874, was born in
Rhinebeck, N. Y., in the year 1831. Her parents were Luther-
ans and she was brought up in that church. In 1836 the fami-
ly moved to Poughkeepsie where she was educated, and where
she sang in the choir of S. Pauls Church. Later the family
removed to Albany where she studied both piano and organ,
having several engagements as organist before the family came
to Hyde Park in 1859, occupying the house which is now the
parish rectory. She was confirmed by Bishop Whittingham,
acting for the Bishop of the Diocese in the class of 1859. Dur-
ing most of her life in Hyde Park she was organist at both
church and chapel. She also taught in the parish school, and
there are many now living in the village who were her pupils.
On June 26, 1874, she married Mr. George Van Voorihas, and
moved to Castleton-on-Hudson where her husband died in 1900.
In 1907 she entered S. Lukes Home for the Aged in New
York City, where she died August 9, 1912. Though infirm,
she retained her faculties to the last, and had been much in-
terested in the Centennial Anniversary and was full of remin-
iscences of the parish which she loved.
S. James Church 65
JOHN FRANCIS GERMOND, Organist 1874-1909, was
born in Hyde Park, August 17, 1856.
His musical talent developed very early, so that in the year
1874, at the age of nineteen, he was chosen organist of the par-
ish. In October, 1891, he entered the Metropolitan College
of Music and graduated with honors in June, 1893, with the de-
gree of M. C. M.
As a pupil of Dr. Wm. Mason, Dudley Buck, and Albert
Ross Parsons, Mr. Germond represented the best in the musi-
cal culture of America. As a teacher of music he was most
thorough striving to stimulate a high ambition and musical
taste in the minds of his pupils.
During the years 1897-1898 he was Vice-President of the
New York State Music Teachers Association. In his tran-
scriptions and original compositions which were chiefly for
church use he showed a scholarly intelligence and fine musical
sensibility. He fulfilled many commissions which added to
his reputation.
He was not only zealous in his professional duties as organist
and choirmaster, but was a devoted son of the church, deeply
interested in parish activities. It was his great pleasure to
gather and arrange flowers for the altar. He was always to
the fore in connection with the Christmas tree, Sunday School
picnics and the like. He gave much time to the management
of a boys' club. By his death, on October 16, 1909, the parish
lost a most devoted servant and a true interpreter of the ritual
of the church.
Mr. Percy Barnes served as organist in the interval after
Mr. Germond's death.
SAMUEL PRUYN FLAGLER, the present organist, is a
son of Dr. John Ostrom and Christina (Van Vleck) Flagler. His
father was City Physician of Albany for fourteen years, and
having a fine tenor voice he was for many years leader of the
choir of Saint Peters Church, Albany, while Dr. Horatio
Potter, later Bishop of New York, was rector. Samuel Flagler
was born in Albany September 2^2, 1846. His musical training
was received from his elder brothers, Edgar Ostrom Flagler,
56 Historical Notes of
and Isaac Van Vleck Flagler, the latter a composer of consider-
able note. His first position as organist was at Saint Pauls,
Poughkeepsie, from which church he went to the Holy Com-
forter, playing there for twenty -six years, while Dr. Crary was
rector of the parish. He came to Saint James in October, 1910.
THE SEXTONS
RICHARD JENKINS, Sexton 1822-1857, according to the
entry in the parish register at the time of his Baptism, Decem-
ber 20, 1829, was born about "1783".
He married Nancy Lewis of whom were born twelve chil-
dren. The youngest, and last surviving Mrs. Catherine
(Jenkins) Carl is still living in the parish and was confirmed at
the centennial anniversary.
Richard died on September 14, 1857, and Dr. Stringfellow
has a note in the parish register "Forty years Sexton of St.
James Church," though a note in the treasurer's book states
that he began work May 1, 1822. It is quite possible that prior
to that date he had done the duties, though not employed by
the year. Nancy, his wife, laundered the surplices and linen.
HARRY ANTHONY became sexton in 1857 and served
until 1866.
CHARLES RICCO became sexton in 1866 and served until
1872.
