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The hamlet of Fish Creek was variously called Bethel and
Van Akin Mills throughout the 1800’s. Originating as a
small community of farms along the Plattekill Creek it
enlarged with the development of the Laflin and Rand
gunpowder manufacturing mills just below the bridge and
the bluestone quarries to the north and south. 370 Fishcreek
Road is on the side of the creek that relates less to the
hamlet. It appears to be the farmhouse for the fertile fields
that spread south-east from the Plattekill north and south
of the bridge. It backs onto a wooded hillside that has not
been quarried as much as the acres to its south. This would
indicate that the occupants relied little on subsistence
quarrying. The property adjacent to the north where there
are open fields has the footprints of the barn and
outbuildings that must have once been part of this farm.
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2005 Survey Landmark #96
Town of Saugerties, NY
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The house’s location where the turnpike road climbs a ridge
and passes through quarries gives it a relationship to both.
There is little pasture land or tillable fields around it. The
slope of the salt-box shed roof faces north-west into the
weather. Much of the land below the ridge this house sits
on contains the many small foundations of a temporary
camp of quarryman’s families. (Lloyd Loop - 1989). Since
this house and that cluster are found on the same
Commons Lot 55 the reason this house is here may be as a
residence of an overseer or a foreman. :
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2005 Survey Landmark #107
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April 9th, 1669, permit was given to construct a mill at a place called “Dead Men’s
Bones” that was a mile above the “footpath leading to Albany” crossing of the
Plattekill. At this same session the farm fields below this place at “a certain neck of
land five miles distance from Kingston and over the Kill near the footpath leading to
Albany containing about 54 acres of good and clear land”was also granted provided
that all the grantees build their houses together “on the other side of the kill due
north from the land of Thomas Chambers” so as to make a “township within the
precinct of Kingston”.
The stone houses built close to each other and adjacent to the Vlykill mill stream and
the remains of any other houses in the vicinity of the “neck” of land are likely
descendants of this grant to the petitioners Tjerck Claus deWitt and William
Montania at Dead Men’s Bones, and the petitioners Thomas Chambers, Jan
Oosterhout, Jan Burhans and Cornelius Vernoy at the “good and clear land”.
Good and clear land likely meant that this 54 acres was an Indian plantation. The
reference to bones may have been to an Indian burial ground. If this is the case there
is probably the site of an Indian village near the location of these stone houses.
This house’s original relationship was to the expanse of level fields that lie between
the north side of the Plattekill and the steep incline of Mount Marion. It was
originally a bank house facing southeast toward a ravine and brook. Sometime after
the traffic along Powder Mill Road developed it was expanded into its level plane
design facing the road.
Powder Mill Road is named after the gun powder mill on the Plattekill at Bethel. It is
likely that this road was active before this manufacturing began. This road up the
break between the Hoogeberg below Mount Marion was the most direct route to the
long fertile fields that stretched along the Plattekill from Bethel up to Blue Mountain.
Farms on these fields were active long before the gun powder and bluestone
quarrying that made extensive use of this road.
The stone for the final building stage of this house is from the Kalkberg limestone
found on the opposite side of the Churchland fields. This relates the building to the
Brink and Myer houses on that side. The stone is block cut and laid in straight seams
making it possible to build thinner walls resting on the broad original courses as a
foundation. The earlier stone construction is the bluestone of Mount Marion.
The original house is thought to relate to lands of “Mattyse Mattise”, one of the first
twelve Trustees of the Kingston Commons in 1687. The land this house sits on is
granted early in the life of the Kingston Commons.
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Town of Saugerties, NY
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This is one of several brick homes built during a period of
agricultural prominence after 1840. Lore has placed a date
of occupation of this site at 1742. This is unlikely for the
style and position of the present structure. The main thesis
is that this is the homestead of the Cockburn family. More
study is necessary to develop this relationship and explain
this date. Placement of the date in this study is based on
information from the Town Historian.
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Town of Saugerties, NY
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Today it is hard to imagine the relationship communities
like Mount Marion Station had to the railroad when it first
arrived in the 1880’s. This house is a typical example of a
commercial building used to attract rail passengers while
on layovers waiting for the carriages that would take them
on to their next destination. The character of its entry
would have related to the station directly across the road.
