Notes:

"Abraham operated the "Riverview Farm" boarding house that was located in Town of Tusten about 3 miles above Narrowsburg on the NY bank of the Delaware River. The Erie Railroad stopped in front of the hotel at what was known as "Dexter's Crossing". The Dexter and McGooey families feuded over the naming of a nearby watertower stop of the Erie. The Erie finally named the stop "Nobodies". (Popielarz).

Abraham married Elizabeth A. Conklin about 1861. Elizabeth (daughter of William Eli Conklin and Eliza G. Tyler) was born on 18 Oct 1842; died on 22 Dec 1911; was buried in Glen Cove Cemetery, Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Winfield Eli Dexter was born on 4 Mar 1862 in Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY; died on 21 Mar 1934 in Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY; was buried in Glen Cove Cemetery, Sullivan Co., NY.
2. Frederick Ennis Dexter, Sr. was born on 13 Feb 1865 in Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY; died on 17 Oct 1942 in Hospital At Albany, NY; was buried in Glen Cove Cemetery, Sullivan Co., NY.
3. Sidney Benjamin Dexter was born on 8 Aug 1866 in Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY; died on 21 Dec 1952 in Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY; was buried in Glen Cove Cemetery, Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY.
4. Bessie Susan Dexter was born on 9 Jul 1874 in Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY; died on 14 May 1961 in Honesdale, Wayne Co., PA; was buried in Glen Cove Cemetery, Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY.

William married Susan Dunning about 1829. Susan (daughter of Samuel Dunning and Mary) was born on 20 Jan 1810; died on 20 Jun 1863; was buried in Glen Cove Cemetery, Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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--

Samuel + 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.

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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.
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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.
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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]