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From: Robert and Janice Freeman <>
Subject: [NYDUTCHE] Re: Crum Elbow
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 08:55:48 -0700


Leemae asked:

> I am researching the above names in Dutchess
> Co. But, today am also wondering about the
> Caleb Brown family who were living in Crum
> Elbow, Dutchess Co. in the early to mid
> 1700's. Could someone tell me about Crum
> Elbow and how to research it.

>From Henry Noble MacCracken's Old Dutchess Forever! The Story of an
American County. New York: Hastings House, 1956.

pp. 50-51: The Nine Partners grant in 1697 covered the eastern part of Hyde
Park, most of Clinton and Stanford, all of Pleasant Valley, Washington, and
Amenia, and the south part of Northeast, except for the Oblong portions then
in Connecticut.

p. 58: On 16 December 1737, the legislature divided Nine Partners into seven
precincts. Crum Elbow precinct included Hyde Park and Lower Nine Partners.

Here are some sources that are useful in researching Crum Elbow people. The
last three are not specific to Crum Elbow, but you will find people who
lived there mentioned in them. All of them are available on microfilm from
the LDS Family History Library.

1. Buck, Clifford M. Crum Elbow Tax Lists - Dutchess Co., New York. Salt
Point, New York: Clifford M. Buck, [197?]. Available as LDS Family History
Library microfilm no. 982,317, item 4.

2. Buck, Clifford; McDermott, William. ³18th Century Documents of Nine
Partners Patent, Dutchess Co., N.Y.² Collections of the Dutchess Co.
Historical Society, Vol. X, 1979. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1979.

3. New York. Dutchess County. County Clerk¹s Office. Ancient Documents.
LDS Family History Library microfilm nos. 925,805, 925,806, and 925,807.

4. New York. Dutchess County. County Clerk. Deed Records, 1718-1901. LDS
Family History Library microfilm numbers 565,013 - 565,176 and indexes
565,253 - 565,277.

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