It’s turret would have mimicked the switching tower with
its broad view up and down the tracks. This is the only
examples of this genre in Saugerties.
(Demolished by controlled fire in 2010)
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April 9th, 1669, permit was given to construct a mill at a place called “Dead Men’s
Bones” that was a mile above the “footpath leading to Albany” crossing of the
Plattekill. At this same session the farm fields below this place at “a certain neck of
land five miles distance from Kingston and over the Kill near the footpath leading to
Albany containing about 54 acres of good and clear land”was also granted provided
that all the grantees build their houses together “on the other side of the kill due
north from the land of Thomas Chambers” so as to make a “township within the
precinct of Kingston”.
The stone houses built close to each other and adjacent to the Vlykill mill stream and
the remains of any other houses in the vicinity of the “neck” of land are likely
descendants of this grant to the petitioners Tjerck Claus deWitt and William
Montania at Dead Men’s Bones, and the petitioners Thomas Chambers, Jan
Oosterhout, Jan Burhans and Cornelius Vernoy at the “good and clear land”.
Good and clear land likely meant that this 54 acres was an Indian plantation. The
reference to bones may have been to an Indian burial ground. If this is the case there
is probably the site of an Indian village near the location of these stone houses.
This house is obviously related to the Plattekill and 50 foot drop it begins where this
house is built. The land east from the Plattekill can be traced to a 1686 survey of
William deMyer and adjacent that to the south to Peter Winne the same year. The
only names in these early grants that can be associated with the west side of the
Plattekill are Matias and John Mattison who William deMyer claims half ownership
to the mill and Plattekill with in 1680.
“Mattyse Mattise” is one of the first twelve Trustees of the Kingston Commons in
1687. The land this house sits on is granted early in the life of the Kingston Commons
and since William deMyer gained large holdings it is likely that the other founders
did also.
Looking back at the mill reference it is logical to trace this and other stone houses on
the west of these fertile flats of Saugerties to Mattyse Mattise just as all those on the
east are traced to William deMyer.
This house should be studied further for its utility as a mill house. The short distance
to the natural “head” of water where the Plattekill breaks over a level ledge to begin
its cascade makes the position of this house perfect for a side sluice underthrust
operated wheel. This type of mill is described in the wood sluice fed early mills
below the falls at Saugerties village. The construction of the house is obviously very
early and this may well make it the mill being referenced in the 1680 citation. Along
with the mill on the Vlykill to the south this industry would have been very
important to the building needs of the growing Kingston population.
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April 9th, 1669, permit was given to construct a mill at a place called “Dead Men’s Bones” that was
a mile above the “footpath leading to Albany” crossing of the Plattekill. At this same session the
farm fields below this place at “a certain neck of land five miles distance from Kingston and over
the Kill near the footpath leading to Albany containing about 54 acres of good and clear land”was
also granted provided that all the grantees build their houses together “on the other side of the kill
due north from the land of Thomas Chambers” so as to make a “township within the precinct of
Kingston”.
The two stone houses built close to each other and adjacent to the Vlykill mill stream and the
remains of any other houses in the vicinity of the “neck” of land are likely descendants of this
grant to the petitioners Tjerck Claus deWitt and William Montania at Dead Men’s Bones, and the
petitioners Thomas Chambers, Jan Oosterhout, Jan Burhans and Cornelius Vernoy at the “good and
clear land”.
Good and clear land likely meant that this 54 acres was an Indian plantation. The reference to bones
may have been to an Indian burial ground. If this is the case there is probably the site of an Indian
village near the location of these stone houses.
This house is obviously related to a farm that occupied this level ground west of the Plattekill. The
land east from the Plattekill can be traced to a 1686 survey of William deMyer and adjacent that to
the south to Peter Winne the same year. The only names in these early grants that can be associated
with the west side of the Plattekill are Matias and John Mattison who William deMyer claims half
ownership to the Plattekill with in 1680.
“Mattyse Mattise” is one of the first twelve Trustees of the Kingston Commons in 1687. The land
this house sits on is granted early in the life of the Kingston Commons and since William deMyer
gained large holdings it is likely that the other founders did also.
Looking back at the mill reference it is logical to trace this and other stone houses on the west of
these fertile flats of Saugerties to Mattyse Mattise just as all those on the east are traced to William
deMyer.
