Mary Moffat (No. 5 below) married Anthony Carpenter when nearly thirty years of age. Her marriage is chronicled thus in the NEW YORK DAILY ADVERTISER of Wednesday, January 27, 1789:

"MARRIED, at Little Britain, Orange County, on the 15th inst., MR. ANTHONY CARPENTER of Goshen to the amiable MISS MARY MOFFAT, daughter of the late Rev. John Moffat of the former place,"

and notice of her death was published in the NEW YORK EVENING POST of Friday, September 26, 1823, as follows:

"DIED, at Galen, Seneca County, N. Y., on the 25th ult., of bilious remittent fever, MRS. MARY CARPENTER wife of Anthony Carpenter and daughter of the late Rev'd John Moffat of Orange County in the 58th23 year of her age. In her life was displayed the character and in her death the triumph of the christian. 'I heard a voice from heaven saying write henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Yea, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.'

The records of the Goshen Presbyterian church recite the baptism of two children, John Carpenter (stated to have been baptized January 31, 1790, which is possibly an error, as the date of birth inscribed on his gravestone in the burial ground of the old Dutch Church at New Utrecht is April 17, 1791), and George Carpenter, born September 16, 1793, and baptized August 28, 1796. The records of some of the descendants of the son, John Carpenter, give the name of the second child as "Anthony," rather than "George;" and it is so stated in the CARPENTER GENEALOGY published by A. B. Carpenter in 1898. It would seem more probable, with the elder child named after the mother's father, that the second child should be named for the father's father, rather than by a name which had not, up to that time, been borne by any one in either the Carpenter or Moffat families, so far as the writer has been able to discover. Whatever the child's name, however, it seems to have died young; for no further trace of it has rewarded the writer's extremely diligent search.

Anthony Carpenter, whom Mary Moffat married, seems to have been a man of substance and of influence in the community in which he lived. He had served as a soldier from Orange

23One of the courtesies of the day. She was really in the 65th year of her age.

County during the Revolutionary War, and at its close bought the farm, formerly belonging to Gideon Youngs, at Hamptonburgh, near Goshen,

When Rev. John Moffat's widow died in 1800, he took the orphan grandson, John Little Moffat, to live with him. He was the son of Anthony Carpenter and Abigail his wife, who had moved, prior to 1760,24 from New Haven, Connecticut, to Goshen, New York. The father, Anthony, died June 29, 1760, and the mother, Abigail, July 23, 1760.25 The husband of Mary Moffat was the third of four children, the oldest being Elizabeth, who, on February 28, 1768, married Hon. Nathaniel Rogers of Exeter, N. H., resided in Boston, and had twelve children; the second, Helena, of whom the writer has no information; and the youngest, Mary, who died November 12, 1760.24 All the children seem to have been under age at the time of their parents' deaths.26

Frances Moffat (No. 7 below) married Josiah Pierson in 1788. The writer has been able to gather little information of either from any of their numerous descendants. Josiah Pierson was the son of Silas Pierson who came from Long Island to what now is Hamptonburgh in Orange County, in 1749. Of the old Pierson homestead, the late George Pierson of Campbell Hall wrote an interesting account in 1906, which was published in the INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN of Friday May 17, 1907. It reads in part as follows:

eaves.

"The eastern half of that house, in which I was born on the first day of January, 1824, is built of squared logs, up to the When built, and by whom, is not known. I remember hearing some one ask my father, if he knew how old it was. He said he did not, that it was on the place when his grandfather, Silas Pierson, came from Long Island in 1749, and that it was nearly, if not quite, as old as the William Bull stone house, which was built in 1727. The western half is framed and was built by William Pierson about 1796, when both parts were covered with shingles. These shingles never were painted, or had anything

24CARPENTER GENEALOGY by A. B. Carpenter, 1898.

25 New Haven (Conn.) Birth and Marriage records.

26 New Haven Probate Records, vol. IX, pages 409, 488.

put on to preserve them, and they have been worn through in so many places, that siding has been put on to preserve the building, and to make it more comfortable.

"In building the chimney in the west end, a stick of timber was placed across the front, over the fireplace, which came very near causing the house to be destroyed by fire. On New Year's night, 1831, there was a gathering of the neighborhood school children, what was called in those days a 'trundlebed party.' The evening was spent in games and plays, such as 'Button, button,' 'Old Quaker,' 'It hails, and it rains, and it's cold stormy weather,' and others, all good old fashioned kissing games, with no fear of germs or bacteria. It being Saturday night, the company

broke up in good season, the coals in the large fireplace were carefully covered with ashes, and everything seemed all right. About 4 o'clock a. m., however, the hired men sleeping in the attic of the log part were awakened by smoke, and seeing a bright light, through the cracks of the partitions, gave the alarm of fire. It was none too soon, as the flames reached nearly to the roof. My father jumped out of bed (no pajamas), and taking a pail of water, which was on a table in the room, ran across the hall, and opening the door of the burning room, dashed it in, closing the door immediately. A bucket brigade was formed, from the well, which was only a few feet from the door, and in about an hour, the fire was entirely extinguished.