JOHN McCURDY became sexton in 1872 and served until
1878
BENJAMIN BURROUGHS DOBBS, Sexton 1878, and still
Emeritus, son of Peter Zachariah and Ruth (Burroughs)
Dobbs, was born in the town of Hyde Park, two miles east of
the village on November 23, 1824. When a lad of eleven he
made his first essay at farm work under Dr. Benjamin Allen,
from whom he learned some valuable lessons. His father
wished him to have the trade of a shoemaker, which he learned
against his taste and inclination. In January, 1847, he enUsted
ip
UK HARD .JK.NKINS.
S. James C h u r ch 57
in the army and followed General Scott throughout the Mexi-
can war.
On October 18, 1810, he married ^Nlary Clarissa Edwards,
who died in 1884 without children.
On March 2, 1854, he enlisted in the First Cavalry Dragoons,
following Lieutenant Colonel Steptoe across the Continent,
and he had five years of frontier service in Oregon and Wash-
ington. After the death of his wife, his sister kept house for
him in ITyde Park, and they adopted a girl, Bertha Lawrence
Dobl)s, who married and went to California.
In 1878 he became sexton of the church and continued in
that duty until advancing years led him to retire, in 1900,
though he still now and again delights to ring the church
bell. He is a venerable and interesting figure in the parish,
and seated by the open fire in the reading room, charms the
younger generation with tales of army and frontier life.
FREDERICK PERCY BARKER became sexton upon
Mr. Dobbs' retirement from active duty in 1900 and served
until lOO.'J.
JOHN DELANCEY WICKER, the present sexton, entered
upon his duties in 1903. He is a son of John Peter and Adeline
(Baker) Wicker, having been born July 23, 1867. He was
tr;iined as a florist and practical gardener, but considerations
of health made it necessary for him to give up greeidiouse and
all inside work, and he took this position as so large a part of
his duties is the care of the churchyard. He married Septem-
ber 1, 1888, Antoinette Pultz Schryver.
lOI rilKAST.
S. J a 171 c s C h u r ch oi
IN MEMORY OF
limnimm ©arD
BORN APRIL 4, 1778 DIED OCTOBER 17, 1853
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED AS A TRIBUTE
OF
FILIAL REVERENCE TO A FATHER,
WHO FAITHFUL TO DUTY, WARM AND CONSTANT
IN FRIENDSHIP AND DISTINGUISHED
FOR
LOVING KINDNESS AND GENTLE COURTESY,
SUSTAINED HIMSELF AMIDST THE URGENCIES
OF
MANHOOD WITH INTEGRITY UNSHAKEN
AND
WITH HONOR UNBLEMISHED, DYING AS HE HAD
LIVED IN THE COMMUNION OF THE CHURCH
AND IN THE FAITH AND LOVE OF CHRIST.
FIDETE VIRTUTI
Note— It was found impossible to photograph the Wm. Bard Tablet.
The inscription is given above.
62 Historical Notes o
THE MEMORIAL WINDOWS
The six memorial windows bear the following inscriptions:
IN HONOR OF GOD
AND TO THE
PIOUS MEMORY
OF
(j^eorge IBlucelanH
WHO DEPARTED IN THE FAITH
ANNO DOM. 1850. AGED 36
MAY GOD HAVE MERCY
Fanny his wife caused this window to be set up.
IN MEMORY OF
miut !&♦ IButlet, q^^D.
ERECTED BY THE MEMBERS
OF
ST. JAMES CHURCH
TO THE MEMORY
OF
Eeutien ^ftertoooD. D.D*
WHO WAS FOR
21 YEARS THEIR RECTOR
M( ll(»l.>()\ KWlv
j iJijijt^ jtSis- £,f.°».r.f
TO nt.rnHO
• he tir(iti>ii« lilr
•mil iiDili'ii ilctih
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I Ills ttuitr
%\ III. ).'ii ii«
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■ill, \ I Ml » /
' In loving inemory of
FRANCIS UPTON JOHNSTON, M. D.
of New York,
died J*.x.uary VM 16G8, a^ed 61 years.
son ofJudf^r Johmton of Bf lief ield, Hyde Park.
and grandMizi of Sunuiel Bard, M. D.
