Notes:

"Silas D. Dexter, son of Jonathan and Pheobe Ann (Reynolds) Dexter, was born 30
August 1857 and died 28 July 1922 (S.D. Bible Record). He operated the Pond
View Boarding House. He married, about 1880, Emma Bernsdorff, who was born in
Germany, 23 April 1863, and died at the home of her daughter, Victoria
Freiermuth, at Atco, Wayne Co., PA, 4 June 1930 after two years of illness. She
immigrated with her family from Germany when she was nine years of age, (DVN 13
June 1930). Silas and Emma were buried in the Glen Cove Cemetery, Narrowsburg,
NY. " (Popliearz)

Silas married Emma Bernsdorff about 1880. Emma was born on 23 Apr 1863 in Germany; died in Jun 1930 in At Home Of Her Daughter, Victoria, At Atco, Wayne Co., PA After A 2 Year Illness.; was buried in Glen Cove Cemetery, Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Arthur Dexter was born on 15 Aug 1882 in Barkley Lake, Damascus Twp., PA; died on 7 Feb 1967 in Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY At His Home.; was buried in Glen Cove Cemetery, Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY.
2. Pearl Dexter was born on 5 Jun 1888 in Atco Or Barkley's Lake, PA; died on 4 Feb 1963 in At Home Of Her Daughter, Winifred, Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY; was buried in Glen Cove Cemetery, Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY.
3. Victoria Dexter was born on 14 Feb 1890 in Atco, Wayne Co., PA; died on 4 Apr 1963 in Wayne Memorial Hospital, Honesdale, Wayne Co., PA; was buried in Glen Cove Cemetery, Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY.
4. Adolph M. Dexter was born on 5 Feb 1893 in Damascus Twp., Wayne Co., PA; died on 31 Oct 1961 in Damascus Twp., Wayne Co., PA At His Home After A Long Illness.; was buried in Glen Cove Cemetery, Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY.
5. Marguerite O. Dexter was born on 27 Sep 1896 in Atco, Wayne Co., PA; died on 5 Jan 1990 in Community General Hospital, Harris, NY; was buried in Glen Cove Cemetery, Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY.
6. Lillie Dexter was born on 8 Jul 1903; died on 29 Aug 1903.
7. Lowisa Dexter was born on 11 Oct 1907 in Damascus Twp., Wayne Co., PA.

Notes:

Was the 3rd Justice of the Peace at Big Eddy.
Tombstone under a large tree at Glen Cove Cemetery.
The Glen Cove Cemetery Listing at the Delaware Co. web site has his death year as 1868.
The 1850 census listed a second Thomas as living in the Jonathan Dexter home, no age given.
All children but Phebe (NY) were born in PA.
Another Moses Dexter family lived in the next house. A Daniel Dexter family also lived in the next home. Probably all brothers.

There is an Elam Dexter buried near Jonathan and Phebe d. 2/27/1864 age 43y, 11m, 17d (from Glen Cove listing).

From August 29, 1850 Census, Damascus Twp., Wayne Co., PA, dwelling #231, family #232, Henry Welsh, Enumerator:
Value of Attended Can read &
Name: Age: Sex: Occupation: Real Estate: Born: School: Write:
Jonathon Dexter 49 M Farmer $1,000 NY No
Phebe 30 F NY
David 23 M Farmer PA
Moses 21 M PA
George 19 M PA Yes
Louisa 16 F PA
Elias 13 M PA Yes
Sarah 10 F PA Yes
Jonathon 7 M PA Yes
Thomas 4 M PA
Octavia 7/12 F PA
Thomas M PA
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Will of Jonathan DEXTER

Surrogate Court, Wills, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, DEXTER, Jonathan, Damascus 2-291-292:

Wayne Co. Will Book 2:291, No. 1156 Last Will and Testament of Jonathan Dexter

In the name of God amen I Jonathon DEXTER of the Township of Damascus County of Wayne and state of Pennsylvania being sick in body but of sound mind memory and understanding. (Praised be God for it.) Considering the certainty of Death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and to the end that I may be better prepaired to leave this world whenever it Should please God to call me hence do therefore make and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner following that is to say first and principally I commited my soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator and as to my affairs here my desire is to be Buried decently and that all my debts and funeral expenses be paid as soon after my decease as conveniently may be. I give and bequeath the farm situate in the Township of Damascus County and State aforesaid known as the Homestead or Residence to my two sons Thomas and Silas Reserving for my dear wife Phebe Ann Her maintenance from the same during her life or as long as she remains my widow also to use and occupy the Dwelling house as long as she
remains a widow as aforesaid and to have and to hold the household goods Beds and Bedding Chairs tables Stoves Spinning wheels and all thing belonging to the household for her benefit and to bring up the minor Children I give and bequeath to my two minor Children Daughters Victoria and Harriet one hundred dollars each on their becoming twenty one years of age. And to my daughter Octavia I give and bequeath ten dollars to Amanda Canfield I give and bequeath fifty dollars to my grand son Marion Thomas I give and bequeath ten dollars.

And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint Jonathan Stanton of Damascus aforesaid Sole executor and my Wife Ann Sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament declaring all former Wills void and further Request the Executor and Executrix to see to and give the four minor Children a good Common English Education as circumstances will permit - and the outstanding dues and demands I recommend to be collected and applied on my just debts which I think will satisfy the same if not to sell some of the stock on the farm to discharge the same and I bequest the personal property after paying as aforesaid to my wife to keep and bring up the minor Children the two boys and girls above cited.. In Testimony whereof I the Testator have to this My last Will and Testament set my hand and seal the fourth day of April AD 1867.

Jonathan Dexter (LS)

Signed sealed and declared by said Testator as and for his last will and Testament in presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other hast subscribed our names as witnesses.

Wayne County, PA
T W [illegible]
John [illegible -- Huber or Haber?]
Stephen C. Wright

This day before me Thomas Hawley Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration personally came John [illegible -- Huber or Haber?] and Stephen C. Wright the subscribing witnesses to the above Will who being duly sworn according to law do say that they were present and saw and heard Johnathan Dexter the Testator sign seal publish pronounce and declare the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last Will and Testament and that at the time of so doing he was of sound mind memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief. Witness my hand and seal at the Registers Office in Honesdale this 10th day of February 1868. {Reg. Seal} Thomas Hawkey Register

And now to wit in the same day Letters Testamentary were granted to the above name Executor and Executrix. (See files) Thomas Hawkey Register
Probated 2/10/1868 (Popielarz).

Jonathan married Phoebe Anne Reynolds on 30 Jun 1836 in Cochecton, NY. Phoebe (daughter of Jonathan Reynolds and Mary O'toole) was born on 4 May 1819 in New York, USA; died on 12 Jan 1900 in Scranton, PA; was buried in 1900 in Glen Cove Cemetery, Narrowsburg, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Glen Cove Cemetery Listing had Phebe born 1819.

Notes:

per: Coe Dexter Manuscript@Narrowsburg Library, NY.
enlisted Feb 1, 1776 in 2nd Segment of NY Troops. Much has been written and related about Jonathan Dexter. Judge in Sullivan Co., Prominent Freemason, builder of Narrowsburg bridge and many other achievements. Still alive in 1824. Census date of death and burial place not certain. Prosperous entrepreneur, sawmill, tanneries, landowner - Holbert Mill, settled in Sullivan Co. Tusten Narrowsburg.
Source: BBG research - Coe Dexter manuscript - Skinner notes, deeds per hist. of Sullivan Co. living at Homans Eddy, Narrowsburg in 1792.

