History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess (!) county (1897) (14778537592)

Identifier: historyoflittlen01hunt (find matches)
Title: History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess (!) county
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Huntting, Isaac
Subjects:
Publisher: Amenia NYC : Charles Walsh & Co., printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



Text Appearing Before Image:
yesterdayowing to my absence. I only returned from home last evening. Accord-ing to your request I called on the Comptroller and examined his bookand found that none of the number of the lots you sent me are paid for.those lots which you mention had been confiscated and sold by the statewould cost more money to make out their exemtion than all the quit rentswould amount to on the whole lots in your list. The lots in your list are21, and the amount the state requires for the quit rents and commutationin all only amounts to $17.01. That must be paid before the first day ofApril next, and if it is not paid by that time, as the law stands, it will beincreased six times the amount it now is. I am, Dear Sir, yours, Stephen Thorn. Mr. Bostwick sent the amount which the Comptroller receiptedMarch 4th, 1823, in full of all Quit Rent, past and future, charged insaid land. This was the end of quit rents. Pine Plains having now a legal habitation and a name, I leave NorthEast for the coming man.
Text Appearing After Image:
This Map Represents Residents in i860 and Earlier the Roads are same as now. CHAPTER XLTOWN OF PINE PLAINS. What about the geology of the town. Doctors disagree in diagnosis,and yet the town is too interesting a field to pass without saying somethingin regard to its general features. Pine Plains furnishes a variety in thisline. Slate rock, lime rock solid and in layers and jagged spurs withnotches and crevices and ragged edges, lime stone shale, glacier depositsand drift. But the oldest thing in the town is Stissing Mountain. Whethereozoic or paleozic, lower or upper Silurian or lower or upper Laurentian,or any of the intermediates of these, it is better baked thanany other geological relic in town. It was in the great hot bakery a littlelonger—just a few minutes—and the sediment of sand-stone, gravel, clay,granite dust and such like—no shells then—were most thoroughly bakedand crystallized into gneiss, schist, mica and other quartzlike hard stuff,and when it made its appearan