Al«o of hi» noil ■*■
"/" itjtit'
THIS MO.Vl 'ME.XT
ia Erected, to th« .Heuaory oi
%B^"VATHAxVIEL PEVDLETO.^ ...
a Native of V/.RC J.VJA .
'who nerved his Cuunt3*y
in hi« youth
with fidelity ajid eouragjr- &» a Soldi«r.
., ^^ (Lnd in hix riprr a^f-
'ii'^V^! ^^Hvi'itjb inte^tty and leaminMion of hti* he^Jth'-f )A<-ultir<>
Mix litV was trrmiuaccd
by a fatal ur.t'idrac
at Hyde Park.
O.tobrr aO'.*" IHlil;
In th«* aii'* year of hi» a<^e.
»•'
X - -
-;tr:^v
-i- • —
born Doe b" I'Jfj''
'or'.fivi- yen ■ .
r ir -MiH »i vKe throioh -
:n/w I dnow in p4ri ii^.i iK
.^s— Uf'
HOBERTJ AMES LIV INGSTON
S MATURIN -AND- MARGARET l i., :
crandsonofmorganlewb
born-december- 11 1811 .
a-trustee-cf- thechildren's -aid - society
0f-th£-h0me-f0r-1ncurabl£s
and-president-ofthesocietyofihenewyor:<-hcs?
loved-honcredand-reyered
after-a-lifedevoted-toactsofcharity-and-me>
he-entered lireeternal february 22- 1831
hischildren have erected this:.:
S. James Church QS
TO THE MEMORY
OF
3lame0 J. 3lone0
DIED AT BASLE. SWITZERLAND
SEPT. 3d, 1858
IN MEMORY
OF
€DmunD IE). penDIeton
DIED FEB. 2,3, 1862
AGED 74 YEARS
GIVING THANKS TO GOD
FOR THE BELOVED MEMORY
OF
3lamc0 Roo0euclt
JULY 16, 1828 DEC. 8, 1900
64 HistoricalNoiesof
THE CENTENARY SERVICES
October, 1911, was allowed to pass without notice of the Cen-
tenary other than the printing of an article, prepared by Miss
Leonora Sill Ashton from her father's historical notes, in the
Poughkeepsie Sunday Courier of October 8. This was due
to Dr. Ashton's death, and the fact that the vestry did not
wish to undertake a celebration while the parish had no rector.
At the vestry meeting on March 11, 1912, it was determined
to observe a belated centenary on October 12, and 13, 1912,
and committees were appointed to carry out the proposals.
(See Note page 5.)
On Saturday, October 12, at six a.m., the Rector celebrated
the Holy Communion, fourteen persons being present and re-
ceiving the Sacrament. At eight-thirty a.m., the Rev. Frederick
Turner Ashton, son of the late Rector, was celebrant at a sec-
ond service when fifteen persons made their communions.
At ten-thirty a.m., parishioners and friends and descend-
ants of families connected with the parish in 1811 and later,
gathered to the number of one hundred and fifty.
Of clergy there were present the Reverend Edwin E. Butler
of Morristown, N. J. (son of Elias Butler, Esq., and son-in-
law of Dudley B. Fuller Esq., both vestrymen for many years),
the Reverend Frederick Turner Ashton, the Reverend George
Bailey Hopson, D.D. (whose wife was a granddaughter of
Judge John Johnston of the first vestry), the Reverend
Frank Heartfield, who had officiated frequently after Dr.
Ashton's death; the Reverend Edward Clowes Chorley, of
Garrison; the Reverend Richard Clinton Searing, of West
Park; the Reverend James C. Elliott, of Newburgh; the
Reverend Frederick Ernest Whitney, of Newburgh; the Rev-
erend H. Curtis Fichen, Pastor of the Dutch Reformed
Church of Hyde Park; and the Reverend Joseph White
Naramore, Pastor of the Methodist Church of Hyde Park,
with the rector.
