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History of Orange County

Town of Montgomery

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Joseph Watkins,

Henry Snider,

Benj. Hams,

Wm. Neely,

Hendrick Newkirk,

James McBride,

James Ward,

John Hill,

Henry Crist,

Jacob Crist,

Jacob Millspach,

Nicholas Davis,

John Milligan,

Johanes W. Youngblood,

Arthur McKing,

Sam’l Smith,

Dr. Clinton,

James Gillespie,

Hans Nip,

Jacob Sinseback,

Sam’l Miller,

Wm. Miller,

Wm. Comfort,

Aunt Grover,

Cobus Johnson,

Little John Neely,

David Jagger,

Georg Smith,

Wm. Moore,

Wm. Mickles,

Sam’l Rainey,

James Houston,

Cornelius Slott,

Stuffle Maul,

Andreas Trempour,

Wm. McBurney,

George Clark,

David Mingus,

James McMunn,

Thomas Neely,

William Eager,

Zachariah Codington,

Thomas McKee,

Wm. Wilkins,

Johanes Decker,

Philip Milspach,

Jonathan Low,

John Robinson,

Joseph Crawford,

Jacob Low,

James Dunglass,

James Hunter,

Peter Bodine,

Thomas Peacock,

Jacob Newkirk,

Yerry Kimbank,

Thomas Clineman,

Robert Milligan,

Philip Moul,

Peter Hill,

James Rainey,

John Lackey,

Robert Cross,

James Rea,

Samuel White,

John Comfort,

Robert Dill,

Grandy John Neely,

William Bodine,

William Crist,

Henry Neely,

Samuel Harris,

Jeremiah Fitzgerald,

Edward Burns,

Hugh Milligan,

James Jackson,

Andrew Thompson,

Jonathan Smith,

James Eager,

John Colter,

Marten Tice,

Wm. Still,

Daniel Snider,

John Gillespie,

Abraham Dickerson,

Adam Reamer,

Jacob Bodine,

Coonrad Moore,

Christian Crist,

Wm. Hill,

John Young,

Mattia Shulp,

James Milligan,

Dr. Smith,

James Latta,

Robert Thompson,

Wm. Simerall,

John Comfort,

David Smith,

Henry Neely,

Joseph Houston,

.lames McBride,

James Graham,

Peter Dubois,

Teunis Van Arsdell,

Crommas Weller,

Adam Sinseback,

Hans Weller,

Jason Wilkin,

John Contstable,

James Monel, jun.,

Wm. Jackson,

Hans Sease,

Rohert Hunter,

Robert Kidd,

From the historical review of this town, it appears that the eastern portion, extending from the west line of New Windsor to the Walkill, was originally settled almost entirely by Irishmen:—that the Valley of the Walkill was settled by emigrants from Holland and Germany:—and that the western portion, extending from Comfort's Hills, west of the Walkill, to the Shawangunk Kill, embracing the town of Crawford, was jointly settled by Irishmen and Dutchmen in the proportion of two of the former to one of the latter. Though, at the original settlement of the town, large districts were in possession of the Dutch and Germans, yet, we cannot learn that either of those languages, were ever taught in their public or private schools, except in two instances.— There was one at the foot of the hill east of the Brick Church, and another at Hans Youngblood’s for some years. The consequence was, those languages soon ran out, and though kept up by use in the family circle, in the pulpit and conversations of aged persons, they literally expired without an effort to preserve them, in the second and third generations, and by them, as by the other inhabitants, the English alone is spoken. Among the Germans are their first descendents it was very common to send to Philadelphia for Almanacs, printed in their language. They were a little prejudiced on the point, and credited a statement found in them about all the matters and things usually contained in such books, even down to the wind and weather, with an easier faith than if the same were found elsewhere.