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Pawling for a town of over 8,000 has a rich history.
Such notable people as.
William Prendergast the first major rebellion against the British Empire in America, in 1766.
Prendergast's Rent War, a colonial American rebellion
A decade before the American Revolution, tenant farmers in the Hudson River valley massed into a revolt against their manor lords. It wasn't the first such rent rebellion but it was the largest, most organized and disciplined revolt. When its 500+ armed rebels moved on New York City, it sent America's third-largest city into a panic. My 5x great grandfather William Prendergast was the leader of this rebellion.
Prendergast prompted British regular troops to be ordered into armed conflict against the colonists for the first time. And more importantly, it came during increasing unrest in the American colonies as British Parliament levied new taxes on the colonies to pay for the American Theater of Seven Years War, here called French & Indian War.
In fact, many confused Prendergast's actions with those of the Sons of Liberty that was growing in strength and violence to combat the new taxes without representation in colonies that had governed themselves for more than a century. The actions of Prendergast and his wife risked orphaning their children.
Two decades before the revolution, 28-year-old William Prendergast married 17-year-old Mehitable Wing in 1755. Protestant Prendergast converted to the Religious Society of Friends to appease Mehitable's orthodox Quaker father, as Quakers were forbidden to marry outside the faith.
In Ireland, Prendergast was a shipwright and reportedly worked in a sawmill in the Hudson Highlands. It's possible he worked for SilasWashburn who ran a sawmill since 1745 on the West Branch of the Croton River in Carmel, NY. Despite owning most of Carmel's Main Street shops, Washburn lived in a house set on a lot leased from the Philipse Patent. Washburn later followed his friend Prendergast into rebellion and paid for it with his life.
A typical colonial American tenant farmer's house.
Prendergast settled down and leased from Lord Philipse 200 acres of wooded land along a tributary of the East Branch Croton River between Pawling and Quaker Hill for 4 pounds, 12 shillings per year, according to the 1939 book “The Hudson” by Carl Cramer. Prendergast cleared the land, used the wood to build himself a house and began farming to feed a family he would create on this side of the Atlantic.
By Christmas 1755, Mehitable was pregnant with their first child. Matthew (born 1756) was followed by Thomas (1758), Mary (1760), Elizabeth (1762), James (1764) with Mehitable pregnant in 1765 with Jedidiah – named after her father who died two years earlier. William's father Thomas had died in 1761 in Clonmel, Ireland. Reportedly, Mehitable's mother and her four youngest children moved in with the Prendergasts. William was having a hard time financially and went to Frederick Philipse III at his manor house in Yonkers to ask for more time to pay his rent.
The Iron clad Monitor commander is buried in Pawling.
http://www.adventuresaroundputnam.c...en-the-civil-wars-uss-monitor-and-pawling-ny/
The connection between the Civil War’s USS Monitor and Pawling, NY
January 19, 2013 admin
I just finished reading a children’s book – yes, a kids’ book. But hey, I picked it up for a few pennies at a book sale, and it happened to be on a topic I wanted to know a little more about. The book was “The Story of the Monitor and the Merrimac” by Conrad Stein. What does this book have to do with www.adventuresaroundputnam.com you ask? Well, Rear Admiral John Worden commanded the MONITOR during her clash with the Merrimac in the Civil War. Wooden naval ships were to become a thing of the past. John Worden can be visited at his grave in PAWLING, NY at Pawling Cemetery on Route 22. His grave is the one with the large anchor on it.
You can read about the battle on wikipedia at Battle of Hampton Roads - Wikipedia.
Governor Dewey lived in Pawling, who almost defeated Truman.
Governors from Dutchess made impact on history
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey, who began his career as a New York City prosecutor before purchasing property in the Quaker Hill area of Pawling, helped make New York the first state to outlaw racial and religious employment discrimination when he signed the Ives-Quinn bill on March 12, 1945, according to the state Hall of Governors.
The Ives-Quinn Anti-Discrimination Law, which in 1968 was renamed the Human Rights Law, created the State Commission against Discrimination, which is now called the New York State Division of Human Rights.
Broadcaster Lowell Thomas
LOWELL THOMAS, A WORLD TRAVELER AND BROADCASTER FOR 45 YEARS, DEAD
OWELL THOMAS, A WORLD TRAVELER AND BROADCASTER FOR 45 YEARS, DEAD
AUG. 30, 1981
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Reporter Edward R. Murrow.
