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Nov 10, 2009 · From September 20 to November 28, 1778 George Washington, his generals and army of 13,000 were located in or around Fredericksburg, with the John Kane house serving as headquarters. (A historical marker located in Pawling in Dutchess County, New York.)
on Apri l 19, 1775. And the war was on .Eventually General George Washington set up h. s Head quarters at Newburgh , New York . There is no doubt that he rode across Dutchess County during the eight years of the Re volution to dir. ct the officers on the Continental Line. It is said that he made camp one night under a huge cottonwood tree that ...
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Fredericksburgh. What is now Putnam County, plus a small but undefined portion of land, probably bounded on the north by the Fishkill was included in the South Ward (1719) or Precinct (1737) of Dutchess County. It was not until 1743 that the Oblong was included in the county.
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Sybil Ludington has been celebrated as the female Paul Revere because of her ride through Putnam and Dutchess Counties to warn the militia that British troops were burning Danbury, Connecticut.
Sybil was born in 1761 in what was then known as Fredericksburg, and is now known as the Ludingtonville section of the town of Kent, New York. Her father was Colonel Henry Ludington, a respected militia officer who commanded the 7th Regiment of the Dutchess County Militia, a volunteer regiment of local men during the Revolutionary War. He later bec...
There is much confusion concerning the spelling of her first name. Although it is mostly spelled \"Sybil\", her tombstone displays her name as \"Sibbell\". However, she signed her Revolutionary War pension application as \"Sebal\", which is apparently the spelling she preferred. Her sister Mary spelled her name \"Sebil.\" In the 1810 census, she is...
On April 25, 1777, a 2000 man British force commanded by General Tryon landed at Fairfield, Connecticut, near the mouth of the Saugatuck River, arriving with twenty transports and six warships. They moved eight miles inland and camped at Weston. The next day the force moved north into Danbury, doing no damage to private property along the way. In D...
Col. Henry Ludington was in charge of the local militia in the Kent/Patterson area. Ludington and his wife Abigail lived in Kent, New York, and operated a mill, which was located just north of the current intersection of NYS Route 52 and Ludingtonville Road in the town of Kent, New York. He fought in the French and Indian War with General Tryon, an...
Col. Ludington's troops arrived too late to save Danbury, but fought with the British troops as they left the area.
On October 24, 1785, Sybil married Edmond Ogden, according to her Revolutionary War pension application. The Ogdens were married by a Baptist minster named Rev. Ebenezer Cole, but the Rev. Frost's history of the Patterson Presbyterian Church states that in 1789 the couple were listed as members of the Presbyterian Church. They had one son, Henry. S...
Historical markers tracing her route can be seen throughout eastern Putnam County. Artist Anna Huntington's famous sculpture commemorating Sybil Ludington's ride rests on the shore of Lake Gleneida on Route 52 in Carmel.
Jun 4, 2019 · Putnam County, New York, formed from Dutchess in 1812, ostensibly encompasses the patent granted in 1697 to Adolph Philipse. Extant tax lists chronicle the area’s significant growth, with taxable households expanding from 47 in 1741 to 849 in 1779. 1. But this expansion was not without problems.
Prior to, and during, the Revolutionary War, the present day towns of Patterson, Pawling, Kent, Carmel and Southeast were all part of Dutchess County, New York. The area they encompassed was called Fredericksburg.
Collection Summary. Letters and legal documents regarding Loyalist residents of Dutchess County and Poughkeepsie, NY, during and immediately after the American Revolution; transcripts and descriptions of materials by Albany, NY, dealer Pierre and Scropes, Inc.; photocopies of original documents.