A procession was formed at the vestry room door led by the
clergy, the present vestrymen following, behind whom came
the choir with Mr. Harold Stambaugh, of Poughkeepsie cornet-
S. J a m c .s' r h u r r h
65
ist, wlio led the sinf>in' l^-""^ "'^ il^^^^^l
If vB ^BB
1 lljt^^ni^^^p^-^'^i
^j
l.WVOOD-^THK FIRST KECTORS HOME
EDWARD I"I;aR>().\S NEUION.
S. James C h u rch 71
pended to them. \Vh.,„„,. \r,,r»,.„„,,„K I one of the leaders in
lcrr\ McUonoUgh ) the Pacific R.R.enter-
and Catharine (de Cantillon).
pnse.
76 Historical Notes of
Congdon, Mary Married Isaac L. Carpenter.
[ Daughter of Henry A.
I and Magdalena Coster.
»T„ r-^^t^. 1 *t,„. ~ m. Peter Augustus Schem-
"ag?'S,.5"Hrcr-- Coster. Adeline EmHy j .ho„__ Ag.„.g™ceg.
N. Y., is erected to her
, memory.
Dyer, Catharine Married Rev. Cornish.
Fenno, Mary
G,'KKo ColNr / Daughter of Uriah and Lucy (Townsend)
IDDS, oauy \ Gibbs. Married James Russell.
Hale, Augustus
f Married Dr. Henry D. Paine, of New
burgh
1855.
Eliza j burgh. Later of Albany. b.'l816. d.
Sons and daughters of Elisha and
Chloe. Henry Elisha
Julius
Hinchman, John Son of William.
TI^lU^^.^1- "l?^l,„„;»v^ / Retired merchant, of New
Holbrook, Lphraim \ York, who owned Belfield.
Holmes, Catharine
Mary Maid to Susan Mary Bard.
f Daughter of David by his first wife.
Hosack, Emily \ Married Dr. John Kearney Rodgers.
• id. April 12. 1893.
Hubbell, William S.
Johnston, David
FHsnhptli / Married Rev. Samuel
r.nsaDein ^ Roosevelt Johnson.
Euphemia Died unmarried.
John Became a sea captain.
^°SusM'^(Bar'd?*^'' °^ ^""^^^ -^"^^ ^""^ Magdalena m. Wm. M. Jenner.
Mary E. Died unmarried.
Samuel Bard
Daughters of Josiahand Mar- j -,-,,.
garet who owned the prop- -Lawrence, Jiiliza
^ cSeYnow "t'inds"- •^'"" Euphemia Married Wm. B. Cutwater.
Lent, Catharine
THK Oil) FHAMK ( II AIM'.L. srAATSBl |{(ill.
C'DllVrrlfd itlti' l{r;i(liriL' Itnnlii.
S. J a m c s Ch u r ch 77
Levins, Stephen
McClellaml. Thomas { f^^ p'on^iuTafnter'" ''"'^^
OL -ii T» 1 ^ ^" °^ ^'"- H"nt'"K and Margaret
bherrill, Kush \ (Mulford). Later a merchant in New
I York.
Smith, JuHa Married Jacob W. N'elson.
Daughters of Stephen Smith. L^j^^ M^^rried Samuel Shutz.
1 Married her cousin,
Ma^hTfimt-he;
83d year.
Williams, Ebenezer
Son of William Prince Williams. Walter
SCHOLARS
Allen, Ann
John
Margaret
Mary
Raehael
Robert
Ames, Lydia
Anderson, William
Atkins, Abram R.
Bacchus, Charlotte Electra
Badgeley, Alethea
Cornelia
Baker, Emmeline
Sarah
Banker, Ellen
Daughters of William. Sarah C.
Bard, Eliza
Jdlm
Sons and daughters of William. ^Iar\'
Susan
William Ilciiry ( Pj|f. =»^ S''"'" *^™'- ^p^'
78 Historical Notes of
Barnes, Cornelia Jane
Hester Maria
Bates, Martha
Bayley Betsey Ann
Catharine
PhiHp
Beach, CaroUne
Charles
Probably daughters of Beardsley, Cornelia Jane
Elisha, a wheelwright. Diana
Besimere Ezekiel Guernsey
Milton
William
Bills, Catharine
Bird, John W.