This house has a lower half below grade access on one side so it is technically a bank house. The
look of the house is level to the plane of the fields that it faces to the southeast. This resembles all of
the Myer houses.
A concept worth exploring is that the names of these early settlers were that of their profession.
Myer would be a stone cutter and Mattise would be a thatcher. The houses may be similar because
they were all designed by the same person.
Another idea worth exploring is that the smaller houses built into the bank were year round and
the larger level plane houses were used during the growing season. The smaller houses would be
built into the bank because they were built over a spring and the water would be accessible in the
winter months. The larger houses would be used to board the field workers (slaves) needed to till
the thousands of acres of land located a distance from the main habitation center of Kingston.
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42º01'51"N, 74º00'15"W
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April 9th, 1669, permit was given to construct a mill at a
place called “Dead Men’s Bones” that was a mile above the
“footpath leading to Albany” crossing of the Plattekill. At
this same session the farm fields below this place stretching
south were also granted provided that all the grantees
build their houses together “on the other side of the kill”
so as to make a “township within the precinct of Kingston”.
The two stone houses built close to each other and adjacent
to the Vlykill mill stream are likely descendants of this
grant to its petitioners, Tjerck Claus deWitt and William
Montania. The rest of the petitioners, including Thomas
Chambers, Jan Oosterhout, Jan Burhans and Cornelius
Vernoy were the founding settlers of “Dutch Settlement”
(Ruby on the Ulster side and Plattekill on the Saugerties
side of the crossing.) At this time this settlement is on the
northern frontier of Kingston and pre-dates the formation
of both the Counties and the Commons by many years. The
grant as a “Precinct of Kingston” presages the future
bounds of both of these political entities up and into The
Sagiers (Saugerties).
Though this house and its close neighbors may not actually
have been built at the early date of these grants, their
location marking the expansion of the Kingston Colony and
the early date placed on their construction of before 1730
makes them and this “precinct” important as historical
landmarks.
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Narrative additions:
April 9th, 1669, permit was given to construct a mill at a
place called “Dead Men’s Bones” that was a mile above the
“footpath leading to Albany” crossing of the Plattekill. At
this same session the farm fields below this place stretching
south were also granted provided that all the grantees
build their houses together “on the other side of the kill”
so as to make a “township within the precinct of Kingston”.
The two stone houses built close to each other and adjacent
to the Vlykill mill stream are likely descendants of this
grant to its petitioners, Tjerck Claus deWitt and William
Montania. The rest of the petitioners, including Thomas
Chambers, Jan Oosterhout, Jan Burhans and Cornelius
Vernoy were the founding settlers of “Dutch Settlement”
(Ruby on the Ulster side and Plattekill on the Saugerties
side of the crossing.) At this time this settlement is on the
northern frontier of Kingston and pre-dates the formation
of both the Counties and the Commons by many years. The
grant as a “Precinct of Kingston” presages the future
bounds of both of these political entities up and into The
Sagiers (Saugerties).
Though this house and its close neighbors may not actually
have been built at the early date of these grants, their
location marking the expansion of the Kingston Colony and
the early date placed on their construction of before 1730
makes them and this “precinct” important as historical
landmarks.
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28.4-10-2.113
42º01'41"N, 73º59'23"W
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This address has two houses. The dominant house is the large 1863
federal-style residence. The most important is the “Second Brink House”,
a stone house in extreme disrepair that is hidden in the trees behind the
main residence. There is also a Brink family cemetery north of the stone
house. The date of this house is from an inscribed stone on the east end
reading “HB 1743”. The HB is for Henry Brink according to the DAR “Old
Stone Houses of Saugerties Township” (1976).
The structuring of this stone house within the second generation of the
Brink family’s occupation of this land grant from the Kingston Commons
in 1688 and this cemetery close by makes the Second Brink House the
main house of the Brink family and an important landmark on the King’s
Highway for over a hundred years. The flavor of the early history of the
southern part of the town of Saugerties would be lost if this house were
lost.
When the Kingston Commons north extent was made the south bounds of
Albany County in 1687 the wagon road that became the King’s Highway
became the main transit route for every use of the part of Kingston that
later became the town of Saugerties. These were all common fields,
pastures and woodlots. The population of the tightly settled areas farmed,
grazed and gathered firewood for subsistence and for trade in the
commons and each of their droving and carting activities back and forth
passed the door of the Second (and First) Brink stone house along the
King’s Highway.
