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Subject: Re: [D-Col] Churches in Wappingers Falls mid 1700s
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 00:33:30 EDT

In a message dated 9/24/00 9:04:24 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
writes:

<< Does anyone have a clue as to what church or where they might have been
married at ? >>

Judy,

Does not necessarily mean they married in a church. There were quite a few
couples at the time that were married in private ceremonies, upon
presentation of a license....probably at the home of a relative. New
Hackensack DRC in Wappinger Falls, if memory serves, was older than the
published records would indicate. I'm not sure when they opened their doors,
but I believe it was in the 1730s or 1740s. The published records start at
1757. Just up the road, Poughkeepsie opened its doors in 1716, but the first
marriages in the published records are 1745, and there is a 15 year gap in
the late 1740s through early 1760s, with no records at all. Fishkill, to the
south of Wappinger, opened in 1731. I checked those and didn't find an
Ebeneezer, but did find several Jones/Joons in that time period. New
Hamburgh is in the Wappinger Township. Don't know when they started up.

Van

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