From Hist. of Sullivan Co., one of the most intelligent of the early inhabitants. One of the Justices of the Peace first appointed after the passage of the act erecting the county; was a member of the first grand jury, and represented Lumberland in 1819 in the Board of Supervisors. Subsequently a Judge of the County Court.
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Jonathan was appointed Justice of the Peace for Lumberland on June 1, 1809.
"History of Sullivan County", James Eldridge Quinlan edited by David M. Gold, Marielle Press, South Fallsburg, NY 1993, pp. 102-3.
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From Popielarz:
He bought for 203 pounds of New York lawful money some 979 acres of land along the Delaware River from Jonathan Hasbrouck of Kingston, NY, on 23 June 1797. (Ulster Co. Deed Book 00:221).
Jonathan was an active member of the St. Tammany Masonic Lodge. Arthur Meyers says: "The charter was issued by the Grand Lodge of PA on June 24, 1800 with Reuben Skinner (brother of Daniel) as Master, Aaron Pierce as Sr. Warden and Jonathan Dexter as Jr. Warden."
In 1803 Jonathan was listed as master of the Lodge. The lodge met at St. Tammany's flats until 1812 when the meetings were moved to Caleb Laggett's Tavern in the villiage of Damascus, PA. It was here according to family tradition that Jonathan's wife hid in a closet and listened to the Masonic rituals. This created an uproar in the Lodge.

Jonathan of the town of Lumberland, Sullivan Co., NY purchased property at Montague, NJ, on 2 May 1803 (Sussex Co. Deed Book K: 78). He and his wife Laura sold it on 1 Feb 1814.

On 29 Oct 1814, Jonathan and Jeremiah Lillie purchased 100 acres of land along the Delaware River in Damascus Twp., Wayne Co., PA, from Amos Tyler and his wife Sarah for $1,000 (Wayne Co. Deed Book 4:165). On 13 May 1815, Jonathan and Jeremiah also purchased for $1,000 another 100 acres in Damascus along the Delaware from Joseph Mitchell and his wife Abigail, Stephen Mitchell and his wife Hannah, and Abraham Mitchell and his wife Mary.

Jonathan was alive in 1824 when he was listed in a deed transfer in Sullivan Co., NY. As Laura is listed as head of household in the 1830 census, Jonathan apparently died between 1824 and 1830.

Jonathan married Mary Ennis about 1794. Mary (daughter of Daniel Ennis and Eleanor Hornbeck) was born about 1775; died in Prob. Died Young. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Damascus Cem.:
John Ennis d. 29Dec 1842 age 23 yr. 3 mo. b.1819
Ennis d. 29 Dec 1847 age 23 yr. 2 mo. 26 ds
Sarah wife of Lewis Ennis d 29 Sep 18--

Jonathan + Mary O'toole. Mary and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Settled in Sullivan Co.,Tusten, Narrowsburg, NY 1754 located near Cochecton Falls. Source: Dexter-Campfield Genealogy.
Prosperous entrepreneur, sawmill, tanneries, landowner Hobert Mill.
"He came to the Cushetunk Settlement sometime before the Revolutionary War." (Popielarz)
Jonathan Dexter settled on the Poss place on the west side of the river, soon after the Rev. war. A man named John Summerfield lived on the same farm.
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John Land is the second Branch of the Land family. The most commonly occurring surnames in this branch are: Appley, Sheard, and Burcher.

John Land

John was the oldest son of Robert and Phebe Scott. In April 1777, Robert and Phebe appeared before the Committee of safety, a tribunal held to hear charges of treason against the Patriots. Robert was found guilty and condemned to prison, but he escaped from his captors and fled into the hllls. leaving Phebe and the family to carry on at their homestead. One night the Indians raided their farm and burned down their home, however they managed to escape only through the intervention of a friendly Indian, but Abel was carried off in the
raid. John, with a group of neighbours, followed and overtook the raiders. He bargained successfully for his brother's release, but not before Abel was forced to run the gauntlet, escaping with minimum injury due to his speed.

On a trip to the grist mill to get flour for the family, John and a friend were captured and taken to prison at Minisink by a Capt. Mush, who was on his first trip to Cochecton. John was abused by his captors and sent to a prison in New Jersey known as the "Log Jail" where he remained for the duration of the war.