All land communication and commerce between Albany to the north and
Philadelphia to the south also passed on this highway. The location of the
Second Brink House would make it, similar to the Wynkoop house just to
the north of the early Albany County line, a likely inn of the time. The
similarity between these two houses in their width and division would
have their sizes intended for both residential and inn use within the same
structure.
It may be presumed that the large brick Federal-style residence presently
occupied at this address was also a Brink house. This is now called the
Boice Farm and Boices have occupied this farm for generations now. The
bulk of the farm is over 170 acres and involves the outbuildings and
farmstands that are related to this brick house. The Boice farm may define
the north extent of the original Brink lands.
Immediately south of the present farm bounds is another Brink house of
an earlier Federal-style dated to 1851. In the area of the original Kingston
Commons grant of 1688 to the founder Brink, then, there are the First,
Second, Third and the brick house on this site, the Forth Brink house.
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This address has two houses. The dominant house is the large 1863 federal-style
residence. The most important is the “Second Brink House”, a stone house in extreme
disrepair that is hidden in the trees behind the main residence. There is also a Brink
family cemetery north of the stone house. The date of this house is from an inscribed
stone on the east end reading “HB 1743”. The HB is for Henry Brink according to the
DAR “Old Stone Houses of Saugerties Township” (1976).
The structuring of this stone house within the second generation of the Brink family’s
occupation of this land grant from the Kingston Commons in 1688 and this cemetery
close by makes the Second Brink House the main house of the Brink family and an
important landmark on the King’s Highway for over a hundred years. The flavor of
the early history of the southern part of the town of Saugerties would be lost if this
house were lost.
When the Kingston Commons north extent was made the south bounds of Albany
County in 1687 the wagon road that became the King’s Highway became the main
transit route for every use of the part of Kingston that later became the town of
Saugerties. These were all common fields, pastures and woodlots. The population of
the tightly settled areas farmed, grazed and gathered firewood for subsistence and
for trade in the commons and each of their droving and carting activities back and
forth passed the door of the Second (and First) Brink stone house along the King’s
Highway.
All land communication and commerce between Albany to the north and
Philadelphia to the south also passed on this highway. The location of the Second
Brink House would make it, similar to the Wynkoop house just to the north of the
early Albany County line, a likely inn of the time. The similarity between these two
houses in their width and division would have their sizes intended for both
residential and inn use within the same structure.
It may be presumed that the large brick Federal-style residence presently occupied at
this address was also a Brink house. This is now called the Boice Farm and Boices
have occupied this farm for generations now. The bulk of the farm is over 170 acres
and involves the outbuildings and farmstands that are related to this brick house.
The Boice farm may define the north extent of the original Brink lands.
Immediately south of the present farm bounds is another Brink house of an earlier
Federal-style dated to 1851. In the area of the original Kingston Commons grant of
1688 to the founder Brink, then, there are the First, Second, Third and the brick house
on this site, the Forth Brink house.
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The south portion of this house is the original Brink Homestead house.
April 9th, 1669, permit was given to construct a mill at a place called “Dead Men’s Bones” that was
a mile above the “footpath leading to Albany” crossing of the Plattekill. At this same session the
farm fields below this place at “a certain neck of land five miles distance from Kingston over the
Kill near the footpath leading to Albany, containing about fifty-four acres good and clear land”were
also granted provided that the grantees build their houses together “on the other side of the kill”
so as to make a “township within the precinct of Kingston”.
The “neck of land” directly across the kill and on the footpath to Albany is the same land said to
have been deeded in 1688 to Cornelius Lambertse Brink by the Kingston Commons immediately
after its founding. The Brink lands and the two stone houses that define its extent occupy this neck.
This neck is defined by the backwash low fields of the Plattekill on its west and the low fields at the
confluence of the Plattekill and Esopus Kills on its east. It runs level to the northeast and terraces
down to the northwest at a low flat field that diverts the King’s Highway in a broad “S”-curve.
