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Deerpark and Mount Hope

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Before leaving the town of Deerpark and her younger sister Mount Hope, we place before the reader a list of the names who signed it in Mamacoting. Up to and till after the war of the Revolution, the district of country then known as Mamacoting, extended from Rochester in Ulster down along the valley to Minisink, and included the area now covered by Deerpark. While many names—such as Swartwout, Depue, Cuddeback, Van Inwegen, De Witt, Gumaer, etc.—will be recognised as belonging to Deerpark, others on the list will be found belonging to the present town of Mamakating. We preserve the original spelling as found on the record, and as we cannot distinguish the names which properly belong to Orange from those which may belong to Sullivan and Ulster, we must leave the citizens of the town to select their own patriot ancestors.

From an inspection of all the returns made by the Committees of Safety throughout the colonies in 1775, we pronounce old Mamacoting the banner town for Revolutionary patriotism; for the President of the Committee, John Young, returned to Congress that the pledge was unanimously signed by all the freeholders and inhabitants of the precinct, June 26, 1775,” which was not the fact in any other instance.

John Young,

Philip Swartwout, Esq.

Benjamin Depue,

Capt. John Crage,

Wm. Haxton,

John McKinstry,

Benj. Cuddeback, Jr.

Robert Cook,

Harm. Van Inwegen,

T. K. Westbrook,

William Rose,

Capt. J. R. De Witt,

Abm. Cuddeback, jr.,

Samuel King,

Abna Skinner,

Fred. Benaer,

Valentine Wheeler,

Thomas Kytte,

Jonathan Brooks,

John Wallis,

Joseph Drake,

Eebenezet Parks,

Jacobus Swartwout,

Gerardus Swartwout,

Phil Swartwout, jr.,

Isaac Van Twill,

Joseph Westfork,

Petrus Gumore,

J. De Witt Gumore,

Daniel Van Fleet, jr.,

Ezekiel Gumore,

Jacob Van Inaway,

Cornel. Van Inaway,

Moses Depue, jr.

Jacobus Cuddeback,

Rufus Stanton,

Reuben Babbett,

Jonathan Weeeler,

Asa Kimball,

Robert Milliken,

Thomas Lake,

Zeh. Holcomb,

John Williams,

Matthew Neely,

Samuel Depue,

William Johnston,

James Williams,

Chas. Gillets,

Johan. Stufflebane,

Johan. Stufflebane, Jr.

James Blizard,

Thomas Combs,

James McCivers,

Joseph Hubbard,

Joan Thompson,

Samuel Dealy,

Wm. Smith,

John Harding,

Nathan Cook,

Jep. Fuller,

Eph. Thomas,

Hendry Elsworth,

Joseph Thomos,

Abr. McQuin,

John Seybolt,

Joseph Skinner,

Joseph Arthur,

David Wheeler,

John Travis,

John Travis, jr.,

Daniel Decker,

Petrus Cuddeback,

Elias Gumore,

John Brooks,

Elisha Barber,

Jonathan Davis,

Robert Comfort,

David Dayly,

Gershom Simpson,

Eph. Forgison,

Jacob Comfort,

Jacob Stanton,

Moses Miller,

Jonah Parks,

John Gillaspy,

Jno. Barber,

Sam’l Patterson,

Abraham Smedes.

Ebenezer Halcomb,

G. Van Inwegen,

Wm. Cuddeback,

Abr. Cuddeback,

Eliphalet Stevens,

Elisha Travis,

Aldert Rosa,

Adam Rivenburgh,

Eli Strickland,

David Gillaspy,

Stephen Larney,

John Stry,

Joel Addams,

Joseph Shaw,

George Gillaspy,

James Cunen,

Abraham Rosa,

Jacob Rosa,

Henry Newkirk,

Peter Simpson,

Stephen Holcomb,

Johannes Miller,

Daniel Woodworth,

Moses Roberts,

Daniel Roberts,

John Douglass,

Joseph Randal,

Nathaniel Travis,

Ezekiel Travis,

Joseph Travis,

Thos. Gillaspy,

Jeremiah Shaver,

Joseph Ogden,

Daniel Walling,

Daniel Walling, jr.

Elias Miller,

Isaac Rosa,

Abr. Smith,

George G. Denniston,

Matthew Terwilliger,

Leonard Hefinessey,

Jonathan Strickland,

Johannes Wash.

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CORRECTION.—In our statement of the number of forts ordered to be erected in Deerpark by the Committee of Safety in 1778, in what was called the “Upper Neighborhood,” and in saying that there were none in the “Lower Neighborhood,” we were in error in both particulars. The statement ought to have been, that in addition to the three enumerated there was one at the house of Major John Decker, and one at the house of Daniel Van Auken, some of which were in the “ Lower Neighborhood.” Vide pages 385-6.