Edward R. Murrow's Biography
Just as she handled all details of their lives, Janet Brewster, kept her in-laws informed of all events, Murrow's work, and later on about their son, Casey, born in 1945. Murrow himself rarely wrote letters. He even stopped keeping a diary after his London office had been bombed and his diaries had been destroyed several times during World War II. One of Janet's letters in the summer of 1940 tells Murrow's parents of her recent alien registration in the UK, for instance, and gives us an intimation of the couple's relationship: "Did I tell you that I am now classed as an alien? I have to be in the house at midnight. I can't drive a car, ride a bicycle, or even a horse, I suppose. If I want to go away over night I have to ask the permission of the police and the report to the police in the district to which I go. Ed has a special exemption so that he can be out when he has to for his broadcasts. He could get one for me too, but he says he likes to make sure that I'm in the house - and not out gallivanting!"2
Janet and Edward were quickly persuaded to raise their son away from the limelight once they had observed the publicity surrounding their son after Casey had done a few radio announcements as a small child. Consequently, Casey remained rather unaware of and cushioned from his father's prominence. In the late 1940s, the Murrows bought a gentleman farm in Pawling, New York, a select, conservative, and moneyed community on Quaker Hill, where they spent many a weekend. For Murrow, the farm was at one and the same time a memory of his childhood and a symbol of his success. It's where he was able to relax, he liked to inspect it, show it off to friends and colleagues, go hunting or golfing, or teach Casey how to shoot. Not surprisingly, it was to Pawling that Murrow insisted to be brought a few days before his death.
Throughout the years, Murrow quickly made career moving from being president of NSFA (1930-1932) and then assistant director of IIE (1932-1935) to CBS (1935), from being CBS's most renown World War II broadcaster to his national preeminence in CBS radio and television news and celebrity programs (Person to Person, This I Believe) in the United States after 1946, and his final position as director of USIA (1961-1964).
... A More than Private Person ...
While Murrow remained largely withdrawn and became increasingly isolated at CBS after World War II -- which is not surprising given his generally reticent personality, his stature, his workload, and his increasingly weakened position at CBS -- many of his early colleagues from the war, the original 'Murrow Boys', stayed as close as he would let anyone get to him. This war related camaraderie also extended to some of the individuals he had interviewed and befriended since then, among them Carl Sandburg. The following story about Murrow's sense of humor also epitomizes the type of relationship he valued:
George Washington's Headquarters.
John Kane House - Wikipedia
ohn Kane House
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John Kane House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Front (south) elevation, 2008
Location Pawling, NY
Nearest city Danbury, CT
Coordinates
41°33′22″N73°35′39″WCoordinates:
41°33′22″N 73°35′39″W
Built 1740, renovated and expanded 1810s[1]
Architectural style Colonial, Federal, Greek Revival
NRHP reference # 80002603
Added to NRHP 1980
The John Kane House, also one of several places known as Washington's Headquarters, is located on East Main Street in Pawling, New York, United States. Built in the mid-18th century, it was home during that time to two men who confronted the authorities and were punished for it. During the Revolutionary War, George Washingtonused the house as his headquarters when the Continental Army was garrisoned in the area.