Loran Grant
Sally Ann
Blake, John Hinchman
Probably daughter and son of BogarduS, Caroline
Philip, who managed a hotel ° „
where the post office now is. „ r" ti, _:„„ / 2d wife of Wm Elsworth. d
Braman, Catharine [ iggo. aged 81.
Daughters and son of Cyrus. Phoebe
William
Broadhead, Mrs.
Bush, Commodore Decatur
Commodore Perrv
Children of Henry B. *Emma { S^-eh^g^f; ^- ^^'^- ^"''"'''^ '°
*Twins. Margaret
*Mary rn- Chas. spoor, of Michigan.
Robert
Sarah
Butler, Ann Eliza
Jane
Mary
Cable, Eliza
\ii;i{i(H{ OF - M\i!(.\Ki;r- < iii ij< ii. -rwr-m i{(..i
S. J a tn e s Church 79
Carman, Joel B.
Theodore
Carter, Anna M.
Hiram
Josiali
Marshall
WilHam
Case, Catharine
Casey, Eh'za Ann
Chew, Butler
Churchill, Anna Maria
Possibly sisters. If so Ann was a favorite t^..„ a
family name. Ja"^ Ann
Sarah Ann
m. Dakin. When a
widow "Mrs. Dakin" was
the most fashionable milliner
in Poughkeepsie, on Liberty
St. Her father was a miller,
the mill being below the last
dam on Crum Elbow creek.
Clarke, Ann
Eliza
Mary
Collins, Jacobus Son of Patrick B.
James
Montgomery
Perry McDonough
Congdon, Alvah
Jane
Mary
Connover, Harriet
Conklin, Elizabeth
Copeman, Margaret Ann
Cox, Cyrus
Margaret
Daughter of Stephen and Esther \r„.;i-lo / m. John H. Miller. Removed to Sara-
(Holbrook). Matilda \ toga Co.
Susan
Craft, Eliza
Crocker, George
80 Historical N otes of
Crofoot, Cordelia Ann
Stephen Edward
Cronkhite, John
Rensellaer
Smith
Niece of Mrs. Wm. Bard. Cruger, Henrietta
Culver, Abram Alonzo
Catharine
Nathaniel Green
William A.
Cummings, Tobias
Davis, Eliza
Julianna
Dayton, George
DeBoise, Frank
DeCantillon, John
Richard d. 1888 at Nyack, aged 78.
Mary
DeGroff, Betsey
Jane Ann
Margaret Sr.
Margaret Jr.
Polly
Delamater, Belden
Catharine Louise
Son and daughters of Benjamin. Perry
Susan Caroline
Daughters of Matthew. Denyke, Delia ( '^tylel^'' ^"""^^ ''"' ""''''' ^■
Eliza
Devoe, Ann Daughter of David.
Augustus
Caroline Daughter of David.
Catharine Ann
Charles Son of David.
Cornelius
1 «t
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Siiiiil Jjimcs ('li;i|)cl.
//^Md
91
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i\ii:in()i{ oi' >\iN r .i ami:^ ( ii \im;i,.
S. James Church 81
Dickinson, Mary
Dohbs, Benjamin Burroughs See p. 58
David E.
John Henry Tailor in Poughkeepsie.
Donaldson, EHza Ann
Downing, Magdalena
Edwards, Clarissa Married B. B. Dobbs.
George Progue
Henry D.
JuUa Content
Lvdia
T»' I i T-u A ^ I Made a fortune In
Robert Iheodore \ California.
Ellison, Jane
Martha
William Dewall
Grandson of Cyrus Braman. Ellsworth, Cyrus
Filkins, George
William Henry
Daughterof John, who kept Porman, Marv Augusta
hotel.
Fowler, Sarah Jane m. Rev. Lewis Lansing, Baptist.
Freeman, Tobias
Furman, Abigail
Phoebe
Gallagher, Catharine
Garrison Adelaide
Charles Henry
Christina
TV- f m. Harry Anthony, sexton of S.
Diana [ james.