The King’s Highway has its name by Act of the colonial assembly, 1703. It is first mentioned in the
early Dutch Settlement grant of 1669 as the “footpath to Albany”. In the 1677 formalizing of the
treaty of 1663 it is called “the road from Katskill”. Sometime between these dates it progressed from
an Indian path to a wagon road. From Kingston southwestward it is called the “Old Mine Road”
before the 1703 Act made it the King’s Highway for its entire length.
The land of the Brink deed has long been claimed as the second oldest land transaction in
Saugerties after the Meals and Hays patents of May 31, 1687. It may be the oldest if it is derived
from the 1669 grants since this precedes the Kingston patent from which the 1688 Brink deed is said
to be granted. The house and the homestead may date to an even earlier time. Just as the Meals
and Hays patent deeded back to John and Hannah Wood who had occupied this land way before
the 1687 date of that patent, the earlier “Dutch Settlement” grant and the confirmative Kingston
Commons deed may have been recognizing a much earlier occupation of the Brink land since it is
described as “clear and good land”.
This “clear and good land” comment may also mean that this land was an Indian plantation
abandoned after the end of the Second Esopus War in 1663. If so, the “Dead Men’s Bones” location
could mark a burial ground and this would indicate that an Indian village was here also.
The date 1701 on an inscription in the stone of the house is a logical year for placing its
construction. The provision of the 1669 grant that settlement must be in a close grouping on the
Kingston side of the Kill means that the land was worked and the houses were remote from it
between 1669 and around 1701.
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This Federal-style brick house is associated with the Brink
family and their ownership of the lands along the King’s
Highway on the southern boundary of the Town of
Saugerties since 1688.
Along with the original Brink homestead house to the
south, the Second Brink House to the north and the grand
Federal-style structure that overshadows it these four
structures show the transition of dwelling types as a family
goes from frontier necessities to a prosperous identity as
their housing priorities. These four houses all within sight
of each other on the King’s Highway uniquely illustrate
Saugerties’ economic and cultural growth over its first 200
years in the homes of a single founding family.
This house appears to have been updated to be more
expansive and stylish. The date engraved in its porch
stepping stone of 1851 would signal the completion of this
stage.
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A 1680 ownership to half the Platte Kill and a mill is
certified as belonging to William deMyer by the
Corporation of Kingston along with a later 1686 survey of
two pieces of meadow totaling 89 acres upon its founding
in 1687. This land commenced at the falls at the corner of
the Plattekill and extended eastward to the location of this
stone house.
The land immediately south was that of Peter Winne with
his stone house to the west. Further south extending to the
lower reach of the Plattekill before it enters the Esopus was
the tract of Cornelious Lambertse Brink. Together these
three made up the founding settlers of Saugerties.
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A schoolhouse and a church were the public face of every
hamlet community in early Saugerties. The school in
Plattekill was closed in 1963 when the district was
consolidated into the Mount Marion school. This is one of
the few one-room schoolhouses that remains intact.
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This is the Plattekill Reformed Church built in 1834 on a lot
donated from Brink land and Winne land. The donated
land is from parts of the Peter Winne grant of 1686 and the
Cornelius Lambertse Brink grant of 1688. These names
were associated with the New Dorp (Hurley) settlement of
1663 and the Dutch Reformed Church of Wiltwyck
(Kingston). Their descendants were still following this
traditional relationship a hundred and fifty years later.
The strong relationship of the farming population to the
Dutch Reform Church relates to the area of the
“Churchland” of Saugerties. In addition to their own farms
the part of the Kingston Commons north of the early land
grants that immediately surround the Plattekill Reformed
Church were overseen by these farmers. The crop yield
from these lands was long used for support of the Dutch
Reformed Church of Kingston.
With the division and sale of all of the Kingston Commons
and the forming of the town of Saugerties in 1811 the
Plattekill Reformed Church soon after was necessary for
the new identity this change brought to this community.
These two sturdy and impressively aesthetic structures on
this highly visible stretch of the King’s Highway are
representative of this new community’s pride and their
continuance of their Dutch culture in this part of
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This is the Plattekill Reformed Church stone house parsonage.
The Plattekill Reformed Church was built in 1834 on a lot donated
from Brink land and Winne land. The parsonage was later built in
1845 with the stone for its construction and its hauling to the site
donated by the parishioners. The donated land is from parts of the
Peter Winne grant of 1686 and the Cornelius Lambertse Brink
grant of 1688. These names were associated with the New
Dorp(Hurley) settlement of 1663 and the Dutch Reformed Church
of Wiltwyck (Kingston). Their descendants were still following
this traditional relationship a hundred and fifty years later.