A later owner built a large main wing in the Federal style; the only remnant of the original house is the small kitchen wing. It has since become the property of the Historical Society of Quaker Hill and Pawling, which uses the house as its headquarters and to display exhibits related to local history, particularly the life of pioneering radio broadcaster and executive Lowell Thomas,[2] who lived near Pawling for the later years of his life. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Contents
Property[edit]
The oldest part of the house is the eastern extension known today as the kitchen wing, a one-and-a-half-story framestructure on a stone foundation. It has a low-pitched gabled shingled roof, pierced by a brick chimney at the gable end. The five-bay south-facing front elevation appears as one story due to the windows and colonnade added later. Earlier stone and frame additions have since been removed. An original rendering vat is in the basement.[1]
The main block, added later, is a five-by-three-bay two-story frame house lined with brick. Its most distinctive Federal style feature is the main doorway, flanked by sidelights, fluted pilasters and topped with a rectangular transom window. Smaller versions of the pilasters flank the Palladian window immediately above the doorway. All the other windows are rectangular symmetrical and topped with projecting cornices. A columned Greek Revival portico runs the length of the first story.[1]
On the west gable there is a Palladian opening with grilled quarter-round openings on either side and topped with a pediment. The rear entrance uses a Dutch door and lacks the transom but is otherwise identical to the front. Three chimneys rise from the main block's roof, two in the west and one in the east near the join with the kitchen wing.[1]
Inside, the two wings present a contrast. The kitchen wing has little decoration beyond the carved wooden fireplace mantel. The main block is more lavishly decorated, with marble mantels and casings on two of its four fireplaces. All the windows and doors are trimmed in carved wood; the rooms also have similarly carved wainscoting and ceiling cornices.[1]
The upper story, mainly given over to bedrooms, also has several fireplaces, all with similarly detailed and painted wooden casings and mantels. The attic is unfinished.[1]
There are three outbuildings: a small brick smokehouse, frame woodshed and two-story frame barn. It is not known when exactly they were built, and they have all been altered over the years.[1]
History[edit]
The property was first settled in the late 1730s by William Prendergast, a tenant farmer who leased 200–300 acres (81–121 ha) southeast of the nascent settlement of Pawling from the Philipse family, the area's dominant landowners. He built the small house that became the kitchen wing in 1740, adding other buildings later and connecting the two through a 65-foot (20 m) stone passageway.[1]
In 1766 he became a leader in the tenant uprising known as the Dutchess County Anti-Rent War, a revolt against the quit-rents left over from the feudal system left in place by Dutch colonists in the region which made it hard for tenants to eventually purchase their land. It was quelled by troops called in from Poughkeepsie. Prendergast was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang for treason. His wife made a personal appeal to the colonial governor, Sir Harry Moore and he was spared at the last minute by a gubernatorial reprieve and later a royal pardon. The Prendergast family left for Chautauqua County shortly thereafter as it was outgrowing the house.[1]
Kane, an Irish immigrant, bought the house later that year. When the Revolution started, he was initially on the Patriot side, as he had been elected to the Provisional Congress of New York in 1775. After the first year of the war, he switched sides and became a Loyalist, convinced the cause was hopeless. Accordingly, his house and property were confiscated by the New York State Legislature, and the following year, in September 1778, George Washington moved in when the Continental Army wintered in the area, where they could move on either New England or New York City at short notice. Kane retreated to the safety of British lines for the remainder of the war, while his family went to Nova Scotia. He received a lifelong pension from the British in 1783, when the war ended, and returned to the Pawling area. Since he could not legally live in or repurchase his home, he lived the remainder of his life with his children.[1]
A later owner in the early 19th century demolished all but the original kitchen wing and built the current Federal structure. It went through a variety of later uses, as an inn and a rental property owned by the local bank, but returned to single-family dwelling status late in the century. In 1946 one owner added electricity; it is not known when modern heating and plumbing were installed.[1] In the late 20th century, after it had been listed on the National Register, it was acquired by the Historical Society of Quaker Hill and Pawling and converted to its present use.
Oblong Friends Meeting House.
Oblong Friends Meeting House - Wikipedia
Oblong Friends Meeting House
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Oblong Friends Meetinghouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Meeting House in March 2007
Location Meetinghouse Rd. on Quaker Hill, Pawling, NY
Nearest city Danbury, CT
Coordinates
41°34′46″N73°32′32″WCoordinates:
41°34′46″N 73°32′32″W
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built 1763
Architect unknown
MPS Dutchess County Quaker Meeting Houses TR
NRHP reference # 73001182[1]
Added to NRHP January 12, 1973
The Oblong Friends Meeting House is a mid-18th century Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends in the hamlet of Quaker Hill, in the town of Pawling, Dutchess County, New York, United States listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.
Members of the Religious Society of Friends settled on Quaker Hill in the 1730s and sought permission to establish a meeting and build a meeting house in 1740. The first meeting house was constructed across from the present building in 1742, but as membership grew, this building became too small and in 1763, the Yearly Meeting decided to erect "a framed house of timber, the dimensions to be 45 feet (14 m) long, 40 feet (12 m) wide and 15 feet (4.6 m) stud to admit of galleries." This new house was built in 1764 and is the structure that has remained on the site since.
In 1767, the question was raised in the meeting house whether it was "consistent with the Christian spirit to hold a person in slavery". After years of discussion, the question was answered in 1776 by the resolution that meetings were not to accept financial contributions or services from members owning slaves.
During the American Revolutionary War a portion of the Continental Army camped in the nearby hills, both during the fall of 1778 and the winter of 1779. The meeting house was commandeered by General Washington's officers to be used as a military hospital.[2]
Such notable people as.
