Monday, February 1, 2010

Benjamin DePuy, Sr. Documentation List:

Submitted by Celia Snyder:

1-Letter from Minisink Valley Historical Society verifying baptism, parents, marriage
2-"Transcriptions of Early County Records of New York State" containing copy of road description signed by the highway
commissioners - Benjamin DePuy an Jacob Rutsen DeWitt
3-"Collections of the New York Genealogical and biographical Society, Vol. V, Minisink Valley Reformed Dutch Church Records" - birth records, church membership, marriages
4-"History of Sullivan County" - record of election of town officers for Mamakating, 1774 - Benj. Depuy, Supervisor, Benj. Depuy Fence Viewer
5-"Reformed Dutch Church of Walpack Historical Discourse..." - list of signers of the Act of Subordination to the Classis of Amsterdam, 1746 - Benjamin Depuy and Moses Depuy, Elders
6-"The Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Minisink" - Benjamin DePuy signed a letter to Governor clinton dated April 18, 1778
7-"The History of Orange County New York" - verifying Benjamin DePuy as a member of the Committee of Safety for Minisink in 1778
8-"A History of the Minisink Region..." - verifying Benjamin DuPuy as a member of the Committee of Safety and mentions the fort at his home
9-1800 Deerpark, Orange, NY Census
10-Copy of NSDAR Patriot Index listing Benjamin DePue
11-What seems to be a court record of the claims against his estate

Submitted by Wayne Shepard:

"A History of Deerpark in Orange County", Peter Gumaer, Minisink Valley Historical Society, Port Jervis, New York, 1890. This has some good information about his family. I found it in the library back in Bangor, ME, and copied most of it. It can be found on line - http://www.archive.org/details/historyofdeerpar00gumaer

"Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York", Roswell Randall Hoes, page 173

"Minisink Valley Reformed Dutch Church Records 1716-1830", Royden Woodward Vosburgh

History of Cayuga County, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers,Eliot G. Storke, Syracuse: D. Mason, 1879, 650 pgs.

If you haven't been aware of this, the Brodhead Family Association has put together an 11-volume (so far) "Depuy Family History by Jean M. Smith, Ruth Heidgerd, and Ann Goodwill. The early volumes are fairly well documented, but then they just compile family histories submitted to them by individuals.

I have the will of Benjamin if you need a copy.

Some of these can be found at Heritage Quest on line. There are some libraries that offer it free, and I use the Orange County, NY, Public Library site:
http://tlc.library.net/orange/

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