"It originated in the stick of timber over the fireplace above spoken of, and this timber was burned in two and the woodwork and furniture in the room badly damaged.

"This old log house was the home of those who were willing to give, and did give, their time and services to defend their homes and aiding the Colonies in their struggle against the unjust demands of Great Britain. On the 8th day of July, 1760, James DeLancey, Esq., 'His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-in-Chief, in and over the Province of New York, and the Territories depending thereon,' signed a commission, appointing Silas Pierson to be captain of 'the company of militia foot lately commanded by and in the room of John Bull, Esq., in the Northern Regiment of the County of Orange whereof Benjamin Thurston, Esq., is colonel.' This was near the close of the French and Indian war, when England had determined to destroy the

power of France in America. The militia was liable to be called out at any time, to defend the settlements against the attacks of the Indians and avenge their wrongs. The Indians from the West had committed many barbarities in Orange and Ulster Counties. What is now a large part of Orange County was Ulster then.

"In 1775, Silas Pierson was captain in Col. Jesse Woodhull's regiment. The officers under his command were Joshua Brown, Ist Lieutenant; Daniel Reeve, 2d Lieutenant; Phineas Heard (the father of the late John J. Heard, of Goshen), Ensign. Later on he was captain of a light horse company in the Revolution. Silas Pierson and Silas Pierson, Jr., the great-grandfather of Editor Drake, were among the many signers of the pledge in the Cornwall precinct in which they declared that they 'would never become slaves,' and 'would aid the Continental Congress in opposing the arbitrary acts of the British Parliament.'

"Josiah Pierson, my grandfather, was a private in Col. Jesse Woodhull's regiment, and in 1777, at the age of sixteen, went with that regiment, under the command of Major Zachariah DuBois, to assist in the defence of Fort Montgomery.

"There were no Tories in that log cabin, although there were Tories in the neighborhood. Claudius Smith was an occasional visitor at the house not far distant where John B. Harlow now lives, and at the time of making such visits his horse was stabled in the cellar. Gilbert Gerow, the owner in 1838, in making some alterations in the house, tore down a large stone chimney in the west end of the kitchen. In the rear of the chimney, in the attic, a recess was found, large enough for six or eight persons to be safely hidden. A sufficient space had been left between the chimney and the siding, for persons to squeeze in and out.

"On the hillside, about thirty rods west of the old shingle house, under the shade of a wide spreading white oak, are the graves of Captain Silas Pierson, his youngest son William, and his three daughters, Mary, widow of Birdseye Youngs; Sarah, and Rachel. Birdseye Youngs was first lieutenant in Captain Archibald Little's company, in Col. Jesse Woodhull's regiment. Silas Pierson, Jr., married Rachael Bull, and they lived and died on the farm where the Hamptonburgh station on the Orange

County Railroad is located. They were buried on a little rise of ground a few rods north of the station, opposite the Hawkins burying ground where all the graves were marked with common field stones. Years ago, all traces of these graves were obliterated, the stones having been removed, the ground ploughed and cultivated. In making a cut through this knoll when grading for the railroad, human bones were found, were shoveled with the dirt into the carts, and dumped in the fill where they were making the roadbed.

"Josiah Pierson married Frances Moffat, a daughter of Rev. John Moffat. About the time of his marriage, he bought a tract of six hundred acres of wild woodland, in what is now the town of Mount Hope, near Otisville, where they lived, died and were buried. Their remains were removed a few years ago to the Hillside Cemetery, Middletown. Four hundred acres of this tract are now owned and occupied by some of their grandsons."

Elizabeth Moffat (No. 8 below) married Dr. Cornelius Roosa on March 15, 1792, at the New Windsor Church. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War, and in deeds of real estate executed by him during the five years following his marriage, he described himself as "of Albany"; but later he lived and practised in New York. Their only child, Catherine, died unmarried at the home of her cousin, Bezaleel Howe (No. 47 below), at 52 Great Jones Street, New York City, on May 27, 1855, in the 62nd year of her age. It is from the Roosa family bible, now in the possession of Dr. J. F. Howe (No. 169 below), with its earlier entries in the handwriting of Rev. John Moffat's own daughter, that the dates of birth are taken of the eight children of the first generation in the table that follows.

Catherine Moffat (No. 9 below) at the age of twentysix years, and in the year 1800, married Major Bezaleel Howe. He was a veteran of the revolution, was forty-five years of age at the time of the marriage and was a widower with one daughter, a little more than eleven years old. Five years later, the daughter, at the age of sixteen, married John Guion, of Rye, N. Y., and became the mother of a large family.