William Prendergast the first major rebellion against the British Empire in America, in 1766.
Prendergast's Rent War, a colonial American rebellion
A decade before the American Revolution, tenant farmers in the Hudson River valley massed into a revolt against their manor lords. It wasn't the first such rent rebellion but it was the largest, most organized and disciplined revolt. When its 500+ armed rebels moved on New York City, it sent America's third-largest city into a panic. My 5x great grandfather William Prendergast was the leader of this rebellion.
Prendergast prompted British regular troops to be ordered into armed conflict against the colonists for the first time. And more importantly, it came during increasing unrest in the American colonies as British Parliament levied new taxes on the colonies to pay for the American Theater of Seven Years War, here called French & Indian War.
In fact, many confused Prendergast's actions with those of the Sons of Liberty that was growing in strength and violence to combat the new taxes without representation in colonies that had governed themselves for more than a century. The actions of Prendergast and his wife risked orphaning their children.
Two decades before the revolution, 28-year-old William Prendergast married 17-year-old Mehitable Wing in 1755. Protestant Prendergast converted to the Religious Society of Friends to appease Mehitable's orthodox Quaker father, as Quakers were forbidden to marry outside the faith.
In Ireland, Prendergast was a shipwright and reportedly worked in a sawmill in the Hudson Highlands. It's possible he worked for SilasWashburn who ran a sawmill since 1745 on the West Branch of the Croton River in Carmel, NY. Despite owning most of Carmel's Main Street shops, Washburn lived in a house set on a lot leased from the Philipse Patent. Washburn later followed his friend Prendergast into rebellion and paid for it with his life.
A typical colonial American tenant farmer's house.
Prendergast settled down and leased from Lord Philipse 200 acres of wooded land along a tributary of the East Branch Croton River between Pawling and Quaker Hill for 4 pounds, 12 shillings per year, according to the 1939 book “The Hudson” by Carl Cramer. Prendergast cleared the land, used the wood to build himself a house and began farming to feed a family he would create on this side of the Atlantic.
By Christmas 1755, Mehitable was pregnant with their first child. Matthew (born 1756) was followed by Thomas (1758), Mary (1760), Elizabeth (1762), James (1764) with Mehitable pregnant in 1765 with Jedidiah – named after her father who died two years earlier. William's father Thomas had died in 1761 in Clonmel, Ireland. Reportedly, Mehitable's mother and her four youngest children moved in with the Prendergasts. William was having a hard time financially and went to Frederick Philipse III at his manor house in Yonkers to ask for more time to pay his rent.
The Iron clad Monitor commander is buried in Pawling.
http://www.adventuresaroundputnam.c...en-the-civil-wars-uss-monitor-and-pawling-ny/
The connection between the Civil War’s USS Monitor and Pawling, NY
January 19, 2013 admin
I just finished reading a children’s book – yes, a kids’ book. But hey, I picked it up for a few pennies at a book sale, and it happened to be on a topic I wanted to know a little more about. The book was “The Story of the Monitor and the Merrimac” by Conrad Stein. What does this book have to do with www.adventuresaroundputnam.com you ask? Well, Rear Admiral John Worden commanded the MONITOR during her clash with the Merrimac in the Civil War. Wooden naval ships were to become a thing of the past. John Worden can be visited at his grave in PAWLING, NY at Pawling Cemetery on Route 22. His grave is the one with the large anchor on it.
You can read about the battle on wikipedia at Battle of Hampton Roads - Wikipedia.
Governor Dewey lived in Pawling, who almost defeated Truman.
Governors from Dutchess made impact on history
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey, who began his career as a New York City prosecutor before purchasing property in the Quaker Hill area of Pawling, helped make New York the first state to outlaw racial and religious employment discrimination when he signed the Ives-Quinn bill on March 12, 1945, according to the state Hall of Governors.
The Ives-Quinn Anti-Discrimination Law, which in 1968 was renamed the Human Rights Law, created the State Commission against Discrimination, which is now called the New York State Division of Human Rights.
Broadcaster Lowell Thomas
LOWELL THOMAS, A WORLD TRAVELER AND BROADCASTER FOR 45 YEARS, DEAD
OWELL THOMAS, A WORLD TRAVELER AND BROADCASTER FOR 45 YEARS, DEAD
AUG. 30, 1981
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August 30, 1981, Page 001040The New York Times Archives
Lowell Thomas, the radio and television broadcaster, author and world traveler, died of a heart attack yesterday morning in his sleep at his home in Pawling, N.Y. He was 89 years old.