The strong relationship of the farming population to the Dutch
Reform Church relates to the area of the “Churchland” of
Saugerties. In addition to their own farms the part of the Kingston
Commons north of the early land grants that immediately
surround the Plattekill Reformed Church were overseen by these
farmers. The crop yield from these lands was long used for
support of the Dutch Reformed Church of Kingston.
With the division and sale of all of the Kingston Commons and
the forming of the town of Saugerties in 1811 the Plattekill
Reformed Church soon after was necessary for the new identity
this change brought to this community. These two sturdy and
impressively aesthetic structures on this highly visible stretch of
the King’s Highway are representative of this new community’s
pride and their continuance of their Dutch culture in this part of
Saugerties.
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April 9th, 1669, permit was given to construct a mill at a place called “Dead Men’s Bones” that was
a mile above the “footpath leading to Albany” crossing of the Plattekill. At this same session the
farm fields below this place at “a certain neck of land five miles distance from Kingston and over
the Kill near the footpath leading to Albany containing about 54 acres of good and clear land”was
also granted provided that all the grantees build their houses together “on the other side of the kill
due north from the land of Thomas Chambers” so as to make a “township within the precinct of
Kingston”.
The two stone houses built close to each other and adjacent to the Vlykill mill stream and the
remains of any other houses in the vicinity of the “neck” of land are likely descendants of this
grant to the petitioners Tjerck Claus deWitt and William Montania at Dead Men’s Bones, and the
petitioners Thomas Chambers, Jan Oosterhout, Jan Burhans and Cornelius Vernoy at the “good and
clear land”.
Good and clear land likely meant that this 54 acres was an Indian plantation. The reference to bones
may have been to an Indian burial ground. If this is the case there is probably the site of an Indian
village near the location of these stone houses.
This house is designated the “Winne House” in the DAR directory of stone houses of Saugerties
(1976). This likely references a document of May 3, 1686 registering a survey of “87 acres in
Kingston upon ye north side of Esopus Kill, and fronts on ye Platte Kill” laid out for Peter Winne.
Ownership by grant is not necessarily meant by a survey. The fields were mostly leased at this time.
The lease would have been a reserve later made into a grant once the Kingston Commons patent
placed title transfer in this area in the Trustees. The earliest of the deeds in the lettered books of the
Trustees’ are to such surveys.
The names on these early documents are the founding settlers of “Dutch Settlement” (Ruby on the
Ulster side and Plattekill on the Saugerties side of the crossing.) At this time this settlement is on
the northern frontier of Kingston, the earliest pre-dating the formation of both the Counties and the
Commons by many years. The concept of a “Precinct of Kingston” presages the future bounds of
both of these political entities up and into The Sagiers (Saugerties).
Though this house and its close neighbors may not actually have been built at the early date of
these 1686 documents, their location marking the expansion of the Kingston Colony and the early
date placed on their construction of before 1730 makes them and this “precinct” important as
historical landmarks.
This house is a modern re-construction made utilizing the stone walls of the original house that
burned to the ground in 1976. It is a good example of the use of physical historic remains in a way
that they can be saved for just this purpose of locating events from the distant past.
At the same time as the Winne reference for the location of this house there is a recorded grant to
William Haines and another to John Tyson, both within the present town of Saugerties and both on
the Hudson, the former referencing “Maudlin Island” and the latter ”Callicoon Hooke” but there is
no physical or record trace as in this house to know where these are today. Physical remains that
can be used to locate early documentation of references to Indian villages and burial grounds, such
as “Dead Men’s Bones”, are essential for a complete understanding of the early history of the town.
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Pages from Town of Saugerties, New York, Historic Resources Survey, March, 2005
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This is one of the last estate-type houses built in Saugerties.
Beginning in the 1880’s wealthy individuals began to buy
up farmlands in Saugerties to create private retreats. This
house was built to overlook the steep Plattekill gorge on the
west and the broad pastures to the northeast. The lawns
were cut off from the house when they fell under the right
of way for the New York State Thruway.
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