Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell - (PDF ... - Adkinshorton.net

Gazetteer of New York I860 J.H. French pp. 569-71 & footnotes for RocklandCounty: Tappantown's settlers were the earliest of this part of (then) OrangeCounty. The 6ld courthouse which burned before the Rev. War. was oppositethe Reformed Dutch Church. Among the early settlers was CaptainCornelius Cuyper who was one of those who came to the southeast part ofthe county between 1690 and 1710. The names of most of the early Dutchsettlers here are found in the records of the Reformed Dutch Church.Orange town's hamlets were small: Tappentown, Blauveltville, OrangeMills and Middletown. (This is doubtless the Middletown from which HannahRockwell Hopper had a church dismission.) The dismissions from"Pittstown" for both Hannah and Cornelius Hopper were from the place ofthat name in the Wyoming Valley in Penna. which was on the path of theroute usually taken by the pioneers from Orange Co. N. Y. toward the MilitaryLands. Pittston is located where the East Branch of the Susquehannacomes from the northwest and from its confluence near the New York borderwith the Chemung River. There was an early Baptist Church at Pittston.N. Y. in the Revolution Vol. 1, page 164 Cornelius Hopper listed as a privatein Hathorn's 4th Orange Co. Milita; Vol. 2, page 65 Mathew Hopper's nameis given as one from whose house window leads were taken to supply thearmed forces with the metal for bullets, (page 63 has an account of thescarcity of lead for use in Rev. War patriot fighting) In 1776 the ProvincialCongress resolved that window leads were to be taken for militaryuse from inhabitant's houses.Adjutant General's Office U.S. Archives. Card #37 113 296 shows CorneliusHopper, private;-paid 14s 2 l/2d for 8 days service at Fort Montgomery,Capt. Eben'r Owen, Col Hasbrouck (this has no date but Eben'r Owen wasCapt. in Feb. 1779)Chemung County Historical Society at Elmira, N. Y. has the original documentheaded Taxables Real & Personal of the Inhabitants of Newtown 1794(Cornelius Hopper's name is on this) as well as the original Church Bookof the Baptist Society formed near present Wellsburg in 1789.Hopper Family Bible Records. These were in 1942 in the possession (whencopied by the compiler) of Miss Elizabeth Hopper of Wash. D. C. & Hume,N. Y. The first record (below) was written on a separate sheet of old paperin Rockwell Hopper's Bible."History of my Father Cornelius Hopper and fammaly. He was bornin Holland Feb. 14, 1756 and came to Jersey when a child. Hannah Rockwellhis wife was born in Connetticut Oct. 6th, 1760 and was marriedDec. 25, 1777. Cornelius died Feb. 22, 1814 and his wife Hannah onApril 7, 1839. Their children:Matthew was born Dec. 17, 1778 died Jan. 4, 1779Hannah " July 24, 1781 " Dec. 13, 1842Ollive " July 25, 1782Esther " Sept. 1, 1784Mary " Aug. 24, 1787 " Mar. 16, 1854Anna " Nov. 6, 1789Rockwell " May 1, 1792(3?)Amy " Sept. 29, 1794Margaret " Mar. 11, 1797Ira " Feb. 1, 1799Elizabeth " June 6, 1801?a? ?y " Oct. 2, 1804 (only 2nd & last letters plain)55