Reporter Edward R. Murrow.
Edward R. Murrow's Biography
Just as she handled all details of their lives, Janet Brewster, kept her in-laws informed of all events, Murrow's work, and later on about their son, Casey, born in 1945. Murrow himself rarely wrote letters. He even stopped keeping a diary after his London office had been bombed and his diaries had been destroyed several times during World War II. One of Janet's letters in the summer of 1940 tells Murrow's parents of her recent alien registration in the UK, for instance, and gives us an intimation of the couple's relationship: "Did I tell you that I am now classed as an alien? I have to be in the house at midnight. I can't drive a car, ride a bicycle, or even a horse, I suppose. If I want to go away over night I have to ask the permission of the police and the report to the police in the district to which I go. Ed has a special exemption so that he can be out when he has to for his broadcasts. He could get one for me too, but he says he likes to make sure that I'm in the house - and not out gallivanting!"2
Janet and Edward were quickly persuaded to raise their son away from the limelight once they had observed the publicity surrounding their son after Casey had done a few radio announcements as a small child. Consequently, Casey remained rather unaware of and cushioned from his father's prominence. In the late 1940s, the Murrows bought a gentleman farm in Pawling, New York, a select, conservative, and moneyed community on Quaker Hill, where they spent many a weekend. For Murrow, the farm was at one and the same time a memory of his childhood and a symbol of his success. It's where he was able to relax, he liked to inspect it, show it off to friends and colleagues, go hunting or golfing, or teach Casey how to shoot. Not surprisingly, it was to Pawling that Murrow insisted to be brought a few days before his death.
Throughout the years, Murrow quickly made career moving from being president of NSFA (1930-1932) and then assistant director of IIE (1932-1935) to CBS (1935), from being CBS's most renown World War II broadcaster to his national preeminence in CBS radio and television news and celebrity programs (Person to Person, This I Believe) in the United States after 1946, and his final position as director of USIA (1961-1964).
... A More than Private Person ...
While Murrow remained largely withdrawn and became increasingly isolated at CBS after World War II -- which is not surprising given his generally reticent personality, his stature, his workload, and his increasingly weakened position at CBS -- many of his early colleagues from the war, the original 'Murrow Boys', stayed as close as he would let anyone get to him. This war related camaraderie also extended to some of the individuals he had interviewed and befriended since then, among them Carl Sandburg. The following story about Murrow's sense of humor also epitomizes the type of relationship he valued:
George Washington's Headquarters.
John Kane House - Wikipedia
ohn Kane House
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John Kane House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Front (south) elevation, 2008
Location Pawling, NY
Nearest city Danbury, CT
Coordinates
Built 1740, renovated and expanded 1810s[1]
Architectural style Colonial, Federal, Greek Revival
NRHP reference # 80002603
Added to NRHP 1980
The John Kane House, also one of several places known as Washington's Headquarters, is located on East Main Street in Pawling, New York, United States. Built in the mid-18th century, it was home during that time to two men who confronted the authorities and were punished for it. During the Revolutionary War, George Washingtonused the house as his headquarters when the Continental Army was garrisoned in the area.
A later owner built a large main wing in the Federal style; the only remnant of the original house is the small kitchen wing. It has since become the property of the Historical Society of Quaker Hill and Pawling, which uses the house as its headquarters and to display exhibits related to local history, particularly the life of pioneering radio broadcaster and executive Lowell Thomas,[2] who lived near Pawling for the later years of his life. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Contents
Property[edit]
The oldest part of the house is the eastern extension known today as the kitchen wing, a one-and-a-half-story framestructure on a stone foundation. It has a low-pitched gabled shingled roof, pierced by a brick chimney at the gable end. The five-bay south-facing front elevation appears as one story due to the windows and colonnade added later. Earlier stone and frame additions have since been removed. An original rendering vat is in the basement.[1]
The main block, added later, is a five-by-three-bay two-story frame house lined with brick. Its most distinctive Federal style feature is the main doorway, flanked by sidelights, fluted pilasters and topped with a rectangular transom window. Smaller versions of the pilasters flank the Palladian window immediately above the doorway. All the other windows are rectangular symmetrical and topped with projecting cornices. A columned Greek Revival portico runs the length of the first story.[1]
On the west gable there is a Palladian opening with grilled quarter-round openings on either side and topped with a pediment. The rear entrance uses a Dutch door and lacks the transom but is otherwise identical to the front. Three chimneys rise from the main block's roof, two in the west and one in the east near the join with the kitchen wing.[1]
Inside, the two wings present a contrast. The kitchen wing has little decoration beyond the carved wooden fireplace mantel. The main block is more lavishly decorated, with marble mantels and casings on two of its four fireplaces. All the windows and doors are trimmed in carved wood; the rooms also have similarly carved wainscoting and ceiling cornices.[1]
The upper story, mainly given over to bedrooms, also has several fireplaces, all with similarly detailed and painted wooden casings and mantels. The attic is unfinished.[1]
There are three outbuildings: a small brick smokehouse, frame woodshed and two-story frame barn. It is not known when exactly they were built, and they have all been altered over the years.[1]
History[edit]
The property was first settled in the late 1730s by William Prendergast, a tenant farmer who leased 200–300 acres (81–121 ha) southeast of the nascent settlement of Pawling from the Philipse family, the area's dominant landowners. He built the small house that became the kitchen wing in 1740, adding other buildings later and connecting the two through a 65-foot (20 m) stone passageway.[1]
In 1766 he became a leader in the tenant uprising known as the Dutchess County Anti-Rent War, a revolt against the quit-rents left over from the feudal system left in place by Dutch colonists in the region which made it hard for tenants to eventually purchase their land. It was quelled by troops called in from Poughkeepsie. Prendergast was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang for treason. His wife made a personal appeal to the colonial governor, Sir Harry Moore and he was spared at the last minute by a gubernatorial reprieve and later a royal pardon. The Prendergast family left for Chautauqua County shortly thereafter as it was outgrowing the house.[1]
Kane, an Irish immigrant, bought the house later that year. When the Revolution started, he was initially on the Patriot side, as he had been elected to the Provisional Congress of New York in 1775. After the first year of the war, he switched sides and became a Loyalist, convinced the cause was hopeless. Accordingly, his house and property were confiscated by the New York State Legislature, and the following year, in September 1778, George Washington moved in when the Continental Army wintered in the area, where they could move on either New England or New York City at short notice. Kane retreated to the safety of British lines for the remainder of the war, while his family went to Nova Scotia. He received a lifelong pension from the British in 1783, when the war ended, and returned to the Pawling area. Since he could not legally live in or repurchase his home, he lived the remainder of his life with his children.[1]
A later owner in the early 19th century demolished all but the original kitchen wing and built the current Federal structure. It went through a variety of later uses, as an inn and a rental property owned by the local bank, but returned to single-family dwelling status late in the century. In 1946 one owner added electricity; it is not known when modern heating and plumbing were installed.[1] In the late 20th century, after it had been listed on the National Register, it was acquired by the Historical Society of Quaker Hill and Pawling and converted to its present use.
Oblong Friends Meeting House.
Oblong Friends Meeting House - Wikipedia
Oblong Friends Meeting House
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigationJump to search
Oblong Friends Meetinghouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Meeting House in March 2007
Location Meetinghouse Rd. on Quaker Hill, Pawling, NY
Nearest city Danbury, CT
Coordinates
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built 1763
Architect unknown
MPS Dutchess County Quaker Meeting Houses TR
NRHP reference # 73001182[1]
Added to NRHP January 12, 1973
The Oblong Friends Meeting House is a mid-18th century Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends in the hamlet of Quaker Hill, in the town of Pawling, Dutchess County, New York, United States listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.
Members of the Religious Society of Friends settled on Quaker Hill in the 1730s and sought permission to establish a meeting and build a meeting house in 1740. The first meeting house was constructed across from the present building in 1742, but as membership grew, this building became too small and in 1763, the Yearly Meeting decided to erect "a framed house of timber, the dimensions to be 45 feet (14 m) long, 40 feet (12 m) wide and 15 feet (4.6 m) stud to admit of galleries." This new house was built in 1764 and is the structure that has remained on the site since.
In 1767, the question was raised in the meeting house whether it was "consistent with the Christian spirit to hold a person in slavery". After years of discussion, the question was answered in 1776 by the resolution that meetings were not to accept financial contributions or services from members owning slaves.
During the American Revolutionary War a portion of the Continental Army camped in the nearby hills, both during the fall of 1778 and the winter of 1779. The meeting house was commandeered by General Washington's officers to be used as a military hospital.[2]
