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History of Orange County
Towns of Goshen, Hamptonburgh and Chester
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Inscriptions on the Monument in the Church Yard at Goshen.
North Side.
Benj. Tusten,
Col.
Samuel Jones,
Capt.
Benjamin Vail,
Capt.
Bazaliel Tyler,
Capt.
John Little,
Capt.
John Wood,
Lieut.
Ephraim Masten,
Ens.
Ephraim Middaugh,
Ens.
Nathaniel Terwilliger,
Nathaniel Finch,
Adj.
Gabriel Wisner,
Esq.
Joshua Lockwood,
John Duncan,
Capt.
Stephen Mead,
Ephraim Ferguson.
West Side.
Roger Townsend,
Jonathan Pierce,
Abram Shepherd,
Samuel Knapp,
James Little,
----- Shepherd,
James Knapp,
Joseph Norris,
Nathan Wade,
Benjamin Bennett,
Gilbert S. Vail,
Simon Wait,
William Barker,
Joel Decker,
----- Talmage.
Jacob Dunning.
South Side.
John Carpenter,
Isaac Ward,
Adam Embler,
David Barney,
Baltus Nierpos,
Samuel Little,
Jonathan Haskell,
Gamaliel Bailey,
Benjamin Dunning,
Abram Williams,
Moses Thomas,
Daniel Reed.
James Morher,
Eleazer Owens,
East Side.
Erected by the inhabitants of Orange County, July 22, 1822.
Sacred to the memory of Forty-four of their Fellow Citizens, who fell at
THE BATTLE OF MINISINK, JULY 22, 1779.
Signers of the Pledge in Orange County, 1775.
Alexander Smith,
Gideon Salmon,
Charles Tooker,
Phineas Rumsey,
Phineas Salmon,
John Pain,
William Heard,
John Meeker,
Daniel Pain,
Phienas Heard,
Joseph Browne,
Joseph Case,
Joseph Conkling,
Joseph Drake,
Benjamin Macveagh,
Benjamin Harlaw,
Samuel Haines Smith,
John Budd,
Jonathan Horton,
John Brown,
William Horton,
George Duryea,
David Horton,
William Warne,
Joshua Reeve,
Increase Wyman,
Hezekiah Warne,
John Case,
Silas Horton,
Christo. Springsteen,
John Ketchum, jr.,
Solomon Smith,
Joshua Brown,
Obadiah Helms,
Jonathan Smith,
Joshua Brown, jr.,
William Hubbard,
John Cravens,
Gezekiah Watkins,
Joseph Dixon,
John King,
Zeba Owen,
Daniel Tooker,
John Barker,
Daniel Reeve,
Garrett Duryea,
Ezra Keeler,
James Manne,
David Godfrey,
Cuppe Brooks,
Jonathan Jayne,
Isaiah Smith,
Moses Carpenter,
William Forbes,
David Youngs,
James Aspell,
John Bull,
Silas Pierson,
Samuel Wickham,
Richard Bull,
William Lesly,
Joshua Corey,
Caleb Coleman,
James Miller,
John Corey,
Coleman Curtis,
William Satterby,
Zepheniah Huff,
David Rogers,
David Rumsey,
Wm. Marshall,
David Jones,
James Mapes,
Silas Horton,
Jeremiah Butter.
     These persons probably lived in different towns of the old county of Orange, as it then was.