Henrietta
Jane Ann
Glautun. Braccliy
Bridget
Maria
82 Historical Notes of
Godkin, Washington
Golden, Jane H.
Son of shipbuilder at mouth C^^A^:^]-, Cr.»v,,.^l
of Crum Elbow Creek. Goodrich, bamuel
Green, Christina
Flora
Sarah
Susan Mary
"GrifFen GriSen" was long sex-
ton of the Dutch Reformed
Church. He was several times
married. These are his children:
Daughter of Wm.
Son of John R. and grandson
Griffen, Allan
David
Elizabeth
Emma
Hiram
Jamima
Jane
Phylissa
Susan Mary
Hadley, Jane
Hannah
Sally Ann
Hale, Augustin
Eliza
Harper, Jeremiah E.
William
Harrison, Jane Ann
Hendrickson, William
Hewett, Mary
Hinchman, Mary Ann m. Gilbert Brewster.
Holmes, Catharine
Mary
Dn 01 jonn K.ana granason TT,,„u„g AntTinnv R
of Capt. Christopher (1st), -nugnes, Antnony a.
Hutchins, Caroline
Maria
®°Capt. Lemuel". ^^'"^'°" °^ Hyde, James L. d. 1836, aged 29.
S. J a m c .V Church 8S
Jaracks, Jolin W.
Mary
Sarah Ann
AVilliam Henry
Jackson, Ahrani
Ei)tiraini
Hannah Maria
Jacob
Jenkins, *Charles
*Children of Richard and Nancy. *Griffin
*Henry
*Mary
Nancy Wife of Richard.
Richard Sr. Sexton.
*Ilichard Jr.
Johnson, Cornelia
Henrietta
Louise
Son of Rev. Samuel R. Peter RoosCVelt
Susan Mary
Johnston, David
Sons of Judge John. William Bard. { fgy^'^ agS?^'
^''jud1ejohn!''^^"'"'^"'^'^'^"'^'°"°^ John WiUiamson
Jones, Elisha C.
Eliza
Elizabeth
George W.
Isabelle
Jacob
James H.
Jane
Son of James M., hotelkeeper. John B.
Margaret
Marian
Mary
Nancey
Rachael
Smith
Katon, Isaac
Tobia.s
Keefer, John H.
^4 Historical N ot e s of
Kipp, Jane Eliza
Kramer, George D.
Lane, Angelina
Sally
Lattimore, Ellen
f m. Samuel Knox. b. 1817. d.
(Latimer?) Emeline \ 1859. Prominent in Christ
[ Church, Poughkeepsie.
Daughters of Jehial and Abigail. Jane Ann
Children of Josiah. Lawrence, Edgar
Euphemia
Lent, Catharine
Levins, Stephen
Lewis, Charles C.
Lynch, Phoebe
Mansfield, Hannah
Marshall, Bartlett
Julia Ann
Maria
Martin, Benjamin
Children of Prime or Primus Martin. Eliza
Marv Ann
Sally
Sarah Ann
Montgomery Frank
McAuley, Mary Ann
McCurdy, Daniel
Hiram
John
McNamy, Mary E.
Daughter of Rev. John. McVickar, Fanny m. George Kneeland.
Nplson FliVa / '"• Chas. D. Jacobs, 1829. Lived at
i-NeiSOU, r^uza | Saugerties.
Probably children of George. Samuel
f Long bookkeeper for the old
_,, , • I shipping house of N. L. Mc-
TheophlluS Cready & Co., N. Y. d. in
Brooklyn, June 21, 1875, aged
62.
s
<
Si
S. James C It u r c h 85^
Odell, Elizabeth
Ogden, Andrew
Oliver, Isaac
Ormuch, Margaret
Parker, Eliza Belinda m. Augustus Beadle.
Helen Maria m. A. D. Lent.
John d. 1892.
Mary Cordelia { "^^^f^"' ^*"^- *=• ^'PP*°-
Thonias E.
Parsons, Catharine Maria
Paulding, Alfred D.
Daughter of Nathaniel Greene
and granddaughter of Judge Pendleton, Susan L.