After the war he returned to Conchecton, married Lillian Skinner, daughter of Daniel Skinner, former neighbour and friend of Robert Land. As John had not been personally involved in the war due to his imprisonment, he was able to purchase 433 acres of the original Land farm from "Joseph Thomas and Jonathan Dexter for 5 pounds of New York money good and lawful".

Phebe Land with two of her sons Robert and Ephraim, stopped off to see John and Lillian on their way from New Brunswick to Niagara. John tried to persuade them to remain with him as they thought their father was dead, but Phebe was determined to go on to Niagara.

In 1796 John built a large two storey house between the Thomas farm and Milanville. Known as "The Old Red House', it stands today in a good state of preservation and is believed to be the oldest frame house in Wayne Co. PA In 1815 John sold the property to Nathan Skinner for $10,000, and purchased land at Ashland known as Stanton Corners. In 18828 the building in Damascus that housed St. Tamany Lodge 83 burned down and the lodge moved into the third floor of the former Land home.

page 2-1 from A LOYLIST LEGACY THE FAMILY OF ROBERT LAND
DORTHY I. BROWN
1804-35 FRONT ST. S.
MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO L5H 2C5 She no longer lives here but all her mail is forwarded to her by the present owner. This is of last year 1999 that I heard this.
lacoe@microserve.net
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See: Heads of Fams at the first U.S. census. Ct. By U.S. Bureau of the Census. Washington, 1908. (227p.):147 Record of Conn. Men in mil. And naval service during the Rev. war, 1775-1783. By Henry P.Johnston. Hartford. 1889.
(17,779p.): 173, 505
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Jonathan married Charity Thomas about 1773 in Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY. Charity (daughter of Aaron Thomas, Sr. and Alice Chichester) was born in 1755 in Fairfield Co., CT; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source: Bradeley 1927 newspaper article, Wayne Independent
Source: Ruth Molloy & Penelope Branning, Skinner file, Census, History books.

m. Matthew or Mathias Calkins per Calkin file.
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Source: Bradley 1927newspaper Article Wayne Independent
Source:Ruth Molloy & Penelope Branning
Skinner file,Census,History bks.
m. Matthew or Mathias Calkins per Calkin file

per The Thomas Saga: p.77 During the beginning years when searching for information about the early Thomas family members I kept running into one name that people would mention with a lifted eyebrow - Charity -Aaron Thomas' fifth daughter. It appears that Charity had been greatly maligned these many years with a scandalous story of three of four different husbands. This had even been found in print and naturally accepted as truth. Charity Thomas married Jonathan Dexter, and was the mother of Jonathan Dexter II, born in 1774. Now it is patently impossible that she would be the mother of two more babies born that same year; Oliver Calkins, born 1774, who was supposed to have married Hannah Thomas, daughter of Moses II, and Hannah Anderson also born in 1774, who they say married Michael Branning. Obviously Oliver Calkins and Hannah Anderson do not belong to Charity.
Jonathan and Charity had two known children, Jonathan II (born 1774) and his sister Louise, and no doubt several more. A bit of family lore was the fact that their grandson, Aaron Dexter, born June 9, 1796, married Mary Thomas in 1817, the daughter of his great-uncle Joseph Thomas, his grandmother Charity's brother, They lived in Tyler Hill, Pennsylvania and had four boys and five girls. Some time after 1850 they moved west along with a Calkin family.
Charity may have married a second time after Jonathan died or was divorced, to a Mr. Anderson, but she never married an Oliver Calkins for they are all identified, with proof of wives and dates. Charity's descendants are found in the back of this book.

"The Thomas Saga" by Marjorie T. Anderson, 1991 @ Equinunk Historical Society in 1997, Boonville Graphics Inc.

Daniel married Eleanor Hornbeck on 26 Dec 1766 in Minisink, Orange Co., NY. Eleanor (daughter of Evert Hornbeck and Esther Cuddeback) was born on 12 Jan 1746 in Minisink, Orange Co., NY; died on 14 Feb 1837. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]