Nathaniel M. Bowles.
Philips, Abigail
Asa M.
Daughter of Andrew. Eliza
Ezra
Henry
Son of Andrew. John Y.
Progue, George
Henry
Purely, Alexander
Quackenl)ti.sh, Artemas { Ji^[^^°" '°' J"^«" P"""
Lucy
Rapilyea, Maria
Ray, Edward
Relyea, Ruby
Riddles, Frederick
Jane
Peter
Phyli.s.sa
Ring, Charles
Rolinian, Alphonso G.
SQ Historical Azotes of
Rose, Highland
Lucinda
Philip Oscar
■Roiimjiffp Tniii'an / Her father established a silk mill
JXOUmage, l^OUlsa \ ^^ q^^ Elbow Creek.
T» 1 1 T-> m 1 1 1 f ™' ^''rgil Angevine,
Rowland, Frances Teleboshe \ long postmaster at
i Hyde Park.
€ons and daughter of John Rj'mph, George
and Lavinia. t i
John
Rachael
William
Salters, Betsey
Sarles, Mary Elizabeth
Schaeffer, Mary Ann C.
Schryver, Hannah
Seaman, Nelson
Sarah
Daughter of Capt. John. Selkrigg, Emily { ^°Sc°/j.'H:vi{and: ''''^"" "^
Shaw, Sukey
Son of Mrs. U. Sherriger, Edmund { ^oultj"''' ""'^'^ °"'^^"^ '" '^'
Daughter of John Myers. Mrs. Ursida (Meyers)
Sherrill, Maria
Sons and daughter of Dr. Hunting. Mary
Piatt d. in N. Y., March 18, 1893, aged 73.
Rush
^^Sotiraf ttlaS'"'"' Sherwood, Edgar
Cyrus
Lavina Ann
Lorenzo
Shepherd, Frances Sophia
Cl„^l- T««^U / Probably Jacob T. Sleight, who died in
OiaCK, JaCOD j n_ y.. March 26, 1893, aged 83.
Sleight, Caleb
Jane Ann
Mary
Slowder, Alfred
S. J a 7» e .V C It u re h 87
Sniitli, Agiu'S
Annie C.
Hannah
Daughter of Levi. Olive
Samuel L.
(m. Rev. Mr. Benton, missionary
to Greece, afterwards of Rock-
fish. N. C.
Daughter and sons of Capt. Reuben and -p • _.
Mary (Eames) she being daughter of ilitlwin
Capt. Jesse Eames, a soldier of the IJonrv
Revolution. nenry
JesseAmes{^t^-ie^X;J;A.S..D.D..of
Reuben
Stiles, William H.
Stoutenhurgh, Anna { Tgef 25.''' ^'"'^''' ''^ ^^^^'
^Tulftolf)"^^^"' °^ ^'"' ^" ''''^ ^'^''' Thomas DeWitt d. 1855. aged 36.
Teller, Ann Eliza
Probably all children of Theodorus, of r^„„,j;„„
"Teller's HiU." Carohne
Jamima
William
Thompson, Christina
Traver, Abram
Caroline
Lansing
Lydia
Margaret
Robert
William
Travis, Abram
Susan Ann
William
Tut tie, Aaron
Ada
Amaziah
Betsey Ann
James Francis
Sarah J.
William S.
Van Antwerp, John
^'a^ Waggener, Maria
Tattv
88 Historical Notes of S. James Church
Vickar, Martin Probably Wicker
Wall, Jane Amanda
Weaver, John
Weed, Pendleton Became a Methodist minister.
Westfall, Catharine
Edwin
Harvey
Lucinda
Whitcomb, Lucinda
White, Ann
James Henry
Wiest, Hiram
Wigg, Daniel Blacksmith.
Williams, George (Staatsburg)
George (Hyde Park)
Son of Wm. P. Henry Walter
James
Marian
Mary Ann
Susan
Williams
Wood, Richard
Wooden, Barbara
Woolheiser, Henry
Wright, Hannah
, , Elizabeth
Children of James L. and Frances t tt
(Hyde). James Harvey
John Vail
